Large.--With Comparison large, one will be strongly given to
criticising and analyzing, and will readily detect fallacies and
improprieties that would escape the observation of those in whom this
organ is small. If Ideality and Individuality are large, his language
will abound with elevated metaphors and figures of speech, but if
Causality is small, his judgment will be defective. If Secretiveness
is small, and Combativeness and Self-esteem large, he will be strongly
inclined to criticise every observation he hears, and will thus excite
enmity and ill-will. With large Eventuality and Individuality, will
have a great taste for the study of natural science, and will be
extremely fond of classifying their phenomena, and of comparing the
various qualities of physical objects with each. He will likewise be
fond of the study of history, and will habitually compare and classify
the various transactions with those of similar characteristics. If the
Perceptive organs generally are large and Causality small, he will be
possessed of good practical talents, but will be devoid of originality
of mind. He will be calculated to succeed in a course of life in which
he has the example of able men, but he will be utterly unable to
deviate from the beaten road and assume the lead for himself.
Moderate.--With Comparison but moderate, one’s powers of analyzation
and criticism will not be conspicuous. With an active brain and a
favourable intellect generally, he will be enabled to perceive the
force of figurative language, and will often indulge in it, but his
metaphors will lack force and appropriateness. With Individuality and
Eventuality large, will possess a great store of facts, but will be
unable to arrange and classify them. If Causality is large, he will
readily perceive the errors in an argument, but he will lack the power
to point out and apply the exact replication.
Small.--One having Comparison small, will be excessively dull, and will
lack discernment and discrimination. The most obvious resemblances can
hardly be made manifest to him.
TEMPERAMENTS.
The term Temperament, says a late writer, is applied to those
differences of external appearance which are supposed to indicate
the comparative state of the fibres of the body as they are more or
less dense, or as possessing one of the functions of life in greater
activity, or one of the constituents of the animal body in greater
quantity than another; or in short, certain states or conditions of the
body, which are found to exercise more or less influence in exciting or
repressing the action of the organs.
The Temperaments as they are usually enumerated, are four in number, to
wit: the Lymphatic; the Sanguine; the Bilious; and the Nervous.
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