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... temperament are well balanced are the best . Extremes are undesirable . Normally , too , the corresponding bodily and temperamental traits receive about the same relative degree of emphasis . A person with a huge intestine , for example ...
... temperament are well balanced are the best . Extremes are undesirable . Normally , too , the corresponding bodily and temperamental traits receive about the same relative degree of emphasis . A person with a huge intestine , for example ...
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... temperament are neutralized . The harsh , active , dom- inating , warlike qualities that go with the mesomorphic body and the somatotonic temperament are especially frowned upon in the Gospels . Nevertheless , the western Christian ...
... temperament are neutralized . The harsh , active , dom- inating , warlike qualities that go with the mesomorphic body and the somatotonic temperament are especially frowned upon in the Gospels . Nevertheless , the western Christian ...
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... temperament . They have not produced such a temperament in South America or even in Australia and New Zealand . An additional factor , apparently climatic , is needed . In the preceding chapter we have seen that the coming and going of ...
... temperament . They have not produced such a temperament in South America or even in Australia and New Zealand . An additional factor , apparently climatic , is needed . In the preceding chapter we have seen that the coming and going of ...
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