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³ TEXTURE OF SKIN ³

Refined testure softens everything; coarse texture animalizes it.

In considering it you should largely confine yourself to the

³ back of the hand!!!!!!!! ³

CONSISTENCY of hand is different.

Texture is an indication of natural refinement.
-If the skin be fine, soft, and delicate, the greatest fineness being seen in
a baby's hand, you have a refined sensitive person, who is influenced by
these qualities in everything he does. He is one to whom coarseness and
commonness give actual pain, and it will not be possible for the person with
fine texture of skin to do things in a coarse, common, brutish way.
-It makes a Saturnian less morose, melancholy, moody, and less inclined to
shun society; it will make his cynicism less cutting.
-It makes a Jupiterian less of an overeater, less domineering, less
tyrancal, for it will refine him.
- It will add to an Apollonian a new and quieter love of beauty and harmony,
and will make his nature more elevated.
-It will refine a Mercuran taking away much of the dishonest side of his
character
-It will subdue a Martian refining his brusqueness, his fighting wualities,
his warlike spirit, and making less pugnacious.
-If will lead the imagination of a Lunar subject into higher channels, and
-Will refine a Venusian, so that base, low passions will not dominate him. In
this as in all other matters ther are different degrees of development.

A baby's delicate skin = fine = one extreme of texture.

COURSE = Lack of refinement, delicate sensibility, or fine quality of nature.
Feels rough as you rub your fingers over the back of the hand. It has big
capillaries, and is hard, rough, and unsympathetic to the touch. If is like
sole leather as compared to soft flexible child, and shows by the coarsenss
of its grain that refinement and delicacy are unknown to its owner. This hand
you will often find in the gas trenches, shovelling dirt. There is no
knowledge in the mond of its owner, that the emplyment in which khe is
engaged is not of the most elevating character. To put this hand in the same
surroundings as the hand with delicately soft texture, would make it as
miserable as to consign the delicate texture to the gas trenches. This coarse
skin you will not so often meet, but you should humt a subject who has it, so
that you will be able to have in your mind the opposite of the babys hand.
Coarse skin will modify all things in the hand by coarsening them. Coarseness
will add the tyrannical spirit to Jupiter, will make Saturn dirty, stingy,
spuerstitious, and a perssimist; it will make Apollo the vulgar blatherskite,
and Mercuy only a low schemer; it will make Mars insufferable in its
aggressiveness, and theMoon will give forth low imaginations; Vemis. omstead
of dealing in love, grace, and sympathy, will stand only for the
gratification of vulgar passions.

Inside aspect of the first phalanges of the fingers (palm side-near tip).
On many hand you will note a little pad of flesh which in some case is quite
prominent. This pad is composed of a large number of nerve filaments and
shows the great sensitiveness of the subject. he is keenly alive to all
surroundings, easily wounded by slightly treatment, and knowing how such
things jar upon himself, he is most careful of the feeling of other people.
He would himslf suffer intensely rather than wound another. These senistive
pads are, in a word, indicative of an extremely fine organism. . Thie degree
of their development will guage the degree to which the sbject is possessed
of this quality.

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