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Palmistry for All
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PART I—PALMISTRY OR CHEIROMANCY
The success I had during the twenty-five years in which I was connected with this study
was, I believe, chiefly owing to the fact that although my principal study was the lines
and formation of hands, yet I did not confine myself alone to that particular page in the
book of Nature. I endeavoured to study every phase of thought that can throw light on
human life; consequently the very ridges of the skin, the hair found on the hands, all were
used as a detective would use a clue to accumulate evidence. I found people were
sceptical of such a study only because they had not the subject presented to them in a
logical manner.
THE LINE OF HEAD OR THE INDICATIONS OF THE MENTALITY
The object of the following chapters is to give clear and unmistakable instruction on the
lines and markings of the hands, both from the student's standpoint and from that of the
general reader. This is not usually the course adopted in books printed on this subject
which have to appeal to a general public.
During my twenty-five years' professional experience in England, America, and other
countries, I have carefully noted down the questions that are not answered in books
published on this subject. I have also recorded what are the difficulties that arise in the
minds of those students who meet this, that, or the other mark or line and search in vain
for some explanation as to its meanings. I may add that there is not a single point on
which I give information that has not been proved by me from probably thousands of
cases that have come before me during my own professional experience.
As regards illustrations, I have endeavoured to make these of the simplest and clearest
kind possible. I have every confidence that if they are carefully studied, no student can
fail to grasp this subject in[Pg 9] a masterful manner, and that whoever acts upon the
advice I give in these pages, cannot fail to become successful as an interpreter of this
study.
THE LINE OF HEAD AND ITS VARIATIONS
The Line of Head (page 11), or indication of the Mentality of the subject, must in all
cases be considered as the most important line on the hand. The greatest attention should
be paid to it, so as to obtain a clear grasp of the Mentality under consideration.
The two hands must be carefully compared—the left showing the inherited tendencies,
the right the developed or cultivated qualities. The slightest change or deviation in the
markings from the left to the right should be carefully noted down or remembered.
The direction or the termination or end of the line should, above all, be distinctly noted,
for the all-important reason that this shows the direction that the Mentality is inclined to
develop towards. For example, if found with the end of the line sloping downwards in the
left hand, and having become straight or lying across the palm in the right—the student is
safe in concluding that the subject has not been able to follow his natural bent, but by the
force of circumstances has been obliged to make himself more practical, to study
business methods, and to have undertaken a training towards practicality and levelheadedness
in order to rise equal to the circumstances that he found himself forced to
meet.