The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-05-28
oTnELLos AND 1HElp -.
Types of Human Nature Fo,n,
Every Sphere, ID

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Every Sphere, IN
, Shakspeare's leading characta,,
types Of the varieties of human na.a a'e
A strongly marked individual mns.
typical, because individuality cona,' Oe
i'm accentuating peculiarities ss n,h's
mark the type. In Othello and 1a '.a
he gives us two specimens Of ivy so
which are as old as human nat,ra Stss s
suspicious man and the unsnsnio;s s
man. Othello is the open hearted ,0us rs.
to whom it never occurs that gent1a
man can tell lie, and Iago is tho my
who suspects everybody Of sinister ~
tives, and whose word is SO untrrs.
worthy that it is hardly safe to ha]on.
the opposite Of what he swaars =.
Specimens of these types we meet DAM
in every walk of life, the lagos nov
haps not quite so malignant as tbo,.
great prototype, but always plottinn
always trying to bring things to n,ss
in an underhand, indirect manner. ,ha
Othellos less poetic in diction anS
princely in manner than the Moor y.
Venice, but equally trusting and trur
full. Gen. Grant was an Othello and
Ferdinand Ward was his Iago. Mann
of our modern Othellos go into bant
ing. The original We're he living woua
be Napoleon of finance"
The Othellos are the natural nrov a
lagos. In the play Iago merely rpins
the life Of his victim. In real life ba
gets all his money and his wife's mon.
ey and lets him go. A well-eouppca
modern Iago needs about one Othp,,o
a month. The more he devours tba
warier and more experienced he no.
comes. By any reasonable interprets
ton Of the law of evolution, which va
are all bound to believe, the race NJ
lagos should have eXterminated tha
race of Othellos long before this. Bu
that is not the fact. There are lust az
many trusting. unsuspicious, honest
men to-day as there were 100 wears
ago. The lagos are the intellectna,
athletes, and in the struggle for exist.
ence they are we'll armed for defense
and offense and yet not weighted
down by any scruples of morality or
generosity. They are the most thor.
oughly equipped beasts of prey in the
world They rarely prey on one anoth.
er. On the contrary, the Gould sub.
variety and the Fiske subvariety usu.
ally hunt in couples. Civilization,
courts, trusts, politics and corporate
capital have greatly widened their field
and improved their opportunities. Why
do they not use up all the Othellos and
leave US humanity consisting solely
of sharp, suspicious units? Why do
they not root out confidence among
men? AS said before, on the principles
of the struggle for existence, and it Ger
tainly is q struggle, and of the survival
of the fittest, and they are surely the
fttest to survive in a society whert
competition is unlimited, they ought ti
do so. But they do not.
There must be something wron:
about this theory of evolution and un
limited competition as applied to hu
man society, however we'll it may wors
in the case of 'bumble bees and cat;
and mice and red clover" Can it bf
possible, after all, that there is a rea
positive principle in honesty and trus
in human nature and mutual good fel
lowship which preserves the men wht
possess those qualities healthy AM
hearty in a world where modern philos
ophy tells us that selfshness and dis
trust are the only safeguards, wher
cry mans hand is against every othel
man? 1t looks so sometimes --1oesn'
it?-Hartford Courant.