This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...subtle hidden dangers to cope with. They are colourless because all their impulses have a low level of force; and they are liable to drift into being next to nothing at all. Negative goodness is not of much account and always tends to be purely futile. There are times when one wishes that colourless people would do ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...subtle hidden dangers to cope with. They are colourless because all their impulses have a low level of force; and they are liable to drift into being next to nothing at all. Negative goodness is not of much account and always tends to be purely futile. There are times when one wishes that colourless people would do something outrageously bad to vary the monotony. It would at least give us the assurance that there was something inside them. The colourless good ones have very little chance of making anything definite of their personalities; and that is a great drawback. The man who is born with decisive impulses has a great advantage in that respect. People can see plainly what he is. The outlines of his spiritual physiognomy are definite. The outlines of the real characters of the colourless ones are vague and difficult to identify. Men distrust their own estimates of them. They persistently think there must be something hidden; while the more dangerous dispositions make every one see there is something there; and unless their possessors give up the game and let the lower impulses swamp or crush the higher ones they have the chance of arriving at the crown of life--the establishment of a clear and consistent personality. A man establishes his definite identity by making consistent and sensible use of such special qualities and aptitudes and impulses as he has. He cannot alter them or pick and choose what he will have, any more than he can pick and choose his parents. CLEAR PERSONALITY 155 But he can direct them. Whether we are weak or strong, healthy or delicate, gifted or ungifted, each of us has to accept the outfit which has got to serve for the making of a life. As every man's outfit is different from every other man's it is as well to recognise early th...
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