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290 THE HOUSE THAT SHADOWS BUILT
or some hated rival or merely an abstract problem.
There are two classes of high intelligence. The possessor of one kind is called by the shallow a creature of instinct. He seems to leap to conclusions of absolute soundness. In reality, he has not leaped, but only run. His mind has passed so swiftly from premise to deduction that he cannot remember the steps; is, indeed, generally unconscious of them.
The other type, while it does not exactly plod, goes more slowly. Before it takes the next step, it establishes itself firmly on every rung of the ladder. It is fully conscious of each stage in its journey. In case of error, it can go back and find the point where it departed from logical sequence. For all the brilliant miracles of the leaping mind, this walking mind is probably the more useful to men of affairs. Among world figures, Arthur Balfour, Woodrow Wilson, and Herbert Hoover belong to this mental caste. These are, or were, all men of finished education; working, too, in the broadest field of activity known to man. Their minds have therefore a wider scope than that of Adolph Zukor; but possibly no more power and skill in resolving a complex immediate problem.
Many have noted this about him: he sits during most of the first hour of a conference or negotiation — to the perception of an uninformed stranger the least noticeable figure about the table. Then he begins to talk, and he dominates the next hour. As the others gave their