Brain and mind; or, Mental science considered in accordance withthe principles of phrenology, and in relation to modern physiology . Fig. 52.—CONSIRUCTIVENESS LaRGE. chinery, and the implements essential to his advancementas a rational and progressive being. Some have supposed that the disposition to construct isdependent upon the general intellect, or habit, or a matterof acquisition, but this opinion is obviously not correct,since many persons eminent for intelligence have nevershown any capability in mechanics, while others havemanifested constructive ability in a remarkable degree, THE SEM
Brain and mind; or, Mental science considered in accordance withthe principles of phrenology, and in relation to modern physiology . Fig. 52.—CONSIRUCTIVENESS LaRGE. chinery, and the implements essential to his advancementas a rational and progressive being. Some have supposed that the disposition to construct isdependent upon the general intellect, or habit, or a matterof acquisition, but this opinion is obviously not correct,since many persons eminent for intelligence have nevershown any capability in mechanics, while others havemanifested constructive ability in a remarkable degree, THE SEMI-INTELLECTUAL EACULTIES. 127 who were lacking greatly in intellect. This faculty al^ois frequently manifested by children at a very early as yet the general intellect is undeveloped. More-over, we find it exhibited in the lower animals in a waythat evidently bears no relation to the degree of their in-telligence. The elephant, the horse, and the dog rarelymake the slightest attempt at construction, while the bird,the bee, and the beaver are remarkable for their manifes-tation of mechanical Fig. 53.—CONSTRUCTIVENESS In illustration of the activity of this faculty at an agewhich precludes the idea of its being dependent upon thegeneral intellect, Dr. Gall relates that Vulcanson, when amere child, from simply seeing a clock through a window,constructed one like it with no other implement than acommon knife. A gentleman with whom Dr. Gall wasintimately acquainted, made, at a very early age, a machinefor making pot-barley, and actually set it in operation by asmall jet from the main stream of the water of Leith. LeBrun drew designs with chalk at three years of age, and 128 BRAIN AND MIND. at twelve he made a portrait of his grandfather. Canova,in childhood, was led to model figures without knowing themethods or materials which are used in such Christopher Wren, at thirteen, constructed an inge-nious machine for representing the course of
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