New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . he misfor-tune to be phlegmatic must be condemned to the lowest em-ployments, being fit only for common laborers or soldiers. Richerand,* who has written on the temperaments witlimuch good sense (describing them with great clearness, asthey appear from his stand-point),considers the mel-ancholic or atrabil-ious temperamentof the ancients asa diseased and ab-normal rather thana natural state ofthe nervous tem-2:)erament of he
New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . he misfor-tune to be phlegmatic must be condemned to the lowest em-ployments, being fit only for common laborers or soldiers. Richerand,* who has written on the temperaments witlimuch good sense (describing them with great clearness, asthey appear from his stand-point),considers the mel-ancholic or atrabil-ious temperamentof the ancients asa diseased and ab-normal rather thana natural state ofthe nervous tem-2:)erament of he looks ^^Mupon as an equallyunnatural c o n d i -tion. THE BR^UX LEFTOUT Thus far, it willbe seen that thehrain^ as aifectingtemperamental conditions, is left out of the account altogether,which leaves the most important of the four temperamentsunexplained—the brain being the seat and center of both men-tal and physical life, and holding to the lungs, stomach, andliver a relation which may be compared to that in which thesun stands to the earth. The writers we have quoted andreferred to, even iiLi far back as Hippocrates, knew all that. Fiff. 108.—D. C. McCallttm. Elemens de PhAsiologie, chap. 98 THE TEMPEEAMENTS. was necessary to know, in a merely physiological point ofview, of the lungs, the liver, and the stomach, and attributedto them their proper functions. They were acquainted alsowith the reciprocal action of these organs, and knew that uponthe proper balance of their forces depends the health of thebody. The brain, however, was a terra incognita—an un-explored and unknown region till the Columbus of the mentalworld, the great Dr. Gall, added its broad fields to the domains ^=^ of science. It was now seen that thebrain must neces-sarily form the ba-sis of a special tem-peramental condi-tion. But the at-tention of Dr. Gall,and of Dr. Spurz-heim also, wasmainly directed toother and morestrictly phrenologi-cal points, and littie was added bythem to our knowledge
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