The Temperaments

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Excerpt from The Temperaments: Or the Varieties of Physical Constitution in Man The primary in¿uence or property in living organ isms, is that known by the term Heredity. Its essence is unattainable by the nicest methods of the chemist, inexplicable by the most careful analysis of the phi losopher. Creative energy supplies it, creative wis dom only can resolve it. Let the physiologist con cern himself with the effects of this hereditary, this differential vital force, in their manifold forms. He has, to be sure, already acquired a large store of facts in such study, let him go on with his observa tion and research. Turning aside, now and then, to look into the marvelous evolutions of the protoplas mic germ with the hope of attaining the why and wherefore, while the organized forms are not yet fully comprehended in their commonest phases of activity, is but wasting time and talent, and neg leeting the useful. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.