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Show Nature Prodigal in Gifts to the Great The great man hns usually looked the part. Lowell said of Emerson that there "was a majesty about him beyond be-yond nil the men I have ever known." Washington impressed those about him us being no ordinary man, and Dr. J limes Thatcher said "the. strength and proportion of his joints and muscles mus-cles appeared to be commensurate with the pre-eminent powers of his mind." Goethe wns likened In his youth to an Apollo, and the physician phy-sician Hufeland declared that never had he "met with a man In whom bodily and mental organization were so perfect." Tennyson was "one of the finest looking men in ihe world." Wordsworth wns. according to the artist art-ist HnycVn, "of very fine heroic proportions." pro-portions." Southey looked Hn Ideal poet, Byron was as beautiful as his verse ami was likened to "the god of tne vntican, the Apollo Belvldere. Leonardo da Vinci had a figure of ! beautiful proportions and a nehle and I engaging presence. Walter Scott was ! eminently handsome, "much above the i usual standard" and "cast In the j mold of young Hercules." with a j "fresh and brilliant complexion nnd I a countenance of gnat dignity." I Scientific Monthly. I I |