_most_ of the time. If you doubt it try this test:
bring to mind any intimate friends, or even that husband or wife, and
note how few changes they have made in their way of doing things in
twenty years!

Preferences Inborn

Every human being is born with preferences and predilections which
manifest themselves from earliest childhood to death. These inborn
tendencies are never obliterated and seldom controlled to any great
extent, and then only by individuals who have learned the power of the
mind over the body. Inasmuch as this knowledge is possessed by only a
few, most of the people of the earth are blindly following the dictates
of their inborn leanings.

Follow Our Bents

In other words, more than ninety-nine per cent of all the people you
know are following their natural bents in reacting to all their
experiences--from the most trivial incidents to the most far-reaching
emergencies.

"Took It" From Grandmother

The individual is seldom conscious of these habitual acts of his, much
less of where he got them. The nearest he comes is to say he "got it
from his father" or "she takes it from grandmother." But where did
grandmother get it?

Man No Mystery

Science has taken the trouble to investigate and today we know not only
where grandmother got it but what she did with it. She got it along with
her size, shape and structure--in other words, from her type--and she did
just what you and everybody else does with his type-characteristics. She
acted in accordance with her type just as a canary sings like a canary
instead of talking like a parrot, and just as a rose gives off rose
perfume instead of violet.

This law holds throughout every species and explains man--who likes to
think himself a deep mystery--as it explains every other creature.

The Hold of Habit

Look around you in shop, office, field or home and you will find that
the quick, alert, impulsive man is acting quickly, alertly and
impulsively most of the time. Nothing less than a calamity slows him
down and then only temporarily; while the slow, patient, mild and
passive individual is acting slowly, patiently, mildly and passively in
spite of all goads. Some overwhelming passion or crisis may speed him up
momentarily but as soon as it fades he reverts to his old slow habits.

Significance of Fat, Bone and Muscle

Human Analysis is the new science which shows you how to recognize the
slow man, the quick man, the stubborn man, the yi