HOW TO READ HUMAN NATURE/PART 8
CHAPTER VIII
THE VITATIVE QUALITIES
The third group is known as the Vitative Qualities, which is composed of the three respective particular Qualities: Vitativeness; Alimentativeness; and Bibativeness. This group manifests in outer form directly back of, and in front of, the middle part of the ear. (See Fig. 4.)
Fig. 4
THE VITATIVE QUALITIES
Vitativeness. This
quality manifests in a strong desire to live; resistance to disease and death;
an intense clinging to life for the mere fact of living, rather than for the
sake of anything to be accomplished by continued existence. It goes along with
Combativeness, and is especially noticeable in the "broad-headed"
people and animals. The cat tribe, hawks, turtles, sharks, venomous snakes, and
others have this propensity well developed, while it is deficient in the
"narrow-headed" animals, such as the rabbit, certain birds, certain
fish, and many harmless snakes. Those in whom it is developed "die
hard," while those in whom it is deficient die easily. This capacity
manifests in outer form in the area situated just back of the middle part of
the ear (see group figure).
Alimentiveness. This Quality
manifests in a strong desire to gratify the tastes for food, when large it
inclines one toward gluttony, and tends to make one "live to eat,"
instead of to "eat to live." Those in whom it is largely developed
eat heartily and like to see others doing the same; while those in whom it is
deficient care very little for the quality or amount of their food and often
actually resent the, to them, "disgusting" sight of persons partaking
of a hearty meal. It manifests in outer form immediately in front of the upper
part of the ear (see group figure).
Bibativeness. This Quality
manifests in a strong desire to gratify the appetite for drinks of various
kinds. In its normal well-developed state it manifests in a desire for water,
milk and fluid foods, such as soups, broths, etc., and other juicy things.
Perverted it manifests in the appetite for intoxicating liquors, tea and
coffee, "soft drinks," and the various decoctions of the
modern soda-fountain. By some this Quality is regarded as merely a phase
of Alimentiveness, while others consider it to be a separate Quality. It
manifests in outer form immediately in front of the locality of Alimentiveness,
toward the eye.
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