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III. The Temperament df mcreafid Voluntarily. 



THOSE of this conflitutiori differ from both the 

 l<lft mentioned in this, that the pain, which gradu- 

 ally fubfides in the firft, and is productive of in- 

 flammation or delirium in the fecond, is in this fuc- 

 cceded by the exertion of the mufcles or ideas, 

 which are moil frequently connected with volition ; 

 and they are thence fubjecl to locked jaw, convul- 

 iions, epilepfy; and mania, as explained in Sect. 

 XXXIV. Thofe of this temperament attend to the 

 flighted: irritations or fenfations, and immediately 

 exert 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 infiance. They are 

 fuited and generally prompted to all great exertions 

 of genius or labour, as their defires are more ex- 

 tenfive and more vehement, and their powers of 

 attention and of labour greater. It is this facility 

 of voluntary exertion, which diftinguifhes men from 

 brutes, and which has made them lords of the ere* 

 ation. 



IV. The Temperament of increafed Affbciation. 



THIS conftitution confifts in the too great faci- 

 lity, with which the fibrous motions acquire habits 

 of aflbciation, and by which thefe aflbciations be- 

 come proportionably ftronger than in thofe of the 

 other temperaments. Thofe of this temperament 

 are flow in voluntary exertions, or in thofe depend- 

 ent on fenfation, or on irritation. Hence great 

 memories have been faid to be attended with lefs 

 fenfe and lefs imagination from Ariftotle down to 



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