Man 173 



These groups represent distinct types of 

 mental character irrespective of the station 

 in life of the men within them. The persist- 

 ence of these types to certain ages of father 

 is very great as against the forces of environ- 

 ment. While men born in one of these 

 divisions may show the type of character rep- 

 resented in the next adjacent division above 

 or below, the extremes do not meet. No mild- 

 mannered moralist of the type represented by 

 Buddha and Confucius is found in the son 

 of a man less than 31 years of age, and no 

 aggressive military commander of the type of 

 Alexander and Napoleon is found in the son 

 of a man more than 5 1 years of age. Natural 

 military commanders may appear in the 

 moralist camp, and natural moralists may 

 appear in the military camp, but the type of 

 character shows through. Thus, Mohammed, 

 whose father was 25, would rule the world by 

 the sword, and General Robert E. Lee, whose 

 father was 51, went to war because his moral 

 obligations forced him to do so and not 

 because he wanted to. 



