I can see him moving smoothly and usefully in times of comparative peace to the Primacy, holding that high office with dignity, and leaving behind him a memory that will rapidly fade.

But I cannot see him so clearly in the midst of a storm.

A great industrial upheaval, for example, where would that land him?
The very fact that one does not ask, How would he direct it?
shows perhaps the measure of distrust one may feel in his strength--not of character--but of personality.

He would remain, one is sure, a perfectly good man, and a man of intelligence; but would any great body of the nation feel that it would follow him either in a fight or in a retreat?
I am not sure.

On the whole I feel that his personality is not so effective as it might have been if he had not inherited the ecclesiastical tradition, had not been born in the episcopal purple.
By this I mean that he gives me the feeling of a man who is not great, but who has the seeds of greatness in him.