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suggestive. Look at his picture there, — large, strong 

 features cfb. a small face and head, — no blank spaces; 

 all given up to expression; a high predaceous nose, 

 a sinewy brow, a massive, benevolent chin. In 

 most men there is more face than feature, but here 

 is a vast deal more feature than face, and a corre- 

 sponding alertness and emphasis of character. In- 

 deed, the man is made after this fashion. He is all 

 type ; his expression is transcendent. His mind has 

 the hand's pronounced anatomy, — its cords and 

 sinews and multiform articulations and processes, its 

 opposing and coordinating power. If his brain is 

 small, its texture is fine and its convolutions deep. 

 There have been broader and more catholic natures, 

 but few so towering and audacious in expression and 

 so rich in characteristic traits. Every scrap and 

 shred of him is important and related. Like the 

 strongly aromatic herbs and simples, — sage, mint, 

 wintergreen, sassafras, — the least part carries the 

 flavor of the whole. Is there one indifferent or 

 equivocal or unsympathizing drop of blood in him? 

 Where he is at all, he is entirely, — nothing extem- 

 poraneous; his most casual word seems to have lain 

 in pickle a long time, and is saturated through and 

 through with the Emersonian brine. Indeed, so 

 pungent and penetrating is his quality that even his 

 quotations seem more than half his own. 



He is a man who occuioies every inch of his right- 

 ful territory; he is there in proper person to the 

 farthest . bound. Kot every man is himself and his 

 best self at all times and to his finger points. Many 



