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He was physically and mentally strong; possessed of a great personality that compelled him to self-assertion; and was self-reliant in a degree attained by but few men of his time. He followed his own convictions, in the face of much opposition, bravely and unflinchingly.
Yet every movement of his wasted bones cost him the effort of a hero, and the dumb signs in him of longing for his father increased the general impression as of some patient creature driven by Nature to monstrous and disproportionate extremity. The plight of this handful of human beings worked in Marcella like some fevering torture. She was wholly out of gear physically and morally.
Now there was nothing wrong in his feeling a pride and pleasure in the thought that he was physically superior to his cousin, and though it was foolish for him to insist himself on this superiority in a boasting way, it was the foolishness of ignorance only.
To act upon uncertainties as if they were sure, and to do it in the midst of carnage and death when immeasurable results hang upon it, this is the supreme presence of mind which marks a great commander, and which is among the rarest gifts even of men who are physically brave. The problem itself is usually simple.
Physically, he seemed tired; much dust of city streets clung to his commonly spotless boots; but his eyes were so extraordinarily brilliant that Queed at first wondered if he could have been drinking. However, this thought died almost as soon as it was born. The professor walked over to the window and stood looking out, hat on head. Presently he said: "You saw the grand parade, I suppose?
He said, "Oh yes, just outside of New York?" With a smile, I replied, "Well, it's up the State a little." Then I was taken before the doctor and passed as physically fit, and was issued a uniform. When I reported back to the Lieutenant, he suggested that, being an American, I go on recruiting service and try to shame some of the slackers into joining the Army.
They do not like us because they rather fear us, not physically, not as man against man, but overwhelming size and increasing importance, fear for the future, fear what down deep in their hearts many of them know must come.
Already we have had a good deal of incendiarism about the country, and some of the highest aristocracy have pledged themselves to raise the people above themselves, and have advised sedition and conspiracy; have shown to the debased and unenlightened multitude that their force is physically irresistible, and recommended them to make use of it, promising that if they hold in power, they will only use that power to the abolition of our farce of a constitution, of a church, and of a king; and that if the nation is to be governed at all, it shall only be governed by the many.
There must be some basic reason for this freedom from contagious diseases, for we know that such freedom does not come by accident. No attempt will be made to deal with those auxiliary forces employed to keep the men physically and mentally fit.
The late and the present, the living and the dead, physically and metaphysically also, are not these features, as the men, separated alike by the great gulf of the unknown, by a vast stretch of that undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveller returns? The sun went down, and I returned to my youthful companion with the horses below. We were fifty-one miles from the water we had left.
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