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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    INTELLECTUAL. policy—a disposition to preserve, provide for, and defend one's self. The extent backward from the ear indicates the power of the social element, and gives the fraternal, af- fectionate, loving, domestic, and patriotic disposition Development obliquely- upward from the ear, or in the superior part of the height and breadth to that portion of the head (of which also fig. 171 affords an illustration), imparts prudence, aspiration, dig- nity, pride, self-reliance, and love of distinction, power, and position. If the coronal region, or top-head, pre- THOUGHTFUL. Fig. 167.—Welkie Collets.* Fig. 16S.-Hepwop.th Dixox.t Fig. 169.—A Lowla>t)eb. dominate, as in fi< 172, in which it will be seen that the * An English, novelist and miscellaneous writer, noted for hi; skill in the manage- ment of the plot in his fictions. After Dark, ,; The Dead Secret, and ••TheWomaH ki White are among his most popular works. t An English journalist and author, best known here through bis New America,H