It doubtless took years of study to name these lines and marks, but it must be remembered that this curious study is more ancient than any other in the world.
In the original Hebrew of the Book of Job (chap.xxxvii., ver.

7), we find these significant words: "God caused signs or seals on the hands of all the sons of men, that the sons of men might know their works." As the student of anatomy can build up the entire system from the examination of a single bone, so may a person by a careful study of an important member of the body such as the hand, apart from anything superstitious or even mystical, build up the entire action of the system and trace every effect back to its cause.
To-day the science of the present is coming to the rescue of the so-called superstition of the past.

All over the world scientists are little by little sweeping aside prejudice and beginning to study occult questions.

Perhaps the "whys and wherefores" of such things may one of these days be as easily explained as are those wireless waves of electricity that carry messages from land to land..