There are three sorts of types in man: constitutional or formal,
fugitive or passional, and habitual.
The constitutional type is that which we have at birth.
The passional type is that which is reproduced under the sway of
passion.
The habitual types are those which, frequently reproduced, come to
modify even the bones of the man, and give him a particular
constitution.
Habit is a second nature, in fact, a habitual movement fashions the
material and physical being in such a manner as to create a type not
inborn, and which is named habitual.
To recognize constitutional types, we study the movements of the body,
and the profound action which the habit of these movements exercises
upon the body; and, as the type produced by these movements is in
perfect analogy with the formal, constitutional types, we come through
this analogy to infer constant phenomena from the passional form. Thus
all the formal types are brought back to the passional types.
Passional types explain habitual types, and these last explain
constitutional types. Thus, when we know the sum of movements possible
to an organ, when we know the sense of it, we arrive at that semeiotic
through which the reason of a form is perfectly given.
_Of Gesture Relative to its Modifying Apparatus._
Every gesture places itself in relation with the subject and the object.
It is rare that a movement tending toward an object does not touch the
double form.
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