ABSTRACT
If every writer on character has had to cope with his special problem of how to classify human types, then the person wishing to present a survey of the different classifications is doubly at a loss ; for the possibilities of classification multiply as the subject is carefully gone into. So many methodological rules come forth with their claims that it is difficult to accept any one principle. Certainly the chronological method cannot appeal to us, although it is worth keeping in mind that chronological remoteness will of necessity result in essential differences of viewpoint. On the other hand, it would seem the proper thing to untangle the psychological issues involved in the various classifications and to group them accordingly, but the complexity of the process is too obvious to make this method practicable.
