70--Columbus; Lord Chatham; Petrarch; Copernicus; Spallanzani; Boerhaave; Gall. 71--Linnæus. 72--Charlemagne; Samuel Richardson; Allan Ramsey; John Locke; Necker. 73--Charles Darwin; Thorwaldsen. 74--Handel; Frederick the Great; Dr. Jenner. 75--Haydn; Dugald Stewart. 76--Bossuet. 77--Thomas Telford; Sir Joseph Banks; Lord Beaconsfield. 78--Galileo; Corneille. 79--William Harvey; Robert Stevenson; Henry Cavendish. 80--Plato; Wordsworth; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Kant; Thiers; William Cullen. 81--Buffon; Edward Young; Sir Edward Coke; Lord Palmerston. 82--Arnauld. 83--Wellington; Goethe; Victor Hugo. 84--Voltaire; Talleyrand; Sir William Herschel. 85--Cato the Wise; Newton; Benj. Franklin; Jeremy Bentham. 86--Earl Russell; Edmund Halley; Carlyle. 88--John Wesley. 89--Michael Angelo. 90--Sophocles. 99--Titian. 100--Fontenelle. It may be said that they were exceptional in living so long, but if what the best authorities say be true, the exceptions ought to be the people who died young, and not those who prolong their lives and carry on their work till they are old. Few of us may find ourselves, like Lord Palmerston, in our greatest vigor at seventy, or be able, like Thiers, to rule France at eighty, or have any spirit for playing the author, like Goethe and Victor Hugo, when over eighty; or for playing the musician, like Handel and Haydn, when over seventy; but by good management we may do wonders. The wisest men and the best have been conspicuous for working to the end, not taking the least advantage of the leisure to which one might think they were entitled. They have found their joy in pursuing labors which they believed useful either to themselves or to others. John Locke began a "Fourth Letter on Toleration" only a few weeks before he died, and "the few pages in the posthumous volume, ending in an unfinished sentence, seem to have exhausted his remaining strength." The fire of Galileo's genius burned to the very end. He was engaged in dictating to two of his disciples his latest theories on a favorite subject, when the slow fever seized him that brought him to the grave. Sir Edward Coke spent the last six years of his life in revising and improving the works upon which his fame now rests. John Wesley only the year before he died wrote: "I am now an old man, decayed from head to foot.... However, blessed be God! I do not slack my labors; I can preach and write still." Arnauld, one of the greatest of French theologians and philosophers, retained, says Disraeli, "the vigor of his genius and the command of his pen to his last day, and at the age of eighty-two was still the great Arnauld." It was he who, when urged in his old age to rest from his labors, exclaimed, "Rest! Shall we not have the whole of eternity to rest in?"