Sentence:  Again , Henley 's attitude of defiance which colors his ideal of self mastery is <WSD>far</WSD> from characteristic of a Stoic thinker like Marcus Aurelius , whose gentle acquiescence is almost Christian , comparable to the patience expressed in Milton 's sonnet on his own blindness . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  located at a great distance in time or space or degree