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eyebrows were abundant ; that she was of spare figure ; 

 that her spine was straight, her back flat, and her 

 head upright. 



Poetry and myth came before prose and reason 

 because the emotions develop earlier than the intellect. 

 " Love and faith " came long before 'knowledge. Men 

 may never reach knowledge, but no creature is born 

 quite devoid of love and faith. Before men thought 

 and questioned they sang; anatomists say, indeed, 

 that the human larynx was once purely a singing 

 organ such singing as it was. Happily however, 

 men do not cease to sing when they begin to think ; 

 they sing the more melodiously when brain joins in 

 with heart. 



Even in the romance and poetry of older times we 

 recognise the two generic temperaments. Prince Arthur, 

 high-souled and brave, was a passionless man ; so was 

 Sir Galahad. For my part, I can draw their portraits 

 their scanty beards, their pink skins, and their 

 characteristic skeletons. The sadly erring Lancelots 

 and the Guineveres were impassioned passionate not 

 in one only but in all the passions. Their anatomical 

 configuration was doubtless of quite another sort. We 

 can only deplore their fates and their failures, and reflect 

 how much better the world would have fared if the 

 Lancelots could have wedded the Guineveres, and, if the 

 Arthurs and the Galahads had according to their 

 several capacities ruled over monasteries or scrubbed 

 monastic cells, how much happier wedded life, how 

 much purer monastic life would have been. 



Probably the majority of the illustrious names in 

 history have been of the less impassioned and more 

 active temperament. They are, with a few marked 

 exceptions, the leaders in warfare, religion, politics, 



