III. THE USEFUL HAND

III. THE USEFUL HAND

“In social relations, they require security and exactitude; in life, moderation. Circumspect and farseeing, they like what is clearly known, and suspect the unknown. Born for the cultivation of commonplace ideas, they pay less attention to the actually real than to the apparently real; they recommend

Themselves by their good sense, rather than by their genius; by their cultivated talents, rather than by the faculties of imagination. Such subjects will accept none but the man who is well taught, disciplined, molded and trimmed upon a certain pattern. Where the man of learning shows himself in all his glory, they go to seek their models and their examples.
‘Townsmen: rather than citizens, men of the Square-Handed type prefer certain privilege to absolute liberty, Authority is the base of all their instincts, the authority of rank, of birth, of law and of custom; they like to feel and to impose they yoke.”

Useful Hands love order for itself, admitting freely to their lives everything resulting there from.

The above, very brilliant description mostly adapted from d’Arpentigny himself, culling here and there his best paragraphs, explains sufficiently why the Useful Hands are very generally provided with knots, or, at least, with distinct Second Knots, which complete and “round up/’ so to speak, their more decided idiosyncrasies.