In &quot;How to Read Human Nature&quot;, written in 1913, William Walker Atkinson addresses the various aspects of Human Nature from Inner State and Outer Form to Character, Personality, and Temperaments to facial structure and much more.<br />In other words, &quot;How to Read Human Nature&quot; is a pioneering New Thought work on how to read people based on physical appearance and attributes.<br /><br />William Walker Atkinson (1862&ndash;1932) was an attorney, merchant, publisher, and author, as well as an occultist and an American pioneer of the New Thought movement.