How The Melancholic Temperament
Relates to the
Heresy of Decisional Regeneration

Long before the Empirical Movement of the Enlightenment... Long before the Chimera of Psychology...there were the humor theory which evolved into the temperament theory. By the Civil War, the humor theory (and bloodletting) was thoroughly discredited, being replaced in the nineteenth century by phrenology.

One of the four temperments was melancholic.