by Elsie Lincoln Benedict
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Remember, the distinguishing marks
of the Osseous, in the order of their
importance, are PROPORTION
ATELY LARGE BONES FOR THE
BODY, PROMINENT JOINTS and
A LONG FACE. Any person who
has these is largely of the Osseous
type no matter what other types
may be included in his makeup.
ll those in whom the nervous system is more highly developed than any other are Cerebrals.
This system consists of the brain and nerves. The name comes from the cerebrum or thinking part of the brain.
Meditation, imagining, dreaming, visualizing and all voluntary mental processes take place in the cerebrum, or brain, as we shall hereinafter call it. The brain is the headquarters of the nervous system?its "home office"?just as the stomach is the home office of the Alimentive system and the heart and lungs the home office of the Thoracic.
¶ The Thoracic system may be compared to a great freight system, with each of its tributaries?from the main trunk arteries down to the tiniest blood vessels?starting from the heart and carrying its cargo of blood to every part of the body by means of the power furnished by the lungs.
¶ But the nervous system is more like an intricate telegraph system. Its network of nerves runs from every outlying point of the body into the great headquarters of the brain, carrying sense messages notifying us of everything heard, seen, touched, tasted or smelled.
As soon as the brain receives a message from any of the five senses it decides what to do about it and if action is decided on, sends its orders back over the nerve wires to the muscles telling them what action to perform.
¶ This latter fact?that the muscles are the working agents of the body?also explains why the Muscular type is naturally more active than any of the others.
¶ The body may be compared to a perfectly organized transportation system and factory combined. The Alimentive system furnishes the raw materials for all the systems to work on.
¶ The bones of the body are like the telegraph poles, the bridges and structures for the protection and permanence of the work carried on by the other systems of the body.
Now poles, bridges and structures are less movable, less alterable than any of the other parts of a transportation system, and likewise the bony element in man makes him less alterable in every other way than he would otherwise be. A predominance of it in any individual indicates a preponderance of this immovable tendency in his nature.
Mind and matter are so inseparably bound up together in man's organism that it is impossible to say just where mind ends and matter begins. But this we know: that even the mind of the bony person partakes of the same unbending qualities that are found in the bones of his body.
