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pursuit of them. He has decided views on moral questions, and 

 on political and any other subjects. He is never in doubt as to 

 what is right and what is wrong. 



The great drawback to this type is its insensitiveness to ex- 

 perience: it is incapable of surveying any question from an en- 

 tirely fresh standpoint. Indeed, it is apt to regard the searching 

 questioning of accepted and established things, such as a code of 

 moralities or a system of politics, as either foolish or wicked or 

 both. Great changes in current practice and ideas, however de- 

 sirable such changes may be, cannot be effected by the class of 

 people and it predominates in numbers which has the strong 

 prevailing gregarious instinct in other words, in which the herd- 

 complex is strongly engrained. 



The unstable type has qualities almost exactly opposite to 

 those of the stable type. Thus, a man of this type has very few 

 settled convictions, although he may have plenty of enthusiasms. 

 He can easily be won to a new cause, and he as easily falls away 

 therefrom. He may undertake a number of projects, but it is 

 unlikely that he will persist with any one of them long enough to 

 carry it to a successful conclusion. He has what is called a weak 

 will, and he can by no means accept the ruling of the community 

 on all questions. His great positive merit is his sensitiveness to 

 experience, and, indeed, it is from this that all his trouble springs. 

 He is always changing his mind because he is always open to fresh 

 impressions. He is, usually, the intellectual superior of the stable 

 type, although the stable type often despises him. But each type 

 has its great disadvantage, and neither represents what a human 

 being could and should be. 



Conflicts 



The fact that different complexes may be incompatible with 

 one another leads us to the important question of conflict. A 

 perfectly healthy mind is a mind which has established complete 

 harmony between its different complexes. But the perfectly 



