CHAPTER VI. 



BODILY CHARACTERISTICS 



(ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY) OP THE 



TWO LEADING TEMPERAMENTS. 



THE skeleton gives to the human figure its height 

 and general conformation. The external appearance 

 of the body is determined by the skin with its varying 

 degrees of pigment, covering hair, and underlying 

 fat fat being a distinctly cutaneous appendage. 

 Which is the more attractive, a beautiful skin and 

 complexion, or a good figure, is a question of perennial 

 interest. The Northern King in Tennyson's ' ' Princess " 

 declares that men hunt women ' for their skins : ' some 

 men prefer to hunt them for their bones. So far as 

 general configuration is concerned, muscle or flesh 

 plays a slighter part. 



I have endeavoured to show that there are in both 

 sexes two leading groups of tendencies in character. 

 I venture to affirm that there are also two general 

 tendencies in the grouping of bodily characteristics. 

 Neither bodily nor mental characteristics are miscella- 

 neous collections of fragments ; they run together in 

 more or less uniform clusters. With one particular 

 kind of skeleton and skin there will be associated a 

 particular kind of nervous organisation, and therefore 



