The language of the hand, being a concise exposition of the principles and practice of the art of reading the hand . and without itsstubbornness and lack of refinement; it has theanalysis of the square hand without its insincerity,and the refinement of the conic hand without itsflightiness and selfishness. Its motto is Modera-tion in all things, and truth in all. VI. The Psychic Hand (Fig. 6).—This isthe rarest and most beautiful hand of all. In pro-portion to the formation of the subject whose it is,it is small; the palm is of medium size, the fingerswithout knots, the third phalange long and
The language of the hand, being a concise exposition of the principles and practice of the art of reading the hand . and without itsstubbornness and lack of refinement; it has theanalysis of the square hand without its insincerity,and the refinement of the conic hand without itsflightiness and selfishness. Its motto is Modera-tion in all things, and truth in all. VI. The Psychic Hand (Fig. 6).—This isthe rarest and most beautiful hand of all. In pro-portion to the formation of the subject whose it is,it is small; the palm is of medium size, the fingerswithout knots, the third phalange long and pointed,the thumb small and well shaped. If the hand islarge and the joints are developed, it has more forcethan is usual, but not so much originality. Suchsubjects are guided by the ideal, by the sublime, andby the soul. They worship at the shrine of beautyand imagination, and are the exact opposite of thephilosophical-handed subject. Such subjects neverbecome rulers or statesmen; their idealism and loveof the beautiful unreal raises them above such ambi-tion ; in strife they disdain small achievements, em-. Fig. 5. The Seven Types of Hands. 61 barking enthusiastically on the most forlorn nopes,spurred to victories by their fervour of soul and notby their activity of body. Some writers have claimedthese hands as the exclusive inheritance of the noblyborn. This is a great and incomprehensible mistake;for though it is always rare, it is found among allclasses, sometimes among the lowest, where it iscrushed and disdained, by reason of its inability toforce itself to manual labour. Artistic hands seekimagination and art everywhere, useful hands seekarrangement and rule, philosophic hands seek humanreason ; to psychic hands is reserved the privilege ofa search after ethical divine reason in its highestdevelopment; theirs is the faculty for striving afterpurity and right in the abstract, apart from any ques-tions of convenience. It would be easy to rhapso-dize over the advantages
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