Danger

By: HILOBROW
March 16, 2010

“We wish to emphasize in the most absolute way the fact that so far as a human being is concerned all danger lies in these two faculties. They are easily located and should be understood by every man, woman and child. Be on guard against the danger in such men and women.”

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According to Louis Allen Vaught, the purpose of Vaught’s Practical Character Reader (1902) is to acquaint readers “with the elements of human nature and enable them to read these elements in all men, women and children in all countries.” Anxious, because of our project’s recourse to brow-speak, lest we be accused of harboring crypto-phrenological sentiments, HiLobrow.com presents this occasional series of reprints from Vaught’s Reader, which was donated to us by our friends at Pazzo Books, in the spirit of serious levitas.