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Identifier: perinsscienceofp00peri (find matches)
Title: Perin's science of palmistry; a complete and authentic treatise
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Perin, Carl Louis
Subjects: Palmistry
Publisher: Chicago : Star publishing co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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s onthe palm. CHAPTER VI. THE MERCURIAN, OR ARTISTIC HAND. Not many authorities on the study of Palmistryclassify the Mercurian and Artistic Hand as one.(Plate V.) Some writers go so far as to try to leave theimpression with the reader that there is but little, ifany, relation existing between astrology and palm-istry. To the student, to the delver in archaeologysuch statements have no weight; they only elicit sym-pathy for the person, with so little learning, who wouldpresume to prepare a work on the subject. Accord-ing to Grecian mythology, which is from two wordsmeaning fable and discourse, Mercury was an artistin his way. He was the confidant and ambassador ofthe gods. He was the god of eloquence, the patron ofmerchants, thieves and robbers, travelers and shep-herds. He was popular with all classes, and a friend to noneexcept when it would further his own comfort or pleas-ure. By his diversity of talents he could adapt himselfeasily to the various classes of people with whom he 54
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PLATE V.THE MERCURIAN OR ARTISTIC TYPE. PERINS SCIENCE OP PALMISTRY. 57 came in contact. He is said to have invented the lyre,letters, commerce, and gymnastic exercises. He was aesthetic, proud, quick tempered, liked va-riety of entertainment, and had it. He was generous^and under the impulse of the moment he was sympa-thetic. It requires but little attention to be given to thesubject, after the characteristics of Mercury are thor-oughly mastered, to see that the hand described bywriters on Chirognomy and named the artistic, pos-sesses the identical characteristics as those ascribed,by Grecian mythology, to the god Mercury. People who have the artistic hand are creatures ofimpulse. To-day they are light-hearted, gay, generous,charitable; to-morrow they are sad, tearful, unchari-table, and penurious. This peculiar type of hand belongs to the beautifulwomen and gallant men of the South and to thosenations who live and are influenced by the warm andbalmy, fragrant and soothing air, in th

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