But the perpetual call on a man's readiness, sell-control, and vigour which business makes, the constant appeal to the intellect, the stress upon the will, the necessity for rapid and responsible exercise of judgment--all these things constitute a high culture, though not the highest.

It is a culture which strengthens and invigorates if it does not refine, which gives force if not polish--the FORTITER IN RE, if not the SUAVITER IN MODO.

It makes strong men and ready men, and men of vast capacity for affairs, though it does not necessarily make refined men or gentlemen."] [Footnote 1315: On the first publication of his 'Despatches,' one of his friends said to him, on reading the records of his Indian campaigns: "It seems to me, Duke, that your chief business in India was to procure rice and bullocks." "And so it was," replied Wellington: "for if I had rice and bullocks, I had men; and if I had men, I knew I could beat the enemy."] [Footnote 1316: Maria Edgeworth, 'Memoirs of R.L.Edgeworth,' ii.

94.] [Footnote 1317: A friend of Lord Palmerston has communicated to us the following anecdote.

Asking him one day when he considered a man to be in the prime of life, his immediate reply was, "Seventy-nine!" "But," he added, with a twinkle in his eye, "as I have just entered my eightieth year, perhaps I am myself a little past it."] [Footnote 1318: 'Reasons of Church Government,' Book II.] [Footnote 1319: Coleridge's advice to his young friends was much to the same effect.