The mysteries of the head and the heart explained : including an improved system of phrenology, a new theory of the emotions, and an explanation of the mysteries of mesmerism, trance, mind-reading, and the spirit delusion (1875)
Grimes, J. Stanley (James Stanley), 1807-1903, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · Chicago : W.B. Keen, Cooke & Co. · leaf 70
r displaying them.When very large and uncontrolled, it gives a ten-dency to deceitfulness in dealing with both friendsand enemies; when small, it renders a person tooopen, frank and unsuspecting, and leads to self-betray-als and difficulties which might have been avoided bya little secretive… … good-will arc deceitful; that professions are hollowand insincere; and that there is in every one a dispo-sition to sacrifice the interests of others to the advan-tage of self. How far theschemes which originate inSecretiveness shall be suc-cessful, depends very muchupon the intellect; we…
Phrenology · Mesmerism · Spiritualism
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