420 VARIETIES. 



years only, an individual of either sex ceases soonest in the most excitable habits 



has the same weight. 2nd. That the male because in them the excitability will 



attains the maximum weight about the age soonest be reduced to a due balance with 



of forty years, and that he begins to lose the stimulants of life. Thus it seems to 



in a very sensible measure, towards his be that the growth of women, who are 



sixtieth year ; that at the age of eighty more excitable than men, generally stops 



years, he has lost about 13.231bs., the sooner, and consequently that they are of 



stature being also diminished 2.75 inches, shorter stature, large women for the most 



3rd. That the female attains the maximum part having less of the habit peculiar to 



weight later than the male. 4th. That the sex ; and that by far the greater num- 



when the male and female have assumed ber of the most excitable men who, in con- 



their complete development, they weigh sequence of this constitution, make the 



almost twenty times as much as at the greatest figure in their day, are men of 



moment of their birth, while their stature short stature, while giants are generally of 



is only about 3 J beyond what it was at the an opposite habit of body. There must, 



same period. With regard to the con- of course, to such rules be many excep- 



tinuance of growth in persons of different tions. 

 temperaments, it is remarked, that it 



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