I remember once going into Boston in the omnibus when Peirce got in with a letter in his hand that he had just got from abroad and saying with great exultation to Professor Felton, who happened to be there, "Gauss says I am right.
Hoar recounts a memorable moment when Peirce expressed his excitement over a letter from Gauss.
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But their names were wanting from the honorable roll of the men who accomplished them.
His life, so far as he took part in political affairs, was devoted to objects wholly public, never personal.
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