six feet high, but has such fine proportions that he does not look so tall or so large as he really is.

natural talent for mathematics, so that his mind works with exactness, with a kind of absoluteness which may sometimes seem dogmatic. He has large Mirthfulness, seeing the absurd and ridiculous, and knowing how to make his opponent's cause or argument seem absurd.

He has the signs of perfect digestion, showing that his blood is abundant, rich, and pure. He has excellent circulation, and first-rate breathing power, and his complexion is as fresh and clear as a girl's. The quality of the hair and skin He has large Constructiveness; is a is very fine, amounting to delicacy, show-natural inventor; had he been trained to ing that sensitiveness and susceptibility, architecture and engineering, he would as well as keen and deep feeling, belong have ranked among his compeers as he to his organization. The features are does in statesmanship among statesmen. delicate; in fact, the face has an almost feminine look; there is a lack of that shaggy, angular roughness which generally belongs to men of great power. We infer that he inherits largely from his mother, and that she was a very superior

woman.

He has intuitions intellectually and morally which are exceedingly quick and very correct; the type of his mind, however, is phrenologically more marked in the direction of breadth of thought, comprehensiveness of mind, logic, and philosophy than in the direction of the historical, the practical, and the detailed; for instance, as a merchant, he would see the end from the beginning, the length and breadth and scope of his business, rather than be expert in its details; he would want to sell unbroken packages, in gross, and would not do as well in the retail line. As a lawyer, he would seize upon the great principles involved in a cause, and the argument would hinge upon these; he would tell just enough of the history of the case to give a full understanding of it, but the days and dates and running conversation and unimportant particulars would be, if not unobserved, at least unstated.

He has a very fertile imagination, a poetic spirit, a sense of the beautiful and magnificent. His Spirituality gives faith and expansiveness of thought and feeling, the ability to look ahead and anticipate ultimate results; and in his treatment of a subject he has breadth and scope, altitude and profoundness, which command the respect of antagonists; although they may incline to frame an argument against his, they feel its power and know they have stalwart work to do to meet him.

His is the range of mind which deals with original ideas, with solid premises and important consequences. His type of mind is more Websterian than that of any other statesman of his party. In the days of Webster, when great questions were agitated in the Senate, others would make apparently exhaustive speeches, and for three months the question of the day would be handled at length by his compeers, and it excited wonder that Mr. Webster should wait until all the great speakers had been heard on both sides, when he would enter the field and open upon the great questions of bank or tariff, and seem to plow so much more deeply than the rest, that when he had He is orderly in a high degree, and has finished no furrows were in sight but Mr.