An original and illustrated physiological and physiognomical chart . Locomotivity smaD. The Sloth. 1. At the moment of your creation the motional principle was for-gotten, hence you are the most dull, inactive, and sluggish compositionthat makes an efiort to move from place to place. 2. Your compeer in sluggishness, the sloth, you resemble strongly;necessity alone, being her own law, has the power to rouse your motion,and she may often be heard complaining of her weary task. Yourlieaven is the paradise of immobility. Gcethe the German poet had no LOCOMOTIVITY. 61 sympathy with you when he wrot
An original and illustrated physiological and physiognomical chart . Locomotivity smaD. The Sloth. 1. At the moment of your creation the motional principle was for-gotten, hence you are the most dull, inactive, and sluggish compositionthat makes an efiort to move from place to place. 2. Your compeer in sluggishness, the sloth, you resemble strongly;necessity alone, being her own law, has the power to rouse your motion,and she may often be heard complaining of her weary task. Yourlieaven is the paradise of immobility. Gcethe the German poet had no LOCOMOTIVITY. 61 sympathy with you when he wrote : * Nature knows no pause in pro-gress and development, and attaches her curse to all Locomotivity large. The Greyhound. 3. Few can bear rest better than you; the aversion to physical labourgrows upon you apace; lazy indeed you are, physically all through andever. 4. In utter inaction you luxuriate; let storms howl, and thundersroll, and lightnings flash, but only let you feel that you can remain atrest and be happy. 5. How you rest and sympathizewith the sultry hot days of Julywhen even the mighty forces of na-ture are quiescent. Only let me bestill and luxuriate in perfect repose,you exclaim, or rather, peevishlyentreat. Attilus, the Hun, mustbe considered your most inveterateenemy since he exclaimed : * * Betterto have nothing to do than to bedoing nothing. 6. Your muscular system beingneither active nor sensitively excit-able, you care little for exerciseunless impelled by circumstancesdemanding action. 7. Necessity alone wiU impel youto energetic exertion ; and thoughnot still and impassive any lengthof time, yet sometimes you are aspeaceful and reposing as the la
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