Now sleep, and I'll bring you some soup when you wake." Like all the men who move the world, Fullerton was a practical man doubled with a mystic.

A mystic who has a wicked and supremely powerful intellect may move the nations of men and dominate them--for a time--yes, for a time.

Your Napoleon, Wallenstein, Strafford have their day, and the movement of their lips may at any time be the sign of extinction for thousands; the murder-shrieks of nations make the music that marks their progress; strong they are and merciless.

But they lean on the sword; they pass into the Night, leaving no soul the better for their tremendous pilgrimage.
But the good mystic plants influences like seed, and the goodly growths cover the waste places of the earth with wealth of fruit and glory of bloom.

I think of a few of the good mystics, and I would rather be one of them than rule over an empire.