Our Temperaments - 1892 Author:Alexander Stewart Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE TEMPERAMENTS AND MIND. Dr. Prichard on the relation of mental peculiarities to corporeal structure.—Its extent often exaggerated. — Extrac... more »ts from Dr. Maudsley, John Inglesant, and Richerand.— Mind not limited by temperament.—Character and temperament.— Association of imagination with the nervous temperament. —The sculptured groups on the base of the Albert Memorial.—Their temperaments and the character of their work.—Proof of the relation between traits of character and outward appearance, from reading faces, and from the " History of Twins." . PRICHARD in his article " Temperament" in the " Cyclopaedia of Practical Medicine," says :— " The relation of mental peculiarities to " corporeal structure has been observed by " medical authors of every age. In the " writings of Galen there is a treatise expressly" composed to prove that the characters of " men depend on their temperaments. But it " is in the works of modern writers that we " find this doctrine most fully developed and " made a foundation of human characters. It " is extremely improbable that an opinion " should have held its ground for so many " ages among men of observation, especially "on a subject requiring no abstruse research, " without some foundation at least in fact. " The doctrine of the temperaments is true to " a certain extent, and has ever been confirmed '' by an appeal to experience. "States of the mind are so connected with " affections of the body that it is impossible " for any one who considers the facts which " present themselves to doubt that with every " temperament particular mental qualities must tf be associated, although it is manifest that " many writers have indulged their fancy on " this subject, and, have gone into more full " and minute details than experience ...« less