MENTAL APTITUDES. \Jl 



GRANT AND LEE COMPARED. 



General Lee was a man of great ability and was the best mili- 

 tary commander in the Southern Confederacy. We can probably 

 obtain the best estimate of his traits of character by comparing 

 him with his great opponent, General Grant. While Grant was 

 distinctly a warrior, he was also known as a man of peace, but 

 when we analyze Grant's campaigns we find every one built strictly 

 on the lines of aggressiveness. His objective was the enemy's 

 headquarters, and his controlling principle was to attack the enemy 

 whenever and wherever he could be found. On the other hand, 

 Lee's tactics were not of the aggressive character, but of the kind 

 that seeks to manoeuvre into a position from which he could dic- 

 tate terms, and the sole object was the defense of his native state. 

 It is true that he could be aggressive, as was shown in the battle 

 of the Wilderness, but such aggressiveness was not any part of his 

 general plan of campaign. It was simply the readiest means for 

 checking his opponent. In youth Lee was sent to West Point, and 

 during his early life he was a skilful military engineer in charge of a 

 number of important constructions. Upon the secession of Vir- 

 ginia from the Union, Lee said in his resignation sent to General 

 Scott : "Save in defense of my native state, I never desire again 

 to draw my sword," and he made the same statement in several 

 other letters written about the same time. This is the principal 

 military commander in the list of men having birth-ranks over 51, 

 and shows a cast of character very sharply distinguished from that 

 of a Napoleon or an Alexander. 



THEOLOGIANS WITH LOW BIRTH-RANKS. 



Of our theologians at the other extreme, we find Channing [29] 

 with a birth-rank very close to our dividing line leading to the 



