Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from How to Read Character: A New Illustrated Handbook of Phrenology and Physiognomy, for Students and Examiners; With a Descriptive Chart
The first Phrenological Chart ever produced was printed on a single sheet, the size of out common note paper, and was sold for a cent. It simply gave the names of the organs then discovered by Dr. Gall. The next was larger, and gave both the names and definitions of the organs; still later, the charts of Dr. Gall and Spurzheim embraced all the above, together with some account of the Temperaments. But as it was with the inventors of the steam-engine, the locomotive, and the 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 unlike those first 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, revising old ones year after year, and adding one improvement after another. The present work embodies our latest and best ideas on the subject, so far as they can be set forth in this condensed and popular form.
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