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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![or art, are not fond of study, and would be apt to fall asleep over a good book. You should cultivate a taste for reading. [21.] (3.) Poorly Developed.—Yoa are dull in perception, and slow to comprehend even simple truths. Your judgment is poor, and you need the direction of minds more highlj^ endowed. You should get sound advice, and follow it. [21.] iX.—ACTIVITY. I (7.) Very Great.—You are very agile, lithe-limbed, and quick- kiotioned, and your mental operations are equally rapid and facile. You are always wide-awake, eager, knowing, and brilliant. You are liable to overwork yourself and become prematurely exhausted. [27.] (6.) Great.—Yours is a restless, active, livelj'- organization. You speak rapidly, comprehend quicklj^ and decide at once on the course to be pursued, and are in danger of excessive action, and consequent early exhaustion of the vital powers. [27.] (5) and (4.) Full or Average.—You have a fair degree of activity, but are likely to be sufficiently deliberate to weigh the pros and coii.< before deciding how to act; are not lazy, but prefer light work to heavy, and play to either. [27.] (3.) Moderate.—You are rather slow and deliberate in your move- ments, are seldom or never in a hurry, and always take plenty of time to consider. Your mental operations are slow, and 3^ou are apt to see the point of a joke, if at all, after the laugh is over. Wake up! [27.] (2.) Small.—You are too slov/ to be.of much service to yourself or anybody else—decidedly inert. Try to cultivate activity by pushing about. You should have some one after you with a sharp stick. [27.] X.—EXCITABILITY. (7.) Very Great.—You are remarkably impressible, very easily ex- cited, subject to extremes of feeling; greatly exalted at one moment and much depressed the next; driven now this way and then that by constantly changing impulses ; and very much disposed to exaggerate everything, whether good or bad. Your need is to restrain this ex- citability, first, by avoiding all stimulating food and drink, and all un- natural or violent mental excitements; and, second, by cultivating a calm, quiet, enjoyable frame of mind. Repose is the proper antidote of too great activity. [27.] (6.) Great.—You are constituted as described in (7), only in a some- what lower degree—too susceptible to external influences for your own •welfare or that of 3^our friends. [27.] (5.) Full.—You are sufficiently susceptible to exciting causes, but not readily carried away by any sudden impulse; are self-possessed, and act coolly and with forethought. [27.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21083824_0162.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
