How to Read Human Nature: Its Inner States and Outer Forms

The work treats human nature as the ensemble of mental qualities and dispositions and presents a practical system for inferring inner states from outward form. It distinguishes inner character and outer personality, discusses temperaments and grouped mental faculties, and draws on phrenological and physiognomic observations to link skull, facial features, and bodily signs with specific propensities. The text surveys categories such as egoistic, motive, emotive, perceptive, and reflective qualities and offers descriptive guidance for reading faces, chins, eyes, ears, and noses, adopting empirical outward facts while leaving theoretical causes of mind–brain relations an open question.