breakfast for a
week to make up for it.
This type is usually sufficiently intelligent to know the world needs
reforming and sufficiently conscientious to want to help to do it. He is
not bound by traditions or customs as much as other types but does more
of his own thinking. Without the foresight and faithfulness of the
Cerebrals very few reforms could have started or have lived to finish.
The Social Nonconformist
Ask any small-bodied, large-headed man if he believes in the double
standard of morals, anti-suffrage, eternal punishment, saloons, or the
"four hundred!" This little man with the big head may not openly
challenge you or argue with you when you stand up for "things as they
are," for he is a peaceable chap--but he inwardly smiles or sneers at
what he considers your troglodyte ideas. He sees a day coming when
babies will be named for their fathers whether the minister officiated
or not; when the man who now talks about the "good old days of a wide
open saloon on every corner" will himself be a hazy myth; and when
society idlers will not be considered better than people who earn their
livings.
The World's Pathfinder
The Cerebral therefore leads the world in ideas. The world is managed
by fat men, entertained by florid men, built by muscular men, opposed by
bony men, but is improved in the final analysis by its thinking men.
These thinkers have a difficult time of it. They preach to deaf ears.
And often they die in poverty. But at last posterity comes around to
their way of thinking, abandons the old ruts and follows the trails they
have blazed. Therefore many great thinkers who were unknown while alive
became famous after death. More often than not, "Fame is the food of
the tomb."
Indifference to Surroundings
A wise man it was who said, "Let me see a man's surroundings and I
will tell you what he is." The Cerebral does not really live in his
house but in his head, and for that reason does not feel as great an
urge to decorate, amplify or even furnish the place in which he dwells.
Step into the room of any little-bodied large-headed man and you will be
struck by two facts--that he has fewer jimcracks and more journals lying
around than the rest of your friends.
In the room of the Alimentive you will find cushions, sofas and "eats;"
in that of the Thoracic you will find colorful, unusual things; the
Muscular will have durable, solid, plain things; the Osseous will have
fewer of everyth
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