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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![better endowed than yourself with mental power. Strive to improve j^our intellect by means of reading, study, and the conversation of intelligent persons. [14.] (2.) Small;—You are weak in mind and need the guidance of othei intellects in every undertaking ; are incapable of managing any business. [14.] II. MENTAL FACULTIES. XII.—AMATIVENESS. (7.) Very Large.—You possess in a pre-eminent degree the desire to iove and to be loved; are irresistibly attracted by the opposite sex; and are capable of exerting a similar power over them. You are winning in your manners; very gentle and sympathetic, conforming to the tastes and wishes of the one beloved; are devoted in your atten- tions ; yearn continually for the caresses and endearments of affection, and are made utterly miserable by coldness and indifference on the part of the beloved one. See (6.) [38.] With deficient coronal development, a low organic quality, or an inflamed state of the vital fluids, you would be verj^ liable to the perversion of the procreative function, and to excesses ruinous to body and soul. If restraint be necessary, see L, 7, Restrain. [40.] (6.) Large.—You are as described in (7), but in a lower degree ; are very fond of personal beauty, and seek in the other sex good bodily development and a warm heart as well as intellectual capacity and moral worth. The love-element is a very influential one in your organization, and will affect powerfully, for good or for evil, your destiny in life,—for the fire that warms may also consume. Rightly controlled, and made subservient to moral principle, it will be a source of strength and happiness—a blessing to yourself and to others ; per- verted, it may lead to speedy and irretrievable ruin. Let your prayer be, Lead us not into temptation ! If you are happily married, you are fortunate; if not, you should seek in matrimonj^ where alone it can be found, the satisfaction of your loving and yearning heart Eestrain. [40.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21083824_0164.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
