Put down on either side the same items that my father and the judge put down and add the items up.

You will see the inevitable result." If we are seeking an ancestral explanation for that moral ruggedness, that quick perception of the difference between right and wrong, that unobscured vision into men and events, and that deep devotion to America and to democracy which formed the fibre of Walter Page's being, we evidently need look no further than his father.

But the son had qualities which the older man did not possess--an enthusiasm for literature and learning, a love of the beautiful in Nature and in art, above all a gentleness of temperament and of manner.

These qualities he held in common with his mother.

On his father's side Page was undiluted English; on his mother's he was French and English.