PLATE I. 



The following illustrations are purely diagrammatic and sug- 

 gestive. They aim at demonstrating the union of one particular 

 group of bodily characteristics with one particular sort of nerve 

 structures, and therefore with one particular group of peculiarities 

 of character. Every sane individual possesses both intellect and 

 passion, and the peculiarities referred to relate simply to the pro- 

 portionate dominancy of the one or the other. Faces are left 

 blank to emphasise more strongly the difference between the 

 two fundamental and characteristic types of skeleton con- 

 formation. Marked examples of types only have been selected, 

 but. these being given, we may readily picture for ourselves the 

 happy possessors of less extreme, or intermediate, types of bodily 

 structures, and therefore probably of the less extreme or interme- 

 diate types of character. The need for caution against forming 

 precipitate conclusions from bodily appearances is pointed out 

 on pages 45 and 46. 



Although every human being is concerned in the relative 

 intensity of the emotions on the one hand, and the vigour of the 

 intellect on the other, it must not be forgotten that it is the amount 

 of intellectual endowment chiefly (whether alert or meditative) 

 which tells on surrounding life, especially in its social and public 

 sides. 



Fig. 1 represents the less marked spinal curves and upward 

 head-poise of the more impassioned type of character. Fig. 2 

 shows the stronger spinal curves and forward head-poise of the 

 less impassioned and more active type. The artist has not given 

 them an extreme form. Fig. 3 is a section of the thorax and back 

 just below the shoulders. It shows the ribs projecting posteriorly 

 beyond the spine, which lies here in a sort of transverse concavity. 

 This conformation is associated with the straighter spine. Fig. 4 is 

 a section, at a similar spot, which is found in conjunction with the 

 more curved spine. It shows the greater posterior prominence of the 

 spinal structures. The illustrations apply to both sexes. See the 

 chapter on Bodily Characteristics. 



