In due degree
as his faith is easy will his revenges be extreme. In due degree as
he is slow to suspect the wrong-doer, will be the tenacity of his
pursuit when the offender requires punishment. He seems to throw
wide his heart and habitation, but you must beware how you trespass
upon the securities of either.
The other is a mental characteristic which leads to frequent
surprises among strangers from the distant cities. It consists in
the wonderful inequality between his mental and social development.
The same person who will be regarded as a boor in good society, will
yet exhibit a rapidity and profundity of thought and intelligence--a
depth and soundness of judgment--an acuteness in discrimination--a
logical accuracy, and critical analysis, such as mere good society
rarely shows, and such as books almost as rarely teach. There will
be a deficiency of refinement, taste, art--all that the polished
world values so highly--and which it seems to cherish and encourage
to the partial repudiation of the more essential properties of
intellect. However surprising this characteristic may appear, it
may yet be easily accounted for by the very simplicity of a training
which results in great directness and force of character--a frank
heartiness of aim and object--a truthfulness of object which
suffers the thoughts to turn neither to the right hand nor to the
left, but to press forward decisively to the one object--a determined
will, and a restless instinct--which, conscious of the deficiencies
of wealth and position, is yet perpetually seeking to supply them
from the resources within its reach.
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