![]() ![]() ![]() Inspired by a leonine father, he had labored with weights to build up his strength. ![]() ![]() “He had been a timid child in New York City, cut off from schoolboy society by illness, wealth, and private tutors. If the sum of all these facets of experience added up to more than a geometric whole - implying excess construction somewhere, planes piling upon planes - then only he, presumably, could view the polygon entire.” A random survey of his achievements might show him mastering German, French, and the contrasted dialects of Harvard and Dakota Territory assembling fossil skeletons with paleontological skill fighting for an amateur boxing championship transcribing birdsong into a private system of phonetics chasing boat thieves with a star on his breast and Tolstoy in his pocket founding a finance club, a stockmen's association, and a hunting-conservation society reading some twenty thousand books and writing fifteen of his own climbing the Matterhorn promulgating a flying machine and becoming a world authority on North American game mammals. Few, if any Americans could match the breadth of his intellect and the strength of his character. “Yet there was no doubt that Theodore Roosevelt was peculiarly qualified to be President of all the people. ![]()
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