New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . s a model of the physical attributesof this abnormal condition, in which brute strength usurps theenergies necessary to the production of thought, and leavesits possessor decidedly deficient in all the higher mental andmoral manifestations. The celebrated statue of the DyingGladiator (fig. Ill) also represents the same bodily and men-tal constitution. n.—The Vital Temperament, As this temperament depends upon the preponderance ofthe vital or nutritive
New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . s a model of the physical attributesof this abnormal condition, in which brute strength usurps theenergies necessary to the production of thought, and leavesits possessor decidedly deficient in all the higher mental andmoral manifestations. The celebrated statue of the DyingGladiator (fig. Ill) also represents the same bodily and men-tal constitution. n.—The Vital Temperament, As this temperament depends upon the preponderance ofthe vital or nutritive organs, which occupy the great cavitiesof the trunk, it is necessarily marked by a breadth and thick-ness of body proportionally greater, and a stature and size oflimbs proportionally less than the motive temperament. Itsmost striking physical characteristic is rotundity. The faceinclines to roundness; the nostrils are wide; the neck rathershort; the shoulders broad and rounded; the chest full; theabdomen well developed; the arms and legs plump but taper-ing, and terminating in hands and feet relatively small. The 104 THE o I—IP <i oo a THE VITAL TEMPEKAMENT, 105 complexion is generally florid; the countenance siniiiiig;the eyes light; the nose broad, and tlie liair soft, light, andsilky. In a woman of tliis temperament (whicli seems to be the temj^erament of woman), the shoulders are softlyrounded, and owe any breadth they may possess rather to theexpanded chest, with which they are connected, than to thebony or muscular size of the shoulders themselves; the bustis full and rounded; the waist, though sufficiently marked, is.
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