280 OF TEMPERAMENTS. SECT. XXXI. 3 , 



Hence the lubje&s of this temperament are indolent in refpedl: 

 to all voluntary exertion, whether of mind or body. 



A race of people of this description feems to have been found 

 by the Spaniards in the iflands of America, whu a re they firft 

 landed, ten of whom are faid not to have confumed more food 

 than one Spaniard, nor to have been capable of more than one 

 tenth of the exertion of a Spaniard. Robert fon's Hiitory, la 

 a date fimilar to this the greated part of the animal world pafs 

 their lives, between fleep and inactive reverie, except when they 

 are excited by the call of hunger. 



III. The Temperament of increafed Voluntarily. 



THOSE of this conditution differ from both the laft mentioned 

 m this, that the pain, which gradually fubfides in the firft, and 

 is produ&ive of inflammation or delirium in the fecond, is in 

 this fucceeded by the exertion of the mufcles or ideas, which 

 are mod frequently connected with volition ; and they are 

 thence fubject to locked jaw, convulfions, epilepfy, and mania, 

 as explained in Sed~l. XXXIV. Thofe of this temperament at* 

 tend to the flighted irritations or fenfations, and immediately ex- 

 ert themfelves to obtain or avoid the objects of them ; they can 

 at the fame time bear cold and hunger better than others, of 

 which Charles the Twelfth of Sweden was an indance. They 

 are fuited and generally prompted to all great exertions of genius 

 or labour, as their defires are more extenfive and more vehe- 

 ment, and their powers of attention and of labour greater. It is 

 this facility of voluntary exertion, which didinguifhes men from 

 brutes, and which has made them lords of the creation. 



IV. The Temperament of increafed djjociation. 



THIS conditution confids in the too great facility, with which 

 the fibrous motions acquire habits of afTociation, and by which 

 thefe aflbciations become proporrionably dronger than in thofe 

 of the other temperaments. Thofe of this temperament are flow 

 in voluntary exertions, or in thofe dependent on fenfation, 

 or on irritation. Hence great memories have been faid to be 

 t attended with lefs fenfe and lefs imagination from Aridotlc 

 down to the prefent time ; for by the word memory thefe writers 

 only underdood the unmeaning repetition of words or numbers 

 in the order they were received, without any voluntary efforts 

 of the mind. 



In this temperament thofe aflbciations of motions, which are 

 commonly termed fympathies, ac~t with greater certainty and 



energy, 



