Being fully persuaded, owing to his lack of imaginative sympathy, that his own outlook on life is alone compatible with mental sanity, and yet being too clear-sighted to accept that outlook as satisfactory, he will mingle with his frivolity a strain of bitterness and discontent,--the bitterness of self-corroding scepticism, and the discontent which grows apace through its very effort to ignore its own existence.

In a word, his attitude towards life will be one of _cynicism_,--that blend of hardness and bitterness with frivolity which exactly inverts the ideal of the modern poet, when he dreams of an age in the far-off future, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.[31] And the bitterness of his cynicism will be made bitterer still by the fact that, owing to his being (in all probability) unmusical, inartistic, and unable to amuse himself with any form of handwork, he will have no taste or hobby to distract him from himself.

For a time, indeed, the "genial sense of youth" will keep his sinister tendencies in check; and in the middle period of life, his struggle to achieve "success"-- for of course he will be an externalist to the core--will tend to keep them in the background.

But in his later years, when he will have either failed to achieve "success" or discovered--too late--that it was not worth achieving, his cynicism will assert itself without let or hindrance, and, with his growing incapacity for frivolity, will become harder and bitterer, till at last the dark shadow of incurable pessimism will fall on him and involve his declining years in ever deepening gloom.

I do not say that many of our University humanists will conform to this type; but I do say that the type is easily recognisable and is becoming increasingly familiar.
Even the intellectual development of our humanist, who is nothing if not intellectual, will be adversely affected by the one-sidedness of his education.