*8g OF TEMPERAMENTS. Sect. XXXI. 3, 



Hence the fubjecls of this temperament are indolent in refpect 

 to all voluntary exertions, whether of mind or body. 



A race of people of this description feems to have been found 

 by the Spaniards in the iflands of America, where they firfl: 

 landed, ten of whom are faid not to have confumed more food 

 than one Spaniard, nor to have been capable of more than one 

 tenth of the exertion of a Spaniard. Robertfon's Hiftory. — In 

 a date fimilar to this the greateft part of the animal world pafs 

 their lives, between fleep and inactive reverie, except when they 

 are excited by the call of hunger. 



III. The Temperament ofincreafed Voluntarity* 



Those of this conftitution differ from both the lad mentioned 

 in this, that the pain, which gradually fubfides in the firfl, and 

 is productive of inflammation or delirium in the fecond, is in 

 this fucceeded by the exertion of the mufcles or ideas, which 

 are mod frequently connected with volition; and they are 

 thence fubject to locked jaw, convulfions, epilepfy, and mania, 

 as explained in Sect. XXXIV. Thole of this temperament at- 

 tend to the flighted irritations or fenfations, and immediately ex- 

 ert themfelves to obtain or avoid the objects of them ; they can 

 at the fame time bear cold and hunger better than others, of 

 which Charles the Twelfth of Sweden was an inftance. They 

 are fuited and generally prompted to all great exertions of genius 

 or labour, as their defires are more extenfive and more vehe- 

 ment, and their powers of attenden and of labour greater. It is 

 this facility of voluntary exertion, which diftinguifhes men from 

 brutes, and which has made them lords of the creation. 



IV. The Temperament of increeifed AJJbc'iation. 



This conftitution confifts in the too great facility, with which 

 the fibrous motions acquire habits of aiTociation, and by which 

 thefe afTociaritons become proportionably flronger than in thofe 

 of the other temperaments. Thofe of this temperament are flow 

 in voluntary exertions, or in thofe dependent on fenfation, 

 or on irritation. Hence great memories have been faid to be 

 attended with lefs fenfe and lefs imagination from Ariftotte 

 down to the prefent time ; for by the word memory thefe writers 

 only underfiood the unmeaning repetition of words or numbers 

 in the order they were received, without any voluntary efforts 

 of the mind. 



In this temperament thofe adociations of motions, which are 

 commonly termed fympathics, act with greater certainty and 



energy, 



