Handwriting and expression / translated and edited by John Holt Schooling from the 3rd French ed. ... by J. Crpīeux-Jamin.

  • Jules Crépieux-Jamin
Date:
1892
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    or of illness is only generally indicated by this mode of Personal expression. We shall show later that tvvo or more graphologie signs may be combined in order to discover a less obvions condition of personality than is indicated by a single sign. This study of résultants admits of much development. We hâve pointed ont as far back as 18S5, in our P radical Treatise on Graphology^ the advantage this study affords to our science. It is essentially a psychological study, the develop- ment of which is independent of graphologie analysis of handwriting. Résultants constitute a means of ascer- taining traits of character that handwriting cannot directly afford. Personal gesture by itself does not enable us to discern injustice, mental pénétration, devotedness to a cause, etc. This is also impossible in the case of handwriting, since it is merely a sériés of gestures ; but, nevertheless, it is possible to ascertain such qualities as those just named by means of the method of résultants, which relates to the accurate combination of two or more traits directly obtained from handwriting, in order to get one which is not thereby immediately indicated. As time goes on we may hope, by this method, to discover more of these indirect character- istics than are now known, but undue haste will only mis- lead us, and moreover, we cannot too strongly protest against those graphologists who expect to find résultants, or even spécial signs, as some do, indicating anything out- side of the eight kinds of personal traits which we hâve mentioned as being within the possible scope of rational ■* Praitépraiiçue de Grapholo^^ie, ■par ]. Crép'\eux-]a.m\n. Mar- pon et Flammarion, éditeurs, à Paris. C 2