The Illustrated Self-Instructor in Phrenology and PhysiologyFowler, O. S. (Orson Squire)
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The Illustrated Self-Instructor in Phrenology and Physiology
Fowler, O. S. (Orson Squire)
Phrenology
LARGE.--Loves the right as right, and hates the wrong because wrong; is
honest, faithful, upright in motive; means well; consults duty before
expediency; feels guilty when conscious of having done wrong; desires
forgiveness for the past, and to do better in future; with strong
propensities, will sometimes do wrong, and then be exceedingly sorry
therefor; and, with a wrong education added, is liable to do wrong,
thinking it to be right, because these propensities warp conscience, yet
means right; with large Cautiousness, is solicitous to know what is right,
and careful to do it; with weaker Cautiousness, sometimes does wrong
carelessly or indifferently, yet afterward repents it; with large
Cautiousness and Destructiveness, is severe on wrong doers, and
unrelenting until they evince penitence, and then cordially forgives; with
large Approbativeness, keeps the moral character pure and spotless--values
others on their morals more than wealth, birth, etc., and makes his word
his bond; with large Benevolence, Combativeness, and Destructiveness,
feels great indignation and severity against oppressors, and those who
cause others sufferings by wronging them; with large Ideality, has strong
aspirations after moral purity and excellence; with large reasoning
faculties, takes great pleasure, and shows much talent in reasoning upon,
and investigating moral subjects, etc.: p. 126.
VERY LARGE.--Places moral excellence at the head of all excellence; is
governed by the highest order of moral principle; would on no account
knowingly do wrong; is scrupulously exact in all matters of right;
perfectly honest in motive; always condemning self and repenting; makes
duty every thing; very forgiving of those who evince penitence, but
inexorable without; with Combativeness large, evinces the utmost
indignation at the wrong, and drives the right with great force; is
censorious, and makes but little allowance for the faults and follies of
mankind, and shows extraordinary moral courage and fortitude; with small
Secretiveness and an active temperament, is liable to denounce evil doers;
with large Friendship, cannot tolerate the least thing wrong in friends,
and is liable to reprove them; with large Philoprogenitiveness, exacts too
much from children, and with large Combativeness, is too liable to blame
them; with large Cautiousness, is often afraid to do lest it should do
wrong; with large Veneration, reasoning faculties, and Language, is a
natural theologian, and takes the highest pleasure in reasoning and
conversing upon all things having a moral and religious bearing; with
Veneration average, and Benevolence large or very large, cannot well help
being a thorough-going reformer, etc.: p. 129.
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