PALMISTRY DENOUNCED.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9136, 4 May 1908, Page 2

PALMISTRY DENOUNCED.

AN ABSOLUTE ABSURDITY. “Palmistry is au absolute absurdity. The whole thing is beneath contempt,’’ declared Professor Stirling, dean of the medical faculty and professor of physiology at Victoria University ,|Mauchester, in the course of a lecture at the Royal Institution. “Look at your palms and you will find certain lines. These lines, the so-called Lines of Life, Heart and Head, the Girdle of Venus, and the Bracelets of Life round your wrists —what do you suppose they really are? They are nothing more or less than creases or folds produced by the action of the muscles. The Line of Heart, for instance, is the flexure of the four fingers, and the Line of Life is the result of the action of the thumb. “All these lines that have been given .astronomical names by the palmists are characteristic flexures. Ton will find the same 'lines on the palm of an orang-outang. Humanity is daily gulled through its extraordinary ignorance of the elementary facts of physiology.