Mr. Roosevelt's head is high in the crown. Mr. Taft's head is low in the
crown. A high crown indicates firmness, decision, love of power, love of
authority, a demand to rule, and great ambition. A low crown, on the other
hand, indicates amenability to authority, a willingness to compromise, and
a lack of domineering quality.

Compare the expression of the two men. Mr. Roosevelt's expression is
intense, vigorous, and almost belligerent. Mr. Taft's expression is mild,
calm, judicial, good-natured, and jovial.

By what stretch of the imagination could anyone suppose that a man of Mr.
Taft's character and aptitudes, as shown by the indications pointed out in
the foregoing, could even begin to carry out the policies of a man of Mr.
Roosevelt's character, as shown by the indications we have pointed out?
And yet, all of the political history of the United States since 1909 has
been completely changed as the result of Mr. Roosevelt's lack of knowledge
of the plain facts of the science of human nature. Indeed, the result of
Mr. Roosevelt's choice of a successor is found in Mexico, in Germany, in
England, in France, and, in fact, throughout the world.

IF NOT SCIENTIFICALLY, HOW?

Woodrow Wilson has been criticized, perhaps, as severely for his selection
of men for various posts in his administration as for any other cause, if
reports are to be believed. He has probably suffered far more from
unfortunate selection of lieutenants and of men for special tasks, and has
more deeply regretted his mistakes of this nature, than any other thing in
his administration up to the time that these lines are written.

The few examples we have given in this chapter of men who gave excellent
promise and then failed to live up to their expectations are typical. They
are occurring every day in every line of business and industry, as well as
in politics and government. We are told by some who have made a study of
this subject that the only way to find out what a man can do, what his
aptitudes are, what are his abilities, his capacities, his type, and what
his performances will be, is to put him in a place where he will have an
opportunity to show what there is in him. If this is the best that science
can do for us, we are, then, groping in darkness through a tangled maze of
pitfalls. We have nothing left but to go on using disastrous and
impracticable methods in the selection of men for commerce, for industry,
for financial responsibility, a