Brain and mind; or, Mental science considered in accordance withthe principles of phrenology, and in relation to modern physiology . Fig. 30- In animals this faculty gives them the ability to distin-guish their masters, or those who have been kind to them,and to remember them even after a separation of the animals of a herd know each other, and it is saidthat when a strange bee undertakes to introduce himselfinto a hive, composed of from twenty to eighty thousandbees, he is recognized, and driven out or killed. Childrenwith large Form learn to read much more easily than those OF THE
Brain and mind; or, Mental science considered in accordance withthe principles of phrenology, and in relation to modern physiology . Fig. 30- In animals this faculty gives them the ability to distin-guish their masters, or those who have been kind to them,and to remember them even after a separation of the animals of a herd know each other, and it is saidthat when a strange bee undertakes to introduce himselfinto a hive, composed of from twenty to eighty thousandbees, he is recognized, and driven out or killed. Childrenwith large Form learn to read much more easily than those OF THE INTELLECT. 91 in whom the organ is small, and are better adapted to theordinary mechanical trades than the latter. SIZE. The size of a thing is obviously a quality very differentfrom its form. Two eggs, for instance, may be exactly alikein form, but differ greatly in size; and as one of these. Fig. 31.—Size Large. kinds of knowledge is conceivable without the other, it is notunreasonable to suppose that they may originate in differ-ent cerebral organs. This fact has been demonstrated bynumerous observations, which have established the loca-tion of an organ, called Size, adjoining Form, on eachside of Individuality, at the internal extremity of the archof the eyebrow. (See Fig. 17-S). Its function is to givethe idea of dimension, distance, and space in general. Itis essential to the landscape painter and the draughtsman, 92 BRAIN AND MIND, and to skill in all occupations which have to do with di-mension, distance, and perspective. A tutor in the family of Sir George Mackenzie oncesaid to Mr. Combe, while looking at a landscape : Thatseems to me a plane surface, exhibiting difference of lightand shade. Now, I am told that to some people differ-ent parts appear at different distances, and that to them itappears to have a fore and back ground. He attributedhis inability to se
Size: 1473px × 1696px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, booksubjectphrenology, bookyear1
