BODY, PARENTAGE AND CHARACTER
IN HISTORY.
BY THE SAME AUTHOR.
Ready—New and Cheaper Edition, in great part Rewritten, 2/-
CHARACTER AS SEEN IN BODY AND PARENTAGE,
with a Chapter on
Education, Career, Morals, and Progress.
A remarkable and extremely interesting book.—Scotsman.
A delightful book, witty and wise, clever in exposition, charming instyle, readable and original.—Medical Press.
Men and women are both treated under these heads (types of character) inan amusing and observant manner.—Lancet.
We cordially commend this volume.... A fearless writer.... Merits closeperusal.—Health.
Mr. Jordan handles his subject in a simple, clear, and popularmanner.—Literary World.
Full of varied interest.—Mind.
Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, and Co. Limited.
BODY, PARENTAGE
AND
CHARACTER
IN HISTORY:
NOTES ON THE TUDOR PERIOD.
BY
FURNEAUX JORDAN, F.R.C.S.
LONDON:
Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. Limited,
1890.
Birmingham:
Printed by Hall and English.
In my little work on “Character as Seen in Body and Parentage” I have putforward not a system, but a number of conclusions touching therelationship which I believe to exist between certain features ofcharacter on the one hand and certain peculiarities of bodilyconfiguration, structure, and inheritance on the other. These conclusions,if they are true, should find confirmation in historic narrative, andtheir value, if they have any, should be seen in the light they throw onhistoric problems.
The incidents and characters and questions of the Tudor period are notonly of unfailing interest, but they offer singularly rich and variedmaterial to the student of body and character.
If the proposal to connect the human body with human nature is distastefulto certain finely-strung souls, let me suggest to them a careful study ofthe work and aims and views of Goethe, the scientific observer andimpassioned poet, whom Madame de Staël described as the most accomplishedcharacter the world has produced; and who was, in Matthew Arnold’sopinion, the greatest poet of this age and the greatest critic of any age.The reader of ‘Wilhelm Meister’ need not be reminded of the closeattention which is everywhere given to the principle ofinheritance—inheritance even of ‘the minutest faculty.’
The student of men and women has, let me say in conclusion, one greatadvantage over other students—he need not journey to a museum, he has nodoors to unlock, and no catalogue to consult; the museum is constantlyaround him and on his shelves; the catalogue is within himself.
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