Perin's science of palmistry; a complete and authentic treatise . stry. CHAPTER II. THE PRIME OR BILIOUS HAND. The Prime or Bilious Hand belongs to a tpye of be-ings whose mentality is elementary. It is the formwithout the sculptors chisel or painters brush. (Plate1.) The person who possesses such a hand is incapableof reasoning. When anger is aroused it spends itselfin a storm of words and brute force. The hand is thecounterpart of the body; it is heavy, coarse, thick,stubby and stout. The fingers are short and stubby;the palm large and thick, mounts undeveloped, linesvery few and poorly deve
Perin's science of palmistry; a complete and authentic treatise . stry. CHAPTER II. THE PRIME OR BILIOUS HAND. The Prime or Bilious Hand belongs to a tpye of be-ings whose mentality is elementary. It is the formwithout the sculptors chisel or painters brush. (Plate1.) The person who possesses such a hand is incapableof reasoning. When anger is aroused it spends itselfin a storm of words and brute force. The hand is thecounterpart of the body; it is heavy, coarse, thick,stubby and stout. The fingers are short and stubby;the palm large and thick, mounts undeveloped, linesvery few and poorly developed. They have brute instinct instead of human reasoningpowers. When this type of hand is found on man he is sure tobe a bully, and full of cowardice. When the elementary type is found on woman, sheis a shrew of the most turbulent character. If the fingers in either sex should be longer than thepalm, it shows a tendency toward intellectual develop-ment, and in the course of several generations, with thistendency more apparent in each successive generation, 38. PLATE PRIME OR BILIOUS HAND. PERINS SCIENCE OF PALMISTRY. 41 the descendants of the elementary type will become cul-tured, refined and intellectual beings. Then the haind,with the fingers, mounts, markings and signs of thepalm will correspond, or rather be an index to the de-velopment of the mind. This, however, can only be ac-complished by inheritances, which can only be broughtabout by intermarriages. The Elementary, or firsthand, is found among the peasants of Northern Russia,among the natives of Siberia, and in other cold coun-tries where the people are phlegmatic, without am-bitions. They care for nothing except the gratificationof sensual desires. It is a notable fact that children born of Siberiansand foreign prisoners confined in the Siberian mines,are more pleasingly developed, more intellectual, andgrow to be more responsible citizens than full-bloodedSiberians. While their ancestors on one side suffer a
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