Hands are classed in seven types:
1. _The Elementary or Bilious Hand_, indicating brutal instinct instead
of reason as the governing power of the character.
2. _The Square or Jupiter Hand_, indicating a practical, stubborn,
methodical and conventional character; one apt to be suspicious of
strangers and radical in views.
3. _The Spatulate or Nervous Hand_, so named because of its imagined
resemblance to a spatula. It is broad at the base of the fingers,
and indicates great energy and push to discover; also courage and
fearlessness.
4. _The Philosophic or Venus Hand_ has a long, thin, muscular palm,
with long fingers; indicates a student of nature and searcher after
truth.
5. _The Mercury or Artistic Hand_ indicates quick temper,
impulsiveness; a character that is light-hearted, gay and charitable,
today; and tomorrow, sad, tearful and uncharitable.
6. _The Lunar or Idealistic Hand_ indicates an extremely sensitive
nature.
7. _The Harmonic or Solar Hand_ indicates a character of great
versatility, brilliant in conversation, and an adept in diplomacy.