Brain and mind; or, Mental science considered in accordance withthe principles of phrenology, and in relation to modern physiology . hich may be stated in brief, thus: To Concentrativeness is attributed a property which ismainly related to the intellect, viz., to give continuity toimp7essions^ be they feelings or ideas (Combe). This be-ing considered the law of grouping, to which phrenologistsattribute a very high importance, is evidently transgressedby the location of an organ with such a faculty in a part ofthe brain so remote from organs with which it is alleged toco-ordinate chiefly. ORGAN
Brain and mind; or, Mental science considered in accordance withthe principles of phrenology, and in relation to modern physiology . hich may be stated in brief, thus: To Concentrativeness is attributed a property which ismainly related to the intellect, viz., to give continuity toimp7essions^ be they feelings or ideas (Combe). This be-ing considered the law of grouping, to which phrenologistsattribute a very high importance, is evidently transgressedby the location of an organ with such a faculty in a part ofthe brain so remote from organs with which it is alleged toco-ordinate chiefly. ORGANS OF THE SOCIAL AFFECTIONS. 151 The strength and intensity of the organs generally aredependent upon their size and activity, and any one whichhappens to be dominant in the character possesses thequality of Concentrativeness. Combativeness, when largeneeds but an exciting occasion to awaken its sentiment ofdefense or bold aggressiveness, and the strength of itsmanifestation is usually proportioned to the degree of ag-gravation. The larger the organ of Cautiousness, themore alert the faculty in its apprehension of danger or in-. Fig. 70,—CoNCENrKATIVENESS LaRGE. security. The more developed the perceptive elements ofthe intellect, the more rapid and comprehensive their ac-quisition of facts and impressions. Hence, persistency orcontinuity of action, inheres in the very constitution of anorgan, and is expressed according to the organs of the most illustrious men in science and letters,spheres in which concentration is indispensable to shiningsuccess, do not show that part of the head assigned toConcentrativeness as a special faculty large in their heads (139) 152 BRAIN AND MIND. The casts of Spiirzheim, Sir John Franklin, W. E. Chan-ning, Henry Clay, William Godwin, Benjamin Constant,Fuseli, Prof. Morse of telegraph fame, and Silas Wright,do not indicate a fullness in the region bordering on thelower margin of Self-esteem, but the contrary. Again, the evidence fur
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