The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-22

NoneSof these parts are lacking in any
character. If we designate man as a
man of action, it doesn't mean that he
GOES not think and feel. If we ask why
>Khere come to be different types of
men, we may say that there were the
germs OF one type in the beginning
and by circumstances it was devel-
oped. Or circumstances may have pre-
vented the development of two of the
types and compelled the man to use the
other.
We can only consider two degrees in
these types, high and low in each.
There may be six forms of character
Dy this method, calling the highest and
lowest both uniform.
BY the tendency to reflection is meant
not at first intellectual power but a
tendency to think.
Sir Philip Sydney may come near the
highest uniformity, while the great
mass of mankind may be placed in the
lowest uniformity. The form of sensi-
tVeness comes first. There exist re-
nglous fanatic, the poets, the habitual
happy and the habitual melancholy,
the people who go to revivals to be
wrought up, the debauchees, some of
the musicians, these with neurotic
tendencies, the chronic diffident, the
artificial sensitive. Given some power
OF expression, such people become
poets, with power of reflection they
become writers of the inner life. People
of this type are liable to be obscure.
The pure active type gives us the
'hustlers, who are nothing more than
voluntary drudges These people do
not feel or reflect much or they
wouldn't hustle so much. People of
this type are rather apt to be conceiteG.
On small scale they are apt to be
Philistines and they lack steadiness
and persistence. They are the globe
trotters who travel just to be doing
something. They are careless, needless;
they are the bold and dashing If they
are slightly endowed with intelligence,
they can work steadily. Here belong
the sportsmen, the mountain climbers.
II they are endowed with some feelings
they become reformeps.
In the pure reflective form, we have
the type of the scholar. They are the
dreamers who do not wish to be trou-
bled to put their dreams into practices.
This type differs from the plastic type,
for he does not yield. He is neither an
optimist nor pessimiSt, in action he
is inertia, in feeling he is unfeeling.
Many of the celebrated philosophers
were of this type. Here belong the in
ventors of the impractical sort.
In all these cases we must recall that
pure example does not exist.
The next set of types is step far
Their toward the average. The sensi-
tive-aetion type. Here belong the
greater men of action, the refoimcrs.
the martyrs, the great religious teafh-
ers, the enthusiastic military mrn,
poets like Byron. Action gets all the
energy and fire Of feeling. On a small
scale these are the people who seem
really alive. The blemish to this char
acter is lack of reflection, is narrow
ness and bigotry In small affairs the
man Is impetuous.
The sensitive reflective type is inter
esting. This is the poet type. Some poets
verge more toward the sensitive and
some toward the reflective types. Here
belong the great teachers. On the small
scale you have those who like this kind
of literature, who speak as though they
knew what they were talking about.
Between this type and the purely sem
sitiYe, would lie the great painters The
type Of the active refiectives thinks be-
fore he acts, and acts as he thinks.
Ribot thinks this is the moral type
par excellence, but the morality is cold
and inspires respect instead of SYM
pathy. Here belong the stoics and the
schemers. Their blemish is their cold
ness. If their feelings are low and con-
temptible, this type is never respected.
Philip II of Spain is given as an ex-
ample of this type. On small scale,
these are the cooler people.
| Besides these, which we might call
normal characters, there are manH OF
| what might be called abnormal