s, their various
blends of types, that have now spread themselves by intermarriage and
travel over the surface of the earth.

For example, the difference in the shape of the hands of the French and
German or the French and English races would convince any thinking person
that temperament and disposition are indeed largely indicated by the
shape of the hand itself.

It is even a remarkable thing that though work and exercise may enlarge
and broaden the hand, yet the type to which it belongs is never
destroyed, but can be easily detected by anyone who has made a study of
such matters.

The Seven Types or Shapes of Hands are as follows:

(1) The Elementary--or lowest type.
(2) The Square--or the useful hand.
(3) The Spatulate--or nervous active type.
(4) The Philosophic--or jointed hand.
(5) The Conic--or the artistic type.
(6) The Psychic--or the idealistic hand.
(7) The Mixed Hand.

THE SEVEN TYPES OF HANDS

THE ELEMENTARY

As its name implies, the Elementary is the lowest type of all. It is just
a little above the brute creation. This type is extremely short (Plate
I., Part II.), thick set and brutal-looking. In passing I must draw the
reader's attention to the fact that the shorter and thicker the hand is,
the nearer the person is to the animal.

In examining this type one can therefore only expect to find it the
expression of all that is coarse, brutal, and animal.

People having such hands naturally have very little mental development or
ability. They are found engaged in occupations requiring only unskilled
labour and the very lowest even of that.

They are violent in temper, and have little or no control over their
passions or their anger. They are coarse in their ideas, possess little
or no sentiment, no imagination or feeling, and it has been found that
even the nerve system of such types is more or less in a state of
non-development. They do not feel pain as the higher types of humanity
feel it, and have little ambition except to eat, drink, and sleep.

Note.--The thumb is extremely short and low-set with the Elementary type.

[Illustration: FIG. 1--THE ELEMENTARY HAND. FIG. 2--THE SQUARE OR USEFUL
HAND.

FIG. 3--THE SPATULATE HAND. FIG. 4--THE PHILOSOPHIC HAND.

PLATE I.--PART II.]

THE SQUARE TYPE

The Square type (Plate I., Part II.,) is so designated on account of the
palm being like a square in shape, or at least nearly so. Such a hand in
fact "looks square." It i