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to face rack and stake without flinching. He will be a 

 hero because he feels intensely. In other words, he 

 will be a man of gigantic will, because he has a great 

 heart. And in the man of the future all these powers 

 will be not only highly developed ; they will be rightly 

 proportioned and duly subordinated. He will be a 

 well-balanced man. But how few complete men we 

 now see. 



We see the strong will without the clear intellect to 

 guide it ; the gush of feeling either directed toward 

 low ends or evaporating in sentiment ; the clear head 

 with the cold heart. The high development of one 

 mental power seems to draw away all strength and 

 vitality from the rest. How rarely do we find the 

 strong will guided by the keen intellect toward the 

 highest aims clearly discerned. Memory and imagina- 

 tion must always play their part in the joy set before 

 us. But in addition to all these, the white heat of 

 feeling, of which man alone is capable, is necessary 

 for his grandest efforts. Such a being would be a 

 man born to be a king. And there will be a race of 

 such men. And we must play the man that they may 

 be raised upon our buried shoulders. And they will 

 tower above us, as the seers of old in Judea, Athens, 

 India, and Rome towered above their indolent, luxu- 

 rious, blind, and material contemporaries. And with 

 all their accelerated development, infinite possibilities 

 will still stretch beyond the reach of their imagina- 

 tion. For " men follow duty, never overtake." 



But all our analyses are unsatisfactory. In the 

 history of any great people there is a period when 

 they seem to rise above themselves. They have the 

 strength of giants, and accomplish things before and 



