Brain and mind; or, Mental science considered in accordance withthe principles of phrenology, and in relation to modern physiology . Fig. 56,—Imitation Large. Fig. 17-22). In the brain its place appears to be in thesecond frontal convolution adjoining the vertical frontalfissure and lying against the sulcus which divides thesecond from the first frontal convolution. If it be largeand Benevolence small, the head approaches flatness acrossthe anterior coronal region; while large Benevolence withsmall Imitation imparts to the head in this region a slant-ing appearance, like the roof of a house. T
Brain and mind; or, Mental science considered in accordance withthe principles of phrenology, and in relation to modern physiology . Fig. 56,—Imitation Large. Fig. 17-22). In the brain its place appears to be in thesecond frontal convolution adjoining the vertical frontalfissure and lying against the sulcus which divides thesecond from the first frontal convolution. If it be largeand Benevolence small, the head approaches flatness acrossthe anterior coronal region; while large Benevolence withsmall Imitation imparts to the head in this region a slant-ing appearance, like the roof of a house. THE SEMI-INTELLECTUAL FACULTIES. 133 Imitation gives the disposition to copy persons or thingsor to mimic, as in acting. It is essential in all occupa-tions which have to do with working after models, aswell as to those intellectual employments concerned inthe representation of the mental traits and manners ofothers. Dr. Gall was led to the discovery of this organ by ob-serving the peculiar configuration of the head of a friendwho was remarkable for imitative talent. Supposing that. Fig. 57.—Imitation Small. there might be a relation between this form of head andthe mental characteristic for which the gentleman was dis-tinguished, Dr. Gall at once repaired to a deaf and dumbasylum where a pupil had attracted much attention by hisastonishing powers of mimicry. At a little play which w^asperformed in the institution, this boy had imitated so per-fectly the gestures, gait, and looks of the director, inspector,physician, and surgeon of the establishment, that they werereadily distinguished by the lookers-on. The education 134 BRAIN AND MIND. of the boy had been totally neglected, and nothing of thekind was expected from him. Dr. Gall found the sameregion of the head to be similarly developed in this boyas in his friend, and by many subsequent observations heestablished the organ and faculty. The old writers on metaphysics generally admit a specialfaculty of Imitation, but have b
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