1. Conservation.
2. Choice of aliment.
3. Destruction.
4. Cunning.
5. Courage.
6. Choice of locality.
7. Concentration.
8. Attachment to life, or marriage.
9. Attachment.
10. Reproduction.
11. Attachment to the product of conception.
12. Property.
13. Circumspection.
14. Perception of substance.
15. Configuration.
16. Extent.
17. Distance.
18. Geometrical sense.
19. Resistance.
20. Localities.
21. Order.
22. Time.
23. Language.
24. Eventuality.
25. Construction.
26. Musical talent.
27. Imitation.
28. Comparison.
29. Gentleness.
“All this upon the cranium of a goose!” says M. Leuret upon this
occasion, (page 355.) “And there is no place so small but it is
occupied.... The faculties are so crowded,” adds he, “that it would be a
marvellous thing to be able to write their names upon the brain.... It
would be a greater marvel to discover them.”
[118] Gall himself says: “In whatever region we examine the two
substances that compose the brain, it is with difficulty that we can
discern any difference between them as to their structure, &c.”—T. iii.
p. 70.
[119] T. iii. p. 63.
[120] “I remained a whole day shut up in an oven.”—T. i. 133.
[121] T. i. p. 263.
[122] Eloge de Tournefort.
[123] One volume, 8vo. Paris, 1818. Phrenology is the very name given by
Spurzheim to the doctrine of Gall.
[124] One volume, 8vo. Paris, 1820.
[125] Observ. sur la Phrénol. &c. p. 8.
[126] Observ. sur la Phrén. p. 20.
[127] Ibid. p. 22.
[128] Rech. sur le Syst. Nerv. en général, &c. par F. J. Gall et G.
Spurzheim.
[129] Anat. et Phys. du Syst. Nerveux, &c., the work which has been
examined in the three preceding articles.
[130] T. iv. p. 341.
[131] Ibid. p. 327.
[132] Ibid. p. 341.
[133] In the preceding article, p. 93.
[134] Lettre de Charles Villers à Georges Cuvier, sur une nouvelle
théorie du cerveau, par le Docteur Gall, &c. Metz, 1802.
[135] Lettre de Charles Villers, &c. p. 34.
[136] Ibid.
[137] Observ. sur la Phrén., &c. p. 10.
[138] Especially in the last article.
[139] And which was not taken up by Gall, except from the necessity he
was under of assimilating at all points the external senses with the
faculties of the soul.
[140] Observ. sur la Phrén., &c. p. 65.
[141] Ibid. p. 67.
[142] Ibid. p. 75.
[143] See particularly the Essai philosophique sur la morâle et
intellectuelle de l’homme, p. 54, et seq.
[144] Observ. sur la Phrén. p. 17.
[145] Ibid. p. 127.
[146] Anat. et Phys. du Syst. Nerv., &c. t. iii. p. 19. This volume came
out the same year as Spurzheim’s Observ., &c.
[147] T. iv. p. 67.
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