ABSTRACT
The psychological analysis of any handwriting is impossible without a previous physiological description of the handwriting. Those who desire to engage in independent research into the psychology of handwriting are at the present time naturally under the obligation of beginning with the physiology of writing. A purely impressionistic interpretation, which is not based on an accurate examination of the physiological features, may be a very interesting entertainment, but is entirely unscientific and unreliable. On the other hand, on the basis only of a thorough physiological description of handwriting, it is impossible to form a very detailed opinion of the character of the writer. In the estimation of the size of any handwriting one must distinguish, first, if the writing is in itself large, and secondly, if the proportion of the size of the large or middle letters to the small letters is large or small. The psychological deductions are the obvious results of the physiological description of the individual types.
