a nature product as the friend of men why there is substance enough in this one to fit out whole armies of were it properly so many poor and have a poor in rose pink manner become possessed of heads and lean de fly abroad on the wings o� and this brave old has been hid under a he was a writer too and had talents for it certain of the talents such as few have had the days of it skilled not he being has remained in the others up so readily are the ware you find on all much say as light so called by the such is the s way and yet complain not this rich old have we not him too at last and can keep him all the longer than the the great used to say always that his father had the greater gifts of the two which surely is saying something not that you ban to it in the full sense but that in a very wide sense you can so far as mere head goes is probably right looking at the old as a and of his thought and with w rich of originality he gives it forth you pronounce to be superior or even say supreme in his time for the genius of him almost rises to the poetic do our readers know the german paul and his style of thought singular to say the old has a quality in him resembling afar off that of paul and actually works it out in his french manner far as the french manner can nevertheless intellect is not of the head only the great end of intellect surely is that of it make one see something for which latter result the whole man must in the old there dwells withal a stiff cross humor a latent fury and very which stiff with its pride obstinacy affectation what else is it at l but want of strength the real quantity of our insight � how justly and thoroughly we shall comprehend the nature of a thing especially of a human thing � depends on our patience our what strength we have intellect comes from the whole man as it is the light that the whole man in this true sense the younger with that great flashing of his that broad fearless freedom of nature he had was very clearly the superior man at bottom perhaps the main definition could give of old is that he was of the species stiff as brass in all senses of an endless pride which but does an endless vanity and need of shining stately the thought the morality the whole being of the man a solemn high man with such a fund of indignation in him or of latent indignation of � who long experiment accordingly looks forth on man kind and this world of theirs with some dull word of forgiveness of contemptuous or with clenched lips nostrils slightly dilated in expressive silence here is but then under most interesting new circumstances and withal carried to such a pitch as becomes sublime one might almost say consider indeed whether could be a as your common and are his is not a closet with greek but the wide world and friendship to humanity does not s miscellaneous writings blood of all the in his honorable veins he too would do somewhat to raise higher that high house and yet alas it is plain to him that the house is sinking that much is sinking the and above all others this are fallen on evil times it has not escaped the old how nobility is now decayed nearly based no longer on heroic of conduct and effort but on formality on ments tailor s and coach leather on which latter basis unless his whole insight into heaven s ways with earth have him no institution in this god governed world can pretend to continue alas and the priest has now no tongue but for plate and the tax and the sits at its ease in high ct under and cloth of gold till now at last what with one fiction what with another nature all manner of and refusing to pay realities for them it has come so far that the twenty five millions long scarce of knowledge of virtue happiness cash are now fallen scarce of food to eat and do not with that natural ferocity of theirs which nature has still them feel the disposition to die starved j and all things are nodding towards chaos and no man it to heart one man exists who might perhaps stay or the catastrophe were he called to the the his high ancient blood his heroic love of truth his strength of heart his loyalty and profound insight for you cannot hear him speak without the man of genius this with the appalling things have come to might give claims from time to time at long intervals such a thought does through the brain of the but ah ia these scandalous days how shall the of the fall prostrate before a can the friend of men of au with good hope as his standard the of an woman no not hanging by the of such a one will this rise to the hut summoned by france in her day of need in her day of vision or else not at all france does not summon the else goes its road tried literature too as we said and with no talent nay with first rate talents in some sort but neither did this prosper his in such era of and all darkening ruin was political economy and a certain man whom he called the master � that is dr round this master whom tiie succeeded as master himself he and some other did gather to publish books and tracts literature by word and deed if so were the world s dull 