Reducing his religion to the simplest elements of our creed, he found rather in the books of Heathen authors than in the lives of the saints, his notions of the larger morality which relates to the citizen and the man.

The love of country; the sense of justice; fortitude in adverse and temperance in prosperous fortune, became portions of his very mind.

Unlike his father, he played no actor's part in those qualities which had won him the popular heart.
He was gentle and affable; above all, he was fair-dealing and just, not because it was politic to seem, but his nature to be, so.
Nevertheless, Harold's character, beautiful and sublime in many respects as it was, had its strong leaven of human imperfection in that very self-dependence which was born of his reason and his pride.

In resting so solely on man's perceptions of the right, he lost one attribute of the true hero--faith.

We do not mean that word in the religious sense alone, but in the more comprehensive.