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one particular kind of character. In the active and 

 less impassioned bias the skin tends to be rosy or less 

 pigmented ; the hair growth is slighter slighter on 

 the head and eyebrows in women ; less extended or, 

 if extended, more sparingly distributed on the face in 

 man. Mr. Havelock Ellis, in his able work on " Man 

 and Woman/' remarks that women, as regards hair 

 growth and other matters also, have gone beyond men 

 in the path of evolution ; if this be granted, the less 

 impassioned woman, especially when endowed with 

 high capacity and refined feeling, has travelled furthest 

 from our remote ancestors. In the active tempera- 

 ment the spinal curves of dorsum and neck are 

 markedly developed, giving, with some change in 

 the position of the ribs, a distinctly convex or round 

 or even globular appearance to the back. 



In the more impassioned and less active tempera- 

 ment, on the other hand, it will be found that the skin 

 is more opaque, and rosiness, if present, will be less 

 transparent or even, though not unpleasingly so, 

 muddy. The hair growth of head and eyebrows, and 

 in men, of the face, is longer and more thickly 

 planted. The construction of the skeleton too is 

 different : the spinal curves are less marked and 

 therefore the head is carried more or less upright 

 it may be defiantly and inartistically upright ; the 

 dorsum or back has a flat or even concave appearance 

 between the shoulders the concavity being percep- 

 tible through closely fitting garments in both sexes. 

 The ribs seem to throw themselves backwards, pro- 

 jecting posteriorly on both sides of the spinal column 

 as if striving to embrace it ; in the less impassioned 

 figure the ribs and thorax generally tend to fall for- 

 wards away from the spine. The upper limbs, being 



