Mental Portraits: Or Studies of Character (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Mental Portraits: Or Studies of Character

IT is the delight of naturalists to indicate how the same law asserts itself under Widely different circumstances: they point to the leaves and stems visible in fossil remains, to the same botanical or ganization in the pale flower buried under Alpine snows and the radiant calyx of the Tropics - to the identity of material in the cloud and the iceberg. A similar parallel may be drawn from the history of character; its phases re-appear continually, modified by time and place, yet essentially one and the same. No class is represented by the philosophy of anti quity no general or special development is stamped on any age, and no individual man has become memorable - but have their existent prototypes and representatives. Human nature has always been the same. The plays, the biographies, and in later times.

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