Talks on graphology, the art of knowing character through handwriting . e-mentioned signs; i. e., small capitals, and Ms with spires of equalheight. Occasionally one finds the capitals made by enlarging smallones. Such a sign betokens great simplicity and modesty of Plate 37. 68 TALKS ON GRAPHOLOGY III. Nature. — Enthusiasm, Imagination. The graphic signs of enthusiasm and imagination are movement of the pen outside of quiet, simple, and regular formsof letters shows an exalted state of the soul. It may be enthusiasm, it to? Plate 37. may be imagination. Enthusiasts usu


Talks on graphology, the art of knowing character through handwriting . e-mentioned signs; i. e., small capitals, and Ms with spires of equalheight. Occasionally one finds the capitals made by enlarging smallones. Such a sign betokens great simplicity and modesty of Plate 37. 68 TALKS ON GRAPHOLOGY III. Nature. — Enthusiasm, Imagination. The graphic signs of enthusiasm and imagination are movement of the pen outside of quiet, simple, and regular formsof letters shows an exalted state of the soul. It may be enthusiasm, it to? Plate 37. may be imagination. Enthusiasts usually write with much sweep ofmovement, long exclamanation points, many of them, also long inter-rogation marks. Imaginative people see everything through a prismthat shows them the world other than it is. In speaking here of imagi- DISSECTION AND ANALYSIS 69 nation, we do not mean the faculty of producing images, of gift has other graphic signs under the head of originality. Theimagination to which we refer is an ill-ordered movement of the brain. Plate 38. mounting from feeble disorder to almost incredible eccentricity. It course, the intensity of the sign that shows the degree of brain dis-order. We give in Plate 38 the Duke of Brunswicks signature, whomade the city of Geneva his heir. 70 TALKS ON GRAPHOLOGY III. Nature. — Ardor. It is very evident that active, ardent, spirited natures will not writelike lazy, inactive, and nonchalant ones. The graphic signs of ardor arequick, brusque movements, cross-strokes dashed off by the pen; writ-ing absolutely unstudied, in which the spirit does not trouble itself aboutmaking readable words, the lines rather ascending than always the signs of sensitivity and impressionability will befound in these hands. Ardent people are sensitive. Long crossings totfs, with an upward movement, denote ardor and vivacity. III. Nature. — Courage. The graphic sign of courage is complex. Look for firmness


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