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The practical phrenologist and recorder and delineator of the character and talents of [blank], as marked by [blank] : a compendium of phreno-organic science . facts ? Phrenology locates the animal propensities at the sides of the head,between and around the ears; the social affections in its back andlower portion ; the aspiring faculties in its CROWN ; the moral on itstop, and the intellectual in the forehead ; the perceptives, whichrelate us to matter, over the eyes ; and the reflectives, in the upperpart of the forehead. (See cut No. 102.) Now, since brutes possess at least only weak moral
The practical phrenologist and recorder and delineator of the character and talents of [blank], as marked by [blank] : a compendium of phreno-organic science . facts ? Phrenology locates the animal propensities at the sides of the head,between and around the ears; the social affections in its back andlower portion ; the aspiring faculties in its CROWN ; the moral on itstop, and the intellectual in the forehead ; the perceptives, whichrelate us to matter, over the eyes ; and the reflectives, in the upperpart of the forehead. (See cut No. 102.) Now, since brutes possess at least only weak moral and reflectivefaculties, they should, if Phrenology were true, have little top-head,and thus it. is. Not one of all the following drawings of animals havemuch brain in either the reflective or moral region. Almost all theirmentality consists of the animal propensities, and nearly all theirbrain is found between and around their ears, just where, ac-cording to Phrenology, it should be. Yet the skulls of all human be-ings rise high above the eyes and ears, and are long on top, that is,have full intellectual and moral organs, as we know they possess these. No 102. — Grouping of Organs. No. 103. — Human Skull. 10 PROOFS OF PHRENOLOGY. mental elements. Compare the accompanying human skull withthose of brutes. Those of snakes, frogs, turtles, alligators, etc., slopestraight back from the nose; that is, have almost no moral or intelleo
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