The Illustrated Self-Instructor in Phrenology and PhysiologyFowler, O. S. (Orson Squire)
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The Illustrated Self-Instructor in Phrenology and Physiology
Fowler, O. S. (Orson Squire)
Phrenology
LARGE.--Saves for future use what is not wanted for present; allows
nothing to go to waste; turns every thing to a good account; buys closely,
and makes the most of all it gets; is industrious, economical, and
vigorously employs means to accumulate property and desires to own and
possess much; with large, social organs, industriously acquires property
for domestic purposes, yet is saving in the family; with very large
Adhesiveness and Benevolence, is industrious in acquiring property, yet
spends it too freely upon friends; with large Hope added, is too apt to
endorse for them; with small Secretiveness, and with activity greater than
power, is liable to overdo, and takes so much work upon itself in order to
save, as often to incur sickness, and thus loses more than gains; with
large Approbativeness and small Secretiveness, tells how much property it
possesses, but with large Secretiveness, keeps its own pecuniary affairs
to itself; with large Constructiveness, inclines to make money by engaging
in some mechanical branch of business; with large Cautiousness, is
provident; with large Ideality, keeps its things very nice, and is
tormented by whatever mars beauty; with large intellectual organs, loves
to accumulate books, and whatever facilitates intellectual progress; with
large Veneration and Self-Esteem, sets great store on antique and rare
coins, and specimens, etc.: p. 89.
VERY LARGE.--Hastens to be rich; is too eager after wealth; too close in
making bargains; too small and close in dealing; with large Cautiousness,
is penny wise, but pound foolish; holds the sixpence too close to the eye
to see the dollar further off, and gives its entire energies to amassing
property; with smaller Secretiveness and large Conscientiousness, is
close, yet honest, will have all its own, yet wants no more, and never
employs deception; but, with large Secretiveness and but average
Conscientiousness, makes money any how; palms off inferior articles for
good ones, or at least over-praises what it wants to sell, and runs down
what it buys; and with large Philoprogenitiveness and Perceptives added,
can make a finished horse-jockey; with small Self-Esteem, is small and
mean in deal, and sticks for the half cent; with very large Hope, and only
full Cautiousness, embarks too deeply in business, and is liable to fail;
with large Adhesiveness and Benevolence, will do for friends more than
give, and circulate the subscription paper rather than sign it; with large
Hope and Secretiveness, and only average Cautiousness, buys more than it
can pay for, bases more in promises than in money, and should adopt a cash
practice, and check the manifestations of this faculty by being less
penurious and industrious, and more liberal: p. 92.
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