Thus to the spathulate and motive hands appertain matter and reality, the useful and necessary arts, the action and theory of things, and the knowledge of facts; to the sensitive and psychical hands the boundless ideal world—the fine arts, sublime poetry, and abstract intellectual philosophy.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] La Chirognomonie; ou, l’Art de Reconnaître les Tendances de l’Intelligence, d’après les Formes de la Main. Par le Caine S. Arpentigny. Paris, 1843.
[2] Ueber Grund und Bedentung der verschiedenen Formen der Hand in verschiedenen Personen. By Dr. C. G. Carus, Physician to the King of Saxony, &c. &c. Stuttgart, 1846.
[3] P. 237.
[4] Brougham on Paley’s “Natural Theology.”
[5] Natural Theology: ch. on “Relations.”
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