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extensively interesting the West, involving many 

 side topics of commerce, transportation, and poli- 

 tics. To this day the beauty — I use the word 

 with matured appreciation — of that wonderful 

 mental machine in action comes vividly to my 

 memory. Without apparent effort, in a low voice, 

 and not once "false pointing," he described, meas- 

 ured, compared, selected, rejected, and welded; 

 bringing into view, not only the general facts 

 and arguments ordinarily connected with the 

 subject, but a vast array of material which indi- 

 rectly had to do with its settlement; touching 

 upon statutes, human enthusiasms and prejudices, 

 necessities and rules of commercial development, 

 transportation, building of cities, and the momen- 

 tums and checks which in alternate periods stimu- 

 late or retard investment. His mental process was 

 extremely rapid but frictionless and conducted with 

 unswerving precision. A clarification which the 

 average educated man would painfully and, in all 

 likelihood, confusedly reach after a couple of days' 

 study he seemed able to attain in ten minutes by 

 that insight which with direct celerity seizes and 

 measures the essential. 



You cannot call such mental action hasty or 

 hurried. It is well within itself, and is as reliably 

 accurate as the slowest operation of a lesser mind. 

 In other words, it is class. 



Jacob Schaefer is an example of class among 



