LINES OF THE HAND.
"Palmistry is an absolute absurdity. Tlio ivliole thing is beneath contempt," declared Professor Stirling, dean of tho medical faculty and professor of physiology at Victoria University, Manchester, in tlio, course of a lecture at the Royal Institution. " Look at your, palms and you will find certain classical lilies. The3o lines, the lines of life, heart, ami head, tlio girdlo of Vonus, tho bracelets of life round your wrists —what do you supposo they really aro? They are nothing moro nor loss than creases or folds produced by . fcho action of tlio muscle?. The lino of heart, 'forinstance, is tlio flexuro of tlio four fingers, and the lino of.,life is tlio result of tlio action of tlio thumb. AH'these'lines that have been givon astronomical iiames by tho palmists aro characteristic flexures. You will find tho same lines on the palm of an ourang-outang. Humanity _ is easily gulled through its extraordinary ignorance of the elementary facts «f physiology,"
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 191, 7 May 1908, Page 3
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