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opinions, warns it of impending evil, organises its 

 forces, deals smartly with its opponents. 



The desire to be noticed is found in many varieties 

 of character. The impassioned and slowly-maturing 

 man, especially in early life, may go to absurd 

 lengths in his desire to impress his fellow-mortals. 

 Young Burns was the only young man in his neigh- 

 bourhood who tied his hair and wore a peculiar plaid 

 in a peculiar manner. I believe it will be found 

 that, while the more impassioned individual is content 

 to make his mark, the active man desires something 

 more position, influence, leadership. Now and then 

 the passionless man has quite a craze for sheer 

 notoriety. He is full of projects and prophecies and 

 bustle, but, unfortunately for his reputation, he never 

 knows when to rest. When approved projects and 

 bustle are exhausted, foolish projects and bustle 

 begin. Society must be pleased if possible ; if it 

 will not be pleased it must be astonished; if it will 

 neither be pleased nor astonished it must be pestered 

 and shocked. It is difficult to put a limit to the 

 pranks of the more select and extreme performer. 

 He meets us everywhere in the pulpit and on the 

 platform; in law, in medicine, in arts, in literature, 

 in journalism, in politics, in warfare. He is given 

 to do " big things," sometimes useful sometimes 

 useless swimming a channel, or crossing one in a 

 balloon, or sailing an ocean in a cockle-boat, or riding 

 across a continent, or traversing a desert, or cutting 

 through a jungle. Our heroes of the extremely pas- 

 sionless type (of forward head-poise and sparing hair- 

 growth) are very fitful yet singularly self-confident. 

 Their courage is beyond question. The adventurous 

 and unemotional man frequently remains single, and 



