How to Know People by Their Hands (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Josef Ranald

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1440048541 ISBN 13 : 9781440048548

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Unlock the secrets of hands with a thoughtful, science‑flavored approach.

This book treats palm reading as a study of human behavior, offering practical methods to observe lines, mounts, and work with objective clues rather than superstition. It explains how different lines relate to health, temperament, and life paths, and it encourages readers to look at evidence from multiple angles to form a balanced reading.

Structured for curious readers and budding analysts, it blends historical palmistry with concepts from psychology and biology. The author grounds predictions in observed patterns and speaks to the reader about avoiding charlatanry, aiming to build a thoughtful, respectful practice. Expect clear explanations, examples, and a method you can apply to your own hand or someone else’s to gain new perspective on personality and life choices.

• How to identify major and minor lines and what they may indicate about health, fertility, and temperament
• Ways to study the hand as a whole before focusing on details, for a balanced reading
• Practical guidance on interpreting marks, mounts, and patterns without guesswork
• Examples and framing to separate science from superstition and to stay grounded in observation

Ideal for readers curious about palms, personality, and the idea that hands reflect more than appearance.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from How to Know People by Their Hands

SOME time ago there was an eclipse of the sun. To study this phenomenon, scientific expeditions began to gather their equipment many months in advance. They knew what instruments would be needed, where to go for their observations, and the exact moment when the event would take place. This eclipse was foreseen even before the birth of the scientists taking part in the expeditions.

Was this a case of clairvoyance-penetration of the future by some gifted seer whose word was accepted by modern scientists as sufficient reason to send them voyaging thousands of miles? Not at all. Test tubes and mathematical formula breed men from Missouri who want to be shown. They would certainly not have accepted the word of inspiration on this subject any more than they would have taken a mad Adventist's forecast of the world's end. Yet they, and millions of others, accepted detailed predictions of the exact path the obscuring shadow of the moon would take.

So, in other fields of science, has prediction become a matter of course. Chemists will tell you in advance the reaction to be obtained by combining two substances. Physicists will explain how soon and where a projectile, shot from a certain place, will hit. Engineers will inform you how many revolutions per minute to expect from a wheel as the power applied is increased or decreased.

In less learned circles, everyone is willing to embark on limited predictions about the everyday occurrences of our lives. We take for granted that night will be followed by morning. We assume that when we apply a match to an open gas jet the gas will ignite. We are not surprised when we drop a pencil to see it fall to the ground.

Quite clearly, we translate a repeated occurrence into prediction of its continuance. The scientist does not go that far. His predictions are based on involved calculations making use of past observations. In theory he is not so certain ev...

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1440048541
• ISBN 13: 9781440048548
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 154
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