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 and for its abnormal breadth above the ears. But the body matched the head—as it ought to do in every man—and woman, and child.

Mr. Low, in his Prince Bismarck, Vol. II., p. 484, says of him in 1886 that "It is not too much to say that, in spite of all the qualities lodged in this wonderful head of Bismarck, ."

Dr. Busch says: "In April, 1878, he said, 'I have always lived hard and fast; by hard, I mean that I always did what I had to do with all my might; whatever really succeeded, I paid for with my health and strength.

Mr. Low continues: "There have been men of higher intellectual powers than Prince Bismarck; and men of greater physical endowment; but surely there never was any man in whom the mental and the physical were so largely and so equally developed as in the Unifier of Germany. What impresses every one on seeing him for the first time is his air of