The Hickman courier., 1874-01-17
Tests of Greatness.

4
TT aIl the INFESTED generailzatlons
and connotations that are acceptedlntne
world were brought TO book, and, zen
found wanting, ordered to exec1fen'
there would be much slaughter. onlS
,latoon firing on large scale Eoulo
,,,o,t Abe case. When we use the words
$50 great man. have we any dennlt'
49, of.vbat we mean? Here foreset
somebo.'v VIII make answer, NO. noi
. definite idea, but workable one.
Now fine words are all very well, ou'
moi 4 they help us to err and go astray
1;Ira lost sheep when we might do |
better.
rernember reading that all great
men are great eaters. Does anypoos
,al;eve this? Yet there is a share OF
sense in II. In human beings who DO
| much work. there must be great vital
e-...l.. s,s-.7as... --4ssst l,--,-.s S'1a "'.ss
/ = sae.os ts, follow that it nusF take an
nlantv of fuel. But, after all, that does
NOT follow: for it is conceivable thai
one furnace might have greater power
than another of extracting force lroih
4,a sou,e amount of fuel. One has seen
= oontended that the mental power OF
voman is equal to a mans, because 'he
,ro-oon's intellect has less driving power
and works with less waste. as
ond heard this from a LADY lecturer
onoe had in my mind picture when
orId have pleased her mueh-ladles
60 sar;ous. 1t was q picture oi
T.oocl,,s in Punch. The train wS Oh
49, ,,oint Of starting; all the passeN gers
bnt two had taken their places He
,-;fa was Reckoning madly from her sSt
IN the carriage : the guards anu
Lrsbond we're frantic; but nothing
, rro,l5 induce the tall, stout nurse DaDS
, in arms, TO hurry to her place @ on'
would give the enraged husband ie,S
t urelv explanation of the necessity sn'
fe,t nnder of looking to the plate ete'
etc etc. 1t is certainly true that lio'
= ohle, women are deficient IN "drivint
49,, and long may they keep 50
,vaver. this is a DEPRESSION. lt ha
.Antended that the difference De
80 and ordinary faculty con
eater or less power OF as
Aain kinds of nutrlment
If the gulf between pre-
and tea and producing a
ould not be very great. (her
~ expert turreth up his nose
-. .o;,b seThis sciolist is Ii
knoveth not of biology is IN I'll
of ante te-evolutional bitterness an
tond of pre-Darwinian iniquity. }
a. then, every man OF genius is NJ
roon I have read, again, tn
e,reat man is, by the definition,
nv with the spirit OF the ag
vhv is he? And how are we
g,'o1v the spirit of the age? What 81
- .s--z-,an was Spinoza, and what sOr'
e. soi = of the O6e ~~~ he IN harno
rops spa i could easily, but decline
% -, 49,, had Sssy plausibly made Out 10
- ot theSAge and your harmony
great 1aan with it, I should sa
this is an ex post facto hash
rtainties." 1 repeat the questiO
] is the spirit of the age? You nj
8 4 vou have got it ; and yet all t.
lie some trife is happening roui
corner which will flood the wor
unite another esprit" before u
rs have been round the cioc
.saAne that the builders rejected
Ah. But did not mean to
E h I was thinking, when
Id the corner" of Sa
yIary: "Ah, my dear,
$who was here, you'd chan
90. as the hawk observed to Ii
with cheerful laugh ven he heer
nightingale a singin' round CT
Y, II have not read "Pickwick" sin
the deluge, and dare say that is wronI
Ns But in one thing 1 am quite serious
on there is always something waiting rou
ng q corner with cheerful laugh all
'ps influx and efiux; and, to say that su
inc a man is great, partly because ne Is
rks harmony with the spirit of the age
me only giving one nut to crack Whl'
'le- ten to one, when cracked is empty
or The first time I ever asked myS
tan what a great man is, was, remem
ce- when I read Charming on NaP&t
cts. Bonaparte. He says something
VS. this :
he stIt would be difficult to lnqu
his whether he was great or not the u
ira who, in a few years, has changed
Iva face of Europe, has taken out OF
hands the question whether he shall
called great"
Here then was a first glimmer OF g
| for ance. We call man great prlma
lean with reference to the force he she
gan, But there is necessarily tgreat un
rty, tainty in all such classifcatlons. l
into possibIe-nay arguable-that va
one 1saivfne and moral songs" have hat
ness ..,,,o,, effort nr, the wori SS5SSe SSe NUftfU
'ress rS;;6forfrs, but bope'h" W.
She Watts great man. v;ll take
out And I also hope no one VIII 20 S~r
z an rlavful chatter of mine l,,ne lol ne
Teen ii@s = = -roaant-Matthe,o Bro'0''o'
hat. IF Serpen