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is seen in the subtlety and ambiguity and prolixity of 

 the one, and the directness and openness of the other. 

 The emotional man cannot easily be tortuous; the. 

 unemotional man could not have written "John 

 Anderson, my Jo." The mighty men of action and 

 leadership and predominance are impelled to be unlike 

 other men, and therefore they must, even in well-worn 

 fields draw new distinctions and frame new definitions : 

 these, to be new, must necessarily be marked by 

 superfine delicacy. 



It must not be supposed that the contemplative 

 temperament is without ambition or desire for applause. 

 Its methods and manners differ, but it is not at all rare 

 for it to be found in public life, and not rare to find the 

 active intellect in seemingly quieter fields of philosophy 

 and literature. It is only when the more reflective man 

 possesses unusual bodily vitality that he achieves a fair 

 success. The very emotion which animates him too 

 often also destroys him by hindering and disturbing 

 bodily functions. The exigencies of public life drove 

 Mr. Bright, although physically a robust man, into 

 seclusion for a lengthened period. Nelson had from 

 time to time to be carried on a litter from indirectly 

 emotional exhaustion. The active man sleeps and 

 digests at will Mr. Gladstone is a well known example 

 of this. I have already remarked that, as might 

 naturally be expected, our great warfaring men, our 

 soldiers and sailors are, as a rule, men of the more 

 active and less impassioned type. One very notable 

 exception is seen in Nelson who was of the deeply 

 impassioned and quiet nature, and whose bodily con- 

 formation was strikiogly illustrative of the emotional 

 framework. It is significant that he was frequently 

 laid aside by the passion he unconsciously threw into 



