William Walker Atkinson (1862-1932) was an attorney, merchant, publisher, and author, as well as an occultist and an American pioneer of the New Thought movement. He is also known to have been the author of the pseudonymous works attributed to Theron Q. Dumont and Yogi Ramacharaka. "How to Read Human Nature: Its Inner States and Outer Forms" is a pioneering New Thought work on how to read people based on physical appearance and attributes. Features a new introduction by Karl Wurf.