174 THE HEART OF NATURE 



nessand consideration in proportion to the strength. 

 We do not want a man of wood ; and what we do 

 want is not so much a super-man as a gentle-man — 

 a man of courtesy and grace as well as strength. 



The stiff and stilted type of a bygone age will 

 have melted under the warmth of deepening fellow- 

 ship and become flowing and fluid. The man of this 

 type will not only be full of consideration for others, 

 but will naturally, out of a full and overflowing heart 

 and of his own generous prompting, eagerly enter 

 into the lives and pursuits, the hopes and fears, the 

 joys and sorrows of those with whom he is con- 

 nected. And with all this wide general kindliness 

 he will be something more than merely amiable and 

 good-natured, and will have capacity for intense 

 devotion for particular men and women. He will 

 necessarily have fine tact and address, adroitness and 

 skill in handling difficult and delicate situations, and 

 the sensitiveness to appreciate the most hidden feel- 

 ings of others. Wit and distinction he will have, 

 too, with ability to discern the real nature of people 

 and events, and to distinguish the best from the good, 

 and the good from the indifferent and bad. He 

 will also possess that peculiar sweetness of disposi- 

 tion which is only found when behind it is the surest 

 strength. And with all his gentleness, tenderness, 

 and capacity for sympathy he will have the grit and 

 spirit to hold his own, to battle for his rights, and to 

 fight for those conditions which are absolutely 

 necessary for his full development. He will, in 

 addition, have the initiative to think out and strike 

 out his own line and to make his own mark. 



He will be a man of the world in the sense of 



