t than by anything else.

I have seen, for example, many students make the mistake of paying great
attention to what looked like a good Line of Sun or Success, and, at the
same time, not noticing a weak, badly formed Line of Head, which
contradicted the promise of success given by the various lines. If, on
the other hand, the student had first noticed the Line of Head, he would
have been able to tell the subject that the promise of success was not
backed up by the intelligence or the mentality.

As regards the future being foreshadowed, it has been demonstrated that
the brain is always growing, changing, increasing, or diminishing. These
changes commence years before the effect is shown by the thoughts or
actions of the individual. A boy ten years old may at that point commence
a development which will not be felt until he is thirty, and then it may
change his whole life and career. As this development commences at ten,
even at that age it has affected certain nerves, and they in their turn
have already affected the Line of Head--a full twenty years before the
point of change or action has been reached. It therefore follows that the
future may be seen and told by a careful examination of the hand which,
as Aristotle has said, is the "organ of all organs, the active agent of
the passive powers of the entire system."

THE LINE OF HEAD AND ITS VARIATIONS

The Line of Head (page 11), or indication of the Mentality of the
subject, must in all cases be considered as the most important line on
the hand. The greatest attention should be paid to it, so as to obtain a
clear grasp of the Mentality under consideration.

The two hands must be carefully compared--the left showing the inherited
tendencies, the right the developed or cultivated qualities. The
slightest change or deviation in the markings from the left to the right
should be carefully noted down or remembered.

The direction or the termination or end of the line should, above all, be
distinctly noted, for the all-important reason that this shows the
direction that the Mentality is inclined to develop towards. For example,
if found with the end of the line sloping downwards in the left hand, and
having become straight or lying across the palm in the right--the student
is safe in concluding that the subject has not been able to follow his
natural bent, but by the force of circumstances has been obliged to make
himself more practical, to study business methods, and