"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power": Abraham Lincoln “After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small, complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. “The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained...