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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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entirety isi long; the fingers are long,slender and pointed; the nails long, narrow, thin, anddelicate in color. The cuticle is thin and fine, and as the blood circu-lates it gives the delicate flush to the hand, as the blushso often seen upon the cheek of the timid or awkwardyouth or maiden does to the cheek. In this age of purely practical ideas, of materialistic 59 60 PERINS SCIENCE OF PALMISTRY. views, individuals with this beautiful, pure, imaginary,dreamy, volatile type of hand seem to be unappre-ciated, and often are pushed to the wall, by the vulgar,material populace. The Idealistic type of hand is as apt to be pro-duced by one nation as another. It is the sweet-scented, dainty, beautifully-colored, modest flower,which hangs its head as if to hide from view undersome tall, coarse, loud-colored plant, which is gatheredand admired by the bustling, clamoring populace,while they crush the life out of the beautiful, delicatelyperfumed flower, which they were too coarse to observe.
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PLATE VI.THE LUNAR OR IDEALISTIC HAND, CHAPTER VIII. THE HARMONIC, OR SOLAR HAND. Any person having the harmonic or solar, hand(Plate VII.) is a fortunate being if the palm of thehand indicates firmness of purpose and strength ofwill. It is the versatile hand, the adaptable hand. Thepersons who possess it are brilliant in conversation,and are adepts in diplomacy. They are alwiays doing something, if it is nothingmore than inventing some plan to do away with phys-ical labor. They take life easy, while, at the sametime, they are a valuable acquisition to society. Asthey never have the blues they dispel the gloom fromall with whom they associate, making life, at least fora season, bearable to them. Persons having this round-ed developed hand can adapt themselves readily to anypeople and adjust themselves without any trouble tonew conditions and environments. Such people fit in the niche of life which was in-tended for them without creating any sensation. Because they do not apply themsel

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