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by Pravin Kumar » Mon Aug 20, 2007 11:50 am
It is always a strong phalanx and must be read so. (In case of Paddle Shaped Thumb as in Figure No.79). Even if the length should be somewhat deficient, this "paddle-shaped" phalanx will make it strong. This strength of will is not usually backed by robust health, but is much oftener found with weak physical constitutions. It is an indication of strong mental will, which goes boldly through a trying emergency and then collapsed after the strain is over.
Sometimes a thumb is found with the will phalanx thick and rounded, or broad and thick, with a nail short and very coarse in texture. This is found on the hands of healthy persons.Owing to its peculiar club-like formation, it has been called the Clubbed thumb (80), and owing to the thickness, coarseness, and brutal obstinacy shown, has been designated the "murderer's thumb.". This clubbed thumb shows terrific obstinacy, and on a bad hand, a common grade of it: which produces a coarse degree of a good quality and is coupled with a violent temper. Whether these coarse and disagreeable qualities have been, or ever will be, brought out is another question. If they have not , if the environments are good,a clubbed thumb will never display its rough and brutal side. We may not, however, ignore the fact that a mine lies underneath, and it will only take a match properly applied to explode it. If with these clubbed thumb you find a hand developed all at the base, with a big Mount of Venus, hard consistency, no flexibility, short fingers very thick in third phalanges, and very short in first phalanges, with short nails, and the lines in the hand deepcut and red, and the first impulse of the subject, on being crossed is to beat your brains out. A balance of the hand will tell us whether there are refinements, good traits which will prevent the clubbed thumb from doing harm.
The knot seperating the phalanges of will and logic (Figure No.81) is sometimes present, sometimes absent. It creates an obstruction to the passage of the vital current, and consequently means deliberation of thought. It adds to the strength of the first phalanx, by making it more analytical and less guided by impulse. Thus it will greatly strengthen a conic tip and will add force to all the other tips. It increases the reasoning of the second phalanx, by reducing the intuition of the first, making a hasty operation of the will unlikely until thought and consideration have had a chance.
Having passed the knot, we reach the second phalanx, indicator of logic and reasoning qualities, perception, judgment, and prudence. In this list of qualities you will notice prudence, but as prudent people are those who reason rather than act by impulse, it is evident that caution, or prudence, must belong to this phalanx.
When the phalanx is found long and in good proportion as regards the will phalanx, it shows strong powers of logic, quick perception, and prudence. With these qualities its possessor will act from welldefined motives, will know what he is doing, be sure of his opinion, and will guide the forces of the first phalanx to expend themselves in beneficial ways. With this long second phalanx you will never find unreasoning obstinacy, but a will power guided by a reasoning brain. The direction, definiteness, and firmness of the will are largely augmented by this long second phalanx, but it is reasonable strength that is added, so even with an excessive first phalanx, and the second long also , you maybe sure that, however obstinate your subject may be, he will still be amenable to reason.
In noting the tips of the thumbs, the long second phalanx will tell you that strong judgment is behind all of their separate qualities. Reasoning faculties added to conic tips will strengthen their impulsive ways and make them less impressionable; to square tips they will add sound practical judgment; with spatulate tips they will direct the spatulate energy into well - thought out channels. Occupying the position it does between the first and third phalanges (determination and love), it will, if long, be the factor that will hold these strong forces in check, or, if short and deficient, will allow them to run riot. Reason, between will and love, must be the agent to guide them well or ill.