DIFFERENT KINDS OF MEN.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2516, 25 August 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

DIFFERENT KINDS OF MEN.

Tub Different Kinds of Men lias been the subject of a lecture delivered by M. Lapouge, a French savant, before the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Montpellier. M. Lapouge finds that there are four social types among mankind, which he differentiates as follows:—"1. The initiators, who show mankind the way iuto the region of the unknown, and who go in front. Restless and dar-

ing, with an intelligence which is at least equal to the average ; men of this type do not travel readily along beaten tracks. New ideas are the breath of life to them. They spend their lives in new creations ;• they are often wrecked, but the .true" genius represents the most perfect type. 52. Men of spirit, of intelligence, who, posesssing no creative power themselves, yet carry out and perfect the ideas arid discoveries of the first type, to which they are really the complement. 3. Men who, with much or little intelligence, can work only with others, who mistrust every new idea not accepted by all the others, but who seize it with avidity

when their neighbours adopt it. If intel- I ligent, these men are docile, but they I dislike every change in routine, and they represent the dullness of the mass in the face of every reform. 4. Men of this type are not fit to attaiu even the smallest step in culture." M. Lapouge finds that the men described in his first class are most frequently found in "the blonde dolichocephalic race," by which ungainly appellation he may be supposed to mean men who are at once light haired and long headed. The Celto-Slavs, he says, rarely produce men of the first intellectual type, and he fears that the recent social and political advancement in France of the lower classes, who are mostly " dark brachycephalic," threatens deterioration of the French people, and consequent danger to the nation.—Yorkshire I'ost. , 1