94 EVIDENCE AND EXAMPLES. 



field, but in reality he was more of the alert and less 

 impassioned temperament than Luther. Passing from 

 the relative to look for a moment at the absolute 

 quantities of emotional, or intellectual, or 'actional' 

 outcome, we are brought to the consideration of brain 

 mass and construction. Quite possibly there may be 

 present in some intermediate, but largely massed and 

 happily endowed nervous organisations, more of passion, 

 and in others more of action than in some more purely 

 passionate or more purely active organisations where 

 nerve mass is limited and endowment poor. 



The careful observer of medals, busts, and portraits 

 will find that in vertebral pose and in hair-growth 

 where this is depicted, Caesar, Luther, Shakspere, 

 Cromwell, and others, of very diverse character in 

 detail, who possess the less extreme temperaments 

 have also intermediate or less extreme bodily character- 

 istics. 



