The Archive · 1925

Not Really Great

For the rest, it is not his conduct on this one occasion, bad as that was, that finally excludes Young from the company of really great men (mixed as it is and bad as some of them were) but a certain dubiousness in all his proceedings. With all his coarse outspokenness, you never quite know.where to have him, It is not that his motives were often mixed—whose aren't?—but that one Jean never be sure they were ever unmixed. He upheld vigorously polygamy, though he was not a lecherous person like Joseph Smith. He condoned murder but he was not a cold-blooded brute like John Lee. His sermons are full of evade vulgar fanaticism; but he was not a mere crazy lunatic like Bober C. Kimball. He was extremely am! no means indifferent to money; but hho was not just a selfseeker" like Rigden. He was none of these things invarly grent degree; but-he was a lo of them all, and nearly all the time. It is & fatal accusation. Tt is impossible not to admire the stubborn masterful energy with which the face of such jous difficulties he built his house but there was always something the matter the drains, and it was most evident when he was most loadly sting the.perfectiqn pf its sanita-

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