The Great American Crisis: Or Cause and Cure of the Rebellion; Embracing Phrenological Characters and Pen-And-Ink Portraits of the President, His Leading Generals and Cabinet Officers (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from The Great American Crisis: Or Cause and Cure of the Rebellion; Embracing Phrenological Characters and Pen-and-Ink Portraits of the President, His Leading Generals and Cabinet Officers In addition to a large and active brain, with a large development of both the perceptive and reflective intellect, the individual should possess large Firmness to give him perseverance in the pursuit of his object until attained; large Concentrativeness to enable him to concentrate his mental powers upon a single object at ...
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Excerpt from The Great American Crisis: Or Cause and Cure of the Rebellion; Embracing Phrenological Characters and Pen-and-Ink Portraits of the President, His Leading Generals and Cabinet Officers In addition to a large and active brain, with a large development of both the perceptive and reflective intellect, the individual should possess large Firmness to give him perseverance in the pursuit of his object until attained; large Concentrativeness to enable him to concentrate his mental powers upon a single object at a time; large self-esteem to give him confidence in his own ability; large Combat iveness aud Destructiveness to give him motive power and force of Character to overcome all obstacles in his path, and, it is hardly necessary to add, large moral organs, as without these he would be only a gigantic machine for evil instead of good. Without these lat ter qualifications, however great the intellect, the possessor would be like a noble ship at sea without a rudder to steer her, or a Pilot with Chart and Compass to bring her to the desired haven-liable to be tossed about by the watery billows, till wrecked upon the breakers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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