There was little room for vulgar self-conceit in a nature so frank and sincere as his.

What he had to learn, as well as what he had to teach, always dwarfed merely personal considerations to their narrowest dimensions in his mind.
Hence his impulsive candor, the clearness of his views, and the straightforward simplicity of his speech at once attracted notice, and although so young, he went speedily to the front in the local management of his party.

In the article already quoted from, he tells us that after 1834 the managers left all future engagements of lecturers to his brother John and himself.

It was doubtless this fact which led directly to that lasting and fruitful intimacy with Dr.
Brownson which then began.

His was the strongest purely human influence, if we except his mother's, which Isaac Hecker ever knew.
And these two were on planes so different that it is hardly fair to compare them with each other.
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