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not any really important involvement of his mind. He was a man who had develped tremendous political and governmental sagacity. He knew the art and science of government. He knew the purpose of government. He had insight into it. He knew it in an Aristotelian sense, although he never read a word of Aristotle. He knew that government is essential to man's life. Men have to live together in societies. They can't live alone like hermits. He knew that just as Aristotle pointed it out. He knew that politics was the method by which men arranged their system or order and justice which made it possible to live together in a herd. He knew that intuitively and out of his experience. He had developed the greatest sagacity and power of judgment. He never had any legal training, but he had that penetrating mind that could ask the exact questions that would bring out pertinent facts, but discard all the odds and ends of things that weren't pertinent to the particular thing. He had a moral sense about his judgment. His sense of right and wrong operated on it. He was not completely the slave to logic. He could use logic without being controlled by it. He could make a right decision.

I've never known a person who had such sagacity and ability in the field of government of men and the political technique by which they governed themselves. It was a great





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