Vaught's Practical Character Reader

by L.A. Vaught

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. ... as these three have. Nearly all human treachery can be traced to one or more of these three faculties. INSTINCTIVE! LOVE OF LIFE r FIRST LAW OF) NATURE IS ( SELF PRESERV-( ATION" j THECAT.CATFI5H, TEXAS PONY AND HARD SHELLED TURTLE RESISTANCE TO DEATH Use your own eyes and notice how enormously developed people are right behind the ears who are very tenacious of life. One can see such development at a glance, ten to twenty feet away. VITALITY. Vitality is specifically inherent in Alimentiveness. Secondarily in Amativeness. To these add the element of Vitativeness and you have innate love of life, as well as vitality. Together they give all there is of vitality and constitute what is called constitution. HOW TO READ THE NOSE. The nose may be divided into three distinct parts as indicated in the above figure. The bony part represents the Motive Temperament. The tip represents the Mental Temperament. The wings represent the Vital Temperament. iHow true this is may be clearly /seen in very marked cases of each temperament. Take a distinct Vital Temperament and study the nose that goes with it and then do the same with the Motive and Mental temperaments. Generals Sheridan, Sherman, Logan, Miles, Napoleon, Moltke, Napier had or have Motive noses. So has Admiral Dewey. So had Lincoln and Grant. Washington and Beecher had the three more nearly equal. Lord Salisbury, Robert Ingersoll, Senator Mason and Dwight L. Moody show plenty of the vital part of the nose. Herbert Spencer, Eugene Field and Robert Louis Stevenson show a distinct predominance of the Mental part. It is a question of the predominance of faculties. A distinct Vital Temperament cannot produce a Mental form of nose. Noses mean something. They have direct causes. These are the...

Genres: Phrenology

38 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1902

Reviews

[IIIIIIKKKKKEEEEE · Rating 3 out of 5]

If Vaught was better at organizing information then this would be the end all be all of Physiognomy. If you are okay with sifting through his work then use it.

[Richard · Rating 3 out of 5]

Jeff Vorzimmer rescues a bizarre gem from publishing’s forgotten past. His introduction explains the oddity of phrenology, “the science of discerning personality traits from the shape of a person’s head and its bumps.” One of its leading proponents helped bring phrenology into its heyday, roughly around the jazz era. In fact, he wrote the book on it—and this is it.

Character Reader is packed with illustrations depicting Vaught’s looney ideas. It’s kind of like judging everyone’s character by their appearance. The more “handsome and normal,” the more good and true; and of course, the opposite too.

This is a book that’s more fun to browse than study or read front-to-back. The ideas are outrageous and the attributed traits can be somewhat repetitive. It’s a great novelty piece and could also serve as a sort of catalog of character traits, perhaps of use to creatives in character development. Collectors of the Staccato Crime line will also want a copy.

The book also as a lesson in time. What was once considered an emerging science was later proved to be ridiculous speculation with no basis in fact. A conman’s handbook for the ages. What’s next, a nineteenth century recipe book for snake oil? Who knew the lessons of the phrenology con would remain so prescient 100 years later?

[Elis Niyazieva · Rating 2 out of 5]

crazy illustrations, too focused on the scalp and hairline, which is weird...

[Nicole · Rating 1 out of 5]

why is this focusing only on white features

[Yayati Ashvapati · Rating 2 out of 5]

The elements of human nature are concise, so is the character-build. But the physiognomy is plain non-sense

[Nissa Rachmidwiati · Rating 3 out of 5]

KONYOL DAN ABSURD BANGET HAHAHHA NON-SENSE DAN GAK JELAS. Bintangnya 3 cuma karena bisa bikin ketawa. :)))