He has brought to the study of human life a profound mind and a trained vision.

His search after truth has destroyed in him all pettiness of personal ambition.

He desires, because he regards it as the highest kind of life, to further the work of creative evolution, to be always on the side of spiritual forces, and never to be deceived by transitory materialism.
Democracy has need of these qualities, and a great empire without such qualities in its statesmen can hardly endure the test of time.
His faults are a too generous confidence in the good sense of democracy and a lack of impassioned energy.

He is too much a thinker, too little a warrior.

Unhappily he is not an effective speaker, and his writing is not always as clear as his ideas.