GREAT MEN'S BODIES
and for its abnormal breadth above the ears. But the body matched the head—as it ought to do in every man—and woman, and child.
Mr. Low, in his Prince Bismarck, Vol. II., p. 484, says of him in 1886 that "It is not too much to say that, in spite of all the qualities lodged in this wonderful head of Bismarck, he never could have accomplished his work without that Herculean frame and iron constitution which have carried him beyond the allotted span of human life, and while so many of his subordinates have been literally crushed to death by the burden of Empire-making. Minister after minister has gone to the wall; diplomatists have died of softening of the brain; and overwork has carried off many of his mere mechanical helpers; but, after a long life of superhuman care and toil, the master still walks erect; and is still ever found in the thickest of the fray. No one of his age has emerged from the political battles of the last five-and-twenty years so unscathed and unconsumed as Himself."
Dr. Busch says: "In April, 1878, he said, 'I have always lived hard and fast; by hard, I mean that I always did what I had to do with all my might; whatever really succeeded, I paid for with my health and strength.'"
Mr. Low continues: "There have been men of higher intellectual powers than Prince Bismarck; and men of greater physical endowment; but surely there never was any man in whom the mental and the physical were so largely and so equally developed as in the Unifier of Germany. What impresses every one on seeing him for the first time is his air of vast bodily strength. Ap-
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