Excerpt from The Nelson Touch: Being a Little Book of the Great Seaman's Wisdom Nelson has, it is to be feared, become today for many people little more than a traditional figure, one-eyed, one-armed a man who, like Wolfe, fell in the hour of his greatest triumph, having displayed a signal for a single battle which was to become an inspiration for a race. Such, in brief, is perhaps all' that the majority of people would be able to say off hand that they know about Nelson, that and perhaps something vague about the association of his name with the name of the beautiful Lady Hamilton. Those in whose memories the scandal has the greatest prominence may read with the curling lips of sar donic dubiety the statement that Nelson' 5 letters reveal his straightforward honesty of purpose, his chivalrous sense of loyalty, not only national but personal. The challenging words were chosen with thoughtful deliberation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.