30 ACTIVE AND LESS IMPASSIONED MAN. 



him a long way from his natural bias. Not rarely the 

 less emotional intellect is so lofty and commanding that 

 no disturbing influence can hinder the formation of 

 broad and just views in all the provinces of life. While, 

 on the other hand, let it be fully noted, that in 

 emotional men and women the narrowest views and 

 coarsest prejudices are only too common. 



The life of the unim passioned individual is usually 

 characterised by morality, truthfulness, and high prin- 

 ciple; sometimes his determination to produce imme- 

 diate effect however leads to later trouble which the 

 boldest strategy cannot always turn aside. 



The public-spirited man of affairs displays much 

 pertinacity (the pertinacity is too visible to be called 

 dexterity) in getting on to platforms and in keeping 

 rivals off. If, in public assembly, adverse fates have 

 given him nothing to do nothing to propose, or 

 second, or support, or amend, or oppose he will rise 

 and ask for some window to be closed to keep out a 

 draught, or, which is more likely, that one be opened 

 to let in more air; for, physiologically, he commonly 

 needs much air as well as much notice. 



Whether on or off the platform he is especially prone 

 to do what he is not asked to do what, perhaps, he is 

 not best fitted to do; nevertheless he constantly 

 believes that the public see him as ha wishes them to 

 see him, as he sees himself a sleepless seeker of the 

 public good. His plans are cunningly devised : he puts 

 others in his debt and he cannot go unrewarded. The 

 really able and fluent unimpassioned speaker is often 

 of great use on the platform. He may, by well-chosen 

 language, move his audience although he is not moved 

 himself. He is probably quick to understand his time, 

 or at least his party ; he sees its wants, expresses its 



