History and progress of phrenology (Read before the Western phrenological society, at Buffalo,) . d sometimes a writer may have devoted apage or two, by way of digression, to surmises touch-ing what might be achieved by appropriate researchand labour — but nothing more. The language ofMons. Broussais, upon this point should not be lost : Is it not, says he, astonishing that we set so higha value upon comparative anatomy and physiology,and yet give no attention to the comparison of ourcerebral faculties with those of animals ? Gall utteredthe same complaint; and yet Mons. Vimont is stillthe onl
History and progress of phrenology (Read before the Western phrenological society, at Buffalo,) . d sometimes a writer may have devoted apage or two, by way of digression, to surmises touch-ing what might be achieved by appropriate researchand labour — but nothing more. The language ofMons. Broussais, upon this point should not be lost : Is it not, says he, astonishing that we set so higha value upon comparative anatomy and physiology,and yet give no attention to the comparison of ourcerebral faculties with those of animals ? Gall utteredthe same complaint; and yet Mons. Vimont is stillthe only one who has undertaken to supply the defi-ciency : but it is necessary to pass life in the midst offields and woods, to pursue this study with , no doubt, is suggested the real difficulty : andwhat store of useful knowledge might some of ourAmerican philosophick woodsmen, the immortal Audu-bon, and Catlin, for instance, impart, upon this sub-ject, had they but been attentive to this species of ob-servations, during their long wanderings of years inour prairies and forests ? HV. -^7 /Z^> a^Cdu^c/^p,
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