Lectures on phrenology, including its application to the present and prospective condition of the United States . Cingalese boy. French sltull. This organ is-situated near the middle of the parietalbone, where ossification generally commences, and beneathwhat are called the parietal protuberances. Compare theseskulls : This was picked up on the plain of Waterloo ; yousee that it seems truncated. In this, the skull of a Cinga-lese boy, the size is immense. This organ is the fountain of fear, or the instinct of self-preservation. Gall was struck by the extreme irresolutionof a clergyman of Vienn
Lectures on phrenology, including its application to the present and prospective condition of the United States . Cingalese boy. French sltull. This organ is-situated near the middle of the parietalbone, where ossification generally commences, and beneathwhat are called the parietal protuberances. Compare theseskulls : This was picked up on the plain of Waterloo ; yousee that it seems truncated. In this, the skull of a Cinga-lese boy, the size is immense. This organ is the fountain of fear, or the instinct of self-preservation. Gall was struck by the extreme irresolutionof a clergyman of Vienna, who could never decide uponany thing. A few days afterward, at an examination of apublic school, this clergyman sat beside a Counsellor ofState, of the same irresolute character, and so proverbialfor his indecision as to have received the nick-name ofCacadubio. Dr. Gall observed the great projection of theirheads in this region. Conceiving that Indecision and Cir-cumspection might be connected with this particular partof the brain, he pursued his investigations, and soon veri-fied his conjecture. Fear app
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