Capitolo 31
among 1870 and the 1900 anything rather new it had need.
The character of his/her father was therefore him the greatest part of his
education, as far as some only person it struck him/it, and for that
reasons, if for anybody other, his/her child was always, a very interested
critical of the mind of his/her father and the temperament. Long after his/her death as
an old man of eighty, his/her children kept on discussing this subject
with a lot of difference in their points of view. To his
I give birth Henry the quality from which you/he/she has distinguished his/her father all the,
the other figures in the family gather, it was that, in its opinion,
Charles Francis Adams perfectly possessed the only ones they balanced mind
what it ever existed in the name. For one hundred years, each
scribbler of newspaper had, with more obvious excuse,
derided or he/she misused the oldest Adamses for lack of judgment. Them
Charles Francis misused for his/her judgment. Naturally them never
tried of or to assign values to; that was his/her children
bargain; but the lines of the face were true. Charles Francis Adams was
unusual for the mental stability--the absence of self-affirmation or
embarrassment--the faculty to individually distinguish himself/herself/themselves without
seeming aware that he was alone--an equilibrium of mind and the temperament
what it challenged neither it avoided notice, neither it admitted question
of the superiority or the inferiority, of the jealousy, of the personal motives,
from some source, even under the great pressure. This unusual stability of
judgment and tempering, matured from age, it became the most impressive to
his/her child Henry as him learned to measure the mental faculties
them, what or it was in any unusual way for depth or
series. The memory of Charles Francis Adams was not really on the
average; his/her mind it was not daring as his/her grandfather it is or without rest
as his/her father, or imaginative or oratorical--still less
mathematical; but it worked with unusual perfection, admirable