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In conclusion, the labors of Keith, Stockard, 

 Davenport, Bolk and of the endocrinologists are 

 slowly bringing modern physiognomy toward the 

 goal of ancient physiognomy, in so far as they 

 tend to the discovery of correlations between 

 particular facial characteristics and psychologic 

 reactions. Thus Stockard, for example, writes as 

 follows, giving his impressions of various physical 

 and mental traits associated with the linear and 

 the lateral growth types: 



The basic psychology of an individual is prooably asso- 

 ciated with his structural type. Two persons of the same 

 race and region that chance to be of opposite types show 

 contrasted mental reactions. The lateral type is careful 

 and painstaking, observing details and valuing them and 

 making little effort to get at the meaning of things or draw 

 conclusions until a mass of detail has been accumulated. 

 This type is emotional and expressive, laughs aloud and 

 shows impulses and feeling towards things, the eyes easily 

 fill with tears and the point of view is rarely concealed. 

 The linear type on the other hand has great difficulty in 

 accumulating detail or in working a subject out thoroughly. 

 These individuals have mild respect for details and tend 

 to draw conclusions and see the meaning of things after 

 only a hurried survey. They are not emotional and do 

 not laugh aloud since their reactions are generally under 

 control and their reflexes are suppressed. They conceal 

 their impulses and would be ashamed to shed a tear. This 

 type is self-conscious and nervous, while the lateral type 

 is not self-conscious and not really nervous in the common 

 sense of the word. The linear type has great self-control 

 and among savage tribes the chief is almost always of this 



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