1002 VARIETIES OF DYNAMIC AND 



drink ; but they love repose, and dislike profound 

 thinking, or indeed any kind of exertion. It is 

 true, that Dr. Johnson, Gibbon the historian, 

 and some other highly intellectual men, have 

 been fat and large around the waist. But I am 

 not aware that any great hero or genius of the 

 first magnitude, has been remarkable for obesity. 

 Compared with such men, Julius Caesar, the spare 

 Cassius, General Washington, the Duke of Wel- 

 lington, and Lord Brougham, are what the large 

 chested and fine blooded racer is to the heavy 

 and unwieldy dray horse. For the same reason, 

 men of moderate stature are stronger and more 

 active in body and mind, than such as are above 

 the middle size. Thus we perceive, that all indi- 

 viduals with a large thorax and sound lungs, 

 belong to the strong or dynamic temperament, of 

 which there are several varieties ; such as the 

 muscular or athletic, the intellectual or cerebral, 

 and the abdominal, which are often so combined 

 as to form other subordinate varieties of a mixed 

 character. 



On the other hand, whenever the thorax is 

 below the ordinary size, or the function of respi- 

 ration is imperfect, there is a deficiency of animal 

 heat, and of rich arterial blood, with a languid 

 state of all the vital forces ; constituting the weak 

 or adynamic temperament, whether the muscles, 

 brain, or abdominal organs predominate. But if 

 the nervous system be considerably more deve- 



