How to read character : a new illustrated hand-book of phrenology and physiognomy, for students and examiners; with a descriptive chart / [Samuel Roberts Wells].

  • Wells, Samuel R. (Samuel Roberts), 1820-1875.
Date:
1891, [©1869?]
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Credit: How to read character : a new illustrated hand-book of phrenology and physiognomy, for students and examiners; with a descriptive chart / [Samuel Roberts Wells]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    LI.—CAUSALITY. (7.) Very Large.—You should be noted for originality, Tjlanning capacity, intuitive perception of the relations of cause and effect, and great reasoning power and comprehension. You are naturally a thinker and a philosopher, and are in danger of becoming an impracti- cable theorist. Restrain. [115.] (6.) Large. — You have excellent reasoning power; uncommon capacity for contriving ways and means; can generally trace effects back to their causes, or predicate results; are good at making plans; have a strong desire to know the why and wherefore of every- thing ; are not satisfied with a superficial knowledge, but desire to go to the bottom of every subject; are liable to be abstruse and more theoretical than practical. Restrain. [115.] (5.) Full.—Your capacity to plan, invent, originate, and adapt means to ends is good, and with activity well developed and Com- parison and the perceptives large, may manifest a good degree of reasoning power; but with these conditions reversed, you will plan better than you will execute. You like to know why things are as they are, but are not disposed to push your investigations too closely. [114.] (4.) Average.—Your planning and reasoning ability depends greatly upon the influence of other and larger organs, but in general it is only fair. Cultivate. [115.] (3.) Moderate.—You are rather deficient in the ability to discern and apply principles, and possess no great originality or planning capacity. Cultivate. [115.] (2.) Small.—You are decidedly deficient in reasoning power and ability to contrive, plan, and adapt means to ends. Cultivate. [115.] (1.) Very Small.—You are almost utterly destitute of originality. Cultivate. [115.] LIL—COMPARISON. (7.) Very Large.—You possess remarkable powers of analysis; ability to reason from analogy and to discover new truths by induction; can clearly trace out relations between the known and the unknown which escape common investigators, and with Individuality, Eventu- ality, and Causality well developed, will manifest great capacity for making discoveries and a passion for analytical investigations most useful to the phrenologist. [115.] (6.) Large.—Your capacity for inductive reasoning is excellent; you manifest great ability in tracing the connection between known facts and phenomena and the laws or principles which govern them; a disposition to analyze, resolve combinations into elements, dissect, criticise, compare, and classify; to observe similarities and dissimilar- ities ; to trace analogies; to explain by illustration; and in speaking, 1o