The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-02-22

TN his History of England In the
Eighteenth Century" William Ed
III ward Hartpole Lecky, NJ. F., pays
the following tribute to George
Washington:
To the appointment of Washington
las commander in chief far more than
to any other single circumstance is due
the ultimate success of the American
Revolution, though in purely intel
lectual powers Washington was GER
tainly inferior to Franklin and per-
haps to two or three others of his col
leagues. There is a theory which once
received the countenance of some con-
siderable psychologists, though it is
now, l believe, completely discarded,
that one of the great lines of division
among men may be traced to the COM
parative development of the cerebrum
and the cerebellum. To the first organ
| it was supposed belong those special
gifts or powers which make men poets
orators, thinkers, artists, conquerors or
wits. To the second belong the super
intending, restraining, discerning and
directing faculties which enable men
to employ their several talents with
sanity and wisdom, which maintain
the balance and the proportion Of in
tellect and character and make sound
judgments and well regulated lives.
The theory, however untrue in its phys
biological aspect, corresponds to real
distinction in human minds and char
acters, and it was especially in the
second order of faculties that Wash
ington excelled. His mind was not
quick or remarkably original. His con
versaton had no brilliancy or wit. He
was entirely without the gift of elo-
quence, and he had very few accom-
plishments. He knew no language but
his own, and except for rather strong
turn for mathematics he had no taste
which can be called purely intellectual.
There was nothing in him of the me-
teOr or the cataract. nothing that Ell
Their dazzled or overpowered.
AS a soldier the circumstances of his
career brought him into the blaze, not
only of domestic, but of foreign, criti-
cism, and it was only very gradually
that his superiority was fully recognize
I ed. Lee, who of all American soldiers
had seen most service in the English
. army, and Conway, who had risen to
:, great repute in the French army, were
both accustomed to speak of his mill
. tary talents with extreme disparage-
" ment, but personal jealousy and anil
: mostly undoubtedly colored their judg-
!. ments De Kalb, who had been trained
I in the best military schools of the CONT.
ia nent, at first pronounced him to be very
n deficient in the strength. decision and
20 promptitude OF general, and, although
20 he soon learned to form the highest es
II innate of his military capacity he con
IN tinued to lament that an excessive mod
4 esty led him too frequently to act upon
is the opinion of inferior men rather thar
u, upon. his own most excellent Judgment
IN In the army and the congress more
40 than one rival was opposed to him. HI
w had his full share of disaster; the oper
n. atons which he conducted if compared
10 with great European wars were on
m very small scale, and he had the i'm
If mense advantage of encOuntCring, il
ne most cases. generals of singular inca
III pacity. 1t may, however, be truly sail
or of him that his military reputation
III steadily rose through many successiv
IN campaigns. and before the end of til
m struggle he had outlived all rivalry an
III almost all envy. He had a thoroug
or knowledge of the technical part Of hi
he profession. good eye for military con
st binations, an extraordinary gift of mi
itary administration