The language of the hand, being a concise exposition of the principles and practice of the art of reading the hand . assigning also the termseast and west to the two sides of the hand, andargues from Europe to America. We will not followhim across the Atlantic to what he terms the homeof Egotism; and Egotism is the death of looks upon the Western Continent apparently asa kind of Moon which is illuminated by the Sunof the East, but when once the Sun disappears theMoon will cease to shine; it has no light of its own. The future is not in the West; the end is winds up somewhat bit
The language of the hand, being a concise exposition of the principles and practice of the art of reading the hand . assigning also the termseast and west to the two sides of the hand, andargues from Europe to America. We will not followhim across the Atlantic to what he terms the homeof Egotism; and Egotism is the death of looks upon the Western Continent apparently asa kind of Moon which is illuminated by the Sunof the East, but when once the Sun disappears theMoon will cease to shine; it has no light of its own. The future is not in the West; the end is winds up somewhat bitterly— On a dit la jeune Amerique! Oli est sa jeunesse ? Ou est sa naivete, son e*lan,sa tendresse ? Qua-t-elle de jeune ? Elle a pris toutdun coup les cheveux blancs de civilization; la cor-ruption. Elle a tous les vices du vieillard sceptiqueet desseche, et elle aspire a commander le done ! Cest la tete qui commande, parfoiseest le cceur, mais ce nest jamais le bras ! The chief points of the hand being now, we hope,understood, we will proceed to examine the Mounts nand the Lines in their Fig. 9. The Mounds of the Hand. 85 CHAPTER II. THE MOUNDS OF THE HAND. The most casual observer of his hand will noticethat at the base of each finger in the palm of thehand is a mound or rising, or a depression. (VideFig. 9.) Each of these corresponds to a planet, andthe star may be fortunate or unfortunate accordingto its development, and to the corresponding in-fluences of the lines and marks or signs.* Thethumb is most important; round its mount runs theline of life; the thumb in Chiromancy is the life,and its influence may be benefited or counteractedby the other little hills which the hand is heir mount of the thumb is sacred to Venus. (Videsupra, Chirognomy, Ch. II.) The mounts beneath the four fingers are—com-mencing with the Index—Jupiter, Saturn, Apollo(the Sun), Mercury. The Mount of Mars is at theside of the hand opposite the thumb, immediatelybel
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