vidual. But the frame is not complete, nutrition and growth go on, and the various organs acquire size, firmness, strength, and fitness, day by day, and year by year, until they arrive at the full extent of their development, and the individual is matured.

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tease 11 sise and was suceed each obe, 104Ituslauding the fuences of dias, education, and 11 1.1 The variation-that, as far as 27 enlarged and prosoptal mmsdenton of the subject Coolant me they regard infancy as terminating shortly alue the wooood year, looood as enduring until ayou the Buent year, and adolescence as lasting wind the twenty-fins or the twenty-fifth year. At brutt age of the structures of the body and the powers of the wind are completely formed-perception, imazuen, amory, and judgment-have acquired full vigour, although the acuteness of these faculties, like By wusevlar form of the limbs and trunk, and the delkowy of the organs of sense, will be greatly inexcused by employment and experience. There is wo difference between the sexes; the development

of the female is the more rapid, and the age of complete womanhood precedes that of complete manhood by three or four years. It must not, however, be imagined that the full development of the sexual organs, and the consequent power of reproducing her species, is any evidence of the attainment of complete womanhood. A girl of sixteen may generally bear children, and many boys of the same age may often as certainly beget them, but in both cases such actions are premature to the designs of nature, and if often repeated would assuredly retard or prevent perfect development, and induce an early accession of decay. I regard, then, the mature man or woman, not as one in whom the body and mind have attained their greatest development and power, but as one in whom all the organs and faculties of the body and mind have arrived at that degree of completeness and perfection, which admits of, and even demands, regular exertion, which enables all the functions of body and mind to be efficiently and regularly performed; so that by daily use they may be increased in power and capacity for exertion, the processes of organic life steadily supporting the whole, and thus producing that most admirable of the great Creator's works-a rational and healthy man.1

According to M. Quetelet, the male attains the maximum weight

The frame should have acquired the greatest degree of height that the individual is capable of attaining. This will vary greatly; but it must not be imagined that very great height is a proof of superior physical development. It is but rarely that it is accompanied by corresponding strength or symmetry, and a regular proportion of parts to each other is more often to be found in very short than in very tall persons. We may take the height of five feet ten inches as a fair medium standard of manly development

"The middle size

For feats of strength or exercise
Framed in proportion fair."

It too often happens that what is gained above this in height, is lost in due proportion of parts; that the extremities are too long, the chest is not duly capacious, the long and perhaps weak spinal column does not give sufficient support to the head, and a bend forwards, elevated shoulders, and an ungainly deportment, are not uncommonly induced. It is true that we sometimes meet with persons of great height, who are nevertheless most regularly proportioned, in whom no one part appears to be sacrificed to another, but

at about 40, and begins to lose it sensibly at about 60. The maximum in the female is at 50. In the male the growth is completed at 25, in the female earlier. (Annales d'Hygiene.)

the whole form seems to have simultaneously attained great beauty and strength, and to have also grown to the height of six and a half or seven feet. Such instances may be regarded with admiration and wonder; they are fine examples of nature's powers of development, but they are irregular; they are not (at least in this age and country) fair samples of humanity.

It is in the due proportion of parts to each other that we are to seek for that development which will most conduce to health and longevity; indeed, a size considerably below the usual standard may be considered as perfectly normal and healthful, if due proportion exist. Persons of five feet four or six inches high are often fine specimens of manly symmetry ; and it not unfrequently occurs that an increased development in breadth, although it takes from the beauty of the individual, gives great increase of muscular power to the limbs and trunk, and of capacity to the chest, and thus forms a very strong and healthful individual. Thus, too, amongst domestic animals, the small, compactly made Alderney cow is celebrated as a good milker. Horse dealers will praise a cob as a large horse in a small compass; and the courage, strength, and endurance of a well-bred and wellframed pony is really surprising. In animals, as the