Watching Napier at work, watching the medals and braid swinging and 
glinting on his jacket, Nell realized that it was precisely their emotional 
repression that made the Victorians the richest and most powerful people in the 
world. Their ability to submerge their feelings, far from pathological, was 
rather a kind of mystical art that gave them nearly magical power over Nature 
and over the more intuitive tribes. Such was also the strength of the 
Nipponese.