The language of the hand, being a concise exposition of the principles and practice of the art of reading the hand . ity of rank, birth,law and custom, and they like to feel and makeothers feel the check-string. The man with largesquare hands is always neat, well brushed and but-toned up, or else carefully neglige ; he is regular in hismeals, and does not eat at odd hours ; his mind willbe just and equally balanced, but he will not be bril-liant. There is this difference between the spatulateand the square hand. Both like and respect autho-rity, but the former will be fond of the ruler indi-vi
The language of the hand, being a concise exposition of the principles and practice of the art of reading the hand . ity of rank, birth,law and custom, and they like to feel and makeothers feel the check-string. The man with largesquare hands is always neat, well brushed and but-toned up, or else carefully neglige ; he is regular in hismeals, and does not eat at odd hours ; his mind willbe just and equally balanced, but he will not be bril-liant. There is this difference between the spatulateand the square hand. Both like and respect autho-rity, but the former will be fond of the ruler indi-vidually, whilst the latter admires and respects theinstitution of authority itself. The artistic hand onlyadmires regularity when it is subservient to, and acomponent part of, a beautiful whole; the useful handonly admires the beautiful when that beauty is theresult of regularity. Thus, therefore, it will be seenthat though the useful hand is the most desirable,from a worldly point of view, it is neither so happyas the artistic, nor so conscientious and indepen-dent as the spatulate, but it is the square fingers. Fig 4, The Seven Types of Hands. 57 of the useful hand which govern almost the entireworld. V. The Philosophic Hand (Fig. 5). — Palmmedium size and pliable, the fingers knotted, andthe third phalange an obtuse cone verging on thesquare, having a sort of oval, clubbed appearance,consequent on the development of the second joint;the thumb large, having its two phalanges of equallength, indicating an equal share of will and distinguishing characteristic of this particularform of exterior phalange or finger-tip, semi-squareand semi-conical, is an innate tendency to search after,a love for, the absolute truth and reality of developed joints of the philosophic hand giveit calculation, deduction and method, the semi-conical shape of the fingers indicates an intuition 0/poetic instinct. Such a subject prefers reality tabeauty, and cause rather than effect
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