The New Science of Analyzing Character

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922. Excerpt: ... Chapter VII. THE FOREHEAD AND HEAD In locating the areas of the brain we shall start with the forehead. In order to facilitate our observations, we have sectioned the forehead off into three stories. In the first, directly above the eyebrows, are the perceptive or penetrating faculties; in the middle or second section of the forehead, the retentive and literary faculties; and in the upper story, the reasoning powers. All great men and students have well-developed foreheads. Observe the heads of scholars or the portraits of all the intellectual lights of past history. Elbert Hubbard, Herbert Spencer, Schopenhauer, Socrates, Plato, Newton, Shakespeare, Dickens, Gladstone, Walter Scott, Webster, Darwin, Ruskin, and all the great thinkers, philosophers, statesmen, and authors in ancient and modern times, who have won fame and distinction for intellectual superiority and genius, without exception have large foreheads. On the other hand, all weak-minded people, fools, idiots, simpletons, and weaklings have small, narrow, receding, and pinched foreheads. Some idiots possess abnormally large heads, but this is due to a hydrocephalic us condition of the brain, ("water on the brain") and other similar diseases. Our common language also expresses these truths, and in the vernacular "lowbrow" signifies one of but little intelligence, whereas a "high-brow" indicates the person who is of the mentally superior type. The proper way to determine the capacity of the forehead is to measure very carefully the distance from the center or opening of the ear to the arc of the upper part of the forehead, where the hairline commences. Measure the distance from the opening of the ear to the brows. The length of these two measurements and the amount of surface between them is the d...