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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![where 3'our sympathies may be enlisted. You are liable, unless you hold this strong propensity in check, to become penurious and miserly as you grow older. Conscientiousness, Benevolence, and Adhesiveness should be constantly called into action with Acquisitiveness, so that everything shall be honestly got and liberally expended, for the benefit of the world in general and of your friends and neighbors in par- ticular. Restrain. [63.] (5.) Pull.—You are industrious in acquiring; take good care of what you get; value property for its uses; are saving, but not avaricious or close ; ready to help your friends, but not willing to impoverish your- self, and are not likely to spend quite so fast as you earn. [59.] (4.) Average.—You have a fair appreciation of the value of prop- erty, and considerable desire to accumulate, but will be governed in your expenditures by other faculties, and may keep yourself poor by living up to the limits of your income. Cautiousness should be called to the aid of Acquisitiveness, so that provision be made for the future. Cultivate. [61.] (3.) Moderate.—You may seek property with considerable zeal and interest, but will value it merely as a means, not as an end; will be economical when jour necessities require it, but are apt to disregard small expenses, and are very likely to spend about as fast as you earn. Your money-making talent is but moderate, and you have no love for buying, selling, and getting gain for its own sake. Cultwate. [61.] (2.) Small.—You hold your money too loosely; have more talent for spending than for getting ; are liable to contract habits of extrava- gance, and to live beyond your means. Cultwate. [61.] (1.) Very Small.—You are wasteful, extravagant, and idle, and will probably always be poor. Cultivate. [61.] XXIV.—SECRETIVENESS. (7.) Very Large.—Your ability to restrain your feelings, to evade scrutiny, and to conceal your plans and intentions is very great. You are reserved, politic, guarded, shrewd, enigmatical, and mysterious; so much so, perhaps, that your most intimate friends are never sure that they really understand or know you. With small Conscientiousness you would be tricky, deceptive, double-dealing, and untrustworthy, and might, with large Acquisitiveness and small Cautiousness, both cheat and falsify. Restrain. [64] (6.) Large.—You are reserved in the expression of your sentiments; keep your plans and designs to yourself; are very discreet; delight in concealment; are fond of surprising your friends; incline to practice strategy; prefer indirect approaches to a straightforward course ; and, even when your purposes are entirely honest and commendable, may often resort to cunning devices to accomplish them. Your character ^nd intentions are too carefully covered up, and you subject yourself](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21083824_0174.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
