Brain and mind; or, Mental science considered in accordance withthe principles of phrenology, and in relation to modern physiology . esand mistakes of this life will be corrected, and happinessabundantly compensated for the sorrow and pain we haveexperienced. The organ was remarkably developed in thehead of Sir Walter Scott, and was the secret of his buoy-ancy and cheerfulness when weighed down by accumu-lated misfortune, debt, and anxieties. When at the ageof fifty-five he found himself pressed by creditors to whomhe owed more than half a million of dollars, he calmly setto work to win by lit
Brain and mind; or, Mental science considered in accordance withthe principles of phrenology, and in relation to modern physiology . esand mistakes of this life will be corrected, and happinessabundantly compensated for the sorrow and pain we haveexperienced. The organ was remarkably developed in thehead of Sir Walter Scott, and was the secret of his buoy-ancy and cheerfulness when weighed down by accumu-lated misfortune, debt, and anxieties. When at the ageof fifty-five he found himself pressed by creditors to whomhe owed more than half a million of dollars, he calmly setto work to win by literary toil the money due. Gentle-men, said he, * time and me against any two. Let me(8*) 78 BRAIN AND MIND, take this good ally into company and I believe I shall beable to pay you every farthing. MARVELOUSNESS, OR SPIRITUALITY. The situation of this organ is in the superior lateral re-gion of the brain directly forward from Hope, and belowVeneration. (Fig. 17-17). Its function is to inspire trustor belief in the strange and the marvelous. It is the basisof the longing after novelty, and thus stimulates intellect-ual Fig. 82.—Spirituality Large. In its relation to the spiritual elements of human char-acter it prompts to belief in the supernatural and Gall was led to the discovery of this organ by observ-ing that some individuals imagine themselves to be visitedby apparitions of persons dead or absent, and the questionoccurred to him, How does it happen that men of consid-erable intellect often believe in the reality of ghosts Are they fools, or impostors 1 Or is there a par^ticular organization which imposes, in this form, upon thehuman understanding 1 and how are such illusions to beexplained} He studied the history of those remarkable MORAL AND RELIGIOUS SENTIMENTS. 179 for this quality of mind, and in comparing their busts andpictures, his attention was drawn to a fullness existing inthe region of the head now allotted to this faculty.
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