How to Analyze People on Sight

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people by their clothes, houses, religious faith, political
affiliations, prejudices, dialect, etiquette or customs. These are only
the veneer laid on by upbringing, teachers, preachers, traditions and
other forces of suggestion, and it is a veneer so thin that trifles
scratch it off.


The Real Always There

But the real individual is always there, filled with the tendencies of
his type, bending always toward them, constantly seeking opportunities
to run as he was built to run, forever striving toward self-expression.
It is this ever-active urge which causes him to revert, in the manifold
activities of everyday life, to the methods, manners and peculiarities
common to his type.

This means that unless he gets into an environment, a vocation and a