. Marriage, its history and ceremonies : with a phrenological and physiological exposition of the functions and qualifications for happy marriages. , and are much more depend-ent than other children. They are endowed with feelingsso keen, and susceptibilities so acute, that their existenceis almost a burden for the want of the ability to look on thetrials, privations and hardships of life, as though they wereprepared to meet them. Such families soon become ex-tinct, and the places that once knew them, know them nomore. , The motive or bilious organization comprises the frame-work of the body,
. Marriage, its history and ceremonies : with a phrenological and physiological exposition of the functions and qualifications for happy marriages. , and are much more depend-ent than other children. They are endowed with feelingsso keen, and susceptibilities so acute, that their existenceis almost a burden for the want of the ability to look on thetrials, privations and hardships of life, as though they wereprepared to meet them. Such families soon become ex-tinct, and the places that once knew them, know them nomore. , The motive or bilious organization comprises the frame-work of the body, the bones and muscles, the moving partof man, the house which encases the vital functions. The indications of this organization, when greatly pre-ponderating, are solid bones, hard muscles, firm flesh, closeand large joints, large and irregular features, dark hair andcomplexion, heavy expression and slow movements. Suchpersons are difficult to excite and hard to restrain ; havestrong and well-fortified constitutions ; are generally well-qualified to resist foreign influences, both mental and phy- HEaKUlTARY INFLUENCES. 179 MOTIVE TEMPERAMENT. No. 22. sical. Such persons are our hewers of wood and drawersof water ; are capable of sustaining the fatigues and hard-ships of life : they do the coarse heavy work, are backwardin youth, tenacious of life, and struggle in death. Two persons with a predominance of this organizationunited in marriage, would be far behind the age and thespirit of the times; would always be in the rear, and wouldact as machines or automatons for their neighbors. Inthem there is more ability to act than to plan; morestrength and toughness than refinement and sensibility. The children of such parents will be hardy and healthy,but awkward, homely, backward, and never in their ele-ment except when the harness is on ; real plodders throughlife : doing all the hard work, fighting all the battles, rais-ing all the monuments, but obtaining none of the h
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