How to read character : a new illustrated hand-book of phrenology and physiognomy, for students and examiners : with a descriptive chart.
- Samuel R. Wells
- Date:
- 1890, ©1868
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: How to read character : a new illustrated hand-book of phrenology and physiognomy, for students and examiners : with a descriptive chart. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![element of the constitution, lack strength for contmuous exertion, and prefer sitting or lounging about to activity of any kind. Cultivate muscular power. [18.] (2.) YV^'eak.—You are poorly endowed with muscular force, and the propelling and governing powers connected with the motive tempera- ment. You must give much attention to the cultivation of the motive apparatus. Walking, running, rowing, swimming, skating, and gym- nastics are all good exercises, hut must be adapted to your weak cor- dition, and increased as you gain strengtli. Make yourself comfortab!}' tired, but do not exliaust your small stock of energy and strength by too much exertion. [18.] VIII.—THE MENTAL TEMPERAMENT. (7.) Yeky Largely Developed.—You are delicate in structure, with small bones, a moderate development of muscle, finely cut fea- tures, and a high organic condition generally. Brain predominates over body, and your mental states have a powerful influence over your physical condition. You are refined in your tastes; quick and delicate in your perceptions; rapid in your mental operations; emotional, sym- pathetic, aspiring, earnest, eager, and easih^ excited. You are admir- ably adapted, so far as constitutional qualities are concerned, to literary or artistic pursuits. If a mechanic, a manufacturer, or a merchant, one of the lighter and more elegant branches in these departments would suit .you best. See next section (6). [21.] (6.) A Large Development.—You are characterized as set forth in (7), only in a lower degree; are more inclined to mental than to animal enjoyments ; fond of literature and art; ambitious, clear-headed, discriminating, quick-witt«d, intellectually efiicient, rather brilliant, and calculated to lead in the higher walks of literature, art, or science, provided you have had the necessary mental culture. Stimulants of all kinds should be avoided, as well as too strong or long continued mental excitements. [21.] (5.) Fully Developed.—You are well endowed mentally, and cal- culated (with proper culture) to speak and .write effectively, and to wield considerable influence in the realms of thought; being less sensi- tive and delicately organized than those in whom there is a larger pro- portional development of this temperament, you are better fitted to come into contact with people of all classes, and to control them by means of your superior mental development, backed by the vigor im- parted by a larger measure of vital and motive power. [21] (4.) Average.—You have a fair degree of mental activity, and, with the advantages of education, are capable of attaining a position in in- tellectual society; but you are better adapted to manual labor, mechan- ism, or to business than to ftie learned professions, so-called. [21.] (3.) Moderately Developbd,—You have no real love for literaturt](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21083824_0161.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
