The language of the hand, being a concise exposition of the principles and practice of the art of reading the hand . of locomotionreconciles them to their self-imposed exile, ready forall events, and accustomed to count on themselves;they have no objection to solitude, and they areclever at all physical sciences, attaching themselvesin life only to those things that are immovable andconstant. The spatulate fingered subject admires architecturefor its quantity rathei than its quality, preferring theimmense to the beautiful. He likes 1o be astonished,and to contemplate works, which make him thin
The language of the hand, being a concise exposition of the principles and practice of the art of reading the hand . of locomotionreconciles them to their self-imposed exile, ready forall events, and accustomed to count on themselves;they have no objection to solitude, and they areclever at all physical sciences, attaching themselvesin life only to those things that are immovable andconstant. The spatulate fingered subject admires architecturefor its quantity rathei than its quality, preferring theimmense to the beautiful. He likes 1o be astonished,and to contemplate works, which make him think ofthe immense amount of physical labour which musthave been employed to construct them. The artistis sunk in the artisan, opulence predominates overluxury; wherever this type is found, , the largehand with spatulate fingers and a large thumb, thesesame predilections will be the guiding rule of thatsubjects life, the useful rather than the ornamental,the necessary rather than the superfluous, the actualrather than the ideal. If the thumb be small theiractive physical instincts will be more unrestrained but. Fig. 2. The Seven Types of Hands. 49 less pronounced and forcible, partaking more of thenature of the square hand (). III. The Artistic Hand (Fig. 3). — Thishand has three tendencies, which are very dif-ferent to one another, but only marked by slightdistinctions in the hand itself. These are :—(i.) Asupple hand and a small thumb with a medium palmindicating love of beauty, and particularly of form,(ii.) Large, short, and thick with a large thumb be-trays a desire for riches, fortune, and greatness, (iii.)Large and very firm hands mean a tendency to sensu-ality. All three are governed by inspiration, and areill-adapted to the mechanical arts. The first isactuated by enthusiasm, the second by stratagem andscheme, and the third by the suggestion of these differences of characteristic, the tenden-cies of these hands are the same, though the mostcha
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