What does "the character and range of your intelligence." mean? i am in a hurry. Please. When first I was brought into contact with the West what most immediately impressed me was the character and range of your intelligence. I found that you had brought your mind to bear, with rare success, upon problems which had not even occurred to us in the East; that by analysis and experiment you had found the clue to the operation of the forces of Nature, and had turned them to account in ways shich, to my untraveled imagination, appeared to be little short of miraculous What does "the character and range of your intelligence." mean?