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 77
evity. All the indications of thesmooth fingers are strengthened as they arealso tapering; and intensified as the hand issoft and the skin delicate, showing also im-pressionability— suggesting also the artistand poet. Knotted Fingers indicate order, logic, de-duction — and in excess, with other… … Knotted Fingers—Square and Oval. The Logical Knot, below the first phalange,attests order in intellectual work, arrangementof ideas, classification of moral and mentalcauses and results, method in philosophicaland religious researches and deductions.Persons with this knot doubt, reason,…
Palmistry
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