Symbols.

Nature’s language is one of symbols. The sunset tells the story of departing day; the woodland and the prairie evidence the truth of my statements; the murky river as well as the clear stream leaves its trail well marked. Each shape of leaf has a different meaning; circles, squares, triangles, oblong figures, all represent one of nature’s many ways of imparting knowledge, and he who runs may read, but the one who listens intently to nature’s more quiet moods may read more correctly.

It is useless to attempt to systematize for the purpose of reading the human hand, the symbols to be found therein. Each hand differs from the other, and even the left hand differs from the right hand of the same person. The left hand, for a general rule is the hand of nature, the right hand, of our desires.

Seek for symbols in the hand and interpret their meaning; the respective location and various designations given in the chart will be helpful to the student.

It has been the author’s purpose to make as plain as possible to the ordinary reader the mysterious science of palmistry. Deeper insight can only be gained by practice or special instructions, fortified by many positive illustrations. (Note Special Instructions in Palmistry in the back of this publication.) It needs not only a careful observer to make a successful palmist, but also a philosophical reasoner, as well as a scientist.

The average scientist is too firmly grounded in established laws, limited by his more or less narrow experience, and often overlooks for that reason the modification that every law of nature is subjected to as well. Either all is law or all is chance—which horn of the dilemma will you take?