Caesar the Soldier

Extract

It is a poor age which does not throw up a giant. Whether he responds to a crisis or whether he creates his own opportunity, rising unbidden to tyranny, the genius dominates the contemporary scene. His achievements linger with posterity. Yet without that character which can attract loyalty and absolute devotion, without that personal magnetism which can turn dependable associates into fanatical adherents and servants into slaves, no run of successes can lift a man out of the rut of leadership into that position from which he bestraddles his contemporaries like a Colossus.