Personality effects still greater things in re-
lation to a man's official duties and obligations
in public life. It ennobles a calling and gives
soul to an official position, lends the physician
power over the sick, which art and knowledge
alone could not give him; it secures for the
military officer command over his troops,
and assures him their faithfulness in the pres-
ence of danger and death; it lifts the judge
above the frigid law; it makes the priest a
shepherd of souls amid his congregation; the



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teacher an admired and beloved model for his
pupils.
We like to speak of the charm of personaHty.
Apparently we mean by the expression not only
the obvious quality, but also the mysterious part
of its influence. Indeed, a strong personality
enchants other people, without one's being able
clearly to say why and how. In school life a root
of its power sends forth a plainly visible shoot.
