The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

Allen links “intensity” of character—earnestness, depth of feeling, and concentrated purpose—to an aptitude for meditation. Rather than treating meditation as a retreat for the passive, the sentence frames it as a discipline that especially suits people with strong inner drives: their energy can be redirected inward into sustained attention and self-scrutiny. The implication is that meditation is not merely calming but clarifying; it harnesses powerful temperament into moral and mental self-mastery. In Allen’s broader ethical self-help outlook, inner work precedes outer achievement: the more forceful the nature, the more it benefits from a practice that refines motives, steadies thought, and converts raw impulse into deliberate character.