ing, and
the Line of Head joined and straight across the hand, has caused many
exponents of this study to make great mistakes in the judgment of their
subject. When, as is very often the case, the Line of Head is forked
(3-3, Plate II.), also when joined and when these forked lines are equal
to one another, especially in cases where the Line of Head is joined to
the Line of Life showing the sensitive temperament, this forked mark
often indicates a certain want of decision. The subject is inclined to
balance too much between the two qualities of brain, the practical and
the imaginative. As to what they should do for the best, in such cases it
is always wise to advise the subject to act according to first impulse
either in dealing with practical or imaginative things. By so doing they
employ, as it were, the intuition of the brain, and by using it do not
waver and vacillate by too much reasoning over the question or
endeavouring to see both sides of it at once. When the sloping Line of
Head has a gentle curve downwards towards the Mount of the Moon (1-1,
Plate II.), distinct control over the imagination is indicated. The
student will then know that the subject simply uses his imagination when
he wishes to do so instead of being controlled by it. But the contrary is
the case when the line bends too far down this Mount (4-4, Plate II.). In
this case the subject is the slave of his imagination and generally does
erratic and peculiar things or can only work in moods of the moment.
People of this latter class seldom, if ever, produce the great results in
the world of art or imagination as do those who have the line simply
curving downwards into this Mount.

[Illustration: PLATE II.

THE LINE OF HEAD JOINED TO THE LINE OF LIFE AND ITS TERMINATIONS.]

When the Line of the Head bends completely down and turns with a curve,
as it were, under the base of the Mount of Luna (5-5, Plate II.), the
tendency is to extreme morbid imaginings and such extreme sensitiveness,
that people on whose hands it is found generally separate themselves from
the rest of their fellows, and either retire from the world altogether
and live a solitary life or else make their exit by the gate of suicide.
The latter is, in fact, generally the ending of such lives. Their extreme
sensitiveness evidently renders life for them almost unbearable. But this
formation must not be confounded with the Line of Head curving downwards
through the upper part of the Moun