New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . 628 GRAPHOMANCY AND CHIROMANCY. PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS. We claim nothing like absolute correctness on every pointfor the foregoing remarks on the indications of the variouskinds of handwriting. We believe that they will be foundin the main theoretically sound—in other words, that suppos-ino- a person to trace his letters and words freely, untrammeledby educational bias and uncontrolled by a too active organ. Fig. 918.—Benj. Frakivlin. of Imitation, he w


New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . 628 GRAPHOMANCY AND CHIROMANCY. PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS. We claim nothing like absolute correctness on every pointfor the foregoing remarks on the indications of the variouskinds of handwriting. We believe that they will be foundin the main theoretically sound—in other words, that suppos-ino- a person to trace his letters and words freely, untrammeledby educational bias and uncontrolled by a too active organ. Fig. 918.—Benj. Frakivlin. of Imitation, he will express something of liis cbaracter inthem, and that its indications are as we have stated them. Itdoes not follow that we (and much less the inexperiencedreader) can tell every mans character by inspecting his hand-writing. Various incidental conditions modifying our generalrules, some of which have already been hinted at, must nowbe taken into consideration.* 1. Education.—Some persons continue to wa-ite throughlife substantially the hand they originally acquired hj imitat-ing the copies set before them by their teacher. If such


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