How to read character : a new illustrated hand-book of phrenology and physiognomy, for students and examiners : with a descriptive chart.
- Samuel R. Wells
- Date:
- 1890, ©1868
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: How to read character : a new illustrated hand-book of phrenology and physiognomy, for students and examiners : with a descriptive chart. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![DELOEATION OF CHARACTER. I. PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITIONS. I.—ORGANIC QUALITY. (7.) Very Good.—You have a remarkably refined, sensitive, and delicate organization; are susceptible of exquisite enjoyment and intense suffering; and are greatly affected by extremes of beat and cold, especially the latter. You are adapted to fine and light work rather than to that which is coarse and heavy, have poetic and artistic tastes, lofty aspirations, tender sympathies, and a longing for congenial companionship. Being inclined to live too far above the common interests and pursuits of life, you fail to find full appreciation, and are subjected to much suffering by the rude contacts involved among the every-day realities of this life. Cultivate a. more robust bodily condi- tion—eat, drink, sleep, and grow fat—and try to live more in the real and less in the ideal wofld. [23.]* (6.) Good.—You are fine-grained, high-toned, and delicately organ- ized ; susceptible, sensitive, and sympathetic; refined in your tastes, pleasures, and aspirations; and repelled by whatever is low, coarse, or gross. You are liable to extremes in feeling and acting ; are likely to be either very good or very bad; suffer keenly, enjoy deeply, and are generally either greatly exalted or greatly depressed ; have exquisite tastes; love the beautiful, and desire, if you do not always seek, the good and the true. [23.] (5.) Full.—Yours is neither a coarse nor an over-wrought organizar tion. Your tendencies, so faj as your constitution affects them, are upward rather than downward, and your tastes elevating rather than degrading. You must avoid all those habits which minister to the animal passions and clog mental manifestation, and strive to elevate yourself far above the gross and groveling multitude. [23.] * These figure?, and others similarly introduced in [brackets] throughout this pari of the work, refer to pages in the first part—How to Eead Character—where addl tiosal information or explanatory remarks maj be found.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21083824_0155.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
