All evil traits probably carry with them some bodily signs. Soul and
body are intimately related.
Dr. Parrachia has made a curious study of the differences
between criminals and law-abiding citizens, as exhibited by
their walk. He not only has shown how we may distinguish
criminals in general, but has laid the beginning of the
differential diagnosis between various evil-doers. He found
that in criminals in general (obtained from the study of forty
criminals) the left pace was longer than the right, the lateral
deviation of the right foot was greater than that of the left,
and the angle formed by the axis of the foot with the straight
line was greater on the left side than on the right. It would
thus seem that, in general, the gait of a criminal betrays a
marked preponderance of power of the left foot over the right--a
true sinistrality. This also agrees with the discovery of Marro
that criminals are often left-handed.--_Public Opinion._
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