Post #362

“He is the seeking mind of America displayed… His range of reading is amazing; he seems to be echoing, with all the thought of his time, he has receptivity to the point of genius. And he does not merely receive, he digests and reconstructs; he thinks… He assimilates contemporary thought, delocalizes it, and reverberates it. He is America for the first time vocal to itself." - H. G. Wells (writing about President Theodore Roosevelt)