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that successful statesmen possess that distinguishes their knowledge
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from all other forms of rationality and knowledge?"
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He writes as follows.
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I'm going to quote him. "The quality that I am attempting to
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describe is that special understanding of public life,
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which successful statesmen have, whether they are wicked or virtuous.
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That which Bismark had or Talleyrand
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or Franklin Roosevelt
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or, for that matter, men such as Cavour or Disraeli,
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Gladstone or Ataturk in common with the great psychological novelists,
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and something which is conspicuously lacking in men of more purely
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theoretical genius, such as Newton or Einstein or