PLATE III. 



Figs. 1 and 3, Hawthorne and Byron, while differing in much 

 else, had this in common both were embodiments of profound 

 passion ; both had its characteristic bodily signs. In some aspects 

 of his life Byron would seem to justify the contempt which two 

 singularly sane and gifted men had for strong feelings. Stuart 

 Mill quotes with approval his father's view that the deeper emo- 

 tions were allied to madness. In the deeply impassioned Dante 

 and Hawthorne quiet contemplation, reverie, and even brooding 

 were very conspicuous. 



Figs. 2 and 4, Spurgeon and Wesley, have in marked degree the 

 spinal curve and the forward and downward head-poise usually 

 found in the extremely quick, active, and less deeply emotional* 

 type of character. We find in both that tendency to verbal, not 

 emotional, rhetoric, which is a frequent outlet of the mentally 

 active temperament. They illustrate, too, the extreme self-confi- 

 dence which, in combination with exceptional ability, is almost 

 essential to the organisation of great and successful leaders. They 

 were prepared to put all the world into their particular harness 

 and drive it to their particular goal. The " nerve " which is found 

 in such skeletons as those depicted in the figures of Burns and 

 Dante and Hawthorne and Byron and Charlotte Bronte may 

 illuminate or console or enchant ; it cares neither to lead nor drive. 

 The world owes much to the combined efforts of the supremely 

 active and the supremely meditative temperaments : if we had men 

 of action only we should march into the desert ; if we had men of 

 thought only we should drift into night and sleep. 



