Granstone's success was based on three great natural endowments, moral earnest ness, strength of will, and eloquence with these he combined most of the accomplishments which go to the full panoply of the political giant and many of the minor graces which sweeten life His great qualities were supplemented by that most splendid of all the gifts of the gods, a grand physical constitution anda vitality which rendered his ninety years of life a prolonged joy. No man ever toiled and worked under so fine a head of steam. Work was to him an incessant pleasure, relaxation came in the form of change of labour, not in cessation; the breadth of his sympathies and the many facets in his mental constitution gave numberless outlets for the energy which otherwise would have consumed him. As a reader and student he was omnivorous. Greek archmology, the Homeric poems, the Horatian philosophy and wit, Church History, the Schoolmen, Theology, Economic Science, Modern Fiction and Political Speculation were all known to him as an expert. He was an example of the Johnsonian precept that special goyins is often but general ability applied for a time in one direction. No one has, we believe, ever drank so deep of the real joys of life, or, if we except the last three months, had so little real pain and trouble throughout a great career: his domestic life was an idyll.
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