Without purpose they are rather like a ship drifting on an idle sea.

They may spend their life in an aimless way unless "the call" comes to them or the tide of ambition turns their way and carries them onward.
[Illustration: PLATE III.
THE LINE OF HEAD SEPARATED FROM THE LINE OF LIFE.] The same class of line but sloping is the more uncertain of the two characters, because the person is still more inclined to work only by moods.

If the mood or the desire does not come, such people, although always brilliant and clever, may often waste their lives doing nothing.
Those people with the Line of Head "open" and ascending slightly upwards towards or on to the Mental Mount of Mars (3-3, Plate III.), are self-appointed leaders, organizers of any public movement.

They will sacrifice everything, home, affection, and all ties for what they believe is their public duty in connection with the work that they have undertaken.
The Line of Head very open and separate from the Line of Life denotes a character with too little caution or sensitiveness (4-4, Plate III.).

The subject will go to the opposite extreme of him with the Line of Head and Line of Life joined.