Lectures on phrenology : including its application to the present and prospective condition of the United States . an of which we now speak. I have seenScott a thousand times, and have a perfectly exact bust ofhis head, modelled by Mr. MacDonald ; I therefore knowwhat I say to be correct. In its higher degrees of development, Wonder becomesa passion for the marvellous. I know a very intelligentgentleman of Edinburgh, in whose head this organ is verylarge ; who remarked to me that he had often for his partwondered at people requiring evidence to enable them tobelieve. In his own mind the strong
Lectures on phrenology : including its application to the present and prospective condition of the United States . an of which we now speak. I have seenScott a thousand times, and have a perfectly exact bust ofhis head, modelled by Mr. MacDonald ; I therefore knowwhat I say to be correct. In its higher degrees of development, Wonder becomesa passion for the marvellous. I know a very intelligentgentleman of Edinburgh, in whose head this organ is verylarge ; who remarked to me that he had often for his partwondered at people requiring evidence to enable them tobelieve. In his own mind the strongest intuitive tendencywas toward belief, no matter how strange the thing to bebelieved. Wonder should be very strongly manifested inthe heads of those persons who embrace readily all that ismysterious in Animal Magnetism. This is a representation of the head of Tasso, who be-lieved that he held converse with spirits ; in him Wonderand Ideality are both very large. This is the head of BaronSvvedenborg, who believed himself called to reveal the mosthidden mysteries concerning the spiritual world. In 214 Tasso. 1743, said he, it pleased the Lord to manifest himself tome, and to appear before me, to give me a knowledge ofthe spiritual world, and to place me in communication withangels and spirits ; and this power has been contin d withme till the present day. Swedenborg, say his biogra-phers, was a man of unquestionable sincerity, but one ofthe most extravagant enthusiasts that ever lived. I haveseen a number of Svvedenborgs followers, and this regionis much developed in all of them. I must add that I havefound them to be a moral and very amiable class of men. Mr. N , of whom I have before spoken, was troubled with apparitions during the latter part of liis life. Thesegave him amusement at first, as he was fully aware of theirunreal nature. He would see a long train of Greeks, thenof Turks, then of his own countrymen pass before his eyes, WONDER. 215 each in appropriate co
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