How to Read Character: A New Illustrated Handbook of Phrenology and Physiognomy for Students and Examiners (Classic Reprint)

PREFACE.
HE first Phrenological Chakt ever produced was printed on a single shoot, the size of our common note paper, and was sold for a cent. It simply gave the names of the organs then discovered by Dr. GUll. The next was larger, and gave both the names and definitions of the organs; still later, the charts of Drs. Gall and Sj'ukzhklm cm-braced all the above, together with some account of the Temperaments. But as it was with the inventors of the steam-engine, the locomotive, and tho steamboat, so it has been with phrenologists. Each succeeding author is supposed to have availed himself of all that has been proved to be true and useful, adding thereto his own observations and experiences. Thus the improved charts of to-day are as unliko those fust printed as are the modern steamers, locomotives,' and engines to those first invented.
During our thirty years' experience in the practical application of scientific rules to character reading, we have used many different charts, revisi

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