Etre suggestible ou etre autoritaire, voila un dilemme qui se pose a propos
de chaque individu: le succes de toute une carriere en depend et on peut
dire que les autoritaires--toutes choses egales d'ailleurs, c'est-a-dire si
la mauvaise fortune, l'inconduite, etc., ne se mettent pas en travers--ont
bien plus de chance d'arriver dans la vie que les suggestibles. On ne
pourrait pas citer beaucoup d'individus ayant atteint de hautes situations
qui manqueraient d'autorite. L'autorite peut remplacer toutes les autres
qualites intellectuelles; dans un cercle, quel est celui qu'on ecoute? ce
n'est pas le plus intelligent, celui qui pourrait dire les choses les
plus curieuses; c'est celui qui a le plus d'autorite, dont le regard est
volontaire, dont la parole, pleine, sonore, articule lentement des phrases
interminables, dont tout le monde supporte respectueusement l'ennui. Il y
a plaisir a analyser, temoin invisible, une conversation de cinq ou six
personnes, a laquelle on ne prend aucune part; on voit de suite quel est
celui qui fait de la suggestion; celui-la guide la conversation, en regle
l'allure, impose son opinion, developpe ses idees; puis il y a parfois
lutte; un autre, plus ferre sur un certain terrain, prend l'avantage
et reussit a se faire ecouter. Un interlocuteur nouveau peut changer
completement l'etat des forces, car, chose surprenante, l'autorite est une
qualite toute relative; une personne A en exerce sur B, qui en exerce sur
C, et C a son tour tient A sous son autorite.

La maniere d'affirmer, le ton de la voix, la forme grammaticale peuvent
reveler celui qui a de l'autorite: il y a des phrases modestes comme: "je
ne sais pas", ou "je vous demande pardon", qu'un homme d'autorite affirme
avec eclat. Certaines qualites physiques augmentent l'autorite;
la conscience de sa force en donne beaucoup. Un sportsman de mes
connaissances, qui fait le courtier de commerce, disait que le secret de
son aplomb reside dans sa conviction de ne jamais rencontrer des poings
plus forts que

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