. Heroes and statesmen of America, a popular book of American biography . a lad, and hemeant to make them good. He fully understood the con-ditions of success in life—fitness for the task and hard work—and determined to prepare himself thoroughly for the strugglewith fortune. All his spare time was given to study. Hetaught himself mathematics and chemistry, and manifested agreat fondness for literature. In the meantime he applied him-self faithfully to the business in which he was engaged; andsuch was the remarkable maturity of his judgment and his apt-ness at accounts, that when he was but fo
. Heroes and statesmen of America, a popular book of American biography . a lad, and hemeant to make them good. He fully understood the con-ditions of success in life—fitness for the task and hard work—and determined to prepare himself thoroughly for the strugglewith fortune. All his spare time was given to study. Hetaught himself mathematics and chemistry, and manifested agreat fondness for literature. In the meantime he applied him-self faithfully to the business in which he was engaged; andsuch was the remarkable maturity of his judgment and his apt-ness at accounts, that when he was but fourteen years of agehe was left, during a brief absence of his employer, in chargeof the entire business. In 1772 a terrible hurricane, long remembered for the de-struction it caused, swept over the West Indies. Young Ham-ilton wrote and published anonymously an account of it. Thedescription was so vivid and the style so chaste, that the articleattracted universal attention, and the young author was discov-ered. His friends were delighted, and determined to give him. HAMILTON. ALEXANDER HAMILTON. 339 the opportunity to secure a college education. Accordingly,in the autumn of 1772, he was sent to Elizabethtown, in NewJersey, to prepare himself by a course of studies for admissioninto Kings (now Columbia) College in New York. He en-tered Kings College in the latter part of 1773, and directed hisstudies towards a preparation for the profession of medicine. He came to New York in the midst of the controversy be-tween the Colonies and Great Britain, and with all the ardorof his nature embraced the American cause. Young as hewas, he did good service for it with his pen. He wrote severalelaborate pamphlets and some minor tracts upon the questionsof the day, in which he took the boldest and broadest groundin defense of the Colonies. He urged the policy of buildingup the manufactures of the Colonies, and of encouraging thegrowth of cotton in the South, that the country might be ablet
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