How to Read Human Nature: Its Inner States and Outer Forms

"Human Nature" is a term most frequently used and yet but little understood. The average person knows in a general way what he and others mean when this term is employed, but ve...

The student of Human Nature soon discovers that among men, as among the animals, there is to be observed a great variety of "quality," and various classes of "temperament." Amon...

The eighth group is known as the Perceptive Qualities, composed of the following particular Qualities, respectively: _Observation_; _Form_ _Size_; _Weight_; _Color_; _Order_; _C...

While the subject of hands may be thought to belong to the study of Palmistry, with which we have no concern in this book, nevertheless we think that we should include herein a...

Do you know what "character" is? The word itself, in its derivation and original usage, means: "a stamp, mark or sign, engraved or stamped." As time passed the term was applied...

Just as _character_ is the inner phase of Human Nature, so is _personality_ its outer phase. To many the two terms are synonymous, but analysis will show the shades of differenc...

Next to the shape of the head, the facial expression furnishes us with the most marked indication of the outer form accompanying the inner mental state. In fact, many authoritie...

The ninth group is known as the Reflective Qualities, which is composed of the two following particular Qualities: _Analysis_ and _Logic, respectively_. This group is accorded t...

The seventh group is known as the Relative Qualities, and is composed of the following four particular Qualities: _Human Nature_; _Suavity_; _Sympathy_; and _Imitation_; respect...

The second group is known as the Selfish Qualities, and is composed of the following particular Qualities: _Combativeness_; _Destructiveness_; _Cunning_; _Cautiousness_; _Acquis...

The tenth group is known as the Religio-Moral Qualities, and is composed of the following particular Qualities: _Reverence_, _Mysticism_, _Optimism_, and _Conscientiousness_, re...

We now approach the subject of the several particular mental qualities, and the groups thereof, both in the phase of their inner states and that of their outer form. In the cons...

Physiognomists regard the chin as an important feature to be considered in the study of faces as the outer form of character. The following are the principal points of the "read...

The sixth group is known as the Modificative Qualities (called by the phrenologists "The Self-Perfecting Group"), which is composed of the following particular Qualities. _Ideal...

The fourth group is that known as the Social Qualities, which group is composed of the following particular Qualities: _Amativeness_; _Conjugality_; _Parental Love_; _Sociabilit...

The fifth group, known as the Applicative Qualities, is composed of two particular Qualities, known, respectively, as _Firmness_ and _Continuity_. This group manifests in outer...

It has been said that "the eyes are the windows of the soul," and indeed they do express a _something_ that is not possible to any other part of the face or body. When unrestrai...

The first group of Qualities is that known as the Egoistic Qualities, which is composed of two particular Qualities, known, respectively, as _Self-Esteem_; and _Approbativeness_...

_Quality_ is held to be indicated by the relative delicateness in the moulding of the ear, a coarse, misshapen ear being held to indicate an uncultivated nature; while a delicat...

The third group is known as the Vitative Qualities, which is composed of the three respective particular Qualities: _Vitativeness_; _Alimentativeness_; and _Bibativeness_. This...