Man I7 1 



As a general proposition, the man between 

 twenty and thirty is aggressive, ambitious 

 and conceited. He would rule the world with 

 a club. This stage gradually merges into 

 another so that as a general proposition the 

 man between thirty and forty is in the artistic 

 stage of life. He is a lover of poetry, music, 

 painting, and sculpture. The artistic stage 

 gradually merges into the practical stage 

 which may be generally defined as between 

 forty and fifty. The practical man looks at 

 the dollars and cents, wishes to improve 

 government, and has the qualities of states- 

 manship. As he passes beyond fifty into his 

 older age he becomes philosophic in his senti- 

 ments and moral in his maxims. 



These different qualities are simply differ- 

 ent forms of one and the same mental energy 

 within the man, and they are spread out 

 through his life very much as red rays, 

 yellow rays, blue rays, and violet rays, all 

 from the same white light, are spread out by 

 the spectroscope. Now let us make an 

 assumption that the mental characteristics 



