The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-06-30

JAMES H. Breasted, that the marriages
made In $500 B. c., being scientifically
prearranged, resulted In true domestic
happiness, recalls the statement made
by Ehrenberg, the German scientist,
that the human race began to decay
and disease to manifest itself only
when communities began to permit Ill.
sorted couples to marry, Science, says
the German, has attempted to guide
and control every condition Of life
save the most important, namely, that
which provides for the continuity of
the race Of men.
Men Of the intellectual attainments
of Stahl, Powell, Westermarck, have
long since pointed out the faulty of
allowing romance to be the pivotal
point upon which the institution OF
marriage should rest. That societies
have allowed this to be as for the past
two thousand FIVE hundred years, has
been the cause of the advent of the
affinity" or the idea of affinities,
bringing in their train a whole series
of unhealthy bodies and unwholesome
minds, society, both political and eco
nomic, necessarily suffering there
from.
Under the paternalistic regimes of
flourishing ancient communities, 1t is
shown, the master or chief of each
family was chosen for his general wis
dom. Every member of the family
owed him blind obedience, under pain
OF forfeiting property or of being ex-
communicated. He it was who, in
family council, decided whether a mar
riage wished for n given couple was
suitable or not. He referred back TO
the teachings Of that interesting old
medico, Hippocrates, and, considering
the mental and physical attributes of
the pair-let us call them Balbus and
Cornelia-would discourse to himself
somewhat after the following manner:
"Balbus, l note, is young man in
whom the sanguine temperament pre-
dominates. l can see this by his fair
hair, his fair skin, his light blue eyes.
His flesh is firm, his pulse is strong,
the forehead recedes and the nose is
OF the courageous type. The lips are
somewhat thin. Cornelia, on the other
hand, is distinctly of the nervous type.
The forehead is high; she is capable OF
considerable thought and reflection,
and will consequently not be over.
optimistic. She will, therefore, balance
the over.optimism Of the young man;
her pulse Is feeble, and she will neu-
tralize the tendency to intensity In the
offspring. She is the proper mate for
Balbus, and, consequently, | agree to
the two getting married"
This was roughly the way In which
the highly civilized ancient communl-
ties provided for the perpetuation OF
a proper race. If the chief of the
family found that the physical and
mental characteristics of couple that
wished to marry were not Of sufficient
diversity to neutralize each others ten
dency to produce unwholesome exag-
geration Of individual characteristics In
the offspring, then he forbade the
match.
More. perhaps, than any other scient-
ist, DR.. Byrd Powell, an American, has
organized both thought and research
on the subject of stirpiculture, or race.
rearing. Powell divided all classes Of
beings into bilious and sanguine, which
he termed the vital temperaments, and
encephallc and lymphatic, which he
termed the non-vital.
The sanguine and bilious tempera-
ments we all know as being roughly
the spirited and the calm, or reflec-
tive. The encephalic were the purely
intellectual people, and the Emphatic,
a somewhat nondescript class, attached
to good living, without much power of
reflection or indeed character, Intel.
lect was CONSPICUOUS by its absence in
these persons. A combination of two
vital personalities tended to produce
too much intensity. A combination of
two non-vital temperaments tended to
produce minimum of force of char
aoter, both physical and mental.
Again, combination of bilious with
bilious, or sanguine with sanguine, or
enoephalic with encephalic, or lynn
phatic with lympathic, could only have
one result-each type cancelled the
the other, and sterility was the re-
suit. The happy mean, productive of
the highest type of offspring, was
found In judicious admixture of the I
sanguine with the encephalic, and the
bilious with the Emphatic, the latter
better still II on a sanguine founda-
dation. According to these deductions,
Mr.. Bdison, the inventor, is possessed
of highly and most properly balanced
Napoleon, according to
the same calculations, possessed the |
fourfold temperament. Powell himself
possessed the bilious-encephalic tenn
permanent. Roosevelt would be describ.
ed as possessing the bilious-encephalic
on sanguine foundation. The Scots
man, Lord Roseberry, would come,
however, with Edison and Taft, near