The choice of a mate.

  • Anthony Ludovici
Date:
[1935]
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    movement and more nervous than the second, and usually sober. But it is irritable, easily falls ill (T.B. particularly), or breaks down, especially when ill-adapted, which it often is, and it frequently becomes a “ down and out The second is unelastic, hydrated (not a dry type), slow- moving, not very sensitive, corpulent, bulky, and accepts its relation to environment apathetically. MacAuliffe places Balzac and Renan in this class. The ill-favoured of both types tend to be asocial and ill-adapted. 1 Otherwise Kretschmer’s description of the schizoid-asthenic and the cycloid-pyknic may be followed for these types respec tively. But the alert reader will already have seen that they are but degenerates of the first group of four, and therefore that Kretschmer with his healthy schizothyme and cyclothyme, together with his morbid examples of each type, really covers all MacAuliffe’s ground. Weidenreich finds two main types—the leptosomatic and the eurysomatic—whose characteristics he tabulates as follows :— Character. Leptosomes. Eurysomes. 2 Morphology Long, narrow Short, broad General Impression of Tall, slim Short, squat Form General State of Nutrition Inclining to thinness Inclining to fatness Trunk Long and narrow Short and broad Limbs Long and slender Short and stout Neck Long and thin Short and thick Shoulders Drooping Straight and raised high Shoulders (breadth) Narrow Broad Chest Long, narrow, flat Short, broad, deep Chest circumference Small Large Ribs Drooping Raised Xiphoid angle Acute Obtuse Belly Always less in girth than Also, but difference chest slighter Navel Midway between end of Below midway between sternum and symphysis 3 these points Hips Narrow Broad Head in general Long and narrow Short and broad Face Long, oval (ellipse ?) Circular (full moon) Brow Narrow, lofty Broad, low Space between eyes Small Broad Palpebral fissure Wide More like a slit Nose Prominent, long, narrow, Flat, short, broad, straight straight or convex or concave Mouth Small Large Lips Everted Thin Chin Pointed, narrow Round and broad 1 Ibid., 131-197. 2 R.U.K., p. 48. This is but an extract of the complete table. 3 This is the “ symphysis pubis ”, or pubic arch, the small bone joint in the front of the pelvis.