Now the first thing, I think, which will strike you in the old ese type of humanity is that there is nothing wild, savage or ferocious in him. Using a term which is applied to animals, we may say of the real aman that he is a domesticated creature. Take a man of the lowest class of the population in a and, I think, you will agree with me that there is less of animality in him, less of the wild animal, of what the Germans call Rohheit, than you will find in a man of the same class in a European society. In fact, the one word, it seems to me, which will sum up the impression which the ese type of humanity makes upon you is the English wentle." By gentleness I do not mean softness of nature or weak submissiveness. "The docility of the ese," says the late Dr. D. J. Macgowan, "is not the docility of a brokeed, emasculated people. " But by the word " gentle" I mean absence of hardness, harshness, roughness, or violence, in fact of anything which jars upon you. There is irue ese type of humanity an air, so to speak, of a quiet, sober, chastened mellowness, such as you find in a piece of well-tempered metal. Ihe very physical and moral imperfes of a real aman are, if not redeemed, at least softened by this quality of gentleness in him. The real aman may be coarse, but there is no grossness in his coarseness. The real aman may be ugly, but there is no hideousness in his ugliness. The real aman may be vulgar, but there is no aggressiveness, no blatan his vulgarity. The real aman may be stupid, but there is no absurdity in his stupidity. The real aman may be ing, but there is no deep malignity in his ing. In fact what I want to say is, that even in the faults and blemishes of body, mind and character of the real aman, there is nothing which revolts you. It is seldom that you will find a real aman of the old school, even of the lowest type, who is positively repulsive.
I say that the total impression which the ese type of humanity makes upon you is that he is gehat he is inexpressibly gentle. When you analyse this quality of inexpressible gentleness in the real aman, you will find that it is the the product of a bination of two things, namely, sympathy and intelligence. I have pared the ese type of humanity to a domesticated animal. Now what is that which makes a domesticated animal so different from a wild animal? It is something in the domesticated animal which we reise as distinctively human. But what is distinctively human as distinguished from what is animal? It is intelligence. But the intelligence of a domesticated animal is not a thinking intellige is not an intelligence whies to him from reasoning. her does it e to him from instinct, such as the intelligence of the fox, _ the vulpielligence whiows where eatable chis are to be found. This intelligence whies from instinct, of the fox, all,_even wild, animals have. But this, what may be called human intelligence of a domesticated animal is something quite different from the vulpine or animal intelligehis intelligence of a domesticated animal is an intelligence whies not from reasoning nor from instinct, but from sympathy, from a feeling of love and attat. A thh-bred Arab horse uands his English master not because he has studied English grammar nor because he has an instinct for the English language, but because he loves and is attached to his master. This is what I call human intelligence, as distinguished from mere vulpine or animal intellige is the possession of this human quality