Fowler's New illustrated self-instructor in phrenology and physiology : with over one hundred engravings, together with the chart and character of ... as marked by ... / by Lorenzo N. Fowler.
- Lorenzo N. Fowler
- Date:
- 1918
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Fowler's New illustrated self-instructor in phrenology and physiology : with over one hundred engravings, together with the chart and character of ... as marked by ... / by Lorenzo N. Fowler. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![*6 To Restrain.—Sit down and rest when tired, and let the world ]ok on while you enjoy it. Do only half you think you must, aDd he content to let the rest go undone. Do for once just see if you can t be lazy. Work as few hours as possible, and take all the advantage vou can to get along with the least outlay of strength possible. Do sit down, and enjoy what you have already got, instead of trying to get so much more. Live on your laurels. Don’t tear and fret so, if all is not exactly to your liking, but cultivate contentment. 15.—EXCITABILITY INDICATED BY SHARPNESS. All sharp things are, in and by the very nature of their form penetrating, of which the needle furnishes an example. A nd this law applies equally to human beings. From time immemorial a sharp nose has been considered indicative of a scolding disposition ; yet it is equally so of intensity in the other feelings, as w'ell as those which scold. 7.—Arc extremely susceptible to impressions of all kinds ; intensely excited by trifles ; apt to magnify good, bad, everything, far beyond the reality; a creature of impulse and mere feeling; subject to ex¬ treme ups and downs of emotion ; one hour in the garret, the next in the cellar ; extremely liable to neuralgia and nervous affections ; with quality and activity 6 or 7, have ardent desires; intense feelings; keen susceptibilities; enjoy and suffer in the extreme; are whole- souled ; sensitive ; positive in likes and dislikes ; cordial; enthusiastic ; mpulsive ; have hobbies ; abound in good feeling, yet are quick-tem¬ pered ; excitable; liable to extremes ; have a great deal of soul or passion, and warmth of feeling ; are brilliant writers or speakers, but too refined and sensitive for the mass of mankind ; gleam in the career of genius, but burn out the vital powers on the altar of nervous excitability, and like Pollok, H. K. White, McDonald Clarke, and Leggett, fall victims to premature death, and should keep clear from all false excitements and stimulants, mental and physical—tea, coffee, tobacco, drugs, and alcoholic drinks, and cool off and keep cool. 6.—Are like 7, only less so; warm-hearted, impetuous, impulsive, fiill of soul, and too susceptible to external influences; swayed tot much by feeling ; and need much self-government and coolness. 5. —Are sufficiently sensitive and susceptible to exciting causes, ye’ iot passional, nor impulsive ; and easily roused, yet not easily carriet iway by excitements. With activity 6 or 7, are very quick, but per li ctly cool; decide and act instantly, yet knowingly ; do nothing without thinning, but think and do instantaneously ; are never flus tered, but combine great rapidity with perfect self-possession. 4.—Are like the placid lake—no waves, no noise, and evince tb# lone quiet spirit under all circumstances. 6. --Are rather phlegmatic ; slow to perceive and feel; rather cold](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29814844_0052.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
