He has known hard misery, been taught by stripes; a light stoicism sits gracefully on him.
"What he will grow to ?" Probably to something considerable.

Very certainly to something far short of his aspirations; far different from his own hopes; and the world's concerning him.

It is not we, it is Father Time that does the controlling and fulfilling of our hopes; and strange work he makes of them and us.

For example, has not Friedrich's grand "New Era," inaugurated by him in a week, with the leading spirits all adoring, issued since in French Revolution and a "world well suicided,"-- the leading spirits much thrown out in consequence! New Era has gone to great lengths since Friedrich's time; and the leading spirits do not now adore it, but yawn over it, or worse! Which changes to us the then aspect of Friedrich, and his epoch and his aspirations, a good deal .-- On the whole, Friedrich will go his way, Time and the leading spirits going theirs; and, like the rest of us, will grow to what he can.

His actual size is not great among the Kingdoms: his outward resources are rather to be called small.