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better or for worse, are displayed in the countenance. 



Perhaps the more northern type left all that behind 

 in its youth. The rugged, angular character which ap- 

 preciates force better than harmony, the strong intellect 

 which delights in forethought and calculation, the less 

 impressibility, reaching stolidity in the uneducated, are 

 its well-known traits. If in such a character generosity 

 is less prompt, and there is but little chivalry, there is 

 persistency and unwavering fidelity, not readily inter- 

 rupted by the lightning of passion or the dark surmises 

 of an active imagination. 



All these peculiarities appear to result, first, from 

 different degrees of quickness and depth in appreciating 

 impressions from without ; and, second, from differing 

 degrees of attention to the intelligent judgment in con- 

 sequent action. (I leave conscience out, as not belong- 

 ing to the category of inherited qualities.) 



The first is the basis of an emotional nature, and the 

 predominance of the second is the usual indication of 

 maturity. That the first is largely dependent on an 

 impressible condition of the nervous system can be as- 

 serted by those who reduce their nervous centers to a 

 sensitive condition by a rapid consumption of the nu- 

 tritive materials necessary to the production of thought- 

 force, and perhaps of brain tissue itself, induced by close 

 and prolonged mental labor. The condition of over- 

 work, thpugh but an imitation of immaturity, without its 

 joy-giving nutrition, is nevertheless very instructive. 

 The sensitiveness, both physically, emotionally and mor- 

 ally, is often remarkable, and a weakening of the un- 

 derstanding is often coincident with it. 



It is necessary here to introduce a caution, that the 

 meaning of the words high and low be not misunderstood. 



