TYPES OF NAVAL OFFICERS. 5 



not weep easily, feels little drive, and on the other hand is always respon- 

 sive and cooperative." (Davenport, 1915.) The hyperkinetic and 

 hypokinetic moods may alternate with each other and with the normal 

 mood. 



Table 1 shows the relation between temperament and the type of naval 

 officer. Our best judgment was used in assigning the categories, and the 

 assignment to type and temperament was made as independently as pos- 

 sible in each case. It appears that most naval officers who were primarily 

 fighters were of the hyperkinetic type; although one is with some hesita- 

 tion classified as hypokinetic. On the other hand the great strategists and 

 even the tacticians and most of those whose chief service was in administra- 

 tion are hypokinetics or intermediates. Nelson stands alone in combining 

 great strategic insight, tactical skill, and fighting gallantry of the first order, 

 and this he was able to do because of the combination in him of hyperkinesis 

 and hypokinesis. John Paul Jones had a similar mixed temperament but 

 not the strategic insight. There are, however, many details in the career 

 of Paul Jones and Nelson that bear a remarkable resemblance. 



TABLE 1. Temperament in Relation to Type. 



Strategic-tactic-combative gifts 



Hyperkinetic-hypokinetic: Nelson 1 

 Combative gift 



Hyperkinetic (nervous or romantic): Bainbridge, Barney, Barry, R. Blake, Farragut, Hoste, 

 Keppel, Lawrence, MacDonough, Morris, O'Brien, Pellew, Perkins, O. H. Perry, 

 D. Porter, D. D. Porter, Stockton, Tromp, Beresford, Dewey, Smith, Decatur, 

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Intermediate: Blake, Elphinstone (Keith) 2 

 Hypokinetic (phlegmatic or classic) : Wolseley 1 

 Combative and adventurous gifts 



Hyperkinetic-hypokinetic: John Paul Jones 1 



Hyperkinetic (nervous or romantic) : Cochrane, Gushing, Maffitt, Raleigh 4 

 Tactic gift 



Intermediate: Saumarez 1 



Hypokinetic (phlegmatic or classic) : Collingwood, Howe 2 

 Strategic gift 



Intermediate: Paulding, M. C. Perry, Preble, Semmes 4 

 Hypokinetic (phlegmatic or classic) : Mahan, Hardy 2 

 Diplomatic gift 



Intermediate: Tattnall 1 

 Administrative gift 



Hyperkinetic (nervous or romantic): Jervis (?), Philip, Rodgers (?) 3 



Intermediate: Blake, Hopkins, Hornby, Markham, Moresby, W. H. Parker, Sands, 



Seymour, Tucker, Winslow, Rodney 11 



Hypokinetic (phlegmatic or classic) : Beaver, Brenton. Phillip 3 

 Adventurous-literary gifts 



Intermediate: Marry at 1 

 Thallasophilic gift 



Intermediate: Brown, Hawkins 2 

 Explorative gift 



Intermediate: Flinders, Franklin 2 

 Hypokinetic: McClintock 1 

 Constructive gift 



Intermediate: Buchanan 1 

 Inventive gift 



Hyperkinetic: Dahlgren 1 

 Intermediate: R. Jones 1 



