The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-26
CUSTER AND GRANT.
The Former of the Sensitive Active and
the Latter of the Reflective Active Type.

. ne FOIT1eT OF Ine SENSITIVE HCtlF6 ana
the Latter of the Reflective Active Type.
DR.. Sanford spoke on 1.-THE active
type" and said in substance:
Men OF action are those in whom the
ovefpowering desire to do something is
present. There are soldiers who fight
simply to be doing something. There
are others in whom action depends on
feelings or on consciousness. The ac-
tive type originates in successful and
free activity in the beginning.
There are pure actives, sensitive ac-
tives and active ref1eotives. The purely
active amount to very little unless IA
vored by circumstances.
The active type Is the most attractive
type. Until a thing gets into action we
do not value it very much.
All mental states tend to express
themselves in action.
In making voluntary movement we
picture to ourselves the way the move
ment Is going to feel and look, and
when the thought gets intense 1t flashes
over into action. For voluntary action
thought Is concentrated on the one ac-
ton. You can have one thought only
in your mind at the time. When your
mind is emotionally colored this is
| stronger.
In the case of the active type we shall
find relative simplicity Of character.
They are never morbid, never complex.
The sensitive active type or the feel
ing active type, in its higher type, gives
us the martyrs, the explorers, men of
war, business men of vast ENTERPRISES.
1t rs easy to get biographies of these
people because their actions tell and
are remembered. The soldier is the
| easiest example of this type. Custer
| was an example of the sensitive active
| type, though with him sensitiveness
was not as great as his activeness. He
was a poor boy, went to school, but was
not given to study hard. He liked to
read novels of military life. He grad
uated from West Point in 81 There
| he was strong and an excellent horse
man. He graduated at the foot of his
| class. He took part in the first battle
| of Bull Run and was promoted to cap
| tain before the end of the year. At the
| close of the war he was made brevet
| brigadier general in the regular army.
| After the war he was sent to Texas and
was made lieutenant colonel in the Sew
| enth cavalry. At 20 years of age he
went into his first important Indian
battle. 1t took place in November with
| the snow almost knee deep. The In
dams were camped in pine woods.
| He separated his company into four
| parts and dashed in and captured the
| village. This village was only one of
| a line of hostile villages.
| The fight that he is known most for
| is that on the Little Big Horn, when
he was "a or IS years old. He refused
/ to take any soldiers other than his own
| regiment He went against the In
| dams by forced marches and arrived q
day before he was expected to meet
| Gen. Perry, and the result of the bat
| tie is known.
He was Of the active type He had
/ great physical strength. He was a
! sportsman with all the sportsman's in
/ stinct. He had energy and a buoyant
| nature. He was always affectionate.
| He was high spirited; he liked military
/ pomp. He was ambitious and was SEN
| sitive. However, it is probable that his
emotions were not worked up. He was
! undoubtedly rash, had little of the re-
| Elective side.
! AS a contrast, Gen. Grant was more
/ nearly Of the active reflective type. He
excelled in strength and horsemanship,
| graduated below the middle of his
| class He was quiet resolute, shy, with
4 strong common sense. He was courte-
j Gus; but to those he suspected he was
/ implacable. He always manifested a
| siilpAc laltn III MS SUCCESS. Wnen he
/ had completed his arrangements he
1 acted.
/ Every one has the defects of his vir-
tues; men of action have their sort OF
i dift1dence. They are often bound by
/ opinions and prejudices. They do not
i penetrate themselves nor allow others
l to penetrate. They would lose in bold
ness If they stopped to reflect. Some
| men disregard religious or political
| principles because they do not wish to
! have to decide.