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How to Analyze People on Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types

Ralph Paine Benedict, Elsie Lincoln Benedict

Length
6 h 50 min
Chapters
16
Language
English
First published
1921

In this popular American book from the 1920s, accomplished public speaker and self-help charlatan Elsie Lincoln Benedict outlines her pseudo-scientific system of "Human Analysis". She proposes that, within the human race, five sub-types have developed through evolutionary processes, each with its own distinct character traits and corresponding outward appearance. She offers to teach the reader how to recognise these five types of people and understand their innate differences. Her ideas have never been taken seriously by the scientific community, but this book is considered a classic within its genre and remains in print today. (Summary by Carl Manchester)

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