So Far As The Economic

The Beginning Of 1856 Found Me Teaching In The Family Of A Planter Named Bryan, Residing In Prince George County, Md., Some Fifteen Or Twenty Miles From Washington.

My First Undertaking In The Way Of Scientific Experiment Was In The Field Of Economics And Psychology.

The Demonstration That No Possible Combination Of Known Substances, Known Forms Of Machinery And Known Forms Of Force, Can Be United In A Practical Machine By Which Men Shall Fly Along Distances Through The Air, Seems To The Writer As Complete As It Is Possible For The Demonstration To Be.

Until I Was Four Years Old I Lived In The House Of My Paternal Grandfather, About Two Miles From The Pretty Little Village Of Wallace, At The Mouth Of The River Of That Name.

I Was Taught The Alphabet By My Aunts Before I Was Four Years Old, And I Was Reading The Bible In Class And Beginning Geography When I Was Six.