How to Analyze People on Sight

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If this sounds impossible, if the seeming incongruity, multiplicity
and heterogeneity of human qualities have baffled you, remember that
this is exactly how the print in all books and newspapers baffled you
before you learned to read.

Not long ago I was reading stories aloud to a three-year old. She wanted
to "see the pictures," and when told there were none had to be shown the
book.

"What funny little marks!" she cried, pointing to the print. "How do you
get stories out of them?"

Printing looked to all of us at first just masses of meaningless little
marks.

But after a few days at school how things did begin to clear up! It
wasn't a jumble after all. There was something to it. It straightened