![]() Enjoying an unusually long lifespan, he was able to buckle down late in life to create his famed thesaurus (which, Bryant notes in an afterword, was organized thematically rather than alphabetically). By the age of twenty-six in 1805, the polymath had already cranked out a debut version of what would become his namesake work, but ordering all the ideas ever conceived was still a sideline activity, pursued in moments when he wasn’t working as a physician or dabbling as a naturalist. A shy nature and early childhood domestic instability seem to have pushed young Peter Roget toward angling for control in his life, which manifested in a penchant for list-making. ![]() Most kids will encounter a thesaurus at sometime in their education, and Bryant encourages a sense of wonder about the kind of guy who would dream up such a tome. ![]()
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