CHAPTER V. 



THE CHARACTER OF THE 

 MORE IMPASSIONED AND REFLECTIVE MAN. 



THE impassioned man is a sort of masculine version of 

 the impassioned woman; he is much more like her 

 than he is like his passionless brother. Sex, it may be 

 said again, is a less important facto;* in distinguishing 

 one character from another than the possession of cer- 

 tain endowments and propensities. 



The more impassioned man is not necessarily the 

 reverse of the less impassioned. He may spend his 

 evenings in pleasure from a genuine love of it ; but his 

 pleasures do not change every hour, and he is not 

 driven to them by mere restlessness. If he takes part 

 in public work he is probably invited to do so from 

 some special fitness ; or it may be that he has at heart 

 some movement beneficent or mischievous which 

 he wishes to promote; for he is not wiser and not : 

 more foolish than the less impassioned public servant. 

 He may be a person of quite exceptional vitality and 

 therefore, it may be, of unusual ambition. He does 

 not wear so well, however, as his less emotional brother. 

 When his work is done he willingly retires. He is 

 able to see what others can do better than he ; and he 

 would rather that his cause, should prosper in other 

 hands than fail in his own. He has a hearty word of 

 praise for his fellow-workers. Probably he errs in, 

 estimating too generously the merits of those around 



