A man of the world, with experiences, and in his quality, no doubt, the logical, inevitable result of such experiences--one with a conscience flexile and seeking, but hard as rock when once satisfied.

One who never, intentionally, injured a human being, save for equity's sake.

One who, of course, wandered in looking for what was, to him, the right, but who, having once determined, was ever steadfast.

A man who had seen and known and fed and felt and risked, but who seemed to me always as if his religion were: "What shall I do?
Nature says so-and-so, and the Power beyond rules nature." Laws of organization for political purposes, begun before Romulus and Remus, and varied by the dale-grouped Angles or the Northmen's Thing, did not seem to much impress him.

He recognized their utility, wanted to improve them, made that his work, and eventually observed most of them.