Excerpt from Doctor Austin's Guests, Vol. 2 On the receipt of his fortune he gave up teach ing, and attempted to lead a quiet, sedentary life, amusing himself by plunging deeply into his favourite study of mathematics; but the derange ment of his nervous system hardly allowed him the repose necessary for an occupation of the kind. In worldly matters he was as abstracted as one of the philosophers of Laputa, yet the irritability of his system was so great that it would allow him no rest, and not only did his mind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.