ive type gets its
traits from that elemental stage in human development when we did little
but get and assimilate food, and when thinking was of the simplest form.
In those days man was more physical than mental; he had a large stomach
but a small head.

So today we see in the pure Alimentive type people who resemble their
Alimentive ancestors. They have the same proportionately large stomach
and proportionately small head,--with the stomach-system dominating
their thoughts, actions and lives.

The Cerebral is the exact opposite of this. He has a top-heavy head,
proportionately large for his body, and a proportionately undeveloped
stomach system.

His Small Assimilative System

The extreme Cerebral differs from other types chiefly in the fact that
while his head is unusually large compared to the body, his alimentive,
thoracic, muscular and bony systems are smaller and less developed than
the average. The latter fact is due to the same law which causes the
Alimentive to have a large body and a small head. Nature is a wonderful
efficiency engineer. She provides only as much space as is required for
the functioning of any particular organ, giving extra space only to
those departments that need it.

The Cerebral-Alimentive is the combination which makes most of the
"magnates" and the self-made millionaires. Such a man has all the
Alimentive's desires for the luxurious comforts and "good things of
life," combined with sufficient brains to enable him to make the money
necessary to get them.

Nature doesn't give the pure Alimentive a large skull because he doesn't
need it for the housing of his proportionately small brain, but
concentrates on giving him a big stomach fitted with "all modern
conveniences." On the other hand, the head of the Cerebral is large
because his brain is large. The skull which is pliable and unfinished at
birth grows to conform to the size and shape of the brain as the glove
takes on the shape of the hand inside it.

Stomach vs. Brain

Because the Alimentive and Cerebral systems are farthest removed from
each other, evolutionally, a large brain and a large stomach are a very
unusual combination. Such an individual would be a combination of the
Alimentive and Cerebral types and would have the Alimentive's fat body
with a large highbrow head of the Cerebral. The possession of these two
highly developed but opposite kinds of systems places their owner
constantly in the predicament of decidi