New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-10-22
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE MONDAY, OCTOBER o. 1883

supernatural to divine that such nature VIII De
naturally strong In its affections and instincts1 Ii
the form be accompanied by sensitive tempera-
ment is the gift Of prophecy requisite to foretell
that such an individual will undergo and sufer
great deal and form some attachment WHICH Will
dominate the whole life.
Take another instance. The constant employment
of the hands In violin and harp playing, in mould
ing and other artistic work, spreads the point Oh
the finger and makes 1T 'spatulous." Is there any
black art in suggesting that the finger Is generally
inherited from some ancestor and Is accompanied
by the relative taIenti That much of the system
like the mount on tho left base of the right hand
the mount or the moon"-is mere mOonshine Is pos
sble but that the hand is the reflex of the brain so
far material objects are concerned IS doubtless
true and it IS only where 1t has been attempted to
carry tie theory into the sphere of psychological
attributes that the system seems TO break down.
Yet even in these o negative law may operate. IL
is said that narrow thumb indicates weak.
ndecisive character Several generations of
hard. earnest work, will undoubtedly increase
the size of the hand and thumb. But several
generations of country life tend also to
produce powerful, earnest character. Tho two
coeZist. indicating each other they proceed from
an identical cause.
which Is placed at tho root of the first
finger. Now, on the hand of a man who does no
manual labor and who eats and drinks luXuriOusly
the skin will become soft and duotile. The blood
vessels will be oveTilled the tissues will be liable
to swell from excess of stmulants in the blood. and
these causes will increase the natural pad or
cushion which nature places at the root of each
finger, and especially the first, where the counter
resistance of closing the hand is least. Turning to
the psychological side. We ask what effect Will an
idle, self-indulRent life have on the iudividualG
Will it not produce a self, ecking, dominating and
solf-wied character. tendency to command,
dislike of control and disposition TO regard every
thing from ones own point of view? Yet this is
precisely what the chiromancst processes to read in
the mount of Jove.' Where such a character is
combined with strong cOmba liyeness, great energy
and yigOr is there any occult science required to
tell that such man will rule or ruin any cause
with which he may be associated Again, take a
dry skinny hand with little flesh on the bones
the product Of a slow circulation and weak
assimlative powers In such hand we may read
that the mind will most likely rule the body be-
cause the passions and apprtites will be feeble and
easily controlled and that the individual will
take a calm and dispassionate view of life What
" science Is required to foretell that such in
diyidual will have an equable existence aud pass
calmly and quietly through life
II may be fairly argued in all these cases that the
same causc has produced a mental and anatomical
product in the Individual, and that the two are cor
rclatycs-not cause and effect