atively small head, round face, round body, round arms and legs.
These are differences in structure.
Hall Caine is of the mental type. He is by nature unfitted to be either a
pugilist, a hammer-thrower, an explorer, a banker, or a judge. He is,
however, pre-eminently fitted to dream dreams of truth and beauty, to
construct those dreams into stories and plays. James J. Jeffries is by
nature and physique fitted for the trade of boiler-maker, for the sport of
pugilism, and for physical and manual accomplishment in general.
Ex-President Taft is by nature and physique fitted to sit quietly in a big
chair and direct the work of others, to administer affairs, to sit upon
the bench and weigh impartially causes of dispute between his fellow men.
As you see, these three are our old friends, the physically frail, the man
of bone and muscle, and the fat man.
The assignment of vocation according to structure is but common sense. The
dreamer has too slender a body for manual labor and is both too nervous
and too impatient of confinement to sit in an easy chair or on the bench.
The big, corpulent man enjoys the good things of life. He is well
nourished and free from anxiety. He is, therefore, especially well fitted
to judge calmly, deliberately and impartially. The man of bone and muscle
is too busy with his physical activities for dreams and too impatient of
confinement to sit in an easy chair or on the bench.
TEXTURE
Men also differ from one another very markedly in texture. This is easily
observable in the texture of hair, skin, features, general body build,
hands and feet. According to Prof. Ernst Haeckel, the skin is the first
and oldest sense organ. Indeed, all the other sense organs and the nervous
system and brain which have evolved in the use of them, are simply
inturned and specialized skin cells. This being true, the texture of the
entire organism, and especially the brain and nervous system, is
accurately indicated by the texture of the skin and its appendages, the
hair and nails.
Even the most casual observer notes the differences between the man with
coarse hair, coarse skin, rugged features, large, loosely-built limbs,
hands and feet, and the man with fine skin, silky hair, delicate, regular
features, slender limbs, and finely moulded hands and feet. The individual
of fine texture is sensitive and naturally refined. He loves beauty. He
does his best work when he is creating something or handling something
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