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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![sentences, as well as la the arrangement of the subject-matter of youi essay or book. [88.] (5.) Full.—You have a good degree of mechanical judgment and in- genuity; are interested in machinery and mechanical operations, and with practice would attain skill in the use of tools. [88.] (4.) Average.—With the education of a mechanic—a thorough training in any particular trade—you may make a good workman, but manifest no special liking for the use of tools. Cultivate. [88.] (3.) Moderate.—You are rather awkward in the use of tools, and should not attempt anything requiring much mechanical skill. Cultivate. [88.] (2.) Small.—You are deficient in constructive talent, and should not attempt to invent. Cultivate. [88.] (1.) Very Small.—You are very awkward in your attempts (if you ever make any) to use tools, and could scarcely build a rough hen- coop. Cultivate. [88.] XXXV.—IDEALITY. (7.) Very Large.—You have the most exquisite taste, the highest degree of refinement, and intense love of the beautiful; live in an ideal world ; set up a high standard in character and manners ; have a most vivid imagination, and with the mental temperament and a good development of the reflective faculties, Constructiveness, Imitation, etc., are capable of achieving success in the highest walks of poetry or art. [90.] Y'our danger lies in the direction of extra fastidiousness and the tyrannical domination of the ideal, shutting you out from all participation in the interests and enjoyments of the real world around you. Ikstrain. [90.] (6.) Large.—You are imaginative, refined, and tasteful; love poetry, art, and tJie beautiful in nature; have high ideas of propriety in expres- sion and conduct; are graceful and polished in manners; have lofty aspirations ; incline to strive after perfection in character and perform- ance, and if otherwise well-endowed (see 7), possess a talent for the creation of the beautiful ^in poetry or art. [88.] (5.) Full.—You are not wanting in taste, refinement, or love of the beautiful; enjoy poetry and art; appreciate elegance and polished manners; and have elevated notions of the proprieties of life, but are not sentimental, fanciful, or over-fastidious. You love adornment and display, but are not disposed to sacrifice the useful to the ornamental. [88.] (4.) Average.—You show more liking for the plain and substantial than for the ornamental; are a utilitarian; live in a real, every-day, matter-of-fact world; and never* *' soar into the blue, or wander en- chanted in the realms of the ideal. You are rather plain in your manners, and in talking or writing make use of few figures of speech,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21083824_0184.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
