Page 438 par. 5.
“So many outside and often unknown, modifying elements and influences enter into the problem of determining from handwriting alone the various attributes of human personality, and especially the important phases of human character, that it is impossible to determine to what extent the individual is responsible for the result. This varying effects of outside and unknown influences is the fundamental defects in this method of human character or personality evaluation, as is also true of several other methods of character reading that have been thoroughly investigated by scientists & been found so completely unreliable”.
Page 441 par. 4.
“In some foreign countries the word graphologist is correctly applied interchangeably to those who attempt to read character from handwriting and to those who are students of handwriting and investigate disputed documents and testify in court as experts as to the identity of handwriting, but in America and England a sharp distinction is drawn between the two classes. A graphologist rarely if ever testifies in court in America or England, and if one who does testify believes in the subject he usually conceals the fact”.
Page 442 par. 5.
“As practiced at least, this alleged science has no value in identifying the author of a writing, and its exaggerations and unjustified inferences are likely to lead to loose thinking and weakening credulity.When the reports of practicing graphologists are more than mere generalities of wide application — which they usually are — they consist as a rule of positive inferences from ridiculously frail or misinterpreted data.
This tendency toward exaggeration no doubt partly arises from the common tendency of devotees of various half— sciences and occult subjects to become partly self— hypnotized and self— deluded”.
