With the larger development at the wrist, they are more carried away with their impulses, hasty and impetuous in temper, speech, and action.
THE PHILOSOPHIC HAND The Philosophic Hand (Plate I., Part II.) received this name from the Greek [Greek: philos]--love, and [Greek: sophich]--wisdom.

When the Greeks made a study of hands they noticed that all those persons who possessed this type had a bent for philosophy in their blood that nothing could eradicate.
[Illustration: FIG.

1 .-- THE CONIC OR ARTISTIC HAND.
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2 .-- THE PSYCHIC OR IDEALISTIC HAND.
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3 .-- THE MIXED HAND.
PLATE II .-- PART II.] The Philosophic Hand is long, bony, and angular with knotty joints, and is as a general rule fairly thin.