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A BOOK
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TYPE AND TYPES,
u;ly discoursed of in a
SERIES OF LETTERS.
BY
ROBERT BRUCE WARDEN,
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ZEZRHSTIEST INSTITUTE,
1885.
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A BOOK
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TYPE AND TYPES,
FAMILIARLY DISCOURSED OF IN A
SERIES OF LETTERS.
P> V
ROBERT BRUCE WARDEN,
OF THE BAB A'l WASHINGTON.
"JAN ^T|886 &'
D BY I HI
ERNEST INSTITUTE,

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Copyright
1885.
A BOOK OF
Familiarly Discoursed
of
In a Series
of
Open
Letters.
I.
Till ( LADfS AND YIELD OF TYrONOMIC DOCTRINE.
TYPONOMIC,
in effect, though not in name, dear
Charlie, is much of the matter in a
multitude of
9 and minor writings.
For the benefit of Readers, who have not learned what
the term. 7 r#, was coined by me to denominate, let
me at once declare the sense in which I have long used
I happy term. And,
to that end, permit me to draw
tion to this
language of my Open Letter, ad-
dressed to Doctor (Mixer Wendell
Holmes, some years
u
1 had the metal plate, from which the picture is
printed, made from a card-picture, issued on a box of the
Between-the-Acts. Below the picture on the
'1 appear
the words,
*
Mrs. Langl ree.'
*
"
I
consider likely
thai the picture intimates
at
least
the
type
of beauty that appears
in the world-famous per-
med. ll<>w
far
is she a type of I >ld World
Wbmanh od I
"Allow me to remind yon that you said In the Autocrat
. in
1858 :
[1 has always been s favorite idea erf
mine
to bring
i
lid and
the
New World
face to fece, bv
an accurate comparison of their various
type.-
of organi-
Lon. We should begin with man,
of cousse;
in
ire.
2 1 and Tyi<
a large
and
exacl comparison between
tlio development
of
*
Altieri called it, in
different sec-
insor each
country, in the different callings, at differ-
imating height, weight, force by the dyna-
mometer
and the spirometer, and finishing oil' with a
>f typical photographs, giving t he principal national
1
1
1
inies.'
"No doubt, you hav< mbled quite a gallery of
mil e pictures, not a few
of which arc typical <>f the
Old World. 1 have,myself.
I had, indeed, when, about
i >f years ago, 1 wrote to you
about Typonomy, the
of the haw of Type. My gallery has
had a large
in. then. My Typonomic
studies are in pail
rd
work, iii part tine play: and I have
so
delighted in
them, that
they have at no time been neglected, since
hodical.
"
Fou answered very kindly the just
mentioned letter,
1 you
wisely cautioned me against extreme ideas and
what 1 distinguish as the province of Typo-
I true r counsel has been faithfully re-
gard
Aj9 for you, you seemed to think that
you
were not the
rson to perform the
work I would have had you
und<
Perhaps, your judgment was
correct in that partic-
ular. I > ut I have often doubted whether you ought not
ipted
to
work
out elaborately what you
blined in the passage from
which I have drawn
ae sent<

Sou Baid in the already-quoted chapter of your.4ttfo-

B Tabk
:

\ would follow this

up
by contrasting the various
par, j of life in the
two continents.
Our natur-
Ften referred to
this
incidentally or cx-
t
the animus of
Nature in
the two half-glol
7
h<- pi;.: lomentoufl a poinl oi intei
i
>ur
,,it it
should be
made
a Bubjecl of express and
elab-
Gto
out
with me into that walk which
we
fcfott, and i
'
he English and A merica.i eh,
-
tall, graceful, slender-sprayed, and
from languor.
The
English elm is compact,
Type and Types. 3
robust, holds
its branches op, and
carries its leaves for
onger than
our own native tree.

[e this typical of the creative force

on the two
sides-
lie ocean, or nol
V
"A
rtion Beldom has been raised.
You say, yourself, that
it
can be answered by nothing but
n
through the whole realm of li

\
:
, id, in
18
4
IjffM
ami
'!)/{
"There
is a parallelism without identity in the ani-
mal and vegetable life of
the
two continents which fav-
ore tin- task of comparison in an extraordinary manner.
9 we have two trees alike in many ways yet not
me, both
elms. yet easily
distinguishable
,
just so we
hav- mplete
flora and a fauna which, parting from
the
Bame
ideal,
embody
it with various
modifications.
Invent ive
power is
the
only
quality of which
the Creative
Intelligence Beems to be economical; just as with our
largest
human minds, that is t he <li vinest of 1 acuities, and
the one
that most exhausts the mind which exorcises it.
As the Bame
patterns have \rv\ eomnionly
been followed,
we can Bee
which is worked oul in the largest spirit, and
determine the exact limitations under which the Creator
places the
movement
of life in all its manifestations in
either Locality. We
should find ourselves in a very false
position, if it should prove that Anglo-Saxons can't live
here, but die out, it* not kept up by fresh supplies, as Dr.
Knox and other
more or less wise persons have main-
tained. It may turn out the other way, as I have heard
one of our
literary celebrities argue,and though I took
the other side, I liked his
best,that the American is
Englishman reinforced,
1
u
Bow
would you now decide? Or can you now de-
ride
at
all ? Prom 1858 to 1881, how much have we ad-
vanced in knowledge of
the
difference between the two
If-globeS in
point
of life in plant and animal?
-Tin- work of
Wallace
on Island
Life
is worthy
of
more general and of profounder study than it will re-
ceive, I have examined it with closely
critical atten-
tion, in as Ear as
it relates to
the particular
concern of
what I call
Typonomy, and that concern
is very largely
eoi what-is offered to consideration in the work
of
Wallace
which is under
pasting
notice
here.
omparison of thai work with the author's
earlier
work On Ou Geographical Distribution
of
Animals, will
rve all thorough and methodic studies of the
med
Typononay."
though
I h. reral times already used, I think
myself entitled, for convenience, to use again the follow-
Type and Types.
5
tag extract from an Open Letter T addressed to You,
If, more
than five years
ago. That part is of this
tenor, You
will readily remember: "The term, Type, is
in all n tfl felicitous.
It is not wholly
applicable
ad, surely, character is generally not stamped.
end, it is a gipwth not marked
by great rapidity.

let
us take the
term in question L mean Typeas it
-rally understood; and let us also
still employ the
in.
Typonomy, to designate the science that
associates
3 of
the typical (or typal), he it
physical or
chical, or both. Typonomy is the criterionic science
winch
determines what is true in sciences Like that which
ii named Phrenology. Typonomy admits no theory
that is
not fully scientific, touching the diversities of
Typ

cut next offered, hints a Rural Aspect of the Typo-

d in this w<Tk.
That
Aspect I
in time to time, for m.
lived from, me at-
i
lily
methodic na1 are, largely on ac-
n intent
ion, not yet given up, by me, to have,
rricultnral account , a few "broad
l." But absolutely all the Aj
wli'
or of War, (and Arms, conspicuously,
I
6
type
and Tapes.
liavo
clearly
shown
to You,) are deeply
interested in a fit
advancement of Typonomy,
I make no compromise respecting either Science or De-
mination, here. Both are demonstrably entitled to what
I demand for them. They are not trifles, to be studied
or but
spirted with, in leisure moments. Much of that
which the cognitions of Typonoiuy
include, ascends to
the
most
elevated plane of scientific study; and the sub-
of the Bcience
is, I constantly maintain, preemin-
ently marked by Beauty, Dignity, and Value.
The just-quoted Letter also said to You:

You are aware that that which we call Type has been

inguished as the aggregate <>t' characteristics, and has

en defined as
-
that which exemplifies certain char-
: a model; a pattern; a specimen; as/ the cat
of the genus Fi lis.*
"
u
W
r. having defined character as ' the assemblage
of qualities which distinguish one person from another;
particular constitution of the mind;' puts forward this
translation of
words written by Lavater:
c
Actions, looks,
ds,
steps, form
the alphabet by which you may spell
dial
The
lexicographer then cites the words of Paley:

Eealth and sickness, enjoyment

and suffering, riches and
poverty, knowledge and ignorance, power and subjection,
liberty and bondage, civilization and barbarity, have all
their offices and duties; all serve for the formation of
char
11 see me, in the composition of these Letters, freely
ttol originally written for. the present work.
\ my pen-work has, however, had much publica-
tion: why, I need not say. just now. Xor need
1,
now,
_rn any
other
reason for the
use here
made, or to be
transfers from
other 1
ks of mine, than that
I have the right to
make
the transfers, and that to do so
xpedienl
.
ling, lei me call attention to this language of
!nhe. in his extremely interesting volume on
T ( f Man, considered in Relation to External
Mental
talents and dispositions are determined
T]fpe
and Types.
7
by the size
and constitution of the brain. The
brain is
a
portion of our organized
system,
and,
as such, is
BuUe
the organic laws,
by
one of which
its
qualities are
transmitted by hereditary descent. This law, however
taint or obscure
it
may appear in individual eases, be-
con aolutely undeniable in nations. When we place
the collection of
Hindoo,
Carib, Negro,
New Holland,
\
>rth American, and European
skulls,
possessed by the
Phrenological Society, in juxtaposition, we perceive
a na-
tional form and combination of organs in each, actually

ruding itself
upon our not
ice, and corresponding with
the
mental characters ofthe
respective
tribes; the cerebral
development of one
tribe is seen to differ as widely from
that ofanother as the European mind does from that of the
New
Hollander. Here, then, each I Iindoo,(/hinesc, Xew
Hollander, Negro, and Carib
obviously inherits from his
par< neral type of head
;
and so does each Eu-
If. then,
the
general forms and proportions are
thus
so palpably transmitted, can we doubt that the indi-
vidual varieties follow the saine rule, modified slightly
by
i liar to the parents of the individual
This
y,
r< Bpectable as it must be allowed to be,
makes quite
too much of that which Agassiz and others
ha ed to call Heredity. The theory, however, is
entitled t< a v.-ry
thorough
study.
Si idy it right thoroughly, especially in view of your
dfe. Again I counsel
you to
give full,
2 ilar, methodic study to
the
various ideas and philoso-
phies relal
I liysique.
Ph\ allow me to remind
you,
has been distin-
rporeal
part of that which we
call ani-
mal. The
animal, in tla- most comprehensive sense, is
that which lives in an organized, material
body,
gifted
with
the
p
and Of
voluntary
mol ion.
One i talk of the physique thai ba to be dis-
cerned in I and Vill But the physique
I in Animala and Man is I hat with
which T my is most concern*
that I wrote to you, in
1880,
used
this lan_
8
/
' .
'
Ti/pes.
w
I desire to put
you
on
your guard against attributing
too much
to the oorporeal bart of
our humanity.
a
Tou ;uv
a
student
of Nomology, and you expect to
I to the practice of the Law, next year.

homology, according to my
view, cognizes legal prin-
ciples and legal facts. It comprehends both Polity and
risprudence.
It must have great interest in all the
the elating to physique, and it must teach one to*
be on his guard against all theories which are not truly
scientific.

1 endeavor to
assist you
to become a Nomologian of
the first clasa But
you cannot become a Nomologian of
first
<>rder If
you tail to study thoroughly the learn-
ing in relation to the human body.
u
What should I, your sole instructor, say to you about
Phrenology?
What ought I to advance, for your instruc-
tion, touching Physiognomy? The answers to these ques-
tions will be
worked out
in the course of the letter,
which is here well
on its way. But I desire at once to
take all the Responsibility involved in owning that, in
my opinion, neither Physiognomy nor Phrenology has
ut its case:' and that the theory, of the Phreno-
nal, touching the propensities and capabilities
of Garfield, seems to be
hut little better than sheer
nonsense.
M
I have studied both the Metaphysics and the Logic of
Sir William Hamilton. I have not
felt at liberty to dis-
card
his doctrine in relation to Phrenology. You have
id from
inc.
by
way
of gift, the far from perfect
edia, in which appears the article that says: 'At
tnis time
f
1
821 J
phrenology was excil Ing special interest
in Edinburgh. For the purpose of testing its pretensions,
Sir
William went through a laborious course of compar-
isecting
with his own hands several
hundred different brains: Be
sawed open
a series of
ills of different nations, of both sexes and all ages, to
ascertain the facts in regard to the frontal sinus on which
phrenologists had founded so much, lie also insti-
tuted a series of experiments for ascertaining the relative
size and weight of brains. The results of these investi-
l)/pe and l)/pes. 9
tkmfl
wore embodied in two papers which he read
before the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1826, main-
taining that the
assertions of tact
by the phrenologists
6 utterly false.'
u
This man was not
betrayed by the
consciousness
that
he had not a fine physique. The
article
just quoted
furnishes the following
description oi'
the man of
whom
lie entered upon his
professorship with
every
qualification.
His
personal appearance was the very
finest. Above the middle height, of B
sinewy and well
I frame, with a massive head, decisive and
finely cut features, a dark, calm, piercing
eye.
perfect
self-possession
and reliance,
finished courtesy of manners,
and a voice remarkably distinct, silvery and melodious,
In* stood before
his
hearers the perfection
of a man in
liy physical
adornment.
w
Whatever,' says Mr. Haynes,
his clas wistant, 'the previous expectations of Sir
William's appearance might he, they were
certainly real-
id it' not
surpassed; and,however familiar one
might
come
with the play of
thought and feeling
on that noble
countenance, the first impression remained
aid the last
^
that it was perhaps
altogether
the finest head and face you had ever seen, strikingly
me, and full of intelligence
and
power.
When
I"
to
read. Sir
William's voice
confirmed the impres-
i his appearance and manner had produced. It was
full, cl( lute, with a swell of intellectual
ardor
in the
more measured cadences, and a tone that
ami resonant in reading any striking extra
ma
t'a\ .1 hoi-, whether iii
prose or poel
vy
from
.;. Lucrel lus or Virgil, Scaliger or sir John
quainl and nervous
lines Sir William
\'
fon<

Bear
in mind that 1 am n<l
attempting
1<
make out
thai f physique what Sir (
!hai 'id-
am. in the pi; i f l
lie
Vesuvian crater
'
1 h<
lothing in it.
1
On atrary, you know, I hold thai
i a little in physique, in many ways, to indi-
ability
and tei

U( )i do I
( >ffer, a ntoovei am
hor-
10 'J)/pe and Types.
ity
of Hamilton
1
!
opinion on the subject of Phrenology.
That
the
opinion is important, no one will deny; but I
admit that it is not an end of
question, and that you
will not vi time
it' you examine for yourself the
ins and reasoning of the Phrenologists.
u
My own opinion has boon formed with care. It has
been neatly mfhtenfied
}
and yet it has been freely and
quite independently made up. But I would have you
form
%
opinion, on the subject under notice, and
ing Physiognomy.
M
I have no doubt that, even while Sir William Ham-
ilton was
working on his anti-phrenologic showing, he
was rather proud of his tine physical endowments. I
have never known
a
man of line physique who did not,
in sonic way. evince a high appreciation of the same.
Moreover, men and women who are not endowed with
fine physique, make much of it in other persons, and

pact ly.

Hawthorne had a fine physique. Here is a not ex-

travagant
description of him : 'He was a man as peculiar
in
character as
he was unique in genius. In him oppo-
qualitiea met, and were happily and harmoniously
blended
;
and this was true of him physically as well as
intellectually. Be was tall and strongly built, with broad
deep chest, a massive head, black hair, and
large dark eyes. Wherever he was, he attracted atten-
tion
by
his
imposing presence. He looked like a man
who might have
hold
the stroke-oar in a university boat.
enius, as all the world knows, was of masculine
ep. But, on the other hand, no man had
; '
the feminine element than lie. He was femi-
nine in his quick perceptions, his fine insight, his sensi-
bility to beauty, his delicate reserve, his purity of feeling.
man
comprehended woman
more perfectly
;
none has
painted woman
with a
more
exquisite and
ethereal pencil.
ice
was as mohile and rapid in its changes of
expression as in the face of a young girl. His lip and
aided the word before it was spoken. His eyes
rid darken visibly under
the touch
of a passing erao-
.. like the waters of a fountain ruffled by the "breeze
Type and Types. 11
of summer.
So,
too, he was the shyest of men. The
claims
and courtesies of
social
Life were terrible to
him.
The thought of making a call
would keep him awake in
hed. At breakfast, he could not lay a piece
of butter
upon a lady's plate
without a trembling
of the
hand

this isa fact and not a phrase.

Be
was so shy that in
the presence
of two intimate friends he would
be lees
\ and free-Spoken than in that o\' only one/
"Turn
now
to Thackeray's physique and manner. lie
is thus described:
{
He
was tall and powerfully built,
with a massive head and silvery white hair. His geni-
ality, even
temper, and kindly disposition toward every-
body with whom he
came
into
personal relations, were
curiously at variance with the charge of
cynicism 80
.'ii brought against his works. Bis domestic life
was
cloud. -.I for
several years
by the insanity of his wife.
1
"John Forster says of Dickens:
c
very different was
his face in those days from that which photography has
made familiar to the present
generation. A look
of
youthfulness first attracted you, and then a candor and
of
expression which made you sure of the
vithin.
The features were very good. lie had
a capital forehead, a firm nose with full wide nostrils,
wonderfully beaming with intellect and running
er with
humor and cheerfulness, and a rather promi-
nent mouth strongly marked with Bensibility. The head
wac ^ether well formed
and symmetrical, and the
air and carriage of it were
extremely
spirited. The
hai n1 and grizzled in later days was then of a
rich brown and m<>st luxuriant abundance; and the
rded face of his last two decades had hardly a vefltlge
.t' hair or whisker ; hut there was that in the
face as
I
it
which no time could change, and which
remained implanted on
it
unalterably
to the last. This
was the quickness, keenness, and practical power, the
t ie out look <n each
several
feal ore,
that seemed to teu so
little
of a studenl or writer oi
i much of ;i man of act I m and business
in
world. Light and motion Bashed from every pari of
/ -.iid of
it . f'>ur <>r
12 Type and Types.
yean after the time to which I am referring, by a most
original and delicate observer, the late Mrs. Carlyle.

What
a
fare is his to meet in a drawing-room
!'
wrote
Leigh Hunt to me, the morning after I made them
known to each other.
'
It has the life and Soul of it of
fifty
human beings.' In such sayings are expressed, not
alone the restless and resistless vivacity and force of
which 1 have spoken, hut that also which lay beneath
them of
steadiness and hard endurance.'

In short, the evidence that there prevails a disposi-

tion to make much of that which is included in physique,
amounts to perfect proof."
One instance of Physique and Soul so perfectly harmo-
nious in their relation to each other, I shall never cease
to see,
"
in my mind's eye, Horatio," while I live. You
know, at once, the instance that I mean. The Person I
behold, however, is much younger, to my mental seeing,
than She is to yours. You never even saw her until She
had reached the age of four-and-thirty years. When
She became my Wife, She had but seventeen years, and
was full of the high charm of Health, and Grace, and
Beauty, both in Body and in Soul.
This is her Death-Day Anniversary.
Dear Charlie, bear with me yet for a timeno long
time, certainly, in any case.
You
must see, for yourself, that it must be impossible
for me to grieve so, greatly longer. Life or Death
I
know not which, hut, surely, either Death, the end of
earthly Sorrow,
or quick Life, that must go on its for-
ward march
with steps which Sorrowing can never take,
must soon bring this, as
yet, ungoverned Grieving to an
end.
Trust
me.
dear
Sou, this
day, in the respect just recog-
nized. Your Work, and Play, and Rest, shall not be
troubled L
r
iv ;t t]y
Longer
with my need of Sympathy in
What a lustrous day this is! The place, moreover,
where I write, is one of the choice places for the joys of
ht. Perhaps, there is not, on this earth, a set of views,.
Type and
r
J]>/j><
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the Type of which
is
finer than the Type of what is
under view
where \ am writing.
Let me make the passing record, that I write, hot in
my bo dearly charming dwelling-house, at the corner
of Washington Circle and New Hampshire Avenue, in
what my typonomic Btndies amply
warrant me in
calling
matchless Washington,
hut in
the dwelling of my highly
friendly and as highly valued friends, the Sherwoods, on
tlie Beights of Anaeostia. The
spot is, I am certain,
unsurpassed in
the line wealth of landscape-views, in-
cluding Objects and Phenomena. The water-views are
wondrously in harmony with land-views, and Nature
here in association with
some
of the very noblest
tonus
\rt.
In
|
of such scenery, how
can I tail
to strive,
with good effect, for a
new hold of Life?
In passing vessels steamers and sailersand in rail-
way phenomena, there is
an
animation never rushing into
she- as, and always
free from too long pauses. Is
it possible to make too much of it, Lover of the irlo-
-
in landscape
!
In I e of these views, I once more find my-
selfI
often
find myselfrepeating Moore's fine lines:
"
Thou art, God ! the life and light
Of all this wondrous world we see!
Its glow by day, its smile by night,
Are but reflections, caught from Thee !
Where'er we turn Thy glories shine,
And all things fair and bright are Thine !
"
Bow, think and feeling so, on this devoted day,
could my remembrance fail to call up the peculiar lus-
osnessof your sweet
Mother's
loveliness,as il delighted
me in the day.- of her transcendent beauty of Physiq
When one You rather intimately know was youi
b
at
present
.1
ed an essay, proving
from the poets, thai cold marble cannot well exj
Woman's I
I
[e a >no< d< d, that I iptor may
expresfi . and / . and he V
even willing to admit that theoi sented
in the pure white marhle. But M
warmly
Mgued for a.
14 Type, and Types.
wanner, brighter, sunnier substance than the sculptor
works in. when a woman's beauty is to be portrayed. I
do not know that lie lias even yet repented of his folly
in composing Buch an essay
;
but I do know that he now
* k
insists
as he insisted/'
And the t'aney may not be entirely baseless. When
we l>ok into the question in the light of Science, we
discover many reasons for adopting something like the
theory of the aforesaid essay. And the poets will not
Buffer
us to think of any other theory.
1 might amuse you with the proofs of this assertion
by quotations
from the leading poets.
And I mil refer to several instances.
The instance found in Shakspeare's Tempest is of a
uliarlv Shakespearian
character.
The
" <
) you wonder
!"
with which Ferdinand encoun-
-
Miranda, and his willingness to lie in prison, if "but
through" his
< k
prison once a day/' he might "behold this
maid/* prepare us for the scene in which the lover quite
directly likens his beloved to the source of light.
Miranda pities Ferdinand, exclaiming,
"
You look wearily."
The tender and suggestive answer is :
M
No, noble mistress
;
'tis fresh morning with me,
When you are by at night."
Like pictures are to he discovered in many other plays.
Bui all the wantonness of the conceit appears in Romeo
and Juliet. Romeo speaks:
"
But, soft ! what light through yonder window breaks ?
It is rhe east, and Juliet is the sun
!
********
Her eye discourses
;
I will answer it.
1 am too bold ; 'tis not to me she speaks:
Two
of the fairc-i -tars in all the heaven,
ng iome lo entreat her eyes
twinkle in their spheres till they return.
What if her eyee were there, they in her head?
The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars,
Aj daylight doth a lamp; her eye in heaven
Would through the airy region stream so bright,
That birds would sing, and think it were not night I"
Type and Types.
15
This "taking on" of tender, foolish Romeo is quite
suggestive of a more modern poet's
fancy:
"
And see ! the matin lark mistakes !
He quits the tufted green :
Fond bird ! 'tis not the morning breaks !

'Tis Kate
of
Abcrd>>
The "breaking'
1
that is to
Bay the
dawningof the
beauteous Kitty also brings
to mind a ballad, which
begins, 1 think,
11
Up rose the Bun, and up rose Emily
!"
Indeed, all through
the poets we
can find the like
conceit.
We find it well expressed
by Burns:
M
She, the fair sun of all her sex,
Hast blest my glorious day
;
And shall a glimmering planet fix
My worship to its ray?"
Though the poets he extravagant,
we must acknowledge
that their portraitures*of woman have
presented her in
a
most lovely light. And we can
better
understand the
love
of
Woman
in mature and sober Manhood, when we
tind how warmly colored are all poetical pen-paintings of
her beauty.
An enthusiast of
sighl lias painted the
physique of
woman, not
precisely as a Shakspeare
would have painted
it, hut yet in a sufficiently striking light
:
"
Like to the clear in highest sphere,
Where all imperial glory shines,
Of self-same color is her hair,
Whether unfolded or in twines.
Il> r
ftyee are sapphires set in snow,
Refining heaven by every wink
;
The god- vlien as they glow,
And I
do tremble when l thu
Jler cheeks ire like the blushing cloii'l,
urora's face
;
t crimson shrow
That Phoebo*
1
smiling looks <lotli grace.
Her lips are like two
budded roses,
I in ranks of lilii igh
;
Within which lie balm encloses,
Apt to entice a deity.
16
Type and Types.
Her neck is like a stately tower,
Where Love himself imprisoned lies,
To watch for glances every hour,
From her divine and sacred eyes.
With orient pearl, with ruby red,
With marble white, with sapphire blue,
Her body everywhere is fed,
Yet soft in touch and sweet in view.
Nature herself her shape admires;
The gods are wounded in her sight;
And Love forsakes his heavenly fires,
And at her eye9 his brand doth light."
This picture, painted by the poet-actor, Thomas Lodge,
is somewhat
heathenish, and may be somewhat over-
charged with colors. But it leads us well towards the
gallery of
portraits painted by the master in the art of
portraiture by phrases.
It is quite impossible to picture your sweet Mother as
my
"
mind's-eye
"
views beheld her
;
at the time when I
composed many of the immediately foregoing paragraphs.
Her Type
of loveliness was not the one I that I call Isa-
bellan:
Isabella's hair was not of the darkless than
1) lark, and touched with auburncolor that shone in th6
hair that was associated with the blue, " divine and sacred
>f the very beautiful development of "Womanhood
that
was your Mother and my Wife. 'But many of the
Venus-haired Isabella's intellectual and moral traits and
tendencies, as we, in typonomic studies, have discerned
them, came to my almost too blessed home in her whom
it almost adored.
To
her, for me, imperishable memory, I solemnly and
tenderly inscribe this book (a).
: not overlook thai vrbat I have distinguished as the Memorial Number of my
sine, il already dedicated to the memory of the same very lovely glory of her Sex.
But

ration does not seem to me at all opposed to what is here done in the way
Of tribute to the noble memory Of a Woman, never more than equalled as a Type of
Womanhod.
edition of my F<>ren.<ic Vino, (of which a serial edition has begun to be in circu*
lation, i had a chapter on Typt Womanhood. The substance of a large part of that chapter
will be retained In the Serial Edition. In composing the original, the special Type of
Weenenh od thai 1 had moat In mind, and at heart, was none other than my own unutter-
ably dear Wife.
[tal to etata that the Memorial Number of my Magazine will be published

it is now in private circulation onlyon the first day of December, 1885.

That ntanaine Will have, for its eo workers, this book, as it serially grows , my serially
publish- 1 F'.T'nir
View, my little book, entitled Letters; and, I now expect, a book, (not
published by the Krnest Institute,) entitled An Earnest Call; or, After Death. The Maga-
zine will be of special interest to Martial Readers and to Legal Readers.
Tffpt
and
Tf/pes.
17
Of course,
the
very
thought of her, calls up the sub-
ject of
diversity in
Types of Health,
both physical and
psychical a subject which Typonomy regards with
full
and very tender care.
My Lecture on Ow Sanitary Interests, (delivered at
Marines Hall, in Washington,
in April,
1*78,) is accessi-
ble to You, in printed
form.
Please look
at
it,
with
special reference to
its formulation of my
theory
against
"Paternal Government " but in favor of
Benevolent Gov-
erment. Then
look, I beg, at what the same discourse
advances in respect
to Health,
especially in Woman,

the great Sufferer

i^(
Earth.*
1
Now, let me say a few words on. the subject of the
Types discernible throughout the wide extent of Mental
Malady.
On Sunday. March 13,1881, the Washington Post had the
head-lines, Capt. Walker's Insanity

Remanded to the Asylum

>
X tr and a
Half of
Liberty ; and under these lines
appeared this paragraph: "The case of Capt. John I\
Walker. Third Cavalry regiment, committed to the
Gov-
lueiit insane asylum by order of the Secretary
of War,
January 17, 1879,
and brought before Justice dames
of
the District Supreme Court on a writ of habeas can
!
14.
1879, was yesterday decided by the Judge.
Be held the proof showed a certain degree of insanity
to exist
in the subject of the proceeding, and
that he
must be remanded
back
to the
custody
of Dr. W, W.
Godding, the superintendent of the
asylum.
The ques-
tion of the power of the court to go
behind
the order of
tary of Warwi 1 by ex-Governor Wells,
who v
cially retained to
defend
Dr. Godding.
Judge James decided that he
had jurisdiction
to re-
!i officer committed
under such an order. if the
stimony showed him to be sane. But he believed a
less degree of
insanity
was required to be shown
:nmittal than if the Secretary f | he
r made a similar order
in
the case i i s
civili
This extra
latitude. I. ight,
was
necessary,
in
or4er
that the men might be ted to
treatment.
'!
pt. Walker Mas
I
I \'^v two
18 Type and Types.
weeks to give
Ins counsel, Mr. R. B. Warden, time to
decide whether he will take an appeal to the Court in
General Term or to the War Department. Judge James
added thai if hie opinion was asked, he would say that
from all
the evidence before him, and especially the
later testimony of Dr. Godding, that Capt. Walker had
improved in tne year he had been at liberty in the care
of
his
counsel, hie continued confinement was not desir-
able. But he thought that the matter was so much one
of doubt that the discretion of the Secretary of War
the only Bafe and legal means of determining it."
I do not here set forth my judgment as to the true
( laptain Walker, mentally. But I feel bound to
. that never was the Jurisdiction to inquire respecting
Sanity or Insanity more alarmingly exercised than it was
in the case here under passing notice.
Be this as it may, the case caused me to thoroughly
review the very comprehensive studies of Insanity that
I went through before I was connected with that sad
Affair.
Among the studies just referred to, is a very careful
of the frequently alleged insanity of John Brown,
of Harper's Ferry fame.
In that case, there was what is generally deemed ex-
jive Philanthropical and Civic Sentiment. But was
there an essentially insane devotion to that sentiment ?
Let me relate an anecdote that seems to me adapted
to the forwarding of what I have, just here, in view.
In
1866,
Y<m know, I made a typonomic survey of the
Erie archipelago. I had, for some years before, (You
have been
told,) been closely studying the fauna and
the
flora
of this country, North and South, and East and
Wes1 . and making a new study also of its landscapes, as
aid discern them in what I had used myself to call
mind's-eye view." Among the many books which
I had used to help my view, is Draper's Thoughts on the
Futon Civil Policy
of
America. But this I had perused
most guardedly, remembering the warning Dr. Holmes
had given inc. as well as the completely scientific and
therefore n< iiy cautious frame of mind with which
Type and Types.
19
I had. before receiving Dr, Holmes's
warning,
prosecuted
typonomical research.
At Pvt-In-Bay (or South Bass) Island, the
most
inter-
esting member of the Erie archipelago, r
lectured, by
*
. outlining Typonomy, describing typonomic met b-
3,
and referring to many results of my typonomic
specially to results of the typonomic sur-
vey 1 lia<l just
been making in the Erie archipelago,
ong my tearei lly unknown
to me, was
one of
sting men I ever met. I mean Capt. John
>wn, Junior, son of the John Brown whoso
over-
toil] noble heroism was exhibited at Earp<
Ty, in 1
s
-V.
A patriotic utterance [made whilst so
y, caused the Captain
to start to his feet, and
. in an exceedingly marked way. I natu-
rally ii" him ; and he at once appeared to me an
tly studyable Typ<
He came to mewhen I had closed the Lecture, and was
made known to me by "mine host." He earnestly re*
. if possible, the purpose I
had
utioned in my Lecture of departing, for the mainland
I
>hio, the next day. and very cordially invited
me to
le with him, at
Ins expense, whilst
ild make me better acquainted with the archipel-
He Baid, in substance : "Yon already know m<
than any other person who has merely visited it,
within my knowledge; but I" am not
only
a
Wine-
grower
I am also 8 Bui and \ can acquaint
you
h these islands as no other can, I have no doubt
\
1 T would
greatly like to have that privilege
I changed my plans and purposes, and was
the Cap-
talK
was full of intei
1 added not a little to my typonomic informal ion,
I nothing loth, I
'
him much a work on which I w, ged,

a literary monume len,

and. at the
same
tin,-
ibution to American Nomolo
lly in the division of
it
which I called T ay.
He always ap] >atly more
than willing er,
.-
when I
'
it what I>r. Bu< banai
20 Type and Types.
Anthropology distinguishes as Sarcogonomy, and when I
made American Geology, which I had studied rather
thoroughly, the
subject of our conversation, which con-
it ly grew
more and more of typonomic drift and
daily grew more interesting to both talkers.
[ pronounce him now as tine a Type as I have broken
bread with ranee the death of him in special memory of
whom T nearly always use my literary pen. To Captain
John Brown, Junior, I shall always feel obliged and
grateful; and, on his account as well as on many other
' units. I shall not fail to give due honor to his father's
memory.
Was John Brown insane when he resolved to take the
hazards of his Harper's Ferry Enterprise?
To this extremely interesting and, at one time, greatly
mooted question, I had given not a little study when I
found myself engaged in daily talk with Capt. John
Brown, Junior, nineteen years ago. I have devoted not
a little study to the matter since that time. And now I
venture to declare, that, in my judgment, John Brown's
Harper's Ferry Enterprise was not devised by a Madman,
though, if I err not respecting it, it had its origin in an
excessive sense of Duty.
You and your dear Mother were with me at Put-In-
Bay Island, at the time just spoken of; and you have
\vn me that your mind retains a measure of remem-
brance of the place and of Capt. John Brown, our re-
spected and beloved host. Your Mother had a great re-
gard for him and for his honored wife.
In my Discourse, at Howard University, on Jural In-
tiSy while I was in the Walker Case, I said: "With
objects which I cannot think my hearers will consider
selfish
or
immodest, I record the fact, that, on the 19th
day of October, 1879,
(that is to say, of a Sunday,) The
ubUe, edited by
Mr. Kamsdell and put forth at Wash-
ington, had the temeritynay, the audacityto call me
a Philosopher! Good Heavens! what is to befall me
next? Why, Mr. Kamsdell, being evidently -on the
rampage/ and intending to destroy me wholly, not in
politics alone, but likewise in the line of my profession

Type and T>/pes. 21

called me
other names
of heavy hurting force, lie said
of me:
-
The Judge
is
an hones! man, a very able
lawyer,
strong
writer; 1 deny all that, and call for perfect
pro< But
now it seems to me thai 1 may venture to
admit :
That if] am not at
least "indifferent honest/
1
[
have a considerable inclination
to
be upright
;
-
>nd: That it' I am not
k
*a very able Lawyer," I am
fain to own that 1 have tried, with
might and main, for
m<>re than tive-and-fort v wars to
be a Lawyer ^i' that
T.v
Third: That I have much written with intent
to write
with force; and
irth: That,
it" not a Philosopher in point of knowU
. I am a Philosopher in point
of
character^ at least to'
the
extent that 1 am not
w
*
a pipe for Fortune's finger to
nd
what stop she pleases.'' If my "blood and judg-
ments'
1
are, sometimes, not just so
"
well
commingled
"
gjhl to be,] feel a reasonable certainty, that,
for the in >Sl part,
I am ready to hear calmly, and right
Uy, all that comes to me because of my devotion to
what
seems
to me I), voir.
I do not like, indeed, to be subjected to the ridicule
n of mere Fools, like most of my Maligners, or of
nits like Murat Ealstead, orlike
White-
lav, but I cannot, in general, be very much dis-
hy any turn
of my experience experience, in
very singular, down to this day of
mory.
I h. 3t now, great
need of all my Strength and
all my Standing, my dear Son.
I n liieji
mani
themselves in Faith and Morals, in this country and
In l iid. in an ( >pen
Let ter to Senator Than
which, i r. never
has been published i
l
rong blendii 1 pride rn-
arch of ( liuu
It -till
appe
I ol l I trdcr of
22 Type and Types.
Poor, and
to the
Suffering, whether rich or poor, or neither
indigent
nor opulent.
-The ever too rhetorical and generally oratorical Macaulay
cheaply glorified the historicalness of the Church that joins
together the two great ages of human civilizationthe only
institution left standing which carries the mind back to the
times when the smoke of sacrifice rose from the Pantheon, and
when eamelopards and tigers bounded in the Slavian amphi-
theatre. No such melo-dramatic effects as those designed as
well as produced by the sentences referred to, can be necessary
to arouse or to exalt the reverential pride and love with which
a Catholic, who is at home in history, may contemplate the
triumphs and the sorrows of the oldest and yet youngest of
the Christian Churches. As for me, it never was because the
proudest royal houses are hut of yesterday when compared
with the line of the Supreme Pontiffs,
that T found myself
almost as much in wonder as in love with that historic Church.
The fact that that line is, even by Protestants, traced back, in
an unbroken series, from the present Pope to the Pope that
crowned the first Napoleon, and from that unhappy Pope to
him who put the crown on the head of Pepin, never had for
me half so nmch interest as the facts which come into dis-
tinction, when one traces the long history of Practical Philan-
thropy, as devoted to the honor and glory of God by the
Church of which I have been speaking so sincerely but so un-
satisfactorily."
Not long ago, I put into an Open Letter to yourself,
dear Son, the words :
"You are aware, that I have often said, that if it were a
possibility that one should be a Catholic without the Creed,
J would be such a Catholic. I feel, now, very deep and
rent affection for the Church that gave your Mother to my
arm- in Marriage, and has blessed her way down to the
Grave."
Almost to my amazement, very soon after 1 addressed
to
You those words, I found,one memorable morning,
that
what Carpenter has called ''unconscious cerebra-
."'
bad, during the night just turned to day, shown me
a wav
back to the essential parts of Catholic American
Belief!
How I rejoicedand how some of my Relatives re-
T\/pe and
ZJqx I 28
joiced at tliat
great, wholly unexpected change in me!
Bu1
I
am deeply grieved by clearest indication^, that,
when
I feel ready to apply for Rgadmiesion to what
I
sincerely call "the Church of my affections," I
may
(mock, at least at firsl , in vain,
II<w 1 deplore the indications, (which have variously
come to me,) that, when I shall regard myself as not un-
ready to apply for Ueadniission to the Church, 1 shall be
told that I am not entitled to the
Restoration that
I seek,
1 need
not try
to
even dimly intimate. But, my be-
loved and respected
Son, / shall insist; and, mark my
words, this day!. 1 may begin a Battle more resolved,
and not less energetical, thai] any of the many battles I
haw fought in Church or in State. in the last forty j-ears.
shall
not daunt me. then, if f find the old nonsense
on the subject of my modes of Thought and Feeling
drawn into the work againsl my eftbrt to secure my
rights, in things Politico-Religious, and in things belong-
to 1 he sphere of Faith.
In thai die of mine on Jural Interests,! used this'
Lang

Possibly, some of
my
hearers have to learn that Erskine
3 much ridiculed because of free and frequent talk
about
himself and his performances. The very egoistic Cohbett
-
among the many writers who made sport of the great
Ad\ large use of the decent, serviceable, but not always
used pronouns of the first person. Cicero, who was
un-
questionably a pure patriot and true philanthropist,
lias
also
lered a
g
\ like remark is applicable
John
Adams.
Wa$ qo!
franklin a philanthropist ami
briot, and was he nut an autobiographic
person, if he
was
at over-modes! people
all an egotist?
The poet
undeniably loved man ami Kngland
;
but he talked
it himself
q
!v.
impbell says thai Krskine tntry.
J would no
1
any
man that ever lived. I do,
for Erskine that
in- labors
tor the intcre
whi
alls jural have
not been
surpassed by
tdern tim<

And
3
. this
man was //"/'/
y< ly mad* not simply mad nor'-nor'-wvst. ami
24
Type and Types.
as yet to know
a
hearnshaw (or a handsaw) from a hawk ;

but
simply, sheerly mad.
-
Scott added :
"*]
have
heard him tell a cock-and-a-bull story of having
D the ghost of his father's servant, John Barnett, with as
much gravity
as if he believed every word that he was saying/
"Quotha?!
How unworthy of a mind like that of Scott a
)
BO mean and poor at Erskine's memory ! If Erskine was
a madman, what was Scott himself? But neither of them was,
in any sense, a madman, save as all of us, the sagest and the
most sagacious not excepted, have, God help us! more or less
nonsanity mixed with the simple nonsense that we
'
wreak upon
expression' in our daily lives. I never

'that is
1
,
hardly ever'
had mueh talk with any cultured man without discovering,
somewhere about his bonnet, a big bee of some description
;
and if, now and then, I think I hear a buzzing in my own, or
find some loving and discerning relative or friend concerned
about my bee, I don't on that account consider that my time
has come to leave the Law. For it is very firmly that I hold
with Dr. Haslam, where that rarely able and exceptionally
interesting writer teaches that all men are subject, more or less,
to veritable madness.
*
That there was a bee in Erskine's bonnet is not, then,
according to my view, to be denied. But Scott, in saying that
the orator was 'positively mad,' may have been influenced at
least a little by the fact thus rather grossly stated by Lord
Campbell, not with the design I have in view: 'When Sir
Walter Scott, with a view to profit rather than fame, published
Paul's 'Letters to his Kinsfolk,' with some very indifferent
verses to celebrate the battle of Waterloo, Erskine, sitting at
table, came out with the following impromptu:
"
*0n Waterloo's ensanguined plain
Lie tens of thousands of the slain
;
But none, by sabre or by shot,
Fell half so flat as Walter Scott.'
"
How much I think of Scott, I need not say; but he (as
I expect to
show hereafter, in this book,) had no more
solid sanity than Erskine had.
Returning, for a moment, to my own case, let rue put
to you
the question, whether, in your judgment, I have
manifested an unsound opinion, touching the importance
of my place and part in life? I own, I do not think that
Type and Types.
25
jrotff tlOW
almost
<*ag6d
P." is, on that point, of unsound
mind.
Judge Alfred George Washington Carter,
who, with
Mr. Justice Matthews,
(mm
of the Supreme Court of the
United States,*) was with me in the Courl
of
Common
Pleas, at Cincinnati, quite "a-many years ago," wrote a
not vcvy
happy book, entitled The Ola Court House.
In it
he badly
spoiled a really good Btory, ('/)
of
which a t rue re-
lation may he
given thus:
I was the President Judge
of the
Courl
of
Common
Pleas, at the time of the real facts. My friend,
Tom
Powell, brother <>t' the Painter,
had earnestly
advocated
my election by the Legislature. When lie seemed
about
to he appointed Judge of the Superior Court,
some
Lead-
ing members of the Bat*, who knew that I had influence
with Tom,
almost implored me, notwithstanding my quite
natural reluctance,
to persuade him not to
allow
himself
to he made a Judge. I finally consented, and performed
my trying task as well as I could. When I spoke of his
. he said:

1 believe, Mr. Warden, I am somewhat older than you

were when
you
were made President Judge of the Com-
rather clumsy fashion :
Thomas (General Thomas) Powell was a curious example and specimen of
unrewarded ambition. He was but a very young lawyer of the old com t house, having rome
vs. But he came to the bar with the ambition Of a Napoleon Bona-
. and expected to COnqner or die. He was tolerably able, as well an ambitious, and by
appointment, be made once od assistant proeecuting attorney,
for single term
of court. Be wai el direr! timee a candidate for the legislature, and at all times acandi*
date f rernoi Benben Wood did appoint him once hie Adin-
the milit ;i of the Stateand thin was how he became, and was called
Qeneiml Tpm rhumb, and much mightier with the
I, than frith the pen, andnoi mighty In either, or all. Lawyet Warden
was talking witli I iy wh--n the
latter, then QUlte B fOnng
man. wan .
-
would do 11 1 "I
expostulated with Powell, and told him, he was too \ I the

v.
Didn't I, t):
Why. I heli..
.
the A ms a stnm]
-t let the Almighty make the railI will at once respondsee if I
26
Type and Types.
moo Pleaa
T wont for vou with all my might. I didn't
toll you
that
you wore too young to be a Judge."
-
Thai
is
entirely
true," responded I, "but it is not the
wholi truth. / considered that I was too young, and said
and 1
felt
just what I said. You must remember this.
1 yielded
only when it was pointed out to me by such
men as Vachel Worthington, so much my seniors, that
my service afl a
Deputy Clerk, at the Court-House Desk,
while I was studying the Law, and after I had studied it
for BOme time, might be regarded as making up, in a
large measure, practically, for the lack of age. But, Tom,
why should I not be fair with you? Your brethren of
the Bar do not regard you as of a judicial turn of mind.
They think, as I do, that you are a man of talents, and
that if you desire to figure finely at the Bar and in Poli-
tics,
you can do so, and they are sincerely desirous, as you
must know that I am, that you should succeed quite bril-
liantly in all your reasonable enterprises. Let me show
you clearly what I mean.
"
Suppose, now,leaving out of view all questions of
a constitutional cast, you could at once be President, with-
out an instant's preparation. Take into consideration
the high character and tremendous difficulty of the vari-
ous responsibilities with which you would be charged at
once."
And then I rapidly set forth what I conceived to be
the irUernational along with the simply national relations,
rights, and duties, appertaining to the Presidency. There-
upon I asked: "What would you do if you had to ac-
cepl or to decline at once?"
The answer ran: "
I would accept the office, Sir."
1 thus reported to the gentlemen at whose request I
had
appealed to him: "If the Almighty, being tired of
governing the Universe, should give the slightest intima-
tion
of that fact, Tom would prepare to vault lightly into
the vacated seat, and set the suspended worlds again
a-whirling."
At a reunion of residents of Washington who had
been members of a Cincinnati Literary Society, I told
that
anecdote. Among the most attentive listeners, the
Vypt and 7}//-
.
27
while,
was Rutherford Burchard
Haves.
Did he suspect
that
I intended to offend him by the narrative
?
1 do
not think he did; and certainly
there
was
no malice in
my purposes.
I did,
however,
hope that the bit^story
might
assist some
other things to
set
the President to
thinking deeply of the light
use
he was
making of his
Presidential opportunities and powers,
That 1 purposed no
offense,
I need no1 say to
You, dear
Sou.
The President
of
whom I have just spoken, took from
my
own hands, and never chided me for handing to
him,
though I dare
not swear he
ready my
Sketches
of
American
a very little book, indeed. Therein he might have
d

perhaps, indeed, he did r am inclined to think he

ally read the sentences:
"
I I<\v is ir with the President?
"He
has hut little vanity. lie is, indeed, an over-modest
Would tha* he might discover that it is his
public
duty to assert himself, in the full height and depth and breadth
of lii- ability, which. I am sure, is
great enough to make him
an entirely admirable President ! If lie would do but that, he
bainlj would he his own best successor.
'I have criticised him freely, and I feel that he has
treated
but ill; hut when I carefully review nil I have
known of
him. I find that I have still high hopes of his career.
11
Bui can he be expected to give much attention
to
Diploma-
cy
time?
The
poet [a) who composed the motto of this booklet also
11
'
Wise he must be who is Chief Magistrate
By Fortune's favor or the will of Fate !
\\c in u-r
be
Uv.rnc 1, to a huge extent,
i.v virtue of his being President.
1
This \s
not
strictly true, perhaps; but, certainly
,*
by vir-
tue oi I President,
5
the 'author
and
finisher of treaties
1
jht
to
take a very lively interest in the diplomatic
honor of
intry whose First ( iitizen he is.
!'..
doing m>, ht would discover many opportunities for
-*
important to his
country and likewise to other
count ri<
(a) My fictitious ntttti
l!S Type and Types.
What T have endeavored to address to our present Chief
Magistrate, has probably not readied his eyes at all. I
have
pxid reason to believe that the composition of it
was. \ irtually. writing for the Presidential waste-basket.
But I am
not in the least ashamed of what I have
*ed
to address to the Chief Magistrate. It has
en, "all and singular," well meant; and it has not
u in the least presumptuous.
I must go back
3
with brevity, to Capt. Walker's case.
The sheer forgetfulness
of Mr. Justice James, in that
Be, led him to regard the matter as all before him,
when the truth was, that he had stopped me in the pro-
duction of testimony, so that I supposed, and could but
suppose, that he had been perfectly satisfied that the
decision was to be to discharge the relator ! I was thus-
prevented from delivering an argument which would
have been among the most important if not the best
arguments of my whole life.
For reasons quite above the level of competition for
Business in my Profession, I may fitly say, that I had
-on to believe in my preparedness to make a rather
interesting and important argument in Capt. Walker's.
(
!ase ; and that Mr. Justice James had also ample reason
to participate in that belief. Yet I do not forget at all
the sometimes dastardly and generally vile attempts,
which have been made, from time to time, since I be-
came, perhaps, the
"
best abused
"
American not holding
office, to break down my Professional Repute at Wash-
ington. Hut, had I not too much indulged a certain
sentiment respecting the Juridic Life which I discerned
here, when I came to practice my Profession, and to
h Nbmology, at this grand Capital, in 1873,1
could
not have
been injured as I have been since that time,
ae my Profession is concerned.
Oil all accounts, 1 now exceedingly regret the error
Bed.
Bn1 h>r that error, 1 would
have been in the active
Practice of the Law, not only in some directions hut in
aff'directioi be Seat
of Government, as I designed
to be, when I came hither; and tin; silly stuff that has.
/
pe
<>u<i
r
])jp>
29
been ottered here, insinuating rather than fesserting thai
I am,
or may be, touched, if not more than touched,
with the
I><<
in t?u Bonnet, would nol
have
been brdathed.
Dear Son.
the view of TVpe and Types here opened,
naturally finds itself regarding Stab as well as
Type. I
think, the view, as it unfolds
itself regarding Type-
Production ami Type-Relations, as well
as pointing oul a
\
at diversity of TVpesmust make whatever showing
:\-
be needed on the subject
^\'
my Mental Soundn*
1
ilar infirmity made You long listen
to my reading,
when, but \'^v thai trouble, You would have been reading
tor yourself.
Yet, even thou, your eyes wore not so out
Of
order that You could not turn them somewhat
to
the
rvice of your Art-Love. Ocular infirmity no Longer
hinders You. Delight your love of Art, without re-
ve that set
by
your so well settled tastes and
hahits in the Practice of the Law. Despise the stand-
ards <>f the Lawyers who
disparage,
<>r defame, your
ther
on
account
^\'
the lanxe compass
of his
Legal
.dies and the Studies lie associates therewith. The
Types of Lawyerhood and General Enlightenment I have
held
up
to You will
be completely justified
as we
ward in the way this Letter opens.
Types of Place, with special
reference
to the Type
g and Animals, including Man, must make no
incon-
siderable figure in this work.
That pari
of the va.-t sub-
ore aware, exceedingly
important Legal
As-
ts, which] have at least nol insufficiently attended
ruction.
Second shall set out with
Plaa
and Pi<mt. A
y
charming but a most
important theme, dear Charles
Ward*
POSTSCRIPT.
On the 15tfa day of October, 1886, I write a Postscript, which I
lor rather carefully.
ars ago, your Mother
WtSki
with me
to tli Nuptial Altar. II I ami aided me for almost
crelv idle to attempt to set forth.
30 Type and Types.
But I may well acknowledge, in a special manner, how she cease-
lessly inspired myefforts to do good, in my Profession, and beyond
its very
ample
boundaries.
Hoar Son, your Father's variously hindered and obstructed life,
now greatly tried again, as it has been so often tried, by physical
order, has. down to this day and hour, been, for the most part,
but a Long succession of endeavors to do good to Causes, Persons,
and Places. Mark, I but say of Endeavors, my dear Son.
Why, then, has there been so much effort, on the part of Persons
I have benefited, signally, to do me hurt, especially in my never
more than equalled devotion to the Law?
Whatever ought to be the answer, I give notice, now and here,
to all my Undervalue^ that it will be well for them, if not for me
and You as my Associate, if they can have
u
the virtue to repent
and the energy to atone.
"
One of the recont undervaluations took place in and about the
4
*
Tyler Case." The fact that, instead of needlessly and foolishly
calling in assistant Counsel in the presentation of the cases to
tin
1
class of which that case belonged, I chose to make the Tyler
case the leading one, and to suggest to Capt. Tyler to join me in
the argument of itnot that I felt the need of any help whatever

has been most malignantly misrepresented by several persons,

neither of whom I shall here name, just now.
The case was very simple, and success in it involved no particu-
lar credit to anybody.
Quite a like remark is applicable to the Marshall Case, now pend-
ing in the Supreme Court of the United States, in which case You
r
yourself, made a fine Brief, adopted by me, in the Court of Claims,
and published in the Magazine, From Time to Time. No argument
whatever, in addition to the substance of that Brief, is necessary to
carry the case in the Supreme Court

perhaps, to-day, the best Ju-

dicial Body in the World

if
the case
fan
be carried at all. And yet,
as one exceedingly provoking consequence of the nefarious work
that has been done against me, in connection with the Tyler Case,
I am embarrassed by suggestions (not by Clients but by
u
outsid-
ers/') looking to the calling in of Associate Counsel in that very
simple case
!
But manage that whole matter as to You may deem well, dear
Son.
We must be patient, in respect to matters of that kindindeed,
respecting matters of all kindsas we go forward in the march
that we together make, in what appears to me the only fit direc
tion of Ambition and Endeavor.
POSTSCRIPT NO. 2.
On Sunday morning, October 18, 1885, 1 add a second Postscript,
which, I trust, will fully justify itself.
I find occasion to set forth, that, from the Autocrat
of
the Break*
7}/pc and T
:
ip .
31
fast Fa&te, I read to your Brother, Ernest as well as to Your
Mother and your Sisters, the following passage :
kl
Possibilities, Sir?said the divinity-student; can't a man who
says Haow f arrive at distinction?
Sir,] replied,-in a republic all things are possible. But the
man with afuture has almost of necessity sense enough to see that
any odious trick of speech
or manners must he
got rid
of. Doesn't
Sidney Smith say that a public man in
England never gets over a
B6 quantity uttered in public life? Our public men are in little
danger ^ this fatal
misstep, as few of them are in the habit of
In-
troducing 1 .atin Into their speeches-for good and sufficient reasons.
But they are bound to speak decent English,unless, indeed, they
rough old campaigners, like General Jackson or General Tay-
lor; in which case, a few scars on
Priscian's head are pardoned to
old fellows who have quite
as many on their own. and a constitu-

thirty empires is not at all particular, provided they do not

a in their Presidential Messages."
My essentially educative
story,
At the Doctor's^ (which was almost
built on the just-quoted sentences,) demonstrates, that, in excep-
tional conditions, circumstances, and relations, even a New Eng-
i may be astonished into exclaiming homo. And At
ils<> turns attention on these words of Eluskin's Modi rn
:
'
k
You shall know a man not to be a gentleman by the
perfect and neat pronunciation of his words: but he does not j>r<-
to pronounce accurately ; he does pronounce accurately; the
krity is in the real (not assumed) scrupulousness.'
'
Let me state for general Headers of my present offering, thai Ai
yras designed to form a part of Ernest's amusement,
blended with instruction, of a mainly typonomic character, while
he was a Soldier, but while he continued to prepare himself for the
life of an Advocate.
The story was intended, after Ernest's death, to make part of
the volume, I md the Flag he Followed, This is the same
on which 1 worked at Put-ln-Ihiy Island, in li
It yet remains unfinished; and I simply can not bring it to a
close, for
reasons which You can appreciate. But, you will be
delighted to be told, that one of our most valued and respected
Friendsone of the Friend- your
Mothergreatly
loved and prized

has, at D
vn way,
supplied
by
mea full history of Erne
ions,
using,
for
that pur] a to her advisable, some extracts from
the
|
me a very blessed one, d<
hen I tell Fou that the Friend
her than
Mrs. Emily Lee Shervi >m-
j
Writer, irho ined, I :
to very high
literary
position.