People who possess this type are essentially practical, logical, and rather materialistic.

They belong to the earth and the things of the earth.

They have little imagination or idealism, they are solid, serious workers, methodical and painstaking in all they do.

They believe in things only by proof and by their reason.

They are often religious and even superstitious, but more from habit than from anything else.
They are determined and obstinate, especially if their thumbs are long and the first joint stiff.[7] [7] _See_ Chapter on Thumbs, page 127.
They succeed in all lines of work that do not require imagination or the creative faculties, and as business men, lawyers, doctors, scientists, they do extremely well, and are generally to be found in such callings.
THE SPATULATE HAND The Spatulate or active nervous type (Plate I., Part II.) is usually crooked or irregular looking, with large tips or pads at the ends of the fingers, rather like the spatula chemists use and from which peculiarity this type gets its name.