Analyzing Character: The New Science of Judging Men; Misfits in Business, the Home and Social LifeBlackford, Katherine M. H. (Katherine Melvina Huntsinger)
Science
Analyzing Character: The New Science of Judging Men; Misfits in Business, the Home and Social Life
Blackford, Katherine M. H. (Katherine Melvina Huntsinger)
Characters and characteristics; Success
Third, man's body and man's mind profoundly affect each other in all of
their actions and reactions and have affected each other through all the
centuries of their simultaneous evolution.
EVOLUTION OF BLONDES AND BRUNETTES
Men's bodies differ from one another in many ways. A little scientific
investigation soon proves to us that these differences are the result of
differences in heredity and environment. Men's minds differ from one
another in countless ways. Scientific investigation also proves that these
mental differences, or differences in character, are also the result of
differences in heredity and environment.
For example, people whose ancestors, through countless ages, lived in the
bright sunlight and tropical luxuriance of the warmer climes, have dark
eyes, dark hair, and dark skin because nature found it necessary to supply
an abundance of pigmentation in order to protect the delicate tissues of
the body from injury by the actinic rays of the sun. The same soft
luxuriance of their environment has made these people slow, easy-going,
hateful of change, introspective, philosophical and religious. On the
other hand, people whose ancestors dwelt for centuries in the cold, dark,
cloudy and foggy climate of Northwestern Europe have less need for
pigmentation and are, therefore, flaxen-haired, blue-eyed and
white-skinned.
The hardships and rigors of this Northern climate made these people
aggressive, active, restless, fond of variety, and, because of their
fierce struggle for existence, exceedingly practical, matter-of-fact, and
material.
WHY NOSES DIFFER IN SIZE AND SHAPE
Another example illustrates this truth clearly: The type of human nose
evolved in warm, humid climates is low and flat, with large, short
passageways directly to the lungs. People living in such a climate have
little need for great energy and activity, since there is food in
abundance all around them. On the other hand, the type of nose evolved in
a cold, dry climate is high in the bridge, with thin nostrils, so that the
air may be both warmed and moistened before reaching the lungs. People
living in such a climate have great need for activity, both in order to
secure the means of subsistence and in order to keep themselves warm. Thus
we find that the low, flat nose is everywhere the nose of indolence and
passivity, while the large nose, high in the bridge, is everywhere an
indication of energy and aggressiveness.
WHY SOME HEADS ARE HARD, OTHERS SOFT
In brief, then, darkness of color is not the cause of deliberation and
conservatism, but both darkness of color and conservatism are results of
the same causes, namely, a heredity and environment which produce these
characteristics. Blonde coloring is not a cause of restless activity, but
both the color and the activity are the result of evolution in a cold,
dark, rigorous climate.
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