Lectures on phrenology : including its application to the present and prospective condition of the United States . ver felt any interest whatever in their children. Ifound it difficult to realize this fact, till I met with a caseprecisely similar. A lady of Edinburgh sent all her chil-dren from home to be reared and educated, and never wish-ed to see them till they were grown, when she treated themnot as though she regarded them as her children, but asfriends and companions. I wasnot sufficiently acquainted withthis lady to examine her head,but a lady of my acquaintance,who was an excellent ph
Lectures on phrenology : including its application to the present and prospective condition of the United States . ver felt any interest whatever in their children. Ifound it difficult to realize this fact, till I met with a caseprecisely similar. A lady of Edinburgh sent all her chil-dren from home to be reared and educated, and never wish-ed to see them till they were grown, when she treated themnot as though she regarded them as her children, but asfriends and companions. I wasnot sufficiently acquainted withthis lady to examine her head,but a lady of my acquaintance,who was an excellent phrenolo-gist, did so, and found the organto be remarkably small. Thehead, like this of a Peruvian,appeared to be truncated in theposterior region. We daily see domestics very fond of children, and otherswho cannot abide them. We see some who abhor eventheir good humoured prattle, others who show towards themthe utmost forbearance, and sooth their fretfulness withadmirable patience and gentleness. Now, in all these cases, the strong manifestation of thefeeling is accompanied by a large development of the organ,. LOVE OF YOUNG. 33 and a feeble manifestation of the faculty, by a small develop-ment of the organ, the manifestation and development beingproportional. Proofs drawn from the cerebral conformation of infanticides,that the portion of brain before indicated, is the organ ofthe Love of Young. Drs. Gall and Spurzheim examined the heads of twenty-nine women guilty of child murder, and in twenty-five thisorgan was very feebly developed.—GalVs Works, Bostonedition, Vol. 1. p. 293. One of the twenty-five cases, I here present as an exam-ple. The account will be found in the description of Gallsvisits to the prisons of Berlin, and Spandau, published inNos. 97 and 98 of the Freymiithige, May, 1805, and trans-cribed into Galls Works, Vol. VI. p. 301. Dr. Gall drew attention to the large organ of destructive-ness, and the absolutely flattened region of the love of off-spring in a wo
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