GREA TNESS ONL Y PAR TL Y INTELLE CTUAL 1 2 5 



the history of his country by formulating and Bookii 



popularising some particular political demand 



the secret of such a man's success, in four cases and great 



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out of five, will be found to he in the greatness, not often m- 

 of his intellect, but of his will in an exceptionally S^S 01 

 sanguine temperament, in exceptional courage and mtel 

 energy, and very likely in an exaggerated belief in 

 his own nostrums, which, instead of being a sign 

 of great intellectual acuteness, is incompatible 

 with it. 



No doubt social progress, as a whole, has re- intellect is 

 quired and does require for its production intellectual progress, e.g. 

 powers of the highest and rarest kind. The point in invention ' 

 here insisted on is that it is not produced by 

 intellectual powers alone, and that intellectual powers 

 alone would be quite unable to produce it. Thus 

 the sorrows and disappointments of the unfortunate 

 inventor are proverbial ; and the reason is that great 

 inventive powers are frequently accompanied by a 

 very feeble will and a fantastic ignorance of the 

 world ; the inventor, though strong as a mind, being 

 pitiably weak as a man. He can do everything 

 with his inventions except make them useful to 

 anybody. He might be practically far greater were 

 he to lose some of his intellectual powers, could he but the in- 



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thereby develop some of the humbler qualities in se if is often 

 which he is wanting. As it is, he resembles a 

 chronometer which is without a main-spring, and 

 which is useless when compared with a ten-and- 

 sixpenny watch. Hence the inventor has so 

 frequently to ally himself with the man of enter- 



