| Show r i tn In his history of oC England In tn the tho thet I t Century William Leaky M I 1 o follow following ing mg tribute to George Washington To ro tho the appointment of oC n Ins fua us 11 c ar r more mo more J to any nh other Ingle single 4 circumstance is 19 duo i 1 ithe Ithe the ultimate success of at time Ole American Revolution Involution though thought In purely l powers Washington was certainly inferior to Franklin anti and per pern to two or three others It f his col colleagues colleagues leagues Thero Thera Is a theory theor which once I received time the countenance of ot some con considerable physiologists though It U Is la Isnow now haw I completely discarded that ono one of ot the tha great lines of oC division among men may be traced to 10 time the coma com Il development of or the cerebrum and the cerebellum To the Aral Orel organ AAA It was 11 belong those special gifts rifts or powers towels which make man men pools orators diatom thinkers artist or trIte To 10 the second ond belong The super superintending intending restraining discerning and directing j which enable mon men manto monto mento to employ their several with t and ami wisdom which maintain lie Hie u n a i lt e proportion of oC In Intellect Intellect in intellect and character anti sound judgments and well regulated liven The theory however untrue In Its It phys aspect corresponds colre to n it teal real distinction in n human minds and char characters and It wills especially in tho the second order ot of 8 That Washington Wash Washington ington excelled Ills HIM mind was wits wilH not quick or remarkably original Ills His con conver con conversation conversation ver atlon had no brilliancy or wit He tIe If Was entirely without the gift of oC elo and he lie had very ory few accomplishments He Ile knew know no language but its his own and una except for tor n a strong sIron turn for tor mathematics he had no taste which can cnn be called purely Intellectual Int There mere was nothing loth In Iti in hint him of the tun 1110 tear teor or III tho rho cataract I cither elther er or ail uv JI As A a s i ller t 11 circumstances of oC his him Into the blaze not hot only onh of oC hub but of oC foreign criticism cism Clem nod and It was Willi only very gradually that Hint I hh Ills superiority was tuns fully CuI Lee Loe 1 11 who of oC nil all American had neou most mot service In the army und and Conway who to grout grill U In la th the Iho French Inoh I enah army wore were both bout accustomed to speak of at his mill mili military tary talents with extreme extremo disparager IU meat but personal jealousy and mil undoubtedly colored their thelt Judg Judgment ment ments Do Vo v w ho hail trained In ti the life Lost host militarY of oC tho the con comm continent continent anent at fret first pronounced I him to bo be bovery bevery very In the strength shen decision lon and promptitude of ot n general and al aI although although though I r he soon learned to form farm tho rho ho hl estimate o of DC Ills bin military capa capacity CAPAcity city ho continued to tn lament that an nn excessive modesty led tod him too frequent ly h to net upon u the opinion of oC n Inferior men rather than upon his hi own OWl i ox judgment In the tinny and tho the Congress s more than the tho rival was op opposed posed paned lo to him He lie had his hll full CUll share sharo of oC disaster the operations which he con com ducted If IC compared l With great Euro European I uro Penn wars on a n very small scale and ho he had lind tho the immense advantage of at encountering In most cases generals ot of singular Incapacity It may however be bo truly said of ot him that his military reputation to steadily rose through many u anti lit of limo Struggle Ii h t on the b and all o d rn eu lu U of 01 the I part art of oC hili hie the slon II gO t military gift of at military nn ai l j 1 |
