Lectures on phrenology, including its application to the present and prospective condition of the United States . be operative, howeverthe other faculties must have an adecu&te development,An actor deficient in Tune could not imitate Catalan!, how-ever great his Imitation; and one deficient in Self-Esteemand Destructiveness could not represent Coriolanus to per-fection. This faculty is essential to the portrait-painter, the engra-ver, the sculptor and the musician. It is requisite to theorator; giving him power to express his thoughts with ap-propriate gestures. In private life, some individua
Lectures on phrenology, including its application to the present and prospective condition of the United States . be operative, howeverthe other faculties must have an adecu&te development,An actor deficient in Tune could not imitate Catalan!, how-ever great his Imitation; and one deficient in Self-Esteemand Destructiveness could not represent Coriolanus to per-fection. This faculty is essential to the portrait-painter, the engra-ver, the sculptor and the musician. It is requisite to theorator; giving him power to express his thoughts with ap-propriate gestures. In private life, some individuals accompany their speech with the most forcible and animated ex-pressions of countenance ; the nascent thought beams fromthe eye, and plays upon the features, before it is uttered inwords. This is produced by much Imitation and Ideality. In children this faculty is very active: hence the neces-sity of surrounding them with associates and setting theman example worthy cf imitation. It assists the linguist inacquiring the spirit cf a language. INTELLECTUAL FACULTIES. 227 LECTURE Regions.—All above the line A. B. constitutes the region of the MoralSentiments. All below A. B. and behind C. D. constitutes the region of thePropensities. All below A. B. and before C. D. constitutes the Intellectualfaculties. The mode of drawing these lines is described in the text. The Intellectual faculties may be divided into three gene-ra : 1. External Senses; 2. Observing Faculties; 3. Re-flective Faculties. The Observing Faculties occupy the lower, the Reflec-tive Faculties the higher, portions of the forehead. The or-gans of these faculties are small, but active. On accountof their size, many state their belief that it is impossible toobserve them. These persons seem to forget the differencebetween difficulty and impossibility. It is sometimes diffi-cult to distinguish between gneiss and granite ; but no onethinks it im possible. The links round the main-spring of
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