REASONING. 361 



But as, according to our view, tliere are two stages iu 

 reasoned thought, one where similarity merely operates to 

 call up cognate thoughts, and another farther stage, where 

 the bond of identity between the cognate thoughts is 

 noticed ; so minds of genius may he divided into tivo main 

 sorts, those ivho notice the bond and those ivho mefely obey it. 

 The first are the abstract reasoners, properly so called, 

 the men of science, and philosophers — the analysts, in 

 a word ; the latter are the poets, the critics — the artists," 

 in a word, the men of intuitions. These judge rightly, 

 classify cases, characterize them b}^ the most striking ana- 

 logic epithets, but go no further. At first sight it might 

 seem that the analytic mind represented simply a higher 

 intellectual stage, and that the intuitive mind represented 

 an ai'rested stage of intellectual development ; but the dif- 

 ference is not so simple as this. Professor Bain has said 

 that a man's advance to the scientific stage (the stage of 

 noticing and abstracting the bond of similarity) may often 

 be due to an absence of certain emotional sensibilities. The 

 sense of color, he says, may no less determine a mind away 

 from science than it determines it toward painting. There 

 must be a penury in one's interest in the details of particu- 

 lar forms in order to permit the forces of the intellect to 

 be concentrated on what is common to many forms.* In 

 other words, supposing a mind fertile in the suggestion of 

 analogies, but, at the same time, keenly interested in the 

 particulars of each suggested image, that mind would be 

 far less apt to single out the particular character which 

 called up the analogy than one whose interests were less 

 generally lively. A certain richness of the aesthetic nature 

 may, therefore, easily keep one in the intuitive stage. All 

 the poets are examples of this. Take Homer : 



"Ulysses, too, spied round the house to see if any man were still 

 alive and hiding, trying to get away from gloomy death. He found 

 them all fallen in the blood and dii't, and in such number as the fish 

 which the fishermen to the low shore, out of the foaming sea, drag 

 with their meshy nets. These all, sick for the ocean water, are strewn 

 around the sands, while the blazing sun takes their life from them. So 

 there the suitors lay strewn round on one another." Or again : 



* Study of Chiuacter, p. 317. 



