Gall had a mind which impelled him to the formation of hypotheses; and even in his real anatomy there is a decided smack of a system-author. THE END. FOOTNOTES [1] Anatomie et Physiologie du système nerveux en général, et du cerveau en particulier, avec des observations sur la possibilité de reconnaître plusieurs dispositions intellectuelles et morales de l’homme et des animaux par la configuration de leurs têtes; 4 vol. 4to, avec planches. Paris, de 1810 à 1819. [2] T. ii. p. 217. “It is generally understood,” says he further, “that the brain is the peculiar organ of the soul.” T. ii. p. 14. [3] Gall, t. ii. p. 221. [4] Gall, t. ii. p. 222. Haller, Elem. Physiolog. etc., t. iv. p. 304. Sensus præterea sedem in cerebro esse, atque ad cerebrum per nervos mandari, alia sunt quæ ostendunt. [5] Rapports du Physique et du Moral de l’homme, IIe Mémoire, § vii. [6] Leçons d’Anat. Comp. t. ii. p. 153. [7] Ibid. p. 173. [8] Recherches Phys. sur la Vie et la Mort, art. vi. § ii. [9] Ibid. [10] Descartes, Lettre à Regius ou Leroy, t. viii. p. 515, edit, par M. Cousin. [11] T. v. p. 34. “I remark,” says he again, “that the mind does not receive the impression from all parts of the body, but from the brain only.”—T. i. p. 344. [12] T. vi. p. 347. [13] T. ii. p. 357. [14] T. ii. p. 358. [15] “The principal object of this work,” says he, “is to show how all our knowledge, and all our faculties come from the senses.”—Traité des Sensations, préambule de l’Extrait Raisonné. [16] Traité des Sensations, préam. de l’Extrait Raisonné. [17] De l’homme, de ses facultés intellectuelles, etc. t. i. p. 186. Liege, 1774. [18] He very properly distinguishes the senses from the understanding; but, as will be elsewhere seen, he endows each sense with all the attributes of the understanding. He escapes from one error only to fall into another. [19] See my Recherches Expérimentales sur les propriétés et les fonctions du Système Nerveux, 2d edit. Paris, 1842. [20] Ibid. [21] See my Recherches Expérimentales sur les propriétés et les fonctions du Système Nerveux, 2d edit. Paris, 1842. [22] See my Recherches Expérimentales sur les propriétés et les fonctions du Système Nerveux. [23] Ibid. [24] See my Recherches Expérimentales sur les propriétés et les fonctions du Système Nerveux. [25] “From what I have now said, it clearly follows that the aperceptive faculty, the faculty of reminiscence, and that of memory, are nothing but attributes common to all the fundamental faculties.”—Gall, t. iv. p. 319. “All that I have just said, is also applicable to the judgment and the imagination,” &c.—Ibid. p. 325. “The sentiments and the propensities also have their judgment, their imagination, their recollection, and their memory.”—Ibid. p. 327. [26] Ibid. 328. [27] Ibid. 327. [28] Gall, t. iv. p. 339. [29] Ibid. p. 341.