Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-09-28
CHARACTER IN EARS.
AURoLoGY IS SCARCELY LESS INTER
EsTING THAN PALMIsTRY.
What the Different Sizes and Shapes
Indicate as to Mental and
Moral Peculiarities.

Moral Pecullarities.
Of late great deal has been written on
palmistry. And however interesting the
study of this speculative science may be-
for in truth it has recently been brought
within scientific limits-it is scarcely more
interesting than aurology, or the study OF
the ears, says Goiigaanfs Messenger Lava
tor, the eminent physiologist, asserted that
mans character could be learned by
| careful examination of his nose, and SO
expert did he become in his system that
| he was able TO make a large number of
converts to his mystical theory. He also
| held that much might be learned of the
| psychological tendencies of the human race
! by comparative study of their ears. In
this he was unquestionably right, and we
who have for some time entered as far as
we could into the mazes of this speculative
inquiry baye come to the conclusion that
ears are the best tell-tales of human SYM
| pathies, moral or physieal-better than
| either hands or noses, and scientifically
| only second, if it be so, TO phrenology.
| Sculptors devote the greatest attention
to the modelling of an ear. By these coun-
terfeiters of human beauty the small ear
/ which inclines to the shape of the goats
ear-that is to say, while perfect in its
| imperfect convolutions, has a tendency,
the slightest possible, to taper at the top
| like the ear of the goat or the mythical
satyr-is considered by them the most
beautiful. This is noticeable in all the
most celebrated statues representing the
| female form executed at the period when
| Greek art was at its highest point of ex-
! cellence, and which it has been the ambi-
tion of the sculptors of all succeeding ages
to initiate or emulate. Such an ear was
considered to be indicative of finely |
wrought nervous organization and sensuous
or erotic temperament. For these reasons, |
as well as on account of its symmetrical |
| delicacy, this shaped ear was considered |
the necessary and only appendage of real |
| beauty. In the statues of the male form :!
the sculptors carried out the same idea,
but when they wished to portray an ideal |
sensuous form they never failed to make |
the ear of a modified goat form, as was
always the case when they represented in |
marble a satyr or faun, these two hybrid |
| creatures Of mans imagination being by !!
the ancients deemed the embems of gross |
| sensualIty. After careful examination |
we have come TO the conclusion that the |
aneients understood aurology in this par
ticulaf branch, for we have always noticed |
that the faun or goat-like ear on man or |
woman indicated fierce, erotic tendency. |
On the other hand, when the top of the |
ear is rounded like the narrow end of an |
egg, the stronger erotic tendency in the |
nature disappears and is characteristic of !
lovable and romantic disposition, or
rather disposition that yearns after the |
romantic and pines to be loved. Again, |
those ears of similar shape, but where |
the hem is fiat, as if ironed down, indicate |
vacillating mind, which in women usu-
ally belongs to firts and those who lack |
ideality, and in man is characteristic of |
mean intelligence and cold temper. Where |
the small ear inclines rather to the round |
than the elongated oval it is a certain in |
dication that the person, male or female, |
to whom it belongs is of an amorous, jeal- |
Gus, but treacherous nature, and although |
quick in perception, defective in the rea-
soning faculties, and therefore defective in
judgment. When the ear is oval and the |
lobe slightly, but distinctly marked, a
lofty ideality, combined with great sensi-
tiveness, is always noticeable. But when |
there is no lobe and the ear widens toward |
the top, these indicate cunning, selfshness
| and revengeful disposition. OF course,
with certain notifications, the character !!
changes, but not in any perceptible degree;
so that the foregoing may be taken as un-
alterable laws in the reading of character |
by the ears.
Were it possible for US to give diagrams
we could better explain our theory; still, |
language is to great extent sufficient to |
explain it, and by carefully following what |
we write it viii be observed that our sys-
TEN is almost infallible. As general rule, |
poets, painters, sculptors and men and |
women of lofty intellectual tendency |
have small ears, while those who in their |
moral sympathies are gross and incline
! most TO the animal have large ears Of |
fabby appearance, and with heavy, un-
slightly lobes. There is, however, re-
markable modification to be carefully
regarded in Judging characters by large |
ears. Large and round ones with neat
hem, well-carved, not fat, indicate strong
will, a bulldog-like tenacity of purpose
and saturnine disposition. If the lobes
of such ears be heavy they mark their |
owners, male or female, as lascivious,
prone to fattery, weak in everything that |
concerns their opposing sex, and manifest |
| ing disposition to be prodigal in expendi- |
ture in the pursuit of selfish pleasures and |
in the effort to crafty their desires.
| Thriftless men and women never have ears
of this shape, while those who are gener-
Gus, extravagant and profuse in expendi- |
ture, thriftless even to be uni Just in their |
| dealings with their fellow-man, have al |
most always small, well-shaped ears, as
though that which seemed an external |
| beauty should be indicative of mental ir-
regularity. As a general rule the large |
ear, without the heavy lobe, is notable in
men who are eminent in statecraft, money
getting and speculative enterprise. Such |
| men are great thinkers generally, but |
never great orators, as If the size of their |
ears spoiled the use of their tongues. Your |
great and successful meters to revolutions |
have almost always been remarkable for |
ears of this shape, while your men of ac.
tion and daring had small, round ones.
1t may have been remarked by the OBJ |
servant that certain ears on the inner rim |
toward the top have a small excrescence !
like one OF the tips of a cocks comb. This |
is indicative of weak character, but ob- |
stinate withal, though counter balanced by |
placid temper. Such persons are indif- |
ferent to the disturbing influences of the |
outer world, and, as a rule, make the best
OF everything because they lack the refine |
ment or sensitiveness to be in any way dis |
turbed by them. When there is an inden- |
tation instead OF an excrescence, an irrita- |
bility and quickness OF temper are indi- |
Gated, balanced by general impusiyeness
of character. The owners of such ears are
ambitious, but they generally want deter
mination to accomplish their ambitious |
designs; they are always nervous and ex-
citable, quick to determine, slow to exc
cute.
When the ears are large and droop at the |
top, and are without hem, the gross in
stincts are palpable. These indicate in
their owners vanity, insolence, arrogance
and general satisfaction with themselves. |
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