Descriptive mentality from the head, face and hand (1899)
Merton, Holmes Whittier, 1860-1948, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC, Rouben Mamoulian Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · Philadelphia : David McKay · leaf 162
f parents and familyhistory—than is the right hand. When, however, the Left hand is positive and directive, exactlythe reverse is true. The positive hand is the hand of futurity by will-force, the leftfuturity by hereditary endowment. Pages 155 and 156 give views of the anatomy of the hand.… … Mounts and Cheiromantic(Line) Signs. Hieroglyphs and Variants. The consideration of the mounts, taken intheir cheirognomic meanings, most properly be-longs to the physiognomy of the hand. But so closely are the meanings of the specialsigns of cheiromancy blended with and depend-ent upon the nature…
Phrenology · Physiognomy · Palmistry
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