The last time we visited his beautiful home at Hammerfield, he was busy polishing glasses for one of his new telescopes,--the motive power being a windmill erected on one of his outhouses.
Another word before we have done.

"If," said Nasmyth, "I were to try to compress into one sentence the whole of the experience I have had during an active and successful life, and offer it to young men as a rule and certain receipt for success in any station, it would be composed in these words--'Duty _first!_ Pleasure _second!_' From what I have seen of young men and their after-progress, I am satisfied that what is generally termed 'bad fortune,' 'ill luck,' and 'misfortune,' is in nine cases out of ten, simply the result of _inverting_ the above simple maxim.

Such experience as I have had, convinces me that absence of success arises in the great majority of cases from want of self-denial and want of common sense.

The worst of all maxims is 'Pleasure _first!_ Work and Duty _second!_".