PLATE IV. 



The figures in this plate may be taken to represent the male 

 skeleton, or figure, equally with the female. The following remark* 

 are also applicable to both sexes. It is easy to imagine the figures 

 with short hair and in male garments. 



Fig. 1 shows the natter back, straighter spine, upward and 

 backward head-poise, as well as the heavier hair-growth of the 

 more deeply impassioned and meditative woman (or man). It is 

 not very rare, however, in the less impassioned temperament for 

 special causes acting on the hip joints, or lower spine, to throw the 

 head and shoulders well back, bat the hair-growth usually remains 

 characteristic. In the group of anatomical characteristics belonging 

 to the strongly emotional disposition there may be much variety of 

 character, good or evil. There may quite possibly be bad temper 

 or sullenness, or other serious faults ; but ceaseless restlessness and 

 captiousness or nagging will not be found. 



Fig. 2 is an example of the convex dorsum markedly curved 

 spine, forward head-poise, and slighter hair-growth of the active, 

 alert, and somewhat less impassioned woman (or man). Note 

 that with backs and spines and head-poises, as with faces (and as 

 with characters), there are no two alike. Note also that excep- 

 tional causes may curve the spines of the most storoiily emotional 

 temperament, but the heavier hair-growth would probably remain 

 unaffected. The anatomical characteristics of the less profoundly 

 emotional nature when united with high intellectual endowments 

 are found in the large majority of women who, in educational, 

 religious, social, and political spheres, fill responsible positions 

 either as heads of institutions or promoters of movements. The 

 woman delineated in Fig. 2 may or may not have faults of character, 

 but she will not descend to the grosser levels of passion. 



Fig. 3. There is not infrequently the danger of finding in con- 

 junction with the convex dorsum, forward head- poise, delicate 

 hair-growth, and associated nervous system especially where the 

 intellectual gifts are not high a tendency to habitual though 

 unconscious fidgetiness and captiousness. Fig. 3 depicts an extreme 

 example of the hereditary scold in the person of a young woman 

 still under twenty years of age. 



Fig. 4 represents practically the female figure as idealised by an 

 artist of note. He intended it to embody energy and passion. 



