Choice of pursuits, or, What to do, and why, describing seventy-five trades and professions, and the talents and temperaments required for each; also, how to educate, on phrenological principles, each man for his proper work : together with portraits and biographies of more than one hundred successful thinkers and workers / by Nelson Sizer.

  • Sizer, Nelson, 1812-1897.
Date:
1890 [1889]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Choice of pursuits, or, What to do, and why, describing seventy-five trades and professions, and the talents and temperaments required for each; also, how to educate, on phrenological principles, each man for his proper work : together with portraits and biographies of more than one hundred successful thinkers and workers / by Nelson Sizer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    81/750 (page 55)
    The Seamaist. 55 on a large scale, requiring a comprehensive business talent in those who conduct it, and practical skill in those who do the work. IMachinery is so largely used of late that the tanner needs to have in good measure the knowledge and skill of the millwright and machinist. The depart- ment of leather-dressing requires skill of hand and clear- ness of judgment. The skiving or shaving of leather is a very nice job, and the best work of that kind is done by hand. The calfskin for boots needs to be shaved down to an equal thickness. The cowhide for carriage-tops must also be thus shaved with great care by hand, and the sense of touch to determine the thickness, and the sense of feel- ing to know how deep the instrument is cutting, the sense of sight to watch it carefully, require a keen, sharp, inge- nious head. Only a few men in a hundred can do this kind of work well, and they generally command great wages. The organs of Form, Size, Weight, Comparison, Order, Color, and Constructiveness in a higher degree of strength and activity are required by the leather-dresser, whose vocation practically belongs to the business called tanning. THE SEAMAN, In reference to sea-faring, there is, in the minds of most persons, a certain wild, romantic idea. Poets have sung of the sea; of its might and its mystery, of its silence and its storms, of its beautv and its wrath. When the seamen quits the land and trusts his life and fortunes upon the bosom of the deep, and has only the vaulted sky and the planets and stars as subjects of permanency and trust,