. Painting, sculpture, and architecture as representative arts : an essay in comparative aesthetics. ong; and each of thesemay, in certain of their parts,exhibit characteristics belong-ing to the others. It may besaid, in general, that the roundor broad hand, the hand with afat palm, as well as fat, well-rounded thumb and fingers,shows physical and vital tenden-cies in excess (see Fig. 65, page hand with edged 11 AND KNOTTED FINGER?. 120). 1 he sharp, rather than ,• ^ See pages 121-123. round hand, the hand broad at the base, but assuming a wedge shape when the fingersare brought
. Painting, sculpture, and architecture as representative arts : an essay in comparative aesthetics. ong; and each of thesemay, in certain of their parts,exhibit characteristics belong-ing to the others. It may besaid, in general, that the roundor broad hand, the hand with afat palm, as well as fat, well-rounded thumb and fingers,shows physical and vital tenden-cies in excess (see Fig. 65, page hand with edged 11 AND KNOTTED FINGER?. 120). 1 he sharp, rather than ,• ^ See pages 121-123. round hand, the hand broad at the base, but assuming a wedge shape when the fingersare brought together, which themselves too are notrounded but have edged sides, knotted joints, and some-what flattened ends, belongs to the nervous man, the man ofbrilliant mentality, quick to perceive, interpret, and ren-der intelligible the general features of that which is pre-sented (see Fig. 66). The long hand, including often toothe spaticlatcd e^QCt, as in Fig. 6^, where the whole fingerlooks like an extended rectangle shaped as if to makethe fingers sides seem as long as possible, belongs to the. 122 PAINTING, SCULPTURE, AND ARCIIITECTUKE. man given to details, the man persistent in dealing withsmall minutiae, either of thoughts or of things, never tiredof picking them out and polishing and putting them intotheir proper places, the man who in this sense shows greatmotive power, activity, and persistency. Of course few actual forms to which the deductions ofthese so-called sciences apply belong to any one type ex-clusively. As intimated on page109, round and sharp character-istics, as also sharp and long ones,are more frequently than not foundtogether. The question of thepredominance, therefore, of a vital,mental, or motive temperament, isdetermined less by the absolutepresence or absence of that whichcauses it than by the relative in-fluence which this exerts. Another fact closely connectedwith this is that all the parts of thehuman form, to the predominatinginfluence of which
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