ABSTRACT
The middle primary line is called by Palmists the line of “Head,” but this is the name of a portion of the body and not of a function of the brain or of any mental character. Unless we recognise the precise capacity the line represents it is difficult to determine the meaning of the different positions in which it is constantly found in the palm. The power of Reason seems really to be what is meant by the word head, as when we speak of a man having “a good head on his shoulders”; I found Reason as the significance of the line very satisfactory and was confirmed in the use of this term by reading that Sir Charles Sherrington in his presidential address to the British Association in 1922 described the mind of man as “actuated by instinct but instrumented with reason.”
