[The Investment of Influence by Newell Dwight Hillis]@TWC D-Link bookThe Investment of Influence CHAPTER I 2/33
Artists express the same idea by the halo of light emanating from the divine head.
Business men understand this principle, those skilled in promoting great enterprises bring the men to be impressed into a room and create an atmosphere around them. In measuring Kossuth's influence over the multitudes that thronged and pressed upon him the historian said: "We must first reckon with the orator's physical bulk and then carry the measuring-line about his atmosphere." Thinking of the evil emanating from a bad man, Bunyan made Apollyon's nostrils emit flames.
Edward Everett insists that Daniel Webster's eyes during his greatest speech literally emitted sparks.
Had we tests fine enough we would doubtless find each man's personality the center of outreaching influences.
He himself may be utterly unconscious of this exhalation of moral forces, as he is of the contagion of disease from his body.
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