ABSTRACT
TEMPERAMENT, like disposition, with which in common speech it is hopelessly confused, is in the main inborn. It also is subject to modification in the course of life; in respect of it also individuals differ widely, and there are inborn temperaments that are wholly happy or fortunate and others which, if it were possible, we would like to modify. As with disposition, it is the extremer forms of temperament that are apt to give trouble and which would be improved by being brought nearer to the happy mean.
