Of the physical limitations under which Herbert Spencer worked
many interesting glimpses are given. When writing his last book,
“Facts and Comments,” published a short time before his death
and the result of two years’ work, he was able to produce only
ten lines a day. Even when a young man he was afflicted with
a nervousness from which he sought relief in playing quoits
and rackets. Each of these games he would play in some court
attached to a house or pavilion, and after playing about twenty
minutes would retire to cover and resume his writing until the
nervousness returned, when he would play again. (Text.)
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