The logic of human character / by Charles Whitby.

  • Whitby, Charles J. (Charles Joseph)
Date:
1905
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Credit: The logic of human character / by Charles Whitby. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    formal in the sense of being unsub- stantial, cold or mechanical; but neither is it wayward or capricious. It has the definite form that pertains to self-consistency; its actions carry weight and give the impression of reality; because they have behind them the full momentum of an or- ganised spiritual entity. But the actions of the typical sentimentalist are comparatively indeterminate and one-sided. Their origin is usually patent in the accidental source of the emotion which they express; and they are tainted with the levity of casual things. But just as, in the case of early childhood, actions largely based on the immediate appeal of the senses, have, in virtue of their appropriate- ness to the needs of a budding con-