The Life of Nelson

A study of the one man who in himself summed up and embodied the greatness of the possibilities which Sea Power comprehends,--the man for whom genius and opportunity worked together, to make him the personification of the Navy of Great Britain...The name of Nelson is enrolled among those few presented to us by History, the simple mention of which suggests, not merely a personality or a career, but a great force or a great era concrete in a single man, who is its standard-bearer before the nations.