with bodily disease, is liable to the depraved and sensual
manifestation; but with the moral and intellectual organs large, and a
healthy organization, gives force, energy, determination, and that
efficiency which accomplishes much.
VERY LARGE.--Experiences these animal impulses with still greater
intensity; enjoys animal existence and pleasures with the keenest relish;
and with great excitability or a fevered state of body, produces a strong
tendency to sensual gratification, and sinful desires; yet when properly
directed, and sanctified by the higher faculties, gives tremendous force
of character, and energy of mind.
FULL.--Creates a good share of energy and physical force, yet no more than
is necessary to cope with surrounding difficulties; and, with large moral
and intellectual faculties, manifests more mental than physical force.
AVERAGE.--Gives a fair share of animal force, yet hardly enough to grapple
with life's troubles and wrongs; with large moral and intellectual
faculties, has more goodness than efficiency, and enjoys quiet more than
conflict with men; and fails to manifest what goodness and talent are
possessed.
MODERATE.--Rather lacks efficiency; yields to difficulties; wants
fortitude and determination; fails to assert and maintain rights; and with
large moral organs, is good-hearted, moral, etc.; yet borders on tameness.
SMALL, OR VERY SMALL.--Accomplishes little; lacks courage and force, and
with large intellectual organs, is talented, yet utterly fails to manifest
that talent; and with large moral organs, is so good as to be good for
nothing.
E. VITATIVENESS.
TENACITY of life; resistance to death; love of existence as such; dreads
annihilation; loves life, and clings tenaciously to it for its own sake.
LARGE.--Struggles resolutely through fits of sickness, and will not give
up to die till it is absolutely compelled to do so. With large animal
organs, clings to life on account of this world's gratifications; with
large moral organs, to do good--to promote human happiness, etc.; with
large social faculties, loves life both for its own sake and to bless
family; with very large Cautiousness, dreads to change the present mode of
existence, and with large and perverted Veneration and Conscientiousness,
and small Hope, has an indescribable dread of entering upon an untried
future state; but with Hope large, and a cultivated intellect, expects to
exist hereafter, etc.
VERY LARGE.--Shrinks
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