Philosophic chiromancy. Mysteries of the hand revealed and explained: the art of determining, from an inspection of the hands, the person's temperature, appetites, passions, impulses, aspirations, mental endowments, character and tendencies (1879)
Campbell, Robert Allen · Saint Louis, J. W. Campbell & co. · leaf 146
e friend-ship is improbable, if not impossible, andsuggests one who thinks of — Gratitude as a lively sense of future favors. This line terminating under the little fingeror absent, indicates lack of sympathy, cold-ness of nature, bad faith, aptness for evil, {THE IMPULSE LINE. 147 cruelty. This… … sent only one line — clear or ragged— acrossthe hand, suggesting a person who — espec-ially if the thumb is weak and the palm fullor hard—will be ruled by his emotions andhis thoughts in turn; the character will beuneven, therefore, governed by feeling with-out the light or guidance of thought…
Palmistry
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