human
as a portentous and inexplicable phenomenon--one to be regarded with distaste and wonder. He persisted in thinking of the type as a juvenile one--an energetic and clever boy, who was immensely active and immensely productive of results (in an immensely limited field), but who was incapable of anything like an _aperçu_ or a _Weltanschauung_ (oh, he had plenty of words for it!), and who was essentially booked to lose much more than he gained. He disliked
gpt
and abominated