Analyzing Character: The New Science of Judging Men; Misfits in Business, the Home and Social LifeBlackford, Katherine M. H. (Katherine Melvina Huntsinger)
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Analyzing Character: The New Science of Judging Men; Misfits in Business, the Home and Social Life
Blackford, Katherine M. H. (Katherine Melvina Huntsinger)
Characters and characteristics; Success
Note the difference in width between Mr. Roosevelt's and Mr. Taft's head
just above the ears. Mr. Roosevelt is very wide-headed. This indicates
energy, aggressiveness, impatience, a certain amount of destructive
tendency. It is this which not only makes Mr. Roosevelt an aggressive,
eager, fighting, dominating politician and statesman, but also a mighty
hunter.
On the other hand, Mr. Taft's head is medium narrow just above the ears.
This indicates mildness, an inclination to use diplomacy rather than
force, and a tendency to take things as they are rather than to push ahead
aggressively and make radical changes.
Mr. Roosevelt's head is high in the crown. Mr. Taft's head is low in the
crown. A high crown indicates firmness, decision, love of power, love of
authority, a demand to rule, and great ambition. A low crown, on the other
hand, indicates amenability to authority, a willingness to compromise, and
a lack of domineering quality.
Compare the expression of the two men. Mr. Roosevelt's expression is
intense, vigorous, and almost belligerent. Mr. Taft's expression is mild,
calm, judicial, good-natured, and jovial.
By what stretch of the imagination could anyone suppose that a man of Mr.
Taft's character and aptitudes, as shown by the indications pointed out in
the foregoing, could even begin to carry out the policies of a man of Mr.
Roosevelt's character, as shown by the indications we have pointed out?
And yet, all of the political history of the United States since 1909 has
been completely changed as the result of Mr. Roosevelt's lack of knowledge
of the plain facts of the science of human nature. Indeed, the result of
Mr. Roosevelt's choice of a successor is found in Mexico, in Germany, in
England, in France, and, in fact, throughout the world.
IF NOT SCIENTIFICALLY, HOW?
Woodrow Wilson has been criticized, perhaps, as severely for his selection
of men for various posts in his administration as for any other cause, if
reports are to be believed. He has probably suffered far more from
unfortunate selection of lieutenants and of men for special tasks, and has
more deeply regretted his mistakes of this nature, than any other thing in
his administration up to the time that these lines are written.
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