by Elsie Lincoln Benedict
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Remember, the chief distinguishing
marks of the Muscular, in the order
of their importance, are LARGE,
FIRM MUSCLES, A SQUARE
JAW and SQUARE HANDS. Any
person who has these is largely of the
Muscular type, no matter what other
types may be included in his makeup.
en and women in whom the Osseous or bony framework of the body is more highly developed than any other system are called the Osseous type.
This system consists of the bones of the body and makes what we call the skeleton.
Just as the previous systems were developed during man's biological evolution for purposes serving the needs of the organism?first, a stomach-sack, then a freight system in the form of arteries to carry the food to remoter parts of the body, and later muscles with which to move itself about?so this bony scaffolding was developed to hold the body upright and better enable it to defend and assert itself.
Man is a creature who, in spite of his height, walks erect. He can so do only by means of the support given him by his bony framework. The human body is like a tall building?the muscles are like the mortar and plaster, the bones are like the steel framework around which everything else is built and without which the structure could not stand upright.
¶ Prominent ankles, wrists, knuckles and elbows are sure signs that such an individual has a large osseous or bony element in his makeup.
When you look at any person you quickly discern whether fat, bone or muscle predominates in his construction. If fat predominates he leans toward the Alimentive, no matter what other types he may have in combination; if firm, well-defined muscles are conspicuous, he is largely Muscular; but if his bones are proportionately large for his body he has much of the Osseous type in his makeup.
¶ "Raw-boned" exactly describes the appearance of the extreme Osseous. (See Chart 7)
Such a man is a contrast to others in any group and a figure with which all of us are familiar. But that his inner nature differs as widely from others as his external appearance differs from theirs is something only recently discovered.
As we proceed through this chapter you will be interested to note how every trait attributed to this type applies with absolute accuracy to every extremely raw-boned, angular person you have ever known. You will also notice how these traits have predominated in every person whose bones were large for his body.
Though this type was the last to be classified by science it is the most extreme of them all.
¶ An impression of physical rigidity is given by the extreme Osseous. Such a man or woman looks stable, unchanging, immovable?as though he could take a stand and keep to it through thick and thin.
