The Hand Phrenologically Considered: Being a Glimpse at the Relation of the Mind with the Organisation of the Body — John Shaqi
The Hand Phrenologically Considered: Being a Glimpse at the Relation of the Mind with the Organisation of the BodyAnonymous
Philosophy
The Hand Phrenologically Considered: Being a Glimpse at the Relation of the Mind with the Organisation of the Body
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Hand; Phrenology
D’Arpentigny says of these hands: “Elles attachent, elles ajoutent,
aux œuvres du penseur, comme l’artiste à l’œuvre de l’artisan la
beauté, l’idéalité; elles les dorent d’un rayon de soleil, elles les
élèvent sur un piédestal, elles leur ouvrent le porte des cœurs;
l’âme, oubliée et laissée en arrière par les mains philosophiques,
est leur guide,—la vérité dans l’amour, et la sublimité leur but, et
l’expansion leur moyen.”
This form of hand is met with among all classes of society, but is
rarely the prevailing one among any people. In Asia, it is most common
in India; and in Europe, in Germany.
Thus to the spathulate and motive hands appertain matter and reality,
the useful and necessary arts, the action and theory of things, and the
knowledge of facts; to the sensitive and psychical hands the boundless
ideal world—the fine arts, sublime poetry, and abstract intellectual
philosophy.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] La Chirognomonie; ou, l’Art de Reconnaître les Tendances de
l’Intelligence, d’après les Formes de la Main. Par le C^{aine} S.
ARPENTIGNY. Paris, 1843.
[2] Ueber Grund und Bedentung der verschiedenen Formen der Hand in
verschiedenen Personen. By Dr. C. G. CARUS, Physician to the King of
Saxony, &c. &c. Stuttgart, 1846.
[3] P. 237.
[4] Brougham on Paley’s “Natural Theology.”
[5] Natural Theology: ch. on “Relations.”
London: George Barclay, Castle Street, Leicester Square.
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