Makers of man : a study of human initiative / by Charles J. Whitby ; with forty-seven half-tones and other plates.

  • Whitby, Charles J. (Charles Joseph)
Date:
[1911]
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    of, 247-249 ; his change of name, 247 ; “ discovered ” by Barnabas, 247; at Antioch, 247, 248; his special qualification for proselyt- ising Gentiles, 248: first mission of, 248, 249 ; hated by Judaists, 249 ; his courage under adversity, 303, 304 ; character of, 406, 407. Science, versus art, 26; aesthetic tendencies of me . of, 27 ; character of men of, 28; see also Intellectual Type and Thought. Schopenhauer, A., his theory of will, 14, 16. Scott, Sir Walter, practical capacity of, 35, 36; snobbishness of, 36, 36 ; aesthetic opportunism of, 36 ; not intellectual, 36; parents of, 52 ; physique of, 72 ; physiognomy of, 75 ; lameness of, 76 ; personal magnetism of, 76 ; natural vocation of, 105,106, 122, 123 ; his attempts at drawing and music, 106, 122 ; prodigious memory of, 122 ; com- pared with Goethe, 122; as cavalry officer, 122; as sheriff, 122 ; as landowner, 123 ; social versus aesthetic ambition of, 123, 204 ; purpose of, 202-204 ; annual raids of, 202, 203; his love of research, 203; influenced by Goethe, 203 ; his Border Min- strelsy and Lay, 203 ; his under- valuation of his own gifts, 204 ; his method of composition, 307, 308 ; first love of, 321, 322 ; greatness of, 400, 401 ; as improvisator, 401. Selection, Law of Hedonic, 3, 104, 105. Self, transliminal and subliminal, 12. Sensation, an abstraction, 4. Socrates, the demon of, 12. Solitude, insane people’s love of, 292, 293 ; men of action and, 293, 306, 307 ; aesthetic type and, 307, 308; intellectuals and, 309-311; ethico-religious type and, 311-313 ; as a source of power, 313. Spencer, Herbert, on individuation, 15, 381-383. Spinoza, Baruch de, as artist, 27 ; physique of, 83 ; physiognomy and health of, 89; frugality of, 89 ; natural vocation of, 105, 127, 128 ; optical work of, 106, 128 ; purpose of, 216-220; his dislike of Judaism, 216; influence of Jewish philosophers on, 217; in- fluence of Descartes and Bruno on, 217, 218; anticipation of the higher ciiticism by his Tractatus, 219, 403, 404; refuses chair of philosophy, 219; summary of sources of the philosophy of, 219, 220; not a mere eclectic, 220; courage of, 302 ; as recluse, 310 ; posthumous influence of, 403, 404. Stendhal (Henri Beyle) cited, 181, 182, 351 ; mentioned, 335. Stoics, view of the, concerning ego, 13. Sylvia, mother of St. Gregory, 55. Thought, character of men of, 28 ; men of, a more advanced type than the artist, 28 ; longevity of men of, 48, 49 ; physical characteristics of men of, 83-91 ; slow develop- ment of men of, 228 ; courage of men of, 302; social origin of, 395, 396 ; power of representatives of, 401-406. Titian, worldliness of, 34, 193; stature and physiognomy of, 72, 73 ; natural vocation of, 105, 110, 111 ; purpose of, 193, 194; his art the tool of ambition, 193 ; influence of Aretino upon, 194, 337, 338; his conception of woman- hood, 194, 337-339 ; sexual rela- tions of, 337-340 ; first phase of, 338 ; second phase of, 338, 339 ; third phase of, 339, 340; treatment of the nude by, 338, 339 ; last works of, 339, 340 ; greatness of, 399. Tuberculosis, 57, 60 ; Nelson’s tend- ency to, 70 ; Richelieu and, 71; Spinoza’s death from, 89; St. Francis dies of, 93, 96. Turner, William, energy of, 37; parents of, 66; ethical purport of works of, 37 ; physique of, 72 ; physiognomy of, 79 ; mental in- coherency of, 79 ; visual defects of, 79, 80 ; natural vocation of, 105, 106, 123, 124 ; attempts at poetry of, 106, 123, 124 ; purpose of, 204, 205; Ruskin’s hero-worship of, 205 ; his love of debauchery, 308 ; greatness of, 401. Twins, Galton’s investigation of the life-histories of, 101, 102. Variation, fluctuating and mutational, distinguished, 237. Versatility, 103, 104.