This case is typical of many others.  They have natural aptitudes which fit them to become useful, but their talents have never been trained, their aptitudes have never been given an opportunity to develop.  They have no inherent tendencies toward crime.  In fact, there is no “criminal” type.  Most—­but not all—­criminals fall into their evil ways simply because they have never been taught how to direct their mental and physical energies in a way which will give them pleasure, as well as profit.

DESCRIPTION OF THIS TYPE

The physically frail individual of this type is frail because the brain and nervous system are so highly developed that they require a great deal of his vitality and endurance to nourish them and to sustain their activities.  The result is that mental powers grow and thrive at the expense of physical.

Such people have large heads in proportion to their bodies.  Their heads also are inclined to be very much larger above the ears and in the neighborhood of the forehead and temples than at the jaw and at the nape of the neck.  This gives their heads a rather top-heavy effect—­like a pear with the small end down—­and their faces a triangular shape.  Their jaws are usually fine and slender, and their chins not particularly broad and strong.

Such people have very fine hair and fine skin.  Their nerves are sensitive and close to the surface.  Their entire build of body is delicate and slender.  Their hands and feet also are usually delicately and slenderly fashioned; their shoulders are narrow and oftentimes sloping.  It is folly to talk of building up rugged, muscular and bony systems by means of strenuous exercise in people thus endowed.  Much, of course, can be done to strengthen and harden the muscles, but they are frail physically, by nature, and can never be anything else.

VOCATIONS FOR THE PHYSICALLY FRAIL

People with this type of organization are not inclined to be skillful with their fingers.  They do not care for physical work of any kind; they do not take an interest in it and, therefore, cannot do it well.  Properly trained, men and women of this type take their place in the professions.  They are teachers, preachers, lawyers, educators, reformers, inventors, authors, and artists.  Among those of mediocre abilities we find clerks, secretaries, accountants, salesmen, window trimmers, decorators, advertisers, and others working along similar mental lines.  When such people are not trained and educated, they are misfits always, because they do not have opportunities to use to their fullest extent the natural intellectual talents with which they have been endowed.

THE MENTALLY MECHANICAL