text: " But Mr Clarkson Stanfield is a man of men--"firm and fearless and unerring in his knowledge--stern and decisive in his truth--perfect and certain in composition--shunning nothing concealing nothing and falsifying nothing--never affected never morbid never failing--conscious of his strength but never ostentatious of it--acquainted with every line and hue of the deep sea--chiseling his waves with unhesitating knowledge of every curve of their anatomy and every moment of their motion--building his mountains rock by rock with wind in every fissure and weight in every stone--and modeling the masses of his sky with the strength of tempest in their every fold