{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4153", "width": "2885", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3944", "width": "2832", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3964", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3896", "width": "2860", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3968", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "DR. ALEX. J. McIVOR-TYNDALL,", "height": "3968", "width": "2856", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "REVELATIONS OF THE\\nHAND.\\nA Scientific Study of the Shape and Markings of the Hand, as an\\nIndex to Character, Disease and Tendencies,\\nwith Explanatory Illustrations.\\nDK. ALEX. J. McIVOR -TYNDALL.\\nAUTHOR OF THOUGHT READING AND TELEPATHY, PSYCHOLOGY AND MEDICAL\\nSCIENCE, THOUGHT TRANSFERENCE: THE LANGUAGE OF\\nTHE FUTURE, ETC.\\nAMERICAN EDITION.\\nG. A. WAHLGREEN, Publisher,\\nNew York, Chicago, Denver, San Francisco.\\n1900.", "height": "3968", "width": "2764", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "TWO COPIES RECEIVED,\\nLibrary of CGtsgrot*\\nOffice of ttie\\nFEB 1 3 1 00\\nKegtoter of Copyright*\\n181900\\nCopyrighted\\n1900\\nBy De. Alex. J. McIvor-Tyndall.\\nFIRST COPY,\\n\\\\9i o*", "height": "3968", "width": "2876", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "//27\\nCONXENXS.\\nPreface 9\\nIntroduction 13\\nPART I.--CHEIRQQNOMY.\\nCHAPTER I.\\nThe Seven Types of Hands 23\\nCHAPTER II.\\nThe Primitive or Elementary Hand 26\\nCHAPTER III.\\nThe Square Type of Hand 28\\nCHAPTER IV.\\nThe Spatulate Type of Hand 32\\nCHAPTER V.\\nThe Conic Type of Hand 36\\nCHAPTER VI.\\nThe Philosophic Type of Hand 40\\nCHAPTER VII.\\nThe Psychic Type of Hand 43\\nCHAPTER VIII.\\nThe Mixed Type of Hand 47\\nCHAPTER IX.\\nThe Fingers 51\\nCHAPTER X.\\nThe Thumb 57\\nCHAPTER XI.\\nThe Nails 62\\nCHAPTER XII.\\nLarge and Small, Hard and Soft Hands 66\\nCHAPTER XIII.\\nThe Color of the Palms 69\\nCHAPTER XIV.\\nThe Mounts 70\\nCHAPTER XV.\\nRight and Left Hands 75\\nCHAPTER XVI.\\nResume of Cheirognomy 76", "height": "3968", "width": "2768", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "PART II. -CHEIROMANCY.\\nCHAPTER I.\\nThe Lines of the Hand 79\\nCHAPTER II.\\nThe Line of Life 85\\nCHAPTER III.\\nThe Line of Mentality, or Head 90\\nCHAPTER IV.\\nThe Line of Heart 97\\nCHAPTER V.\\nThe Line of Fate 102\\nCHAPTER VI.\\nThe Line of Apollo, or Sun 109\\nCHAPTER VII.\\nThe Line of Health, or Liver 113\\nCHAPTER VIII.\\nThe Girdle of Venus 115\\nCHAPTER IX.\\nThe Via Lascivia, the Line of Mars and the Line of In-\\ntuition 117\\nCHAPTER X.\\nThe Line of Marriage Children 119\\nCHAPTER XI.\\nThe Rascette and Minor Lines 124\\nCHAPTER XII.\\nLines of Influence and Travel Lines 126\\nCHAPTER XIII.\\nCharacter of the Lines 133\\nCHAPTER XIV.\\nSigns Found on the Palm 137\\nCHAPTER XV.\\nThe Great Triangle and the Quadrangle 150\\nCHAPTER XVI.\\nHow to Reckon Time. Systems of Seven and Ten 154\\nCHAPTER XVII.\\nAbnormal Tendencies 160", "height": "3996", "width": "2872", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "SOME TYPICAL HANDS,\\nWith Synopsis of Their Most Prominent Characteristics.\\nHand of Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper, K. C. M. G 173\\nHand of Alexander McIvor-Tyndall, M. R. C. S 175\\nHand of Hamilton Fish, M. D 177\\nHand of William C. Riddell, M. D 179\\nHand of Homer Davenport 181\\nHand of A. W. Steele 183\\nHand of Blanche Walsh 185\\nHand of Marie Burroughs 187\\nHand of Sol Smith Russell 189\\nHand of James Barton Adams 191\\nHand of U. S. Senator Thomas H. Carter 193\\nHand of Ys aye 195\\nHand of Edwin F. Mayo 197\\nHand of Roland Reed 199\\nHand of Judge C. C. Goodwin 200", "height": "3968", "width": "2784", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3968", "width": "2856", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "P^EFACK.\\nIn advocating the study of the hand, I desire to recom-\\nmend it particularly to physicians, teachers and parents, as an\\ninvaluable aid in diagnosing hereditary disease, temperament,\\ntalents, capabilities and faults of children.\\nI do not feel that I can conscientiously recommend the\\nstudy as a profession in America at least.\\nThe practice of hand reading as a profession is one which\\nshould be ranked among the most honorable of callings, and its\\nteachers and exponents should be men and women of the high-\\nest intellectual and moral attainments. This, however, unfor-\\ntunately is not the existing condition. America is flooded with\\npalmists who do not know one line of the hand from another;\\nwho can scarcely write their own names and who claim to tell\\none s name, sge and birth place from a glance at one s\\nhand.\\nWhy does this state of things exist?\\nBecause the American public have actually no discrimina-\\ntion. Not that they lack the requisite mentality they sim-\\nply haven t the necessary time.\\nThe man of birth and education who essays the scientific\\npractice of palmistry will find his path beset with thorns un-\\nless he be a stoic or a philosopher. Palmistry being regarded\\nat the present time as something of a fad, he will probably\\nfind himself approached by a class of persons whose wealth\\nthey seem to think ample atonement for their lack of culture.\\nThese people will doubtless assure him that they do not\\n9", "height": "3968", "width": "2792", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "10 Preface.\\nbelieve in it, of course, but will he come to their At home on\\nthe following Tuesday and tell the fortunes of their guests?\\nThe remuneration offered for this delightful task will probably\\nbe the munificent sum of ten or fifteen dollars for the after-\\nnoon.\\n.55\\nShould he protest that he is not a fortune-teller\\nand that a reliable and efficient cheiromant could hardly be\\nexpected to read hands at an afternoon tea, he would probably\\nbe informed that old Aunt Dinah, who tells lovely fortunes?\\nwill gladly officiate at the function for some cast off clothing or\\ncold victuals.\\nNewspapers have a way of giving encouragement to ignor-\\nant charlatans in this line, and then attacking the science be-\\ncause the said charlatans use it as a cloak to hide their real pro-\\nceedings.\\nIt would be quite as sensible to denounce surgery because\\nsome one had mistaken a butcher for a surgeon.\\nI was much amused not long since in listening to a paper,\\nread before a woman s club, on the degrading character of\\nstage productions. The paper was very clever, and the\\nwaiter s disgust at the low order of wit and humor displayed\\nin nine-tenths of the farce comedies was shared by every one\\npresent.\\nThe paper was directed chiefly against a certain farce\\nof the McGinty the Sport order, and its sarcasm was well\\ndirected.\\nThe absurdity of the discussion lay in the fact that the\\nsaid farce had recently filled the theatre to overflowing, while\\nthe clever actor, Clay Clement, in that most beautiful of pure\\ncomedies, The New Dominion, had played to vacant chairs on\\nthe night previous.\\nWhen put to the test, every woman present had patronized\\nthe McGinty affair, and not one of them had witnessed The", "height": "3968", "width": "2844", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "Preface. 11\\nKew Dominion. The truth is, the public get that which they\\nencourage in whatever line.\\nWhenever they demand scientific knowledge and conscien-\\ntious methods in their exponents of the science of palmistry\\nthey will find the demand complied with.\\nIt is significant that Cheiro, the famous American ex-\\nponent of this science, finds it necessary to assume a title,\\nComte de Hamong, in order to receive the recognition which\\nhis ability alone should bring him.\\nr", "height": "3968", "width": "2784", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3968", "width": "2856", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION.\\nThis is pre eminently an age of study, investigation and re-\\nsearch. Everything which appears worthy of serious considera-\\ntion now claims its share of attention, with the result that much\\nwhich has hitherto been shrouded in ignorance and superstition\\nis at present viewed in the light of reason and of science.\\nAll advanced thinkers of the present day are unanimous in\\nthe belief that the close of this century marks the beginning of\\na new cycle ushering in a new phase of thought. The Nine-\\nteenth Century has been one of action. The Twentieth will be\\none of thought.\\nWonderful indeed has been the advance in the mechanical,\\nelectrical and material sciences, but it is somewhat surprising\\nthat the same can not be said of those branches of intellectuality\\nlesser perhaps in direct utility, but greater in their power to\\nelevate mankind art, music, literature and philosophy. A\\nchange is coming, however. Eminent men of the world those\\nwho live in advance of the age are devoting their attention to\\nwhat may be termed the occult, and from the study of psychic\\nphenomena must come a realization of the spiritual law which\\ngoverns material forces a law of which the phenomena are but\\na comparatively unimportant effect.\\nNowhere is a knowledge of true psychology more needed\\nthan in the study and practice of medicine. It is a significant\\nfact that after all the years that have elapsed since the days of\\nHippocrates, medical science is still largely in its experimental\\nstage, with a decreasing possibility of reducing to an exact sci-\\nence under its presents methods.\\n13", "height": "3968", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "14 Introduction.\\nIt is entirely without any desire to disparage the profession\\nfor which I was educated, which my father has followed with\\nhonor these many years, and which numbers among its members\\nsome of the noblest men I have known, that I venture to pre-\\ndict an early annihilation of the old theories of medical practice.\\nEven now the physician who bases his diagnosis upon the\\npsychological symptoms of his patient is the physician who is\\nthe most successful in treating disease. When it shall have be-\\ncome an acknowledged fact instead of a disputed theory that\\nthought is a cqntrolling force in the world there will come a\\nchange in the ethics of medical practice a change which will\\nbe of inestimable benefit to the profession and the world alike.\\nWhat has given rise to the various methods of alleviating\\npain and disease, known respectively as The Faith Cure,\\nMental Science, Christian Science, Magnetic Cure and\\nSuggestive Therapeutics not to mention the water cure, the\\nmusic cure and a host of other cures?\\nIf medical science had been found efficacious and reliable\\nthere would be no attempt at other methods.\\nAt the present time a branch of the profession known as\\nOsteopathy is rapidly usurping the place of Medicine in this\\ncountry. This is not, indeed, as is often asserted, because the\\npublic are always anxious to take up with something new\\nbut solely because the old has been found inadequate and unsat-\\nisfying. Indeed, we are quite too prone to cling to our old ideas\\nand beliefs. We are slaves to custom, to old traditions, to the\\nhabit of paying some one else to do our thinking for us. Never\\nsurely, can we be justly accused of being anxious to take up\\nwith something new it anything really is new. Certainly, to\\nthe analytical student of life, it would seem that we have changed\\nvery little, fundamentally, since the beginning of history, but\\nthat we live out our earth lives in the same old way, with the\\nsame emotions of joy and sorrow, hope, fear, faith, love, hate,\\nsymDathy and stupidity as in the days of pagan Rome. But", "height": "3968", "width": "2852", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "Introduction. 15\\nwith every forward swing of the pendulum of Time we succeed\\nin coming a little closer to the ideal of perfection which we\\ncall God.\\nWe move in cycles. An age of intellectual development\\nfollows that of materialism; an era of faith follows one of unbe-\\nlief in natural sequence. And so we live and learn and pass on\\nto graduate perhaps into the higher school of life in some other\\nworld.\\nThe science of palmistry, like all else, is not new. As far\\nback as we can trace its history we find it practised by the\\nlearned men of India the country from which springs the high-\\nest form of religious thought and spiritual development.\\nIn an ancient Indian drama, bearing the date 400 B. C, a\\nphilosopher is summoned before the ruler and asked to read the\\nhands of infants in order that a worthy successor to the throne\\nmay be appointed.\\nAgain, when Greece led the world in art, literature, knowl-\\nedge and refinement, we find the science of cheiromancy (from\\ncheir, the hand) one of the most important branches of educa-\\ntion in which the priests and philosophers were expected to\\nbe proficient.\\nThe study of the hand has been known in all ages and all\\ncli nes from the time of the ancients to the present day and from\\nthe frozen North to the Antipodes.\\nEmphatically, of all the studies relating to character, such\\nas phrenology, physiognomy, cheirography, etc., palmistry is\\nentitled to first rank as being more accurate, more reliable and\\nfar more comprehensive.\\nIn the battle of life one learns to school one s features to\\npassivity. It is not comme il faut to betray emotion. And so\\nthe calm, impassive face may hide the most turbulent spirit, and\\nthe hand alone will betray the fact.\\nBilzac in his Comedie Humane says: We acquire the\\nfaculty of i npDsiag silence upon our lips, upon our eyes, upon", "height": "3968", "width": "2764", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "16 Introduction.\\nour eyebrows and upon our foreheads; the hand alone does not\\ndissemble.\\nWhy Nature has chosen the hand as the index to the char-\\nacter and life of its owner is a question which may never be pos-\\nitively answered. We live and move and have our being. We\\nsee about us the grass, the woods, the sea, the blue ether, the\\nmyriads of forms of life. Why it is thus we may never know\\nor at least not until such time as our souls, freed from the nar-\\nrow confines of the body, may join the Infinite, and solve it all.\\nOne theory put forward by various scientists affords at least\\na partial explanation of the apparent mystery. It is to the effect\\nthat a nervous fluid, a subtle form of electricity, is used to con-\\nvey the impressions of the brain to the nerves, and as medical\\nscience has demonstrated that there are more nerves connecting\\nthe brain with the hand than with any other portion of the anat-\\nomy it is not strange that the hand more than any other mem-\\nber betrays the order of the owner s mentality.\\nIt is a well known medical fact that every apparent single\\nnerve is in reality two nerve cords in one sheath; the one con-\\nveys the action of the brain to the part, the other conveys the\\naction of the part to the brain. From this it is easy to see that\\nthe mind must directly affect the hand in various directions. So\\nmuch for facts on the subject.\\nI will now give my individual theory for that which, after\\nall, with the mysteries of Life and Death, we must be content to\\nlet remain for the present unsolved. The teachings that we are\\nchildren of God, that we are made in His image and like-\\nness, I take to be literally true. Not, indeed, as so many ap-\\npear to believe, that God is a great, all powerful man sitting upon\\na lofcy throne, ruling by right of superior strength and dealing\\nout to his victims reward or punishment, according to His pleas-\\nure or wrath; a being who doomed one of His children, His\\nonly begotten son, to torture and death in order to redeem a\\nworld which alas! is not redeemed. Such teachings are", "height": "3968", "width": "2820", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "Introduction 17\\nbaroirous, sacrilegious. It is indeed wonderful that in this so-\\ncalled enlightened age there are found people who will listen to\\nsuch a d3ctrine. Only last Easter I heard an Episcopalian cler-\\ngyman preach to a large congregation of the wrath of God; of\\ndeath, wherein the soul lay imprisoned in the earth until the\\nJudgment Day; of how on that great day all who for thousands\\nof years have passed from earth life, shall rise from their tombs\\nand pass in review before the Great Judge to receive their sen-\\ntence.\\nI could scarcely refrain from then and there protesting\\nagainst training such a man for the profession of a clergyman. I\\nlooked about me. Here and there were people wearing signs\\nof mourning. Nearly -every one in that large congregation had\\nsome loved one who had passed from this life to the Great\\nBeyond.\\nAttacking Christianity! says some one. Nothing can be\\nmore remote from my intentions, but I do emphatically deny the\\nexclusive right to the name of Christian to those who, from\\nvarying motives, subscribe themselves believers in an orthodox\\ncreed. The principles of Christ are creedless. I trust, then,\\nthat I will not be accused of adherence to orthodoxy when I\\nstate that I believe we are literally children of God. We are\\nmore. We are a part of the great Universal Mind which repre-\\nsents all knowledge; which is eternal and omnipresent; to which\\nthere can be no such thing as past or future, and to which\\nwe have given the name God.\\nI believe that the spirit within each and every one of us, be-\\ning made in God s image and likeness, must know all things from\\nlife to lite. This soul knowledge manifests itself in various\\nways, through the medium of the sensitive brain, the more com-\\nmon forms of this manifestation being intuition, premonition and\\nsometimes dreams.\\nIs it then unreasonable to suppose that this spiritual knowl-\\nedge, through the medium of the nerves connecting the brain", "height": "3968", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "18 Introduction.\\nwith the hand, can trace on the sensitive palm the story of the\\nlife in the language of the hand?\\nThis, to me, logical theory is borne out by the fact that\\nstolid, materialistic and primitive natures possess palms which\\nare comparatively unlined, while the sensitive spiritualized na-\\nture has a palm literally covered with fine lines.\\nI am making no defense of the science of palmistry. I\\nbelieve none is needed. I do not think there is to be found a\\nperson of intelligence who will deny its claims. Many there\\nare no doubt who have had neither the opportunity nor the de-\\nsire to investigate the subject, but these surely will not presume\\nto pass judgment upon that of which they are confessedly ig-\\nnorant. True, I may differ from many in my idea of what con-\\nstitutes intelligence.\\nIntelligence and education are by no means synonymous.\\nEducation seems to be a parrot-like ability to learn and recite\\nthe thoughts and experiences of others, under the mistaken im-\\npression that they are our own. And if the recitation has been\\nsatisfactorily performed, we are allowed the blessed privilege of\\nprefixing Rev. or Prof., or of affixing M. D. or Q. C. or LL.D.\\nto our names and there we are a living monument to some other\\nperson s ideas.\\nThis much striven for position once gained, who dares\\ngainsay our right to determine all matters pertaining to life or\\ndeath?\\nSome time ago, in one of the smaller American cities, I\\nheard a clergyman so far forget himself as to publicly attack\\nthe science of palmistry. I need not state that he knew noth-\\ning of the study. Certainly not. He did not believe in it. And\\nto show the good people of his congregation how easily they\\ncould be deceived by such things, he performed a few old fa-\\nmiliar tricks in legerdemain so clumsily as to make his illustra-\\ntion valueless in point of deception.\\nFrom that he proceeded to dispose of the ancient science of", "height": "4008", "width": "2864", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "Introduction. 19\\npalmistry with that assurance which ignorance alone can breed.\\nRegarding the claims of palmistry to read future tendencies,\\nthe future he declared, never had been and never would be fore-\\ntold. The inconsistency of that never would be, of course\\ndid not impress him. It did not occur to him that he was calmly\\ndeciding the future by predicting that it never would be fore-\\ntold. That part of the science of cheiromancy being disposed\\nof, he proposed an explanation of the presence of the lines on\\nthe palm which I dare say he believed had been left these\\nhundreds of years for his original brain to discover, and he was\\nweighed down with the importance of the discovery. He hurled\\nit at his congregation with a decision which left no room for\\ndoubt or argument, The lines are made by age and work.\\nMy readers can judge of the utter absurdity of such a\\nstatement. He need only have examined the hands of an in-\\nfant, a society votarie and a working man to disprove such a\\ntheory. And then this eminently educated man, in face of the\\nhighest medical authorities of the day, dismissed the subject by\\nsaying that as there was absolutely no nerve communication be-\\ntween the brain and the hands, that theory was not to be con-\\nsidered.\\nThe incident would not be worthy of mention were it not\\nfor the fact that his congregation listened to, approved and ap-\\nplauded the Rev. before his name. When will we learn\\nthat a prefix or an affix to a name does not presuppose to its\\nbearer the possession of superior knowledge?\\nIndeed, the man who has attained pre-eminence in some\\nspecial study is the less fitted to pass judgment upon a subject\\nof general interest, for the very material reason that his mental\\nfaculties have baen so concentrated upon his chosen subject as\\nto make him incapable of viewing an unfamiliar one unbiased\\nby the influence of his own special study.\\nWe would not think of accepting as final and conclusive a\\nlawyer s opinion of medicine, for instance, neither would we", "height": "3968", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "20 Introduction.\\nconsult a physician on a matter of law. And yet there was a\\ncongregation of presumably thinking people actually listening\\nto a most wretchedly illogical attack on a science of which he\\nknew absolutely nothing from a man whose sole claim to recog-\\nnition was his privilege of writing Rev. before his name. Not\\nthe least illogical feature of the affair is the fact that the Bible\\nthe one subject upon which the man was supposed to be in-\\nformed is nothing but a record of prophecies, visions, revela-\\ntions and interpretations of signs.\\nOrthodox ministers and teachers base nearly all their ser-\\nmons on the future life. They dogmatically predict the future,\\nnot alone of this life, but for eternity. If you do not believe or\\ndo thus and so, you will be damned.\\nIf that is not taking a liberty with the. future then surely\\nthe modest claims of palmistry do not include prediction.\\nBut in behalf of palmistry, I hold that anyone who gives\\nthe subject intelligent study will readily become convinced of\\nits accuracy and importance. Of course there are persons who\\nwill purchase a cheap book on the science or consult a cheap\\npalmist and straight-way decide that there is nothing in the\\nstudy beyond a society fad.\\nI cannot impress too forcibly that palmistry is not in any\\nsense mere fortune telling, depending upon some intangible\\nand mysterious power possessed by the palm reader.\\nPalmistry is a^science based upon a thorough knowledge oi\\nthe shape and lines of the hand.\\nClairvoyance and mediumship are indisputable facts, but\\nthey have nothing to do with palmistry and should not be\\nconfounded withjthe science.\\nThe medicarexpert is enabled through a knowledge of his\\nprofession to note symptoms of disease years in advance of its\\ndevelopment and to predict with a fair degree of certainty how\\nmany years the patient can reasonbly expect to live if the dis-\\nease is not arrested. Y et the medical expert is not necessarily", "height": "4004", "width": "2868", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "Introduction. 21\\na fortune teller. His prediction is based upon study, observa-\\ntion and recorded facts.\\nPalmistry is based upon exactly the same principles re-\\ncorded facts, study and observation.\\nBut although palmistry is an acquired science and not a\\nspecial gift its secrets cannot be learned in a single day, a week\\nor even a year.\\nIt requires first of all a thorough understanding of its the-\\nories, a retentive memory, a logical mind and the power of anal-\\nysis and deduction.\\nIt requires, also, a liberal mind and deep sympathy but\\nonce the study is thoroughly mastered by the student, he is able\\nto read in the shapeand markings of the hand the character and\\nlife of his fellow beings.", "height": "3960", "width": "2708", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3964", "width": "2880", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "McIvor-Tyndall s\\nRevelations of the Hand,\\nPART TIRST.\\nCHEIROGNOMY.\\nCHAPTER I.\\nThe Seven Types of hands.\\nPalmistry, from the Greek word palma, or cheirosophy,\\nfrom cheir, the hand, is the name given to the science of hand-\\nreading as a whole. For the sake of more readily understand-\\ning the study however, it has been divided into two classifica-\\ntions, namely cheirognomy and cheiromancy.\\nCheirognomy treats of the shape of the palm and fingers,,\\nthe type of the hand, the character, disposition and tem-\\nperament.\\nIt also includes the texture and color of the skin, the shape\\nand formation of the nails, and the thickness or suppleness of\\nthe palm and fingers. I consider these observations most\\nimportant as the full meaning of the lines depends largely upon\\nthe type of hand.\\nMost writers on the science of palmistry recognize seven\\n23", "height": "3964", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "24 McIvor-Tyndall s .Revelations of the Hand.\\ntypes of hands. A few I believe, ignore the use of the mystical\\nnumber seven and claim only six.\\nPersonally I prefer to consider seven types. The number\\nseven has played an important part in the history of the world\\nand I confess to a belief in its occult significance.\\nThe seven types are variously designated as\\n1. The Primitive or Elementary type\\n2. The Square type.\\n3. The Spatulate type:\\n4. The Conic type.\\n5. The Philosophic type.\\n6. The Psychic type.\\n7. The Mixed type.\\nThese types must be subdivided according to their\\nblendinsr.", "height": "3992", "width": "2812", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "PLATE 1. The Primitive or Elementary Type of Hand.", "height": "3968", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3968", "width": "2828", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER II.\\nThe Primitive or Elementary Type of Hand.\\nThe Primitive hand indicates a very low order of mental-\\nity. The. palm is very broad and heavy, the skin coarse and\\nthick, and the fingers short and stiff, with short nails. The\\nthumb is short and heavy, and set close to the hand.\\nPersons possessing this type of hand have little reasoning\\npower. They are violent in their passions, having no self-con-\\ntrol. They are indifferent to their surroundings and have\\nabsolutely no conception of art or beauty. They have no\\nambitions or aspirations and are content with the most primi-\\ntive existence. They must be governed and guided, lest their\\nlack of self-control lead them into crime. They are the dumb\\ndriven cattle of humanity.\\nThe palm of such a hand will have few lines. This type,\\nunmodified, is fortunately rarely found in English speaking\\ncountries.\\n27", "height": "3968", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER HI.\\nThe Square Type of hand.\\nThe perfect type of the square hand would naturally mean\\nthe palm square and the fingers square at the sides and tips.\\nIt can also be said to belong to the square man as men\\npossessing this type of hand will be found honest and upright\\nin business dealings, punctual, orderly and methodical. They\\nare extremely practical, having little originality of thought or\\naction. They have an enviable faculty of perseverance and ap-\\nplication and thus make a fair success at least, of anything\\nwithin their scope.\\nThey have no imagination or intuition, and have no patience\\nwith those characteristics in others. One of the most deplora-\\nble things in life is the case of a boy with a psychic hand\\nwhose father s hand belongs to the square type. They must\\nremain forever as far apart as the poles\\nThe square hand is conscientious and reliable, is not given\\nto moods and can be depended upon to be always the same.\\nIt will be found among the respectable law-abiding citizens,\\nas they never question established conditions. They are intol-\\nerant of what they consider the short-comings of others.\\nAlthough honest and truthful themselves they are inclined to\\nbe suspicious and distrustful. They look with disapproving\\neyes upon everything which does not appeal to their practical\\nnature. They are careful in dress, punctilious in manner and\\nrespectful to those whom they consider their social superiors.\\n28", "height": "3968", "width": "2804", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "PLATE 2. The Square Type of Hand.", "height": "3964", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3968", "width": "2780", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "The Square Type of Hand. 31\\nThe modifications of this type will be readily recognized,\\nin the influence of the characteristics of the various other types.\\nFor instance a square palm with spatulate fingers, will give to\\nits owner the characteristics of both types. Thus the spatu-\\nlate fingers, denoting originality and inventive talent, in con-\\njunction with the square palm, show a person whose inventive\\nfaculties will be directed along the most practical lines. This\\ncombination produces good mechanics and engineers. Their\\nwork will always be of a useful nature.\\nBy noting the characteristics of the different types, it will\\nnot be difficult to easily determine which type predominates in\\nthe hand under consideration.", "height": "3968", "width": "2696", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER IV.\\nThe Spatulate Type of Hand.\\nThe unmodified spatulate type of hand is less common\\nthan the square. It is called the spatulate presumably\\nbecause the tips of the lingers. resemble the chemists spatula-\\nbroad at the top.\\nSome works on palmistry do not mention the type of the\\npalm of the hand, depending entirely upon the formation of the\\nfingers to determine the type to which the hand belongs. I find\\nthat much depends upon the shape of the palm. The purely spat-\\nulate hand therefore, is the hand which is spatulate in the palm\\nas well as the finger tips.\\nThe palm which broadens visibly at the wrist or at the\\nbase of the fingers is spatulate in formation.\\nThe principal characteristics of the spatulate type are\\nenergy, originality and independence of thought and action.\\nWhile it is the hand of the greatest inventors and discoverers,\\nthe qualities of the type will be the same in whatever vocation\\nit is found.\\nThus whether in a profession or a trade, the owner of the\\nspatulate hand will manifest independence and energy. He\\nwill not follow preconceived ideas or established, methods. He\\nwill think and act for himself and whether it be curing disease\\nor putting up a stove he will find some new and better way of\\ndoing it.\\nThis peculiar characteristic of originality and independ-\\nence, often causes the person with the spatulate hand to be\\n32", "height": "3968", "width": "2760", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "J) I J\\nPL A TE 3.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Spatulate Type of Hand.", "height": "3964", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3940", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "The Spatulate Type of Hand. 35\\ncalled eccentric and cranky. So jealous are we of any viola-\\ntion of our established rules of conduct.\\nThe peculiarities of the spatulate type are, of course, modi-\\nfied by the characteristics of the type with which it is blended.\\nThus the spatulate hand .which is somewhat modified by\\nthe square formation in the fingers or palm denotes the person\\nwhose energy and originality will be put into practical use,\\nwhile the spatulate hand with the artistic modification will\\nbelong to the man or woman of original ideas in art or lit-\\nerature.", "height": "3968", "width": "2736", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER V.\\nThe Conic Type of Hand.\\nThis type is called conic from the tapering shape of the\\npalm and from the lingers which are formed like a cone full\\nat the base and tapering toward a semi -point at the tips.\\nIt is also called the artistic type because people possessing\\nthis shape of hand have an intense love of the beautiful and\\nthe artistic, from a painting to a bonnet or gown. They love\\nbeautiful surroundings and. especially if the hand be soft and\\nfull, ease and luxury. They are not energetic but they are\\nquick, bright aud emotional in temperament. They are versa-\\ntile and clever in conversation, brilliant and witty.\\nAlthough much quicker in ideas than those of the purely\\nspatulate type they are not as successful, because they lack the\\nqualities of application and continuity of purpose.\\nThey are impulsive, warm-hearted and affectionate. They\\nare very impressionable and sympathetic, and for this reason\\nthey appear changeable in matters of friendship and love.\\nThey are given to moods and when inspired can be most\\neloquent and magnetic.\\nThey dislike exertion, they are very fond of pleasure and\\nthey are not fond of work. The conic hair I has often been\\ndesignated as the woman s hand, and one writer on palm-\\nistry goes so far as to give the woman s hand a type\\nof its own in a chapter devoted to the primitive hand, the\\nwoman s hand, and the murderer s.\\nI cannot agree with this. Temperament is sexless and the\\n8(", "height": "3968", "width": "2768", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "PLATE 4.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Conic or Artistic Type of Hand.", "height": "3968", "width": "2716", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3960", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "The Conic Type of Hand. 39\\nsame difference exists between the thoughts and ideas of\\nwomen as between those of men.\\nThe v conic hand with square fingers, naturally gives to its\\nowner the characteristics of both types. Thus the impulse and\\nchangeableness of the conic hand will be modified by the exact-\\nness, method and perseverance of the square finger tips. The\\nspatulate fingers on the conic hand give originality and\\nenergy to the artistic tastes.\\nA large soft hand of the purely conic type, with short\\nfingers full at the base, and much developed mounts of Venus\\nand Luna, will belong to the sensualist; the selfish ease-loving\\nnature which revels in the pleasures of the senses. If this type\\nof hand is accompanied by a small thumb, its owner will be\\nthe victim of every caprice, without the power to reason or\\nto resist his animal nature.\\nThe characteristic points therefore, of the conic hand are\\nlove of art, beauty and luxury, impulse, imagination, sympathy,\\ncheerfulness, laziness and love of pleasure. These qualities\\nwill predominate according to the texture of the skin, the size\\nof the thumb, the character of the fingers and the flexibility\\nof the palm.", "height": "3956", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER VI.\\nThe Philosophic Type of Hand.\\nThis is pre-eminently the hand of the profound thinker;\\nthe lover of nature; the searcher after causes; the scientific\\ninvestigator.\\nThe hand is rather large, thin and bony; the palm some-\\nwhat broad, and the lingers long and knotted at the joints.\\nThis type of hand belongs to the philosophers and savants\\nwho look at life in an impersonal way, from the point of view\\nof the student of life, wherein the importance of the individual\\nis lost in the immensity of the whole and the accumulation of\\nthe centuries is as but a day in the process of evolution.\\nThe somewhat round linger tips betray a natural love of\\nbeauty and art, while the long phalanges and knotted joints\\ntell of a temperament in which reasou, analysis and calculation\\npredominate.\\nRealizing, perhaps, the triviality of earthly possessions, it\\nis not strange that the philosophic type of hand does not apply\\nitself to the accumulation of material things. It prefers to\\nstore up knowledge instead of wealth.\\nThe extreme of this type, particularly with a very sloping-\\nhead line and a heavy finger of Saturn, indicates the religious\\nfanatic.\\nKnotted joints, on whatever type of hand, denote thought\\nreflection, calculation, order.\\n40", "height": "3968", "width": "2792", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "PL A TE 5.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Philosophic Type of Hand,", "height": "3956", "width": "2712", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3908", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER VI\\nThe Psychic Type of Hand.\\nThe psychic hand might be considered a spiritualized form\\nof the conic type, since it possesses many of the character-\\nistics of that type without any of its sensuality and worldliness.\\nIn appearance the psychic hand is longer, more slender\\nand delicate than the conic. The skin is fine and white and\\nthe fingers long and pointed. It is the most beautiful of the\\nseven types and also the most unpractical. It belongs to\\npeople of an idealistic, romantic temperament. They are ex-\\ntremely sensitive and confiding. They love the highest ideals\\nin all things. They are fond of poetry, music, harmony of\\ncolor and perfume. Their mission is peace on earth, good\\nwill toward men. They judge by intuition rather than reason\\nand shrink instinctively from strife or contention. They have\\na deeply reverential nature. They worship the ideal, the sub-\\nlime, the beautiful and the soul. They are so spiritualized\\nthat they see with the eyes of the spirit and scorn the eternal\\nworld-struggle for wealth, fame and empty honors.\\nFrom the objective point of the square, possessors of the\\npsychic type of hand are useless members of a material world,\\nsince they are wanting in method, energy and practicality. If\\npushed into the struggle for success by circumstances and\\nenvironment, they generally go under in the fight. Instead of\\nbecoming more practical and worldly by contact with harsher\\nnatures, they shrink more and more within themselves, become\\n43", "height": "3968", "width": "2716", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "J4 McIyok-Tyndall s Revelations of the Hand.\\ndepressed and melancholy; often brooding over what they feel\\nto be their failure in life.\\nWhat children of this type must suffer at the hands of\\nparents who do not, nor ever can, nnderstanl their sensitive,\\nimaginative natures, only the pitying angels can know.", "height": "3968", "width": "2760", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "PL A r TE 6 The Psychic Type of Hand.", "height": "3968", "width": "2700", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3948", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER VIII.\\nThe AAixed Type of Hand-\\nThis is perhaps the most common type of hand, and at\\nthe same time the most varied. The character represented by\\nthe mixed type is a many sided one.\\nAs the hand is a combination of the several types, the\\nowner naturally possesses in greater or less degree the\\ncharacteristics represented by those types. The mixed type is\\nquite readily recognized. When the hand cannot be said to\\nbelong to any distinct type it can be classed as the mixed\\nhand.\\nThis should not be confounded with a hand which repre-\\nsents a distinct type only slightly modified. For instance a\\nhand which shows a distinctly spatulate palm with two or\\nmore lingers spatulate -tipped, must be regarded as belonging\\nto the spatulate type, even though one or perhaps two of the\\nfingers be conic or square. By the purely mixed type I mean\\nthe hand in which the palm itself is neither distinctly square,\\nconic, nor spatulate, and of which the fingers are of varying\\ntypes.\\nNaturally the mixed hand belongs to people whose\\ncharacter is mixed. They are undoubtedly clever and versa-\\ntile in ideas, diplomatic, speculative and sociable. They\\npossess a vast fund of general information, ingratiate themselves\\nwith all sorts and conditions of people and easily adapt them-\\nselves to their surroundings. Their versatility makes them\\nlacking in continuity of purpose but much depends upon the\\n47", "height": "3968", "width": "2708", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "4S McIvoe-Tyndall s Revelations of the Hand.\\nsize and shape of the thumb and the order of brain power indi-\\ncated by the line of mentality. Will, logic and common sense\\ncan do much toward overcoming faults and compelling success.\\nChildren with the distinctly mixed type of hand should\\nbe early trained to fixedness of purpose along some chosen\\nline, thus overcoming the tendency to dilettantism.", "height": "3968", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "PLATE 7.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Mixed Type of Hand..", "height": "3964", "width": "2712", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3968", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER IX-\\nThe ringers-\\nFingers are square tipped, conic, pointed or spatnlate ac-\\ncording to the type of hand of whieh they are a part. They\\nare smooth or knotted; long or short, thick or clumsy, or slen-\\nder and supple. They have three phalanges. The first or\\nnail phalange, the second or middle phalange, and the third\\nphalange connecting the fingers with the palm.\\nLong ringers.\\nLong fingers are generally admitted to denote intellectu-\\nality. Their length must of course be considered comparatively\\nwith the length of the hand. Long fingers are more cautious,\\nmore observant of details and more exacting in small matters\\nthan short fingers.\\nShort ringers.\\nShort fingers belong to people of impulse and action.\\nThey do not trouble about details, but observe only as a whole.\\nThus they arrive at their conclusions without due reflection\\nwith the result that they often change their minds. They\\nare indifferent to appearances and impatient of the restraints of\\nconventionality. They are often blunt and outspoken in\\nspeech\\nThick, Heavy Fingers-\\nThick heavy fingers show animalism and selfishness.\\nStiff fingers betray an excessively cautious, reserved and secre-\\ntive nature.\\n51", "height": "3964", "width": "2704", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "52 McIvor-Tyndall s Revelations of the Hand.\\nSupple Tingers.\\nFingers which are flexible show cleverness, tact and a\\nlively interest in everything. When they are wide apart and\\nthe tips curve backward, they denote curiosity and the desire\\nto pry into the affairs of others.\\nCrooked Tingers.\\nCrooked fingers are supposed to belong to persons whose\\nprinciples and methods are sometimes designated as crooked.\\nThis interpretation, however, has to be taken with extreme\\ncaution. I have found that an otherwise good hand may have\\ndistorted or twisted fingers; in which event I have found their\\nowners possessed of a fussy, irritable, but perfectly honest nature.\\nOn a bad hand crooked fingers undoubtedly accentuate the bad\\nqualities.\\nPull, Pleshy Pingers.\\nFingers which are very full and fleshy at the base are\\nselfish as regards their material comfort. They are fond of\\nluxurious living and are inclined to the pleasures of the senses.\\nThin, Waist-shaped Pingers\\nWhen the fingers are thin at the third phalange or base, it\\ndenotes unselfishness and a nature devoted to mental, rather\\nthan physical, enjoyment.\\nRelative Length of Pingers.\\nWhen the first finger, called the finger of Jupiter, is very\\nlong in proportion to the length of the others, it denotes great\\npride and ambition. When the mount below the finger is\\nmuch developed also, it reveals a dictatorial, autocratic spirit.\\nWhen the second finger, called the finger of Saturn, is in\\nexcess, it denotes a thoughtful, studious the mount", "height": "3996", "width": "2780", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "The Fingers. 53\\nbelow this linger is large also, it shows a tendency to melan-\\ncholia and pessimism.\\nWhen the third finger, the linger of Apollo, is unusually\\nlong it shows that love of the beautiful and the artistic will\\ndominate the life. In connection with a long linger of Jupi-\\nter, it betrays ambition for fame, power, wealth or distinct-\\nion. When this linger is equal in length to the second, it\\ndenotes the gambler. Whether the gambling propensities will\\nbe displayed in the card room, on the battle field or on\\nChange depends upon the character of the hand.\\nA long well-shaped little finger is a fortunate possession.\\nIt shows eloquence, power of expression, and, in conjunction\\nwith a good thumb and a clear straight head line, it gives to\\nits owner that power of twisting people around their little\\nfinger which is so great a factor in the attainment of worldly\\nsuccess.\\nA relatively short little finger shows cleverness of another\\nkind. When it sets out from the hand showing a wide space\\nbetween it and the finger of Apollo, it denotes an independent,\\nquick-witted person, quick of thought and action, emotional,\\nwitty and brilliant, rather than forcible or logical, in argument.\\nKnotted and Smooth ringers.\\nKnotted fingers are those with developed joints. Strangely\\nenough hard work has nothing to do with producing this for-\\nmation, as it is more generally found in the hands of men who\\ndo only mental work. They may be found on every type of\\nhand, although they belong naturally to the philosophic type.\\nKnots indicate reflection, the reverse of smooth fingers\\nthe fingers of impulse. They denote care and method in\\nwork, whether mental or manual. The writer with knotted\\njoints will be painstaking and accurate in the accumulation and", "height": "3968", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "5-t McIyor-Tyndall s Revelations o* the Hand.\\narrangement of his ideas and information. He will be analy-\\ntical and, above all, logical in his conclusions.\\nKnotted fingers on the laboring man will give a sense of\\nresponsibility, patience and exactness in carrying out instruct-\\nions or arranging the details of his work. Knotted fingers\\nshow order and philosophy. Smooth fingers show impulse and\\nintuition.\\nSmooth joints are naturally the opposite of the knotted.\\nThey are more impulsive and accept existing conditions with-\\nout argument.\\nThe type of hand on which they are found greatly modifies\\nthe characteristics of the fingers. For instance, smooth fingers\\non the square or spatulate type of hand, have not the same de-\\ngree of significance as on the conic and psychic hands.\\nTingers Leaning Toward Each Other.\\nWhen fingers naturally lean toward one another it shows the\\ninfluence of the qualities represented by the finger. Thus if\\nthe other fingers incline toward a long finger of Jupiter, the\\nqualities represented by Jupiter will predominate in the char-\\nacter of th 9 person.\\nThe Three Phalanges of the Tingers,\\nThe first or nail phalange of the fingers represents the\\nintuitive faculties the domain of the spirit.\\nThe second phalange represents the mental endowments;\\nintellect.\\nThe third phalange represents the material nature. These\\nobservations are important in determining temperament.", "height": "3968", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3968", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3924", "width": "2784", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER X.\\nThe Thumb-\\nMontaigne, in Volume II, of his essays, devotes a chap-\\nter to the thumb in which he says: Physicians say that\\nthe thumb is the master-finger of the hand and that their\\nLatin etymology is derived from pollere (to be powerful).\\nIf the hand can be said to represent the character and life\\nof a man, the thumb is unquestionably the man, for it repre-\\nsents the three great elements in his life, will. power, intellect\\nand love.\\nThe Chinese, Japanese and Persian students of the science\\nof palmistry base their conclusions as to character, upon the\\nshape, size and position of the thumb, almost exclusively.\\nIdiots have insignificant, undeveloped thumbs, which\\nthey hide instinctively beneath their fingers. I have found in my\\nexperience as a physician that in the case of the dying, as the hold\\nupon life weakens, the thumb turns in toward the palm, and\\nthe will no longer asserts itself.\\nIt is inferable therefore, that as the thumb represents the\\nwill and the intellect, the person with a short, small thumb set\\nclose to the hand will be weak and cowardly, while a long, firm\\nand well -shaped thumb denotes refinement and the ability to\\ncarry out successfully the ideas of its owner, through force of\\nlogic and will-power.\\nMuch has been written of the thumb, and its history is\\ninteresting. Among the records of the ancient wars, we read\\n57", "height": "3968", "width": "2708", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "58 McIyor-Tyndall s Revelations of the Hand.\\nthat captors used to cut off the thumbs of their prisoners, to\\nrender them incapable of carrying arms. Biting the thumb is\\nthe Italian way of expressing contempt. During the middle ages\\nwhen the trouble of learning to read and write was left to the\\npriests and hermits, the magistrates and barons were accus-\\ntomed to sign all necessary documents by making their\\nu thumb-mark in ink. So true an index is the thumb that\\nno two marks are alike. Life or death for combatants in the\\narena, in the days of Ancient Rome, was determined by the\\nupward or downward motion of the thumb. If the spectators\\nraised their thumbs, it signified that their will was to\\ngrant the life of the gladiator. If they reversed them, he was\\nto die.\\nThe thumb is divided into three parts. The first or nail\\nphalange represents will, the second phalange indicates logic or\\nreason. The third phalange forms part of the hand and is called\\nthe mount of Venus, representing love.\\nWhen the thumb is properly balanced, each phalange\\nbeing proportionately developed, and the thumb is firm with a\\nslope toward the fingers, it shows a nature in which will power\\nis coupled with judgment and logic giving character and\\ndignity to an independent, determined spirit.\\nWhen this type of thumb sets far out from the hand at\\nright angles, it shows exaggeration of these qualities: a nature\\nthat will not brook restraint or opposition; one which will go\\nto extremes in its independence.\\nWhen the thumb is unevenly balanced, one phalange being\\nin excess, it naturally denotes an excess of the characteristics\\nwhich that phalange represents. Thus when the first phalange is\\nextremely long in proportion to the thumb, the person will be\\nstrong willed, but lacking in logic and reason.\\nWhen the second phalange is much longer than the first,\\nthe person will reason logically and well; plan wisely; but fail", "height": "3968", "width": "2784", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "PLATE 9\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Thumbs.", "height": "3960", "width": "2720", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3964", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "The Thumb. 61\\nin execution. He lacks the determination and continuity of\\npurpose necessary to carry out his clever ideas.\\nWhen the third phalange, the mount of Venus, is far in\\nexcess of the first and second phalanges, the person will be\\nruled almost wholly by his desires, appetites and passions.\\nSupple and Stiff Thumbs.\\nWhen the thumb is supple and can be bent backward, it\\nshows exaggeration and prodigality, extravagance in all things\\ndress, art, words and enterprises. Persons with this type of\\nthumb have the sympathy and generosity which gives adapta-\\nbility to people and place.\\nThe stiff-jointed thumb which bends very little, if at all,\\ndenotes the opposite of the supple- jointed type. The stiff\\nthumb tells of an unyielding, determined nature cautious and\\nsecretive. Stiff- thumbed people do not easily adapt themselves\\nto new surroundings and new friends. They are not broad in\\ntheir sympathies, but they are just, as they understand justice.\\nThey keep a firm control over their feelings and may be relied\\nupon to do what they consider their duty. They are staunch\\nand true but undemonstrative.\\nWhen the first, or nail phalange, is large and heavy as well as\\nstiff it shows the extreme of will power and unyielding determ-\\nination, which is an ungovernable temper *and stubbornness.\\nIf this phalange be also clubbed in formation and stiff-\\njointed, with a short second phalange it shows brutality and\\nmurderous instincts.\\nThe second phalange, representing the judgment and\\nreasoning power, is very important in its significance. When\\nformed with a narrow center it shows tact, keenness of intel-\\nlect, diplomacy and finesse. The full formation of this\\nphalange, shows the blunt reason untempered by tact.", "height": "3968", "width": "2716", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XI.\\nThe Nails-\\nThe study of the nails is important chiefly in its relation\\nto disease, although this point must also be considered in regard\\nto temperament. I do not maintain as do some writers on this\\npoint that the person who bites his or her nails is not to be\\ntrusted. Neither do 1 consider the habit filthy or degrad-\\ning, or in any sense to be compared to morphinomania, to\\nwhich level, one writer on the science assigns it. It shows a\\nnervous, impatient nature and one that will not brook restraint\\nbut the principles may be of the highest, the mentality of the\\nbrightest, the morals unquestionable, although the person has\\nthe unfortunate habit of biting the nails.\\nThe habit is often contracted in childhood from sheer\\ndiffidence and nervous self- consciousness and like any other\\nhabit when not corrected at once it may become what we call\\nsecond nature.\\nLong Nails.\\nLong nails, especially when thin, are indications of phy-\\nsical weakness When curved or fluted they show a tendency to\\nweak vitality and lung trouble. These characteristics in excess\\nindicate consumption.\\nLong nails which widen at the top, especially when blue\\nin tint and the accompaniment to cold hands, show weak circu-\\nlation, nervousness and anaemia. (Plate 9, Figures 1 and 2.)\\nShort Nails.\\nShort red nails denote obstinancy. Flat nails denote\\n02", "height": "3968", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "T\\niO\\nfS 1\\ni Me\\n5\\nC\\n_\\n~j\u00c2\u00a3\\nCk", "height": "3956", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3964", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "The Nails. 65\\ngeneral organic weakness. If well colored, however, the mind\\nis energetic and ambitious. Short nails belong to quick, active\\nand impulsive people. On a weak hand they further accentu-\\nate the indications of a frivolous nature. Short, small, thin\\nnails show heart disease.\\nShort nails, narrow at the base and wide at the top, trian-\\ngular shaped, show a tendency to paralysis. (Plate 10, Fig-\\nures 3 and -A.)\\nGeneral Characteristics.\\nThe general conclusion to be deduced from a study of\\nthe nails, therefore, is that long nails show a more quiet,\\nreasonable and less critical nature than short nails, and a pre-\\ndisposition to anaemia, pulmonary troubles and general weak-\\nness of the physical system.\\nPeople with short nails are more critical, impulsive, obsti-\\nnate and less gentle natured than those with long nails. So\\nalso, short nails show a tendency to heart disease, apoplexy\\nand paralysis.\\nFine, broad, delicate nails show relinement, sensitiveness\\nand spirituality.\\nThick coarse nails belong to the primitive hanck\\nDark nails show weak digestion.\\nBright, pink colored nails show good circulation and an\\nactive cheerful temperment.\\nYellow colored nails show nervousness and biliousness.\\nDull, greyish colored nails show a depressed, morbid con-\\ndition.\\nWhite spots on the nails show too much acidity in the\\nsystem.\\nShort, irregular shaped nails show a deceitful person.", "height": "3948", "width": "2696", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER X\\nLarge and Small, Hard and Soft hands.\\nIn noticing the hand and thumb, the relative size of the\\nhand must be considered, as well as the texture of the hand.\\nAs long fingers are found to denote intellectuality, so too, I\\nhave found that a long palm, with correspondingly long\\nlingers, indicates literary ability and refined tastes.\\nOne of the rules of gypsy palmistry was that persons\\nwhose palms were equal in length or longer than the fingers\\nresembled their father in temperament, and that where the\\nfingers were relatively the longer, thepeison inherited from the\\nmaternal side. In the cases where I have tested this theory, I\\nhave found it true. I am convinced that the fingers need not\\nbe longer than the palm to denote intellectuality.\\nLarqe Hands.\\nLarge hands are fond of detail; are very particular in\\nmatters of etiquette and are more easily annoyed by trifling\\nmatters than by great troubles.\\nLarge hands do the finest work, are more painstaking and\\nmethodical and are less critical than small hands. Large hands\\ngenerally accompany diffident, self -deprecatory natures.\\nSmall hands.\\nSmall hands have large ideas, great plans. They over-\\nlook details and criticise only from the standpoint of the\\n66", "height": "3968", "width": "2764", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "Large and Small, Hard and Soft Hands. (u\\nensemble. Small hands are seldom lacking in self confidence\\nand the j are often extremely conceited.\\nHollow Pa ms.\\nA hollow palm is invariably considered unfortunate in\\nmoney matters. Cheiro s observations have convinced him\\nthat the hollow always inclines more toward one portion of the\\nhand than another and it signi es misfortune for whatever line\\nit inclines toward. Thus, if the hollow inclines toward the line\\nof life domestic trouble is foreshadowed.\\nWhen the hollow is deepest under the line of fate, misfor-\\ntune in social and business affairs will be the result.\\nWhen under the heart it tells of unhappiness in love\\naffairs.\\nPersonally I have observed that hollow- palmed people are\\nnot happy. They are pessimistic, easily depressed and ever\\nconscious of the tragedies of life. They are deeply thoughtful\\nand sympathetic. They have excellent executive ability, but\\nit is probably due to their keen sympathies that they do- not\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2hold on to money.\\nhard and Soft hands.\\nWhen the hand is dry and hard it shows a severe, ener-\\ngetic and worrying nature.\\nAn exceedingly hard hand shows a calous, hardened and\\nbrutal nature. This of course does not allude to the hand\\nwhich has been hardened by manual labor. That will show\\nfor itself.\\nA thin dry hand betrays a nervous irritable temperament.\\nA thick palm shows coarseness; sensuality.\\nHard hands show excessive energy.\\nSoft hands denote indolence, love of ease and pleasure, and", "height": "3968", "width": "2688", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "68 McIvor-Tyndall s Revelations of the Hand.\\na disposition toward laziness and selfishness. When thick as\\nwell as soft, dissipation.\\nFirm, elastic hands show intelligence and a well-balanced\\nmind.\\nA good hand is firm without being hard, elastic without\\nbeing soft.", "height": "3964", "width": "2776", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XIII.\\nThe Color of the Palm.\\nThe color of the palm is important in its relation to the\\nhealth of the individual, as well as the temperament.\\nA bright, cheerful, contented nature and good health are\\nindicated by a firm, pink colored palm.\\nA hasty temper, intensity of passion, materalism, and an\\ninclination to apoplexy or heart disease, are shown by a pal m\\nvery red in color.\\nA palm quite white in color indicates an anaemic, neural-\\ngic condition, as well as coldness, indiference, and a lack of\\nsympathy.\\nA palm yellow in color indicates liver and kidney trouble.\\n4\\n69", "height": "3964", "width": "2704", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XIV.\\nThe /nounts.\\nThe name given to the protuberances which are found at\\nthe base of each finger, and along the sides of the hand, have\\ndescended to us from Astrological Palmistry. It would be im-\\npossible to say, without going into the subject deeply, just\\nwhat connection there may be between the planets and the\\nnerve centers of the hand. That we are more or less directly\\ninfluenced by the seven planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury,\\nVenus, Mars, the Sun and the Moon, no one who has given the\\nsubject even the slightest attention, will feel disposed to deny.\\nSo also by observation, a student of the science of palmistry\\ncan tell by an examination of the hand, which of the seven\\nplanets, most influences the subject.\\nThat, however, belongs to the domain of astrology, a\\nknowledge of which is not necessary in the study of palmistry.\\nA\\\\ount of cJupiter.\\nThe development found at the base of the first finger is\\ncalled the mount of Jupiter. When well developed it denotes\\npride, ambition, lofty aspirations, religious fervor, enthusiasm,\\nand love of power.\\nWhen in excess it gives over-bearing pride, a domineering\\nspirit, arrogance, and love of display braggadocio.\\nTne absence of Jupiter is not favorable. It shows want of\\ndignity and self respect weakness of character.\\n/Hount of Saturn.\\nThis is the development found at the base of the second\\n70", "height": "3968", "width": "2784", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "The Mounts. 71\\nfinger, and denotes wisdom, thought, profundity, sadness and\\nlove of study and investigation. In excess it shows a morose,\\ngloomy nature silent and melancholy.\\nMount of Apollo.\\nThis mount is found at the base of the third finger. When\\nwell developed it gives a love of the beautiful, of art, music, liter-\\nature, a desire for genius, glory, fame, riches. It gives hope,\\ncheerfulness, sociability, beauty and graciousness.\\nIn excess it denotes extravagance, recklessness, haughti-\\nness, vanity, envy and frivolity.\\nMount of Mercury.\\nThis is the development found at the base of the fourth\\nfinger and is separated from the mount of Mars by the line of\\nheart. When normally developed, it shows aptitude for science,\\nversatility of ideas, changeability of mood, activity, business\\nability, eloquence, and subtlety; a leaning toward the cccult\\nsciences.\\nIn excess it shows an exaggeration of these qualities which\\nis not lavorable. If lacking it shows an absence of these\\nqualities.\\nMount of Mars-\\nThere are two mounts of this name. The first is found\\nbeneath the mount of Jupiter, inside the life line. When firm\\nand well developed it gives courage, resolution, and the noble\\nfighting spirit of the soldier. In excess, it shows an aggressive,\\nquarrelsome nature, and in a bad hand, brutality.\\nThe second mount of Mars is found below the mount of\\nMercury, separated from it by the heart line. It shows the\\ncourage that belongs to resolution, forbearance, patience, self-\\ncontrol, and resistance against misfortune.\\nMount of Luna.\\nThe mount which terminates the hand proper, opposite the", "height": "3968", "width": "2728", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "72 McIvor-Tyndall s Revelations of the Hand.\\nmount of Venus and below the second mount of Mars, is the\\nmount of Luna, or the Moon. When normally developed, t\\nshows imagination, romance, love of poetry, harmony, mystery\\nand sentiment; high ideals.\\nIn excess, it indicates discontent, sadness, superstition, and\\na tendency to morbid fancies.\\nA\\\\ount of Venus.\\nThe development found at the base of the thumb, and form\\ning its third phalange, is the mount of Venus. It is encircled\\nby the line of life and, as under this mount is situated one of the\\nmost important blood vessels in the hand, upon its development\\nlargely depends the depth and color of the line of life. A firm\\nwell developed mount of Venus shows a full-blooded, healthy\\nphysique. It also shows -affection, sympathy, love of beauty\\nand harmony. It betrays the quality and extent of the love\\nnature, indicating the difference between deep love and selfish\\npassion.\\nA small, thin mount of Venus shows a cold, unsympathetic\\nnature, and poor vitality. An abnormally developed mount of\\nVenus indicates violent and brutal passions.\\nBlending of the Mounts.\\nWhen a mount leans toward another, it blends with the\\nqualities of the mount toward which it leans, modifying the char-\\nacteristics of each. Thus if the mount of Apollo (the Sun)\\nleans toward Mercury, the love of art and fame indicated by\\nthat mount, will be influenced by the commercial and scientific\\ntendency of Mercury.", "height": "3968", "width": "2780", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "PL A TE 11.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Mounts.", "height": "3968", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3916", "width": "2792", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XV.\\nRight and Left Hands-\\nEarly disciples of the science of cheirosophy were accus-\\ntomed to depend entirely upon the left hand in interpreting-\\ncharacter and forecasting events, on the principle that it] is\\nnearer the heart, the mainspring of life. In an interesting book\\non this subject published in England in 1 5 3 1 the line of heart is\\ngiven as the Vital line. Later observation, however, has\\nproven that the left hand indicates the natural or inherited tend-\\nencies, talents, and possibilities, while the right hand registers\\nthe effect of training, experience, environment and so forth.\\nIn instances where great changes have been brought about\\nin ideas, locality, social conditions or aspirations, the right hand\\nwill be found very unlike the left. It is also worthy of note that\\nin rare cases where a person has been the power behind the\\nthrone, and has attained success through some one else, by\\nmanaging their affairs, the left hand will show success where the\\nright does not. The left hand can be said to be passive, and the\\nright active.\\nIt is therefore necessary to examine both hands before\\narriving at a conclusion, depending more upon the right than the\\nleft hand, for future tendencies.\\n75", "height": "3968", "width": "2728", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XVI.\\nResume of Cheirognomy.\\nIn the preceeding chapters are set forth, as clearly as possi-\\nble in a volume of this size, the various types of hands, their\\ncharacteristics, and some of their modifications: In arriving at\\na definite conclusion, it will be necessary to consider carefully\\nall points in connection with the various types. A thorough\\nknowledge of cheirognomy is essential, before attempting a\\nstudy of cheiromancy.\\nThus, if the student should observe a person with an abnorm-\\nally long first phalange of the thumb, he must not decide hastily\\nthat he or she is recklessly determined, over-bearing and obsti-\\nnate. He must consider the type of hand, the length and shape\\nof the fingers, the texture of the skin, the space between the\\nfingers, whether the thumb itself is stiff or supple, and the depth\\nand character of the lines of mentality, heart and life.\\nThus according as the different characteristics indicated\\nare blended and modified, he should be able with the faculty of\\ndeduction, to form a just conclusion.\\nThe science of palmistry can not be learned in a day\\nalthough I have seen advertisements guaranteeing to teach it in\\nseven lessons. I am not advised as to whether the teacher\\ndepended upon some mystical power in the number seven, or\\nupon the phenominal aptitude of his pupils.\\nCertainly much depends upon the adaptability of the\\nstudent. As in the study of music one pupil may far out dis\\ntaace another, so in the study of palmistry one may, by ready\\n76", "height": "3968", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "Resume of Cheirognomy. 77\\ncomprehension and assimilation of the principles of the science,\\nmaster in a comparatively short time what another may\\nnever be able to understand. But not in seven lessons. On\\nthe other hand, I have in mind a certain estimable woman who,\\nafter devoting several years to the study of palmistry, finally\\ndeclared that it. was quite too intricate for her. Not all indeed,\\nare blessed with that gift of spiritual perception which makes\\nthe acquisition of knowledge merely absorptive.", "height": "3968", "width": "2712", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3920", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "PART SECOND.\\nCHEIROMANCY,\\nCHAPTER I.\\nThe Lines of the Hand.\\nThe second part of the study of Palmistry is devoted to the\\ninterpretation of the lines and markings of the palm.\\nBefore forming an opinion of the exact meaning of this or\\nthat line or marking, it will be found necessary to have made a\\nthorough examination of the cheirognomy of the hand. In\\ntreating of the lines of the hand, it is advisable to divide them\\ninto sevens.\\nThe seven principle lines are:\\nThe Line of Life.\\nThe Line of Mentality, or Head.\\nThe Line of Heart.\\nThe Line of Fate.\\nThe Line of Apollo, or the Sun.\\nThe Line of Health.\\nThe Girdle of Venus.\\n79", "height": "3964", "width": "2696", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "80 McIvok-Tyndall s Revelations of the Hand.\\nThe seven lesser lines are called:\\nThe Line of Mars.\\nThe Via Lascivia.\\nThe Line of Intuition.\\nThe Line of Marriage.\\nThe Three Bracelets.\\nThe locations of these lines can readily be learned by study-\\ning Plate 12, Map of the Hand.", "height": "3940", "width": "2732", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "Lit** Of 2\\n(vlftRRIfter\\n/YaA? 12 -The Lines of the Hand.", "height": "3968", "width": "2696", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3920", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "Plate 13\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Seven Principal Lines", "height": "3964", "width": "2736", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3888", "width": "2712", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER II-\\nThe Line of Life-\\nThe line outside the mount of Mars, under the mount of\\nJupiter, and circling the mount of Venus, is called the line of\\nlife. This is the most important line of the hand and is never\\nabsent. It will be found to relate to all things touching the life\\nof the subject such as health, changes, accidents, deaths, losses\\nillnesses, duration of life, etc.\\nGenerally speaking, a long line of life indicates a long\\nlife, a short line of life indicates a short life. This rule taken\\nliterally, however, will prove very unsatisfactory and puzzling, as\\nthe line may be broken, or it may be cut by the line of health,\\nor it may be long in one hand and short in the other, again, the\\nlength and termination of the line of mentality must be consid-\\nered in determining the length of life.\\nWhenever the line of life is clear and deep, and continues\\nin a narrow, unbroken line around the mount of Venus, it indi-\\ncates a long life and good health.\\nWhen the line is pale and broad, it indicates feeble health\\nand a weak nature.\\nWhen the line is irregular, that is, deep and clear in some\\nparts, and pale and broad in others, it indicates periods of alter-\\nnate good and ill health.\\nWhen the line is made up of little links like a chain, it is a\\npositive indication ol ill health throughout the life.\\nThe closer to the mount of Jupiter the starting point of the\\nline of life, the earlier in life will begin the self-reliance and in-\\ndependence of the subject.\\n85", "height": "3964", "width": "2696", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "86 McIvor-Tynd all s Revelations of the Hand.\\nWhen the line is broken in the left hand, but clear and un-\\nbroken in the right, some dangerous illness is threatened which\\nmay be avoided.\\nWhen the line is connected with the line of mentality it\\nshows a cautious, prudent nature with a degree of sensitiveness.\\n(Plate 14, Fig. 1.)\\nWhen the line is closely connected with the mental line\\nfor a considerable distance, it shows extreme sensitiveness, dif-\\nfidence and self-consciousness.\\nWhen there is a slight space between the lines of life and\\nmentality, it shows a self-reliant nature, one that will not be\\nbe easily deterred from carrying out his plans. (Plate 14,\\nFig. 2.)\\nThe wider the space the more self-confidence, which logic-\\nally results (when too wide) in recklessness and conceit.\\nWhen the lines of life, heart and mentality are joined\\ntogether under the mount of Saturn, it is a very unfavorable\\nsign. If found in both hands it presages a violent death.\\n(Plate 31, hand of J. B.)\\nWhen the life line ends abruptly without branch lines or\\nislands, it indicates a sudden death. This will be verified by the\\nlines of fate and mentality, (Plate 14, Fig. 3.)\\nA line rising from the line of life and ascending to the\\nmount of Jupiter, shows success, gratified ambition, an inde-\\npendent move at that point of life. (Plate 14, Fig. 4.)\\nFine lines drooping from the life line are unfavorable.\\nThey signify loss of health or wealth, at the age at which they\\nappear. (Plate 14, Fig. 5,)\\nLines rising from the life line are favorable. They signify\\ngain at the age at which they are marked.\\nA line rising from the life line and going to the mount of\\nSaturn along with the fate line shows gain in wealth through\\nindividual effort.\\nA line rising from the life line and going direct to the", "height": "3968", "width": "2740", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "Plate 14\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Life Lines.", "height": "3968", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3944", "width": "2784", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "The Line of Life. 89\\nmount of the Sun, denotes celebrity in accordance with the type\\nof the hand.\\nA line crossing from the line of life to the mount of Mer-\\ncury, signifies success in business, or scientific persuits accord-\\ning to the type of hand.\\nWhen the line of life is tasseled at the end, it signifies\\ntrouble and ill health at the end of life. If merely forked it sig-\\nnifies death while away from home.\\nSigns on the Life Line-\\nA cross on the line of life indicates an accident.\\nAn island at the commencement of the line of life, shows\\nunfavorable conditions at the time of birth, generally an in-\\nherited disease.\\nAn island on the life line shows an illness at the time of\\nits appearance. Its duration can be ascertained by the length\\nof the island.\\nA square on the line of life denotes preservation from ill-\\nness; from accidental death if the life line be broken within the\\nsquare.\\nSpots on the life line are indications of weak vitality\\nusually nervous diseases.", "height": "3968", "width": "2704", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER III.\\nLine of Mentality, or head.\\nThe character and position of the line of mentality, largely\\ndetermines the intellect of the subject, the character and quality\\nof the talent, and the condition of the health as it affects the\\nmind.\\nThe line of mentality is found, on the normal hand, under\\nthe line of heart. It may have its starting point on the side of\\nthe hand, on the mount of Mars, from the beginning of the life\\nline, or from the mount of Jupiter. It is more commonly found\\nto rise from the commencement of the life line. This position\\nof the mental line denotes a sensitive, conscientious nature, a\\nshrinking from publicity and a tendency to keep a firm check on\\nthe emotions.\\nWhen the mental line is closely connected with the line of\\nlife for a considerable distance, it indicates the extreme of the\\nforegoing characteristics. The person will be over cautious,\\nover sensitive, etc.\\nWhen the mental line rises from the mount of Jupiter, and\\nsloping down just touches the line of life and continues across\\nthe hand, it shows an extremely ambitious nature with great pride\\nand intellect, determination and brain power, yet careful, tactful\\nand cautious.\\nWhen the mental line rises on the mount of Jupiter, but is\\nnot connected with the line of life, the subject will have the fore-\\ngoing characteristics, but will lack tact and self-control. He\\nwill be somewhat impetuous, over-enthusiastic, and hasty.\\nWhen the space between the lines of life and mentality is ex-\\n90", "height": "3968", "width": "2764", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "Line of Mentality, or Head. 91\\ntremely wide, the person will be reckless, conceited, and, if the\\nline of mentality be also short, wanting- in intelligence.\\nWhen the mental line starts from inside the life line, on the\\nmount of Mars, it shows a nervous, irritable and changeable\\nperson inconstant and unstable in thought and action, but with\\na tendency toward aggressiveness. (Plate 15, Fig. 3.)\\nThe general characteristics of the line of mentality with-\\nout regard to the type of hand are:\\nLong, clear and straight it denotes a practical, clear-\\nheaded person. Narrow, weak and short, it shows a lack of\\nmentality; a frivolous empty-headed person. (Plate 15, Fig. 1.)\\nWhen the line of mentality slopes toward the mount of\\nLuna, ending in two branches, it promises literary talent, in ac-\\ncordance with the type ot hand.\\nWhen the mental line is chained and broad it shows a lack\\nof concentration and a disposition to neuralgic headaches.\\n(Plate 15, Fig. 4.)\\nWhen the line extends straight across the palm in a clear\\ndeep line it indicates an unusual intellect, but, unless it be\\nbalanced by the heart line, it also shows coldness, uncharitable-\\nness and selfishness. (Plate 15, Fig. 2.)\\nWhen an extremely long straight line of mentality tends\\nupward in the direction of the mount of Mercury, it denotes\\nfinancial success in business; that overwhelming business ability\\nwhich pays its workers eighty cents a day, while the yearly\\nprofits net a million.\\nA short, but deep and clear line of mentality shows the\\npractical, materialistic nature.\\nAn abnormally short mental line on an otherwise brainy\\nhand presages an early death.\\nWhen the mental line ends abruptly, it indicates a sudden\\ndeath at the age which will be indicated on the lines of life\\nand fate.\\nWhen the line of mentality is broKen under the mount of", "height": "3968", "width": "2700", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "92 McIvor-Tyndall s Revelations of the Hand.\\nSaturn, it is a positive indication of sudden death through some\\nfatality.\\nWhen the lines of life, mentality and heart are joined\\ntogether under the mount of Saturn, it is an extremely unfor-\\nnate sign; if in both hands it is an invariable sign of some fatal-\\nity. (Plate 31, hand of J. B.)\\nWhen the line of mentality sends a branch to the mount of\\nJupiter, it indicates that the mentality of the subject will be in-\\nfluenced by ambition and desire for power.\\nIf the branch extend toward Saturn, it partakes of the qual-\\nities of that mount love of study, solemnity, scientific investi-\\ngation, religion.\\nIf toward the Sun (Apollo), the person s mental energies will\\nbe directed toward the study of art or the attainment of celebrity.\\nIf toward Mercury, commerce and science will claim the\\nmind.\\nIf the mental line runs into a star on the mount of Jupiter,\\nit denotes wonderful success in all things.\\nAn island on the line of mentality, I have always found to\\ndenote brain fever, or some illness temporarily affecting the\\nmind.\\nA square on the mental line, shows preservation from an\\ninjury to the head.\\nIn determining the qualities indicated by the various posi-\\ntions of the mental lines it is very important that the type of\\nhand should be carefully considered, and the normal and abnor-\\nmal character of the line in relation to the type of hand be\\nnoted.\\nThus the natural mental line on the primitive hand is short,\\ndeep and red. It therefore follows that a long sloping head\\nline on such a hand would give in place of the poetical imagina-\\ntion of the artistic type an element of fear and superstition.\\nThe normal position for the line of mentality on the square\\nhand (the practical, useful type) is straight and fairly long.", "height": "3968", "width": "2732", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "Plate\\\\15\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Lines of Mentality.", "height": "3968", "width": "2724", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3892", "width": "2704", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "Line of Mentality, or Head. 95\\nAny tendency therefore to a sloping head line is of far more\\nsignificance than if found on the psychic or conic types. It\\nshows imagination combined with a practical nature and the\\nowner of such a hand would be sure to put to some practical\\nuse, his power of imagination.\\nThe normal head line on the philosophic type of hand is\\nlong, sloping close to the line of life, and set far down on the\\nhand. The unnatural position therefore would be found in a\\nline of head which was straight across the palm. This at once\\ngives to the natural love of study, of analysis and reflection which\\ncharacterizes the philosophic type, an almost double nature.\\nThe owner of such a hand can be either practical or imaginative.\\nHe will be sure to be coldly analytical mercilessly critical.\\nThe natural position of the mental line on the conic hand,\\nis slightly sloping to the mount of Luna. The conic hand rep-\\nresents impulse, inspiration and love of the artistic and the beau-\\ntiful. It therefore follows that a straight head line on the conic\\ntype of hand adds to the natural talent the desire to make\\npractical use of his artistic abilities and this element of com-\\nmon sense turns the ease-loving dilettante into a successful\\nworker.\\nThe natural position of the mental line on the psychic hand\\nis very sloping and connected with the line of life. The psychic\\ntype represents the sensitive, idealistic, visionary character. The\\nstraight line of mentality therefore, if found on the this type of\\nhand, would simply modify in some degree the natural char-\\nacteristics of the type.\\nAbnormal Characteristics Shown by the Line of Mentality.\\nThus by logical deduction it is possible to account for and\\nunderstand the combinations and modifications of the various\\ncharacteristics shown by the lines. Any unnatural position or\\nformation of the lines, shows some characteristic out of keeping\\nwith the type of hand. Thus, an unnaturally sloping line of", "height": "3988", "width": "2700", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": ",)Q McIvob-Tynd all s Revelations of the Hand.\\nmentality, extending far down on the mount of Luna, (the Moon),\\nshows an abnormal imagination an unbalanced mentality,\\nwhich may at any time, under a severe mental strain, result in\\ninsanity. This is all the more possible if the mount of Saturn be\\nalso much developed, as a very full mount of Saturn is always\\nindicative of a gloomy, depressed, morose and melancholy\\nnature.\\nThe other abnormal position of the line of mentality, is\\nrising high on the hand and running into the line of heart\\nThis formation indicates murderous tendencies. v Plate 29, hand\\nof George Kelly.)\\nSome palmists divide the hand into two hemispheres, by\\nthe line of mentality. The upper half represents intellect, the\\nlower half, materialism.\\nIf this division be admitted as reliable, it naturally follows\\nthat if the line of mentality be set high on the hand, the coarser\\ninstincts of the subject will rule the life. This one writer on the\\nstudy remarks, has been a mply proven by the hands ofthose who\\nhave led a life of crime, particularly where they have been murder-\\nous in their instincts.\\nBut there are various causes which lead to the tak-\\ning of life and the man who commits crime for the sake\\nof crime will have a far different hand to the man who, in a\\nfit of rage kills his enemy. In the latter case the tendency\\nto murder will not be found in the hand save in some warning\\nsign that the violence of the temper, if uncontrolled, must inev-\\nitably cause trouble, just as a rushing torrent if unstemmed\\nsweeps everything from its course causing death and de-\\nstruction.\\nThe strongest plea that can be made in favor of the study\\nof the science of palmistry, is that by its disclosures we are made\\naware of the dangers which threaten us in order that we may avert\\nthem.", "height": "3968", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER IV.\\nThe Line of Heart-\\nTo the line of heart we look not only for those signs which\\ntell us of the quality and quantity of the subject s affection, but\\nalso for the condition of the health as shown by the circulation\\nof the blood.\\nThe position of the heart line on a normal hand is rising\\neither from the mount of Jupiter, or between the mounts of\\nJupiter and Saturn and sweeping in a slight curve across\\nthe palm to the side of the percussion under the mount of\\nMercury.\\nWhen the line rises from the mount of Jupiter, it shows the\\nhighest type of love, strength, ideality and constancy in affec-\\ntion. It also exacts much from those loved, demanding perfec-\\ntion.\\nWhen the line rises far up on the mount, even to the root\\nof the finger of Jupiter, it denotes the excess of the foregoing\\ncharacteristics intensity of feeling and jealousy.\\nWhen the line rises between the mounts of Jupiter and\\nSaturn, it shows a deep, quiet and lasting affection without the\\nintensity and jealousy of the preceeding type.\\nWhen the line rises low down in the hand, under the\\nmount of Saturn, it indicates a low T er type of love. The per-\\nson will be selfish and more animal in his love. The line\\nrising high upon Saturn, sometimes to the base of the fingers,\\n97", "height": "3996", "width": "2696", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "98 McIvor-Tyndall s Revelations of the Hand.\\nshows the excess of the foregoing characteristics culminating in\\ngross sensuality.\\nA deep red line of heart indicates violent passion.\\nWhen pale and broa I it indicates, first of all, improper\\nblood circulation.\\nWhen the line is chained and rising from under Saturn- a\\ncold-hearted indifferent nature. (Plate 16, Fig. 1.)\\nWhen the heart line is broken it signifies great disappoint-\\nment through the affections. The mount under which it is\\nbroken tells what brought about the trouble. Thus, if the line\\nbe broken under Saturn, fate was responsible for the affair. If\\nunder Apollo, it occurred through caprice. If under Mercury,\\nthrough financial considerations. (Plate 1(3, Fig, 2.)\\nThis broken condition of the heart line would naturally\\nbe found only where the broken attachment had seriously\\naffected the health.\\nExcess of affection is indicated by a heart line lying-\\nstraight across the hand from side to side. This formation\\nwithout a good line of mentality to balance it, will almost in-\\nevitably lead the subject into folly through excess of feeling.\\n(Plate 16, Fig. 3.)\\nWhen the heart line lies down close to the head line, the\\nheart will rule the head.\\nWhen however, the heart line is in the normal position\\nhigh on the hand and the head line lies close up to it, the head\\nwill rule the heart.\\nLines rising from the line of head to the heart line denote\\naffections which have influencel the subject more or less.\\nA short thin line of heart shows an absence of deep affec-\\ntion as well as a lack of vitality. If the heart line be almost\\nabsent, and the line of mentality be long and straight, it shows\\nan utter lack of affection and sympathy. (Plate 10, Fig. 4.)\\nWhen the heart line rises abruptly without branches,", "height": "3992", "width": "2740", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "F^v\\nPlate 16 Heart Lines.", "height": "3948", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3896", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "The Line of Heart. 101\\nunder Saturn, it presages sudden death, confirmation of which\\nmust be looked for on the lines of fate and life.\\nWhen the lines of heart, life and mentality are joined\\ntogether under the mount of Saturn, it is a most unfortunate\\nsign, and if found in both hands, can be relied upon to mean a\\nfatality, usually through an affair of the heart.", "height": "3964", "width": "2712", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER V.\\nThe Line of Tate.\\nTo the line of fate or destiny-, as it is sometimes called, we\\nlook for evidences of the ups and downs of life; for acci-\\ndents, obstacles, troubles, success, changes of circumstance,\\nenvironment etc. I do not hold as do other students of the\\nscience that the absence of a fate line precludes the probability\\nof material success. Neither does its presence insure it.\\nWhether or not there be a destiny which shapes our ends\\nrough-hew then how we will, has long been a subject for\\ndispute.\\nPersonally, I have a theory which observation has con-\\nvinced me is at least possible. It is this: Some persons shape\\ntheir own fate, others are the children of destiny. This is sub-\\nstantiated by the fact that in the study of the science of palm-\\nistry 1 have found that a distinct fate line does not always mean\\nsuccess, not at least, as the world considers success. I have\\nfurther noticed that persons whose line of fate is strongly\\nmarked, admit their inability to order their lives in accordance\\nwith their plans. They are victims or victors of the unex-\\npected. Struggle and plan as they will in a given direction,\\nsome unforeseen force alters the life s course and sends it irresist-\\nibly in another direction.\\nNaturally the question arises, why should some individ-\\nuals have the ordering of their own lives, while others are at\\nthe mercy of a power we call fate?\\nTo me, absolutely convinced of the principle of re-incarna-\\n102", "height": "3968", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "The Line of Fate. 103\\ntion, the answer is logical enough. The ego T previous to\\nre-birth recognizes that which is needed for spiritual growth\\nand chooses its own environment.\\nThe object of earth life must be the growth of the soul;\\nthe development of the consciousness that we are each and all\\na part of the Great Whole. This knowledge can be gained\\nonly through experience. The perfection of character does not\\nmean the walling ourselves about with so-called virtue and\\nabhorrence of error. Of what benefit to the world is goodness\\nif it does not help? And how can we help when we can not\\nsympathize or understand? And how can we understand if we\\nhave never felt? If we cannot realize the motives which\\nprompt to sin, what right have we to pronounce against the\\nsinner?\\nBack of and governing material forces there must be a\\nspiritual law. The object of this law must be the attainment\\nof the highest good, which embra3es infinite wisdom and in-\\nfinite love -the attributes of God.\\nApplication of this theory to the facts of palmistry there-\\nfore, would indicate that the fate line, instead of promising\\nworldly success, simply proves the spiritual growth the indi-\\nviduality of the subject, while the line of the Sun (Apollo)\\nshows the direction of that individuality.\\nIt is a peculiar fact that people with a distinct line of\\nfate are always impressionable and intuitive. Their spiritual\\nperception is more acute, and however materialistic and practi-\\ncal their environment, there will be times when they will be\\nconscious of their spiritual entity. They will tell you that\\nthey are lucky or unlucky as the case may be. The pri-\\nmitive hand never shows a fate line and yet I have seen hands\\nclosely bordering on the primitive type in possession of a great\\ndeal of wealth. From my point of view, since the object of\\nearth life must be progression, the presence of a distinct line", "height": "3968", "width": "2716", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "101 McIvor-Tyndall s Revelations of the Hand.\\nof fate does mean success, as it proves the individual s attain-\\nment to a certain plane of development.\\nJust what environment we have chosen, can be very accur-\\nately seen by an examination of the line of fate.\\nThe line of fate usually rises either from the wrist, the\\nplain of Mars, or from the mount of Luna, although it may\\nrise from the line of life, the line of heart, or the line of men-\\ntality.\\nRising from the wrist and ascending in a straight, un-\\nbroken line to the mount of Saturn, it foreshadows a smooth\\nand happy life. (Plate 17, Fig. 1.)\\nRising from the mount of Luna, the life will be influenced\\nby imagination and caprice. This position of the fate line is\\nfrequently fonnd on the hands of those who are constantly be-\\nfore the public actors, orators, politicians, etc.\\nRising from the line of life, energy and personal effort\\nwill be a factor in life.\\nRising from the line of mentality, it shows that the sub-\\nject must struggle through early life, learning the lessons of\\nperseverance, and reaping the reward of steady application and\\ngood judgment.\\nRising from the line of heart, it indicates that through\\ngenerosity, kindness of heart and good deeds, the subject may\\nhope for his success.\\nWhen the line of fate is joined by a ray line from the\\nmount of Luna, it shows the person to be under the guidance\\nof spiritual power the invisible influence which is erroneously\\nstyled luck.\\nWhen the line of fate is uneven, chained or formed in a\\nseries of crosses at the commencement, it shows unhappiness in\\nearly life, early ambitions thwarted; a youth spent in subjuga-\\ntion to the will of others. (Plate 17, Fig. 2.)\\nWhen the fate line ascends to the mount of Jupiter, it", "height": "3968", "width": "2760", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "Plate 17\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Lines of Fate.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ftyV*", "height": "3964", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3936", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "The Line of Fate. 107\\ndenotes the person s acquisition of power and influence; the\\nability as well as the desire to rule.\\nWhen the line of fate sends an off- shoot or branch toward\\nJupiter it shows a rise in life at that age an increase of influ-\\nence and power.\\nWhen the line of fate is long but broken, crossed and\\nirregular, it shows an eventful life, full of changes, of good\\nand bad fortune.\\nWhen the fate line ascends in a straight line to the mount\\nof Mercury, it denotes success in business.\\nWhen the fate line ascends straight to the mount of\\nApollo, it denotes success in art, music or literature according\\nto the type of hand.\\nA double line of fate promises a public career.\\nThe natural termination of the fate line is on the mount\\nof Saturn. Therefore when this line directs its course to any\\nof the other mounts, it indicates that the efforts of the subject\\nwill be governed by the qualities of whatever mount it\\nseeks. Thus if directed toward Jupiter, pride, ambition and\\ndesire for power will rule the life; if toward the Sun (Apollo,)\\ndesire for fame and an artistic career; toward Mercury, com-\\nmerce or science will claim the attention.\\nComplete breaks in the line of fate show troubles and\\nlosses. If the ends of the broken line overlap and the line\\ncontinues in its course, it shows that the troubles will be\\novercome. (Plate 17, Fig. 3.)\\nCrosses on the line of fate show the changes in the life,\\nenvironment, business, etc.\\nAn island on tue fate line is a sign of misfortune. (Plate\\n17, Fig. 4.)\\nA^square on the line of fate shows protection from adver-\\nsity, accident, etc.", "height": "3968", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "108 McIyor-Tyndall s .Revelations o* the Hand.\\nAbsence of a fate line by no means indicates an insignifi-\\ncant or obscure life. Hands in which there is no line of fate,\\nsimply belong to people who are materialistic and practical with\\nlittle or no faculty of intuition.", "height": "3928", "width": "2712", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER VI.\\nThe Line of Apollo, or Sun-\\nThe line of the Sun, Apollo, or Fortune, as it is variously\\ntermed, is the line rising in the lower half of the hand and\\nrunning parallel to the line of fate ending on the mount of\\nApollo. (Plate 13, the seven principal lines.)\\nLike the line of fate, it may rise from the life line, the\\nmount of Luna, the plain of Mars, the line of mentality, or\\nthe line of heart.\\nIt represents love of art and beauty, fame, wealth, talents\\nand success, according to the type of hand.\\nA clear, well-formed line of Apollo on the spatulate hand\\npromises wealth and distinction through the talents, while on\\nthe psychic and conic types, it may be only a love of art, a\\ndesire for fame, unless the other signs on the hand are most\\nfavorable.\\nWhen the line ends on the mount of the Sun (Apollo), in\\nseveral little parallel lines, it shows diversity of talent, but\\nsuccess seldom attends any of them.\\nA good line of the Sun with a dominant mount of Jupiter\\nindicates the favor of persons of distinction and influence.\\nWhen the line of the Sun rises from the Jife line, it shows\\na life governed by a love of the artistic and the beautiful. If\\nthe other signs in the hand are favorable, it means success in a\\nchosen career.\\nRising from a good line of fate, it enhances the success\\n109", "height": "3968", "width": "2780", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "110 McIvor-Tyndall s Revelations of the Hand.\\npromised by the fate line, and indicates fame, distinction, or\\nwealth according to the desires.\\nRising from the plain of Mars, it denotes success won\\nafter a hard struggle.\\nRising from the line of mentality, it shows success won\\nthrough brain power and judgment. (Plate 18, Fig 2.)\\nRising from the line of heart, it denotes love of art and\\nbeauty, and a fair degree of success late in life.\\nWhen the line of the Sim forms three branches which ascend\\nin three deep lines to the mount of Apollo, it denotes wealth,\\ntalent and fame. (Plate 13, Fig. 1.)\\nA branch from the mount of Lima joining the line of the\\nSim, shows success won through some attribute of that mount\\nimagination, literary talent, or histrionic ability, according to\\nthe type of hand. (Plate 18, Fig. 3.)\\nA person with a good line of the Sun, even though never\\ncultivating art, will possess artistic talent. On a practical\\nhand this talent may show itself in originality and taste in\\nmatters of dress, house decoration, millinery etc.\\nThe absence of a line of the Sun in both hands, on the artistic\\nor the literary type of hand, shows ability and talent without\\nsuccess.\\nA broken line of Sun, denotes obstacles in the way of\\nsuccess. (Plate 18, Fig. 4.)\\nA chained line of Sun, shows lack of continuity of purpose.", "height": "3968", "width": "2732", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "Plate 18\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Lines of Apollo", "height": "3952", "width": "2708", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3968", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER VII-\\nThe Line of Health, or Liver-\\nTins line is also called the Hepatica, and is often accom-\\npanied by a sister line, called the Via Lascivia. Most writers\\non the science of palmistry name the lower part of the\\nhand, either the rascette or the life line, as the starting point\\nof the health line, and the mount of Mercury as its termina-\\ntion. (Plate 12, Map of the Hand.)\\nCheiro, the most eminent of the American exponents of this\\nscience, places the beginning of the line of health on the face\\nof the mount of Mercury, taking its course down the hand.\\nThis theory I am convinced is the correct one. The logic of\\nthis theory is not hard to find. It has been clearly demon-\\nstrated that the life line shows the natural duration of the life;\\ndeath from accident is marked on the life line, by a break or\\ncut at the point of life at which it occurs. It therefore follows\\nthat the point at which the life line is cut by the line of health,\\nmarks the climax of whatever disease is indicated by the health\\nline, the beginning of which is noticed farther up on the palm.\\nSo also, it logically follows that the absence of this line is a\\nfavorable indication, promising continued good health and\\nvitality.\\nA straight, clear line of health going straight down the\\nhand without touching the line of life, promises a long life and\\na good digestion. A rather weak line of life will be strength-\\nened by a health line of this character.\\nWhen the health line is uneven and broken it indicates.\\n113", "height": "3964", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "114 McIvor-Tyndall s Revelations of the Hand.\\npoor digestion which may lead to bad circulation, anaemia, and\\nweak lungs. This formation is usually accompanied by a\\nchained heart-line.\\nWhen the health line is very red in color, especially at the\\nline of heart, it indicates a tendency to heart disease.\\nWhen very red and broken, it shows a nature much given\\nto fits of anger, brutality and excesses.\\nWhen the line of health is absent from the hand, save where, it\\njoins the lines of heart and mentality, it indicates brain fever.\\nWhen formed with small red spots, it shows a feverish\\ncondition of the physical system.\\nWhen the health line is broken and very red where it\\ncrosses the line of mentality, it indicates a tendency to apoplexy.\\nWhen the health line is accompanied (not too close) by the\\nsister line, the Yia Lascivia -which should terminate at the\\nwrist -it gives force and strength to the vital energies.", "height": "4004", "width": "2724", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER VIII.\\nThe Girdle of Venus-\\nThis line must not be confounded with the ring of Saturn,\\nalthough some writers erroneously make no distinction between\\nthe two.\\nThe girdle of Venus rises between the mounts of Jupiter\\nand Saturn, thus forming a circle between the fingers of Apollo\\nand Mercury, enclosing the mounts of Apollo (the Sun) and\\nSaturn. (Plate 13, the Seven Principal Lines.)\\nI have invariably found the girdle upon the hands of\\npeople possessing the most refined, artistic and gifted natures,\\nand I am at a loss to account for the disfavor with which it has\\nbeen regarded by writers on the science.\\nWhen extending in a clear unbroken circle it denotes a\\nhighly emotional, impressionable temperament extremely\\nnervous and excitable.\\nIt is logical to suppose then, that these characteristics\\nadded to an otherwise bad hand, would be unfavorable. This\\nmay have given rise to the almost universally accepted idea\\namong cheiromants that the girdle of Venus is a bad indica-\\ntion. However in my varied observations, I have never found\\nthe sign upon a bad hand. And although I do not maintain\\nthat it is never to be found on a bad hand, I unhesitatingly place\\nit among the most favorable indications of character to be\\nfound in the palm.\\nI remember that during my first visit to America, I met a\\n115", "height": "3968", "width": "2728", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "116 McIvor-Tyndall s Revelations of the Hand.\\ncertain famous pianist whose inspirational playing was the\\nwonder and delight of his audiences. I found that he had\\nbecome much interested in the study of palmistry and that he\\nhad purchased several works on the science, all of which\\nunited in regarding the girdle of Yenus in a most unfavorable\\nlight. As his own hand was marked with a clear unbroken circle,\\nhe was quite unable to account for what, in his case at least, he\\nknew to be an inaccuracy. It was with evident reluctance that\\nhe showed me his palms. I reassured him, and expressed my\\nsatisfaction that my own palms bear the same sign of intuition,\\ninspiration and aptitude for mysticism.", "height": "3996", "width": "2740", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER IX.\\nThe Via Lascivia, the Line of A\\\\ars and the Line of In-\\ntuition.\\nThe Via, Lascivia is a line running parallel to the line of\\nhealth. (Plate 12, Map of the Hand.)\\nIt bears the same relation to the line of health that the line\\nof Mars does to the life line. When the line of health shows\\nweakness, it is strengthened by the presence of the Via Las-\\ncivia.\\nWhen however, the health line indicates robust vitality,\\nthe presence of a strong Yia Lascivia denotes excess of passion,\\nstrong appetites and a tendency toward dissipation.\\nThe Line of A\\\\ars-\\nThe line of Mars is a clearly denned line, rising on the\\nfirst mount of Mars, and running; close to and inside the line\\nof life. (Plate 12, Map of the Hand.)\\nThe office of the line of Mars is to strengthen and give\\nenergy to the life line. On the square and primitive hands, if\\nthe life line is strong, the presence of the line of Mars shows\\nan aggressive, quarrelsome spirit. If the mount of Luna be\\nalso well developed, it shows lawlessness, intemperance and a\\ndisposition to engage in wild adventure.\\nThe line of Mars on the psychic and the philosophic hand has\\na far different meaning, as the life line on these types is never\\nas strong as on the preceeding types. When found beside a weak\\n117", "height": "3964", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "118 McIvor-Tyndall s Revelations of the Hand.\\nlife line therefore, the line of Mars strengthens and repairs the\\nlife line. It shows the power to fight disease, and the dispo-\\nsition to bear uncomplainingly the ills we have. Such a\\nperson will endure through sheer nerve force and will, pain and\\nill-health which would kill another.\\nThus a bad break in a life line which is strengthened by a\\nline of Mars, does not foreshadow death as in the case of a life\\nline not thus reinforced.\\nThe Line of Intuition.\\nSome writers on the science of palmistry, make no note of\\nthis line. I consider it very important, as the faculty of intu-\\nition is to some persons what the power of analysis and deduct-\\nion is to others. It might be called unconscious reasoning.\\nThis gift of perception in its highest development is found\\non the psychic type of hand. It may also be found on the\\nphilosophic and the conic types.\\nThe position of this line is rising on the mount of Mercury\\nand descending in a semi-circle to the mount of Luna. It is\\nalso called by some writers the line of Luna. (Plate 12, Map\\nof the Hand.)\\nIt indicates a delicately poised temperament impression-\\nable and sensitive. In conjunction with the mystic cross in\\nthe quadrangle, it denotes the power of divination clairvoy-\\nance.\\nWhere the psychic, philosophic or conic hand has a very\\nfull percussion I find the faculty of intuition pronounced, even\\nthough the line of intuition be absent.", "height": "4004", "width": "2764", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER X.\\nThe Line of AAarriage; Children.\\nThe lines directly relating to marriage are those trans-\\nverse lines to be found on the mount of Mercury, above the\\nheart line. (Plate 12, Map of the Hand.)\\nThese lines relate to affairs of the heart which have en-\\ndured for some time or which have greatly affected the life.\\nNature does not recognize the marriage ceremony, and in cases\\nwhere the marriage relationship has been sustained for any\\nlength of time the markings will be the same as in the case of\\na legal union.\\nThe rule to follow in determining the marriage lines is to\\nregard the deep long lines as relating to marriage.\\nThe short lines relate to affairs of the heart, or contem-\\nplated marriage. A marriage lasting any length of time will\\nbe found corroborated by influence lines near the lines of\\nlife and fate. Where the marriage involves change of position\\nand environment, it is easily traced.\\nThe date of marriage or marriages, can be very accurately\\ndetermined from the marriage line alone, although the life and\\nfate lines should always be looked to, for the exact year.\\nWhen the marriage line is very close to the heart line, the\\nmarriage will be early in life before the age of twenty.\\nWhen about half way up the mount, the marriage will take\\nplace about the age of twenty-five, and when near the base of\\nthe little finger, the alliance will occur after middle age.\\nThus by a little observation of the position of these lines\\n119", "height": "3964", "width": "2704", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "120 McIvor-Tyndall s Revelations of the Hand.\\nin comparison with the length of the life line, a very accurate\\nestimate may be made of the age at which engagements or\\nmarriages occur.\\nWhen the line of marriage droops toward the heart line,\\nit is a sure sign of widowhood. (Plate 19, Fig. 1.)\\nA clear well-formed marriage line, without breaks or\\ncrosses, is an indication of a happy and contented union.\\nWhen the marriage line ends abruptly in a cross, it de^\\nnotes the sudden termination of the marriage bond -usually by\\naccidental death to the person s wife or husband. (Plate 19,\\nFig. 4.)\\nWhen the line droops gradually, with fine lines falling from\\nit, it signifies illness and the gradual decline of life, of trie per-\\nson s wife or husband.\\nAn island on the marriage line denotes serious trouble in\\nthe married life, for the time it endures. (Plate 19, Fig. 2.)\\nWhen the line is abruptly broken, it denotes separation\\nusually divorce.\\nA drooping marriage line, ending in two branches, one of\\nwhich inclines toward the center of the hand, is an indication\\nof trouble and separation.\\nA short fine line rising from the marriage line, and con-\\ntinuing beside it, shows an estrangement, a drifting apart, a\\nlack of harmony in the married life, although no separation\\ntakes place.\\nA line from the marriage line to the mount of Apollo, de-\\nnotes marriage with a person of distinction. This is all the\\nmore pronounced if the line of Apollo (the Sun) end in a star.\\n(Plate 19, Fig. 3.)\\nSo the opposite, a misalliance is shown by the line of mar-\\nriage cutting the line of Apollo.\\nIn a certain case which came under my observation., inhere\\na marriage ceremony was performed, the man refused to con-", "height": "4016", "width": "2772", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "Plate 19\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Marriage Lines.", "height": "3956", "width": "2708", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3916", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "The Line of Marriage; Children. 123\\ntinue the marriage relation. The girl s health was seriously\\nundermined through grief over the trouble and I was not sur-\\nprised to see a short marriage line formed in a heavy cross.\\nChildren.\\nThe perpendicular lines under the finger of Mercury, at\\nthe end of the marriage line, are the lines relating to children\\nThe deeper lines are the male and the finer lines the female\\nchildren.\\nThe weak or chained lines show delicate children while a\\ndeep line suddenly broken or ending in a cross, shows the death\\nof a child.\\nA line formed in an island shows great misfortune some-\\ntimes disgrace through a child. 1 observed this formation on\\none occasion in the hand of a woman whose only son was de-\\nformed.\\nSome hands show these lines very distinctly, while in other\\nhands they are scarcely discernible. This I think is due to\\nwhether the person feels the responsibility of children, or not.\\nThe lines are naturally more distinct in the hands of mother^\\nthan of fathers.", "height": "3964", "width": "2708", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XI.\\nThe Rascette and Minor Lines.\\nThe rascette is the name given to the three lines drawn at the\\nbase of the hand forming what is sometimes called the three\\nbracelets. (Plate 12, Map of the Hand.)\\nWhen the three lines are found clearly marked, it forms\\nwhat is called the magic bracelet, said by the gypsies to mean\\nhealth, wealth and happiness.\\nPersonally, I have found it relating to health alone, as in a\\nhand showing robust health, the rascette will be found more\\nclearly marked than in the weak constitution. The same rules\\nthat apply to the other lines are also applicable to these. Thus,\\na chained or wavy rascette, shows weak heart action, the same\\nas in the lines of life and heart.\\nThe Ring of Solomon.\\nThis is the name given to the circle enclosing the mount\\nof Jupiter and is not commonly found on the palm. (Plate\\n12, Map of the Hand.)\\nIt denotes the qualities implied by the name given to it\\nnatural wisdom, intuitive knowledge.\\nI have always found that hands showing this line, belong\\nto people who speculate a great deal on the mysteries of life.\\nThev are much interested in occult subjects.\\nThe Ring of Saturn,\\na c\\n124\\nThe ring of Saturn is a circle enclosing the mount of", "height": "3968", "width": "2780", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "The Rascette and Minor Lines. 125\\nSaturn. It is sometimes confounded with the girdle of Venus.\\nWhen unbroken,, it indicates a life of hard work and thwarted\\nambitions.\\nWhen broken, and in a well-balanced hand, it shows that suc-\\ncess maybe won, but only after a severe struggle with adversity.", "height": "3956", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XII.\\nLines of Influence and Travel Lines.\\nA little care will readily enable the student to avoid con-\\nfounding these ray lines with the line of Mars, or with the\\nfine lines which rise and droop from the line of life.\\nLines of influence on the mount of Venus, inside the life\\nline, are shorter than the line of Mars. They rise and end\\nsomewhat abruptly.\\nWhen the influence line is clear and runs parallel to the\\nline of life, it denotes a favorable influence over the life.\\n(Plate 20, Line a.)\\nLines rising on the mount of Venus and cutting the life\\nline, show obstacles and worries.\\nWhen these lines cross the life line only, they indicate\\ndomestic troubles. (Plate 20, Line b.)\\nWhen they cross the life line to the line of mentality, they\\nshow an influence over our ideas and judgment. (Plate 20,\\nLine c.)\\nWhen they cross the line of fate, they denote interference\\nin our success and worldly interests.\\nWhen they cut the line of heart, they show persons who\\nwill influence our affections.\\nWhen a line crosses the line of life and just reaches the\\nline of mentality, it denotes mental tiouble. If the line of\\nmentality be also chained or dotted, it denotes brain trouble.\\nA line rising on the mount of Venus, touching the line of\\nlife, indicates marriage at that age.\\n126", "height": "3968", "width": "2776", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "Plate 20\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Lines of Influence", "height": "3960", "width": "2696", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3968", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "Lines of Influence and Travel Lines. 129\\nA line cutting the line of life and reaching across ^o the\\nline of marriage, signifies divorce. (Plate 20, Line d.)\\nFrom these observations, it is logical to suppose that a\\nhand showing many lines of influence, betrays an impression-\\nable nature, a person dependent upon others in matters of\\naffection or business, according as the lines show.\\nLines of Travel.\\nLines of travel are those horizontal lines found on the\\nmount of Luna and the perpendicular lines from the rascette\\nto the mount of Luna. (Plate 21.)\\nThese latter relate to the longer and more important jour-\\nneys, and will be corroborated by changes on the lines of life\\nand fate.\\nShould such a line cross the hand to Jupiter, it indicates\\ngreat gain in power and influence in connection with a journey.\\n(Plate 21, Line a\u00e2\u0080\u0094 a.)\\nIf it goes to Saturn, it signifies some fatality. (Plate 21,\\nLine b b.)\\nIf to Apollo, celebrity.\\nIf to Mercury, unexpected wealth. (Plate 21, Line c c.)\\nThe short horizontal lines on Luna, relate to short and less\\nimportant journeys.\\nWhen these lines cross each other, it shows repeated jour-\\nneys.\\nShould a travel line cross the hand to the line of mentality,\\nand end in a cross or break, it indicates some injury affecting\\nthe head through the journey. (Plate 21, Line d.)\\nTravel lines slanting upward, show successful journeys,\\nthose curving downward, denote disappointments.\\nThe cross on a travel line presages misfortune; the square", "height": "3964", "width": "2736", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "130 McIvor-Tyndall s Revelations of the Hand.\\non a line of travel indicates preservation from threatened dan-\\nger. (Plate 21, Line e.)\\nAn important fact to be remembered is that lines appear\\nand disappear in a short time. Their appearance indicates a\\ntendency in certain directions, and their disappearance proves\\nthat the tendency has been changed.", "height": "3964", "width": "2740", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "Plate 21\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Lines of Travel.", "height": "3960", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3968", "width": "2784", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XIII.\\nCharacter of the Lines.\\nWell formed lines are neither pale nor broad, chained nor\\nwavy.\\nThey are clear, fairly deep and evenly formed.\\nLines pale and broad indicate weak vitality, and wasted\\nnerve -force.\\nLines red in color, show robust health, energy and\\nactivity.\\nTasseled lines show weakness and a breaking up of the\\nqualities indicated by the line.\\nWavy and chained lines show hesitation, indecision and\\nlack of concentration.\\nBreaks in the lines are danger signals.\\nA forked line, excepting the line of life, gives increased\\npower to the line.\\nA forked line of mentality, gives increased brain power,\\noften uniting the literary or artistic temperament, with practi-\\ncal ability.\\nA sister line running along by the side of any of the main\\nlines, strengthens the character of the line, and denotes pro-\\ntection. Thus, if a break be found in the fate line, a sister line\\nprotects the break and the threatened misfortune is averted\\nor at least lessened.\\nIt is always well to look for more than one indication of\\nevil or disaster before deciding so important a point.\\n133", "height": "3968", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "134 McIvor-Tyndall s Revelations of the Hand.\\nWorry Lines.\\nOn the hands of highly nervous, worrying natures will be\\nfound numerous little fine lines running in all directions.\\nThese lines have no other significance than that they betray a\\nworrying, nervous temperament.", "height": "3968", "width": "2760", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "N\\nO\\n2}\\nN\\nN\\n31\\no\\n6a\\nK\\nI\\ni\\n0\\no\\n2", "height": "3956", "width": "2744", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3924", "width": "2792", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XIV-\\nSigns round on the Palm.\\nThe marks to be found in the palm of the hand are the\\ncross, the square, the grille, the island, the triangle, the star, the\\ncircle, the half circle, the dot. (Plate 23.)\\nIn addition to these, the signs of the different planets are\\nsometimes found, although rarely.\\nThe signs have a different meaning, according to the por-\\ntion of the hand on which they are found.\\nThe Star.\\nThe star is a mark of distinction. Whether for good or\\nevil, depends upon the other points of the hand and the position\\nof the star.\\nThe star on the mount of Jupiter promises honors, gratified\\nambition, power and distinction. (Plate 24, Fig. 1 a.)\\nOn a woman s hand this sign is often found joined to a\\ncross, indicating the acquisition of these things through a happy\\nmarriage.\\nA star on Saturn denotes an unenviable distinction some\\ndisgrace or fatality. Some writers regard this as denoting par-\\nalysis. I have never seen it verified. (Plate 24, Fig. 1 b.)\\nA star on the mount of Apollo, promises wealth without\\nhappiness. (Plate 24, Fig. 1 c.)\\nWhen found at the end of the line of the Sun (Apollo), how-\\n137", "height": "3964", "width": "2716", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "138 McIvor-Tynd all s Revelations of the Hand.\\never, it promises celebrity and social distinction, as the result of\\nability and talent. (Plate 24, Fig 1 d.)\\nA star on Mercury promises success in literature, science,\\nbusiness or political life, or through dishonesty, scheming, etc.,\\naccording to the character of the hand. (Plate 24, Fig. 1 e.)\\nA star on the mount of Mars, (under Mercury,) denotes the\\nattainment of success through patient endurance, fortitude and\\nself-control. (Plate 24, Fig. 1 f.)\\nA star on the mount of Mars, (under Jupiter,) denotes mili-\\ntary honors and distinction. (Plate 24, Fig. 1 g.)\\nA star on the mount of Luna, denotes distinction through\\nthe faculties of that mount. It may be poetry, art, imaginative\\nliterature, or again it may be insanity or suicide, according to the\\nother signs in the hand. (Plate 24, Fig. i--h.)\\nThe star on Venus, denotes distinction in affairs of the heart.\\nTo the person possessing this sign will come no sorrow through\\nunrequited affection. (Plate 24, Fig. 1 i.)\\nThe Square.\\nThe square is a sign of protection and preservation from\\ndanger and evil. It is also indicative of calmness and presence\\nof mind.\\nThe square on the line of life shows preservation from death\\nat the age at which it appears. (Plate 24, Fig. 2 a.)\\nThe square on the line of fate shows preservation from social\\nor financial ruin. (Plate 24, Fig. 2 a.)\\nThe square on the line of mentality shows preservation from\\ndisaster to the mind, either through accident or mental strain.\\n(Plate 24, Fig. 2 c.)\\nThe square on the heart line shows preservation from sorrow\\nthrough the affections. (Plate 24, Fig. 2 c.\\nThe square on themount of Venus marks preservation from\\nevil through the passions. (Plate 24, Fig. 2 e.", "height": "3968", "width": "2768", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "?fc\\nccr\\n1 g\\nrKX\\n40\\n1", "height": "3968", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3952", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "Signs Found on the Palm. 141\\nThe square on any mount denotes protection from the dan-\\ngers and excesses of that mount.\\nThe square on Saturn denotes preservation from the dan-\\ngers of that mount or from some fatality. (Plate 24, Fig. 2 f.)\\nThe Cross.\\nThe cross indicates obstacles or changes, except when found\\non the mount of Jupiter, when it is one of the signs of a happy\\nmarriage. (Plate 24, Fig. 3 a.)\\nOn Saturn, unfavorable influences; often it threatens sudden\\nor accidental death. This can always be verified by other signs.\\n(Plate 24, Fig. 3\u00e2\u0080\u0094 b.)\\nOn the mount of Apollo it indicates disappointment in the\\npursuit of fame or success. (Plate 24, Fig. 3 c.)\\nThe cross on Mercury denotes failure in business enter-\\nprises. It is considered by some to be the mark of a dishonest\\nperson. I find the former interpretation the correct one. (Plate\\n24, Fig. 3\u00e2\u0080\u0094 a,)\\nThe cross on the mount of Mars (under Jupiter) indicates\\ndanger of death on the battle-field or in a quarrel, according to\\nthe type of hand on which it is found. (Plate 24, Fig. 3\u00e2\u0080\u0094 f.)\\nOn Mars (under Mercury) it tells of constant opposition\\nand struggle against adverse circumstances. The person with\\nsuch a mark must always fight hard in the battle of life. (Plate\\n24.Fig.3- g.)\\nThe cross on Venus indicates a great disappointment in\\nlove.\\nCrosses on the line of fate show changes in the life or losses.\\nWhich of the two can be determined by the lines of life and\\nApollo. (Plate 24, Fig. 3 i.)\\nThe cross above the line of heart shows the death of some\\nloved one.\\nThe cross in the quadrangle, between the lines of heart", "height": "3964", "width": "2704", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "142 McIvok-Tyndall s Kevelations o* the Hand.\\nand mentality, is called the mystic cross, and signifies a lean-\\ning toward mysticism.\\nThe Island.\\nThe island is a sign of misfortune either in health, financial\\naffairs, affection or reputation, according to its location.\\nAn island on the line of life indicates a severe illness.\\n(Plate 24, Fig. 4 a.)\\nAn island on the line of heart weakness of the heart; un-\\nhappy attachment. (Plate 24, Fig. 4 a.)\\nAn island on the line of mentality, if long and distinct con-\\nstitutional mental weakness. If small and the line of mentality\\notherwise good, it denotes brain fever, nervous prostration, or\\nsome severe mental strain. (Plate 24, Fig. 4 c.)\\nOn the line of fate, the island shows financial loss, or tem-\\nporary obscurity. (Plate 24, Fig. 4 d.)\\nOn the line of Apollo, the island shows loss of social posi-\\ntion. (Plate 24, Fig. 4 e.)\\nOn the line of health, the island shows severe illness; great\\nloss of vitality for the time it lasts. (Plate 24, Fig. 4 f.\\nI have also found it in cases of financial failure, where the\\nhealth had been impaired by the worry incident to it.\\nAn island formed on any of the mounts shows misfortune\\nor weakness through the qualities of that mount. Thus, an\\nisland on a full mount of Jupiter indicates weakness brought on\\nby excessive ambition over-work.\\nThe island on a weak mount of Jupiter, with a poor line\\nof mentality and a generally weak hand, indicates misfortune\\nand obscurity through lack of ambition and pride. (Plate 24,\\nFig. 4-)\\nThe Circle and the Crescent.\\nThe circle or the crescent on a good mount and a good hand\\nis a favorable sign.\\nOn any of the important lines, it denotes misfortune. When", "height": "4004", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "jfrw$fer.\\nvfy\\n4L P \u00c2\u00a34AQ .{Z\u00e2\u0080\u0094 t\\nPlate 24- The Star. The Square. The Cross. The Island\\nAt-TUfsJU^.", "height": "3964", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3916", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "Signs Found on the Palm. 145\\nit unites the lines of fate, mentality and Apollo, (success) it signi-\\nfies trouble and anxiety through an error in judgment a false\\nstep which spoils the life. The circle on the line of mentality,\\nis said by some cheiromants to indicate loss of eyesight. Per-\\nsonally I have never been able to verify this. (Plate 25, Fig. 1.)\\nThe Dot.\\nThe dot is an indication of a shock to the nervous\\nsystem.\\nIf red it shows a tendency to heart failure, when found on\\nthe heart line.\\nWhen on the head line it indicates a mental shock.\\nWhen found on the line of life it indicates a nervous ill-\\nness.\\nA red dot on the line of health, indicates a fever.\\nA black dot on the line of marriage, is an indication of\\ndomestic grief. (Plate 25, Fig. 2.)\\nThe Grille.\\ndo not regard the grille as a very important sign. It\\nchiefly denotes activity, and as it is generally found upon the\\nmounts, it simply denotes activity in the qualities of the mount\\non which it is found. Thus the grille on a flat mount is a favor-\\nable indication, while on a full mount it exaggerates the qualities\\nof the mount.\\nThe grille on a well developed mount of Jupiter, for in-\\nstance, will result in too much pride or ambition. The desire for\\npower is never satisfied.\\nOn a full mount of Saturn it will result in restlessness, pes-\\nsimism, worry. The person will be too serious and thoughtful\\neven melar- 1 1\\nOn a we Apollo it shows a constant longing for", "height": "3968", "width": "2696", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "146 McIvor -Tyndall s Revelations of the Hand.\\nwealth, position, fame, art or pleasure, according as the hand is\\nstrong or weak.\\nOn a much developed mount of Mercury it shows a deceit-\\nful, avaricious, dishonest nature.\\nOn Luna the grille indicates a romantic, dissatisfied tem-\\nperament, imaginative to a degree. It produces that condition\\nwhich Ella Wheeler Wilcox so aptly describes as A homesick\\nlonging of the soul which can not find its satisfaction here.\\n(Plate 25, Fig. 3.)\\nThe Triangle.\\nThe triangle is the insignia of science wherever found.\\nWhen found on Jupiter it denotes ability and science in the\\nmanagement of affairs, people and government. It should be\\nfound on the hand of diplomats.\\nOn Saturn it denotes ability and science in the study of pro-\\nfound subjects, in the reading of character and in scientific\\ninvestigation.\\nOn the line of Apollo it shows method, diplomacy and sci-\\nence, in the pursuit of fame.\\nOn the mount of Mercury the triangle shows the shrewd\\nbusiness man or the clever politician who uses method and sci-\\nence in gaining his end.\\nOn Luna the triangle unites science with imagination and\\nintuition. Such people will have an instinctive knowledge of the\\nlaws of life; the faculty of seeing below the surface of\\nthings.\\nOn Venus the triangle shows calmness and self-restraint in\\nmatters of affection. A person possessing this sign will use\\nscience in winning the affections of those whom he desires.\\nOn Mars (under Jupiter) the triangle gives the ability of a\\ngeneral in planning and management. This sign on the hand\\nof a general shows a man who will conduct a scientific warfare\\nOn Mars, under Mercury, it denotes calmness, presence of", "height": "3968", "width": "2772", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "Plate 25\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Circle. The Dot. The Gt tile. 7 he Triangle.", "height": "3964", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3968", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "Signs Found on the Palm. 149\\nmind and strategy. I have found this sign on the lines of life,\\nhealth, mentality or fate to signify a surgical operation. This\\nis an observation which I have never seen recorded else-\\nwhere, but one which I have had an opportunity of verifying\\nmany times. (Plate 25, Fig. 4.)", "height": "3960", "width": "2716", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XV-\\nThe Great Triangle and the Quadrangle.\\nThe great triangle is the space formed by the lines of life,\\nmentality and health, and encloses the plain of Mars.\\nThis space includes the upper, lower and middle angles.\\nWhen this space is broad and well formed it shows quick\\nintelligence, breadth of mind, self-reliance and tolerance lor\\nthe opinions of others. (Plate 26, Fig. 1.)\\nWhen very narrow it denotes extreme diffidence and self\\nconsciousness, or meanness, cowardice and want of intellect, ac-\\ncording to the type of hand. Persons with a narrow triangle\\nwill never assert themselves either actively or mentally, although\\nthey may succeed in life through their very lack of independence\\nand liberality. Their attitude of acquiescence may win them\\nfriends. (Plate 26, Fig. 2.)\\nWhen the space enclosed in this triangle is well colored and\\nunlined it shows a calm, contented nature and a smooth, even\\nexistence.\\nWhen the space is much lined and crossed it shows worry,\\nirritability and a changeful, unsettled life.\\nThe Quadrangle.\\nThe quadrangle is the space between the lines of heart and\\nmentality. Its best formation is wide at both ends and not nar-\\n150", "height": "3968", "width": "2776", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "Plate 26\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Great Triangle and the Quadrangle.", "height": "3964", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3968", "width": "2784", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "The Great Triangle and the Quadrangle. 153\\nrow at the center, showing the space clear and unlined, (Plate\\n26, Fig. 3.)\\nWhen thus formed it shows a well balanced mind, a brilliant\\nintellect, generosity and great sympathy with humanity. Such\\na person will be at heart a socialist, although he may prefer some\\nother name for his views.\\nWhen the quadrangle narrows in the center, so that it pre-\\nsents the appearance of an hour glass, it shows lack of sympa-\\nthy and understanding. The person will be narrow-minded,\\nprejudiced and bigoted. (Plate 26, Fig. 4.)\\nToo much space in the quadrangle with a long and deep\\nheart line indicates a want of discretion reckless indifference to\\nthe opinion of the world.", "height": "3968", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XVI.\\nhow to Reckon Time. System of Seven.\\nThe accurate settling of dates for past or future events is\\none of the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of the student\\nof palmistry. Personally, I have never had any difficulty in\\ncorrectly estimating the time of an event in the past and as far\\nas I know in the future also. Only the approximate time can be\\nrelied upon. It is impossible to estimate the day or the week or\\neven the month of an event. The year is the most that can be\\nexpected. There are no lucky days in Palmistry, although\\nsome persons claim to be able to tell one s lucky days. This\\nmight be possible by astrological calculation, if the intricacies of\\nthe study were not lost, as the position of the planets undoubt-\\nedly affect the earth and everything upon it. But there is cer-\\ntainly no marK or sign upon the hand to designate one day as\\nmore fortunate than another.\\nSince hand reading is an acquired science and not an innate\\ngift, some scientific theory of reckoning dates must be learned.\\nIn this chapter are recorded both systems for the student s\\nselection, although the system \u00c2\u00a9f seven recommends itself to my\\nmind for the reason that, as medical science teaches, the entire\\nsystem undergoes a change every seven years.\\nIn plates 27 and 28 will be found the systems of seven\\nand ten respectively.\\nIf there is difficulty at first in determining the date of an\\nevent which is marked, practice soon brings proficiency.\\nI would recommend the use of a piece of transparent isin-\\n154", "height": "3968", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "Plate 27\u00e2\u0080\u0094 System of Seven.", "height": "3964", "width": "2732", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3964", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0160.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "Plate 28 System of Ten.", "height": "3968", "width": "2732", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0161.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3956", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0162.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "How to Reckon Time. System of Ten. 159\\nglass shaped to the average sized hand, which will be found to\\nmeasure about seven inches from the first line of the rascette to\\nthe tip of the finger of Saturn and the same distance from the\\nthumb to the finger of Mercury when the hand is spread as in\\nreaching an octave on the piano,\\nOn this transparency can be printed the figures dividing the\\nlines of fate and life, as shown in the plates 27 and 28. Thus,\\nby allowing for the difference in the size of the hand, the trans-\\nparency time system placed in position over the hand may be of\\nservice. (Plate 27.)\\nThe System of Ten.\\nOne point of a pair of compasses resting in the middle of\\nthe root of the finger of Jupiter, the other extended to the mid-\\ndle of the root of the finger of Apollo, then turned on to the life\\nline, marks the period of ten years. The latter, lengthened by\\nextension exactly between the fingers of Apollo and Mercury,\\nmarks the twentieth year.\\nExtension to middle of root of finger of Mercury marks the\\nthirtieth year. Extension to outside of finger of Mercury marks\\nthe age of forty. Another extension equal to latter marks the\\nfiftieth year. The remaining periods of ten years each up to\\none hundred years are lessened by one-third the former.\\n(Plate 28.)", "height": "3964", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0163.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XVII.\\nAbnormal Tendencies.\\nHow far is the individual responsible for his virtues or his\\ncrimes?\\nA slight Variation in the shape of the face; the character\\nof a nose; a scarcely perceptible deficiency in the breadth of a\\nforehead; an added thickness in the lobe of the ear and the\\nline is drawn which marks the difference between the honest\\nman and the criminal.\\nMost modern students of criminology agree that crime is\\nlargely the result of physical discrepancies. Whether, or not\\nthis be true, certain it is that criminal instincts are discover-\\nable through physical abnormalities.\\nEspecially is this evident in the shape and lines of the\\nhand.\\nWhether these physical signs be the cause or the effect of\\ncriminal tendencies, is a question for dispute.\\nWhile I recognize the influence of heredity, I maintain\\nthat it is not a law. If it were a law it would be inviolable\\nand I hold that everything is subject to the influence of thought\\nnay, is but a reflection of thought.\\nTo quote that woman of marvelous perception, Ella\\nWheeler Wilcox:\\nOur thoughts are moulding unseen spheres,\\nAnd with a blessin or a curse,\\nThey thunder down the formless years\\nAnd ring- throughout the universe.\\nI claim, therefore, that if abnormal tendencies were recog-\\n160", "height": "3968", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0164.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "Plate 29\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Hand of Geo Kelly, a murderer.", "height": "3964", "width": "2732", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0165.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3968", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0166.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "Abnormal Tendencies. 163\\nnized in early life, systematic and judicious training could\\neffectually overcome them.\\nWhile the plea for a higher education is being so\\nearnestly made, I desire to lift my voice in advocating a\\nbroader and a deeper education an education that embraces\\nsome knowledge of self, not the mere text book memorizing\\nprocess which is so generally mistaken for education.\\nThe proper study of mankind is man is a truism which\\nis often quoted but seldom considered seriously.\\nFrom earliest infancy children are put through such a\\nmemory-cramming that there is no room left in their brains\\nfor thought. They are taught much that is useless, much more\\nthat is made irrelevant by the manner of teaching and absolutely\\nnothing; of themselves.\\nThe average student leaves college without even the\\nvaguest idea of what is meant by mental science. His own\\ntalents, capabilities and tendencies are an unknown quality,\\nand should some one ask him for his individual opinion, he\\nmust delve kito the dark recesses of his memory and drag out\\nsome quotation from the dim past with which to answer his\\ninterrogator.\\nThe fact is, the only true education is that which teaches\\nself knowledge, enabling us to foster and cultivate our talents\\nand crush out the tendencies which lead to evil.\\nThe hand of George Kelly (plate 29) shows the type of the\\nbrutal murderer. Kelly was executed in Minneapolis, June\\n1897, for the murder of his wife. The hand belongs to the\\nElementary type. The thumb is short and heavy, and the\\nmount of Venus thick rather than wide, showing a violent\\nnature. Lastly, there is almost no line of mentality.\\nWhat training and environment might have done toward\\nlessening these unfavorable traits it is impossible to say. It is", "height": "3968", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0167.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "161 McIvor-Tyndall s Revelations of the Hand.\\na demonstrable fact that it is impossible to find such a\\nhand on an educated or refined person.\\nThe hand shown in (Plate 30) represents a type of the\\nsuicide. The suicide is not necessarily insane -except as any\\nabnormal condition of the mind is a species of insanity.\\nThis hand shows a naturally gloomy, despondent tempera-\\nment, with strong determination. Financial disaster, coupled\\nwith domestic troubles, proved too heavy a burden for a nature\\nthus depressed and the man deliberately chose to end this life.\\nThe hands of L. C, C. E. and J. B. (Plate 31) represent\\nthe victims of a dreadful tragedy enacted at Tacoma, Wash.,\\nin 1898. The impressions were taken after death and the\\nlines are therefore coarser than they otherwise would be.\\nThe facts of the tragedy are these:\\nJ. B. in a moment of insane jealousy shot and killed the\\nwoman, L. C. and the man, C. E. and then emptied the pistol\\ninto his own brain.\\nThe hands of the two victims are remarkable only for the\\nvery distinct way in which they show the manner of death. The.\\nsudden termination of the life line with the line of mentality\\nbroken under Saturn, (hand of L. C.) are infallible signs of\\nsudden and violent death.\\nIn the hand of C. E. the manner of death is no less dis-\\ntinctly marked. The abrupt termination of the lines of men-\\ntality and fate, with the bar across the life line and the lines of\\nhead and heart connected, indicate disaster and death through\\nan affair of the heart.\\nThe hand of J. B. is one of the most extraordinary I have\\never examined. The lines of life, heart and mentality are\\njoined under Saturn; the mental line sloping far down on an\\nexaggerated mount of Luna; the thick, full mount of Venus;\\nthe heart line lying straight across the palm and the stubborn\\nwill and absence of reason shown by the thumb, tell a story of", "height": "3968", "width": "2760", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0168.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "Plate 30\u00e2\u0080\u0094 A Suicide s Hand.", "height": "3964", "width": "2732", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0169.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3968", "width": "2784", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0170.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "Hand of J. B. Hand of C. E.\\nPlate 31\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Abnormal Tendencies.", "height": "3968", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0171.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3968", "width": "2784", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0172.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "Abnormal Tendencies. 169\\nunrestrained violence which could hardlj result otherwise than\\nin insane jealousy.\\nThe hand of Kid Adams, (Plate 31) shows some fine\\ncharacteristics despite the fact that he was shot while resisting\\narrest for stage robbing.\\nThe hand is of the conic type, the fingers showing impulse\\nand a certain degree of refinement in tastes. There is nothing\\nof the brutal or the gross in the type of hand and there is an\\nunusual degree of ambition and determination. The heart line\\nhowever is in excess and joined under Saturn to the lines of\\nlife, fate, and what little line of mentality there is.\\nThis mental line furnishes the key to the boy s tendency\\nto crime. It is the mental line of the natural lunatic. It is\\nshort, thin and irregular. Indeed, it is scarcely discernible,\\nwhile misdirected ambition, recklessness and impulse are pro-\\nnoun3ed.\\nAs these signs were written in but one hand, it is quite\\nprobable that the proper training and environment might have\\novercome them.", "height": "3968", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0173.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3956", "width": "2784", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0174.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "SOME TYPICAL HANDS\\nWITH\\nSYNOPSIS OF THEIR MOST PROMINENT\\nCHARACTERISTICS.", "height": "3968", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0175.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "Sir Charles Mibbert Tupper.\\nThe hand of Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper, the eminent\\nlawyer and statesman, is an excellent type of the characteristics\\nnecessary to a leader of men. The hand shows magnetism,\\ngenerosity, eloquence and wit. Itjis a combination of the square\\nand the spatulate types, showing independence of thought and\\na frank, conscientious nature. Determination, prudence and\\nexcellent judgment go to make up a combination of qualities\\nwhich can not fail to win success.", "height": "3968", "width": "2792", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0176.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "Plate 32\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Hand of Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper, R.C. M. G.", "height": "3968", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0177.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "Dr. Alexander Aclvor-Tyndall.\\nI present the hand of my father, who is a member of the\\nRoyal College of Surgeons, London, Eng., because it is a per-\\nfect type of the characteristics essential in the practice of the\\nscience of surgery.\\nThe hand is philosophic and spatnlate. It is thoughtful,\\nstudious, careful and scientific. The line of mentality shows\\nthe power of concentration and analysis. The heart line and\\nthe wide mount of Venus are indicative of kindness of heart\\nand deep sympathy.\\nThe successful surgeon, because scientific, is not necessarily\\ncold blooded or unsympathetic. Surely in no profession is gen-\\ntleness and compassion more needed than in the practice of\\nsurgery.", "height": "3968", "width": "2792", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0178.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "x\\\\^k\\nPlate 33\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Hand of Alexander Mclvor-Tyndall, M. D. t M. R. C. S.", "height": "3968", "width": "2736", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0179.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "Dr. Hamilton Fish.\\nFew members of the medical profession in this country are\\nso eminently fitted by nature for their chosen profession as is\\nthis young physician, whose contributions to the principal med-\\nical journals of the country are attracting such wide attention\\nfor their originality and cleverness. The hand represents a\\ncombination of the spatulate and the philosophic types show-\\ning love of science, independence of thought and inventive\\ntalent. The mentality is clear, cautious, analytical and deduc-\\ntive, and the power of concentration strong.", "height": "3968", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0180.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "Plate 34 -Hand of Hamilto?i Fish, M. D.", "height": "3968", "width": "2784", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0181.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "Dr. Wm. C. Riddell.\\nThis hand shows good health, strong vitality and magne-\\ntism, combined with a sympathetic, cheerful temperament.\\nLove of science, an excellent memory and a careful, cautious\\nnature go to make up a personality which is eminently fitted\\nfor the practice of medicine.", "height": "3968", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0182.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "Plate 35\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Hand of William C Riddell, M. D.", "height": "3968", "width": "2728", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0183.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "Homer Davenport.\\nHomer Davenport, the New York Journal cartoonist, has\\na distinctly spatulate type of palm, only slightly modified by\\nthe artistic type in some of the finger tips and by the philoso-\\nphic joints.\\nThe characteristics of the spatulate type naturally predom-\\ninate, as those who are familiar and who is not? with Dav-\\nenport s cartoons might expect. Originality, independence,\\nenergy, strength, inventive ability and the philosopher s in-\\nsight into human nature are prominent. In addition to these\\nqualities the line of mentality is clear, deep and sloping, show-\\ning imagination, concentration, keenness of intellect and excel-\\nlent judgment.", "height": "3968", "width": "2780", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0184.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "Plate 36\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Hand of Homer Davenport.", "height": "3968", "width": "2784", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0185.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "A- W. Steele-\\nThe hand of Steele, the Denver Post cartoonist, is spatu-\\nlate in the palm with artistic fingers.\\nMere artistic talent is by no means the only requisite for\\nthe successful cartoonist. He expresses by means of pictures\\nwhat the clever writer expresses in words.\\nOriginality, imagination, constructive and inventive abil-\\nity, independence of thought, observation and the power of\\nconcentration are some of the qualities absolutely necessary.\\nAs one might expect from men who are acknowledged the\\ntwo greatest cartoonists in the world, the hands of Steele and\\nDavenport are remarkably alike as regards the type and the\\nmentality.", "height": "3968", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0186.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "Plate 37\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Hand of A. W. Steele.", "height": "3968", "width": "2776", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0187.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "Blanche Walsh.\\nThe palm of Blanche Walsh, the American Bernhardt,\\nshows every element necessary to the successful presentation of\\ntragedy. The type is a combination of the psychic, the spatu-\\nlate and the artistic. It betrays a marvelous ability of perse-\\nverance, inordinate ambition, keen judgment, an intuitive fac-\\nulty that might almost be called clairvoyance and a quickness\\nof intellect that might well be envied by a statesman.\\nWithal, it shows an intensely emotional, sympathetic tem-\\nperament -self-reliant and independent. It is a hand that\\npromises almost everything desired, if the warning given by\\nthe somewhat frail line of life be heeded.", "height": "3968", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0188.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "Plate 38\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Hand of Blanche Walsh.", "height": "3968", "width": "2792", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0189.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "Aliss Burroughs.\\nThe hand of Marie Burroughs, the famous actress, repre-\\nsents the artistic type of hand, somewhat modified by the char-\\nacteristics shown in the philosophic joints of the fingers. It\\nis. a hand in which the emotional, imaginative and impressiona-\\nble temperament is influenced by a strong will, a love of study\\nand a profound reverence for the higher truths.", "height": "3968", "width": "2796", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0190.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "Plate 39\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Hand of Marie Burroughs.", "height": "3968", "width": "2792", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0191.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "Sol Smith Russell.\\nThe hand of Sol Smith Russell, the eminent humorist, be-\\nlongs to the philosophic type, and marks the distinct difference\\nbetween the wit and the humorist. Mr. Russell is a humorist\\nbecause he is a philosopher. It is a humor that is very close\\nto pathos. The ready sympathy, the keen insight into human\\nnature and the sensitive, reflective mentality shown in this\\nhand are essentials in Mr. Russell s peculiar style, pardoxical\\nthough it may seem.", "height": "3968", "width": "2796", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0192.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "Plate 40\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Hand of Sol Smith Russell.", "height": "3968", "width": "2804", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0193.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "dames Barton Adams.\\nMr. Adams enjoys the distinction of being the most ex-\\ntensively quoted newspaper verse writer in the world. His\\nwork is noted for its individuality and originality of theme.\\nThe hand is a combination of the spatnlate and the conic\\ntypes, the palm being spatnlate and the fingers conic, giving\\ninspiration, artistic sense and quickness of intellect, with origi-\\nnality and inventive talent. The forked and sloping head line\\nand the full mount of Luna indicate the order of the inventive\\ntalent poetry and imagination.", "height": "3968", "width": "2804", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0194.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "Plate 41\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Hand of James Barton Adams", "height": "3968", "width": "2800", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0195.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "U- S. Senator Carter-\\nThe hand of Senator Carter of Montana belongs to the\\nmixed type. It is remarkable chiefly for the fine line of men-\\ntality and the shrewdness and versatility it displays. The men-\\ntal line rises close to the mount of Jupiter and extends in a\\ndeep, clear line almost straight across the palm without touch-\\ning the line of life. Such a mentality will win through sheer\\nlong-headedness, judgment and brain power, while the adapta-\\nbility shown by the type of hand makes such a man s compan-\\nionship pleasant even to his opponents.", "height": "3968", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0196.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "Plate 42\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Hand of U. S. Senator 7 horn as H. Carter.", "height": "3956", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0197.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "Ysaye-\\nThe hand of Ysaye, the famous violinist, belongs to the\\ndistinctly conic type. It is an excellent example of the inspira-\\ntional musician. The fingers are full at the base, the mounts\\nof Luna and Venus are much developed and the line of men-\\ntality sensitive and impressionable. I have often observed that\\nartists, musicians and poets with this type of hand depend en-\\ntirely upon inspiration, and indeed have no intellectual concep-\\ntion of their own genius. Such persons are emotional, and,\\nlogically, swayed by feeling.", "height": "3968", "width": "2792", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0198.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "Plate 43\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Hand oj Ysaye.", "height": "3960", "width": "2796", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0199.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "Edwin P- Mayo-\\nThe hand of Edwin F. Mayo Pudd nhead Wilson is a\\ntype of the mixed hand, in which the characteristics of the\\nconic are the most prominent.\\nMagnetism and generosity are noticeable as shown in the\\nwide mounts of Yenus and the Moon, and in the heart line,\\nwhich lies straight across the palm, and the turned back thumb.\\nThe line of mentality is joined to the life line and slopes to the\\nmount of imagination, betraying a sensitive, imaginative and\\nromantic temperament.", "height": "3968", "width": "2796", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0200.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "Plate 44\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Hand of Edwin F. Mayo.", "height": "3956", "width": "2792", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0201.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "Roland Reed.\\nThe hand of Roland Reed is spatulate in formation, with\\nthe joints of the fingers slightly developed, and a touch of\\nsquareness about the palm. This combination of character-\\nistics naturally gives a marked individuality, while the straight\\nhead line shows business ability and practical judgment. The\\nfull mount of Mars, under Jupiter, and the shape and position\\nof the finger of Mercury tell of an aggressive independence\\nand a ready wit. Reed would have been equally successful as\\na lawyer.", "height": "3968", "width": "2788", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0202.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "Plate 45\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Hand of Roland Reed.", "height": "3968", "width": "2796", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0203.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "Plate 46 \u00e2\u0080\u0094Hand of Judge C. C. Goodwin.\\nThe hand of Judge C. C. Goodwin, the pioneer journalist\\nof the West, forms an interesting study.\\nAuthor, editor, statesman and miner, it is not strange that\\nthe hand shows versatility of ideas, generosity, individuality\\nand an adventurous spirit.\\nThe supple, independent thumb, although somewhat exag-\\ngerated in the impression, is yet flexible in the extreme, telling\\nof a nature charming in company, witty, adaptable and prodi-\\ngal. The long and forked line of mentality and the full mount\\nof Luna show literary talent of a high order.", "height": "3968", "width": "2772", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0204.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3964", "width": "2732", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0205.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3968", "width": "2824", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0206.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3968", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0207.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4157", "width": "2933", "jp2-path": "revelationsofhan00mciv_0208.jp2"}}