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 caution which must temper a true scientist's enthusiasm.

With such caution, but with a background of complete confidence, he proceeded to build engine after engine,  car after car; eagerly though he sought to improve his  product, he threw away no old ideas until study and  tests proved the value of the new. His gasoline buggy of 1893 was as carefully planned and built, in view o  the experience then available, as the more elaborate  automobiles of later decades.

He ran this first car a thousand miles, sold it for two hundred dollars, because he needed the money, and  after a few years bought it back to keep as a curk).