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"great general, it took a more perfect and complete man than would be required for any other walk in life. I do not say that to make a Napoleon, it requires that any one faculty should be so highly developed as would be wanted for a Newton; what I mean is, that while a Newton can be made by one abnormally developed faculty in an otherwise mediocre mind, a Napoleon must have power in every direction.'"

I venture to think that these remarks are at once just and profound. He who made them, like another friend I have referred to in these pages, is perhaps one of those subtile [sic] thinkers who appear in this world and live and die unheard, leaving no name behind them.

"My Lords," said Nelson, in a speech in the House of Lords, November 23, 1802, "I have in different countries seen much of the miseries of war. I am therefore in my most inmost soul a man of peace. Yet would I not, for the sake of any peace, however fortunate, consent to sacrifice one jot of England's honour. Our honour is inseparably combined with our genuine interest."

The gentlemen of the English Peace Society have not shown in the peace question the logical power which they have shown in other matters. When they want to purchase a commodity, they do not adopt as a mode of obtaining it at a reasonable price a display of extreme anxiety to possess