Brain and mind; or, Mental science considered in accordance withthe principles of phrenology, and in relation to modern physiology . debt to an enormousamount which he had no means of paying, and that he de-served to be devoured by rats. When large, Conscientious-ness imparts an elevated roundness to the part of the headin which it lies. The cast of Dr. Gall shows a markedfullness there. In the head of Laura Bridgman, the celebrated deaf, dumb, and blind woman, the development ofthis organ is extraordinary. In the portrait of MadameWildermuth, Fig. 79, the organ is so much developed as tocause
Brain and mind; or, Mental science considered in accordance withthe principles of phrenology, and in relation to modern physiology . debt to an enormousamount which he had no means of paying, and that he de-served to be devoured by rats. When large, Conscientious-ness imparts an elevated roundness to the part of the headin which it lies. The cast of Dr. Gall shows a markedfullness there. In the head of Laura Bridgman, the celebrated deaf, dumb, and blind woman, the development ofthis organ is extraordinary. In the portrait of MadameWildermuth, Fig. 79, the organ is so much developed as tocause the head to appear flattened in the crown. MORAL AND RELIGIOUS SENTIMENTS. 175 HOPE. In the human adult brain the upper frontal convolutionhas generally a longitudinal fissure running almost cen-trally with its upper extremity near the superior border ofthe convolution. Outwardly and backward from this fis-sure in the brain matter and bordering upon its upper ex-tremity the organ of Hope has its location, which is di-rectly in front of Conscientiousness. A line drawn uponthe head perpendicularly upward from the opening of the. HuPE Large. ear will pass just back of the space allotted to it. (SeeFig. 17-16). Its function is to give a tendency to believe in the futureattainment of what the other faculties desire. It reachesforward into the future, and ignoring the slow, plodding,and uncertain steps by which success is usually secure 1,delights in the contemplation of its consummation. Itthus tinges the future with a rosy hue, by dispelling doubtand the fear of failure, and furnishes a powerful incentiveto the activity of the other faculties by impressing themind with a coniction of the certainty of success. 176 BRAIN AND MIND. Dr. Gall did not recognize the existence of a separatefaculty of Hope, but deemed it an affection of other pow-ers. Dr. Spurzheim, however, was of the opinion that itis a primitive sentiment and quite different in nature andinfluence from the mere desire o
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