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beauty and distinction that you must see in the handwriting of some

highly cultivated people。 I wish you could see how prettily little

children spell in my hand。 They are wild flowers of humanity; and their

finger motions wild flowers of speech。

All this is my private science of palmistry; and when I tell your

fortune it is by no mysterious intuition or gipsy witchcraft; but by

natural; explicable recognition of the embossed character in your hand。

Not only is the hand as easy to recognize as the face; but it reveals

its secrets more openly and unconsciously。 People control their

countenances; but the hand is under no such restraint。 It relaxes and

bees listless when the spirit is low and dejected; the muscles

tighten when the mind is excited or the heart glad; and permanent

qualities stand written on it all the time。

FOOTNOTE:

'A' The excellent proof…reader has put a query to my use of the word

〃see。〃 If I had said 〃visit;〃 he would have asked no questions; yet what

does 〃visit〃 mean but 〃see〃 (_visitare_)? Later I will try to defend

myself for using as much of the English language as I have succeeded in

learning。

THE HAND OF THE RACE

III

THE HAND OF THE RACE

LOOK in your 〃Century Dictionary;〃 or if you are blind; ask your teacher

to do it for you; and learn how many idioms are made on the idea of

hand; and how many words are formed from the Latin root _manus_……enough

words to name all the essential affairs of life。 〃Hand;〃 with quotations

and pounds; occupies twenty…four columns; eight pages of this

dictionary。 The hand is defined as 〃the organ of apprehension。〃 How

perfectly the definition fits my case in both senses of the word

〃apprehend〃! With my hand I seize and hold all that I find in the three

worlds……physical; intellectual; and spiritual。

Think how man has regarded the world in terms of the hand。 All life is

divided between what lies _on one hand_ and on the other。 The products

of skill are _manu_factures。 The conduct of affairs is _man_agement。

History seems to be the record……alas for our chronicles of war!……of the

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