Memory and intellectual improvement applied to self-education and juvenile instruction . passing strange that fashion should applaud these sickeningrecitals, which she so severely censures elsewhere ? Turnthe tables—let me utter the same sentiments and words inher stead, and would she not consider herself insulted, and mea reprobate ? This straining at gnats at some times and yetswallowing camels at others is very consistent. Still she hasthe same sovereign right to utter these unequivocal improprie-ties thus expressively, which I take in thus censuring them ;yet I censure only to improve. Few
Memory and intellectual improvement applied to self-education and juvenile instruction . passing strange that fashion should applaud these sickeningrecitals, which she so severely censures elsewhere ? Turnthe tables—let me utter the same sentiments and words inher stead, and would she not consider herself insulted, and mea reprobate ? This straining at gnats at some times and yetswallowing camels at others is very consistent. Still she hasthe same sovereign right to utter these unequivocal improprie-ties thus expressively, which I take in thus censuring them ;yet I censure only to improve. Few faculties do I more desireto see pruned of evil and every way perfected. FUNCTION AND LOCATION OF LANGUAGE. 123 35. LANGUAGE. 509. DEFINITION AND LOCATION. The communicating faculty and instinct: power of express-ing ideas by written and spoken words : ability to call to mindjust such words as will convey the meaning intended : memoryof words: freedom, copiousness, and power of language ;volubility : versatility of expression : ability to learn spokenlanguages. LANGUAGE VERY LARGE. No. 20. Col. Gad Humphries. Located partly above and partly behind those bony platescalled the super-orbitar —those which pass over the eyesand form their roof or upper walls of their sockets. Con-sequently, the more this organ is developed the more it crowds 124 CULTIVATION OF LANGUAGE. down upon these plates, which, in giving way before it, pushdown upon the eyes, and thus crowd them downwards andoutwards. The foregoing engraving illustrates its ex-tremely large development. Behold the projection of thoseeyes! They appear as though something behind them wascrowding them out of their sockets. See how they stick outbeyond the cheek bone—the best standard points from whichto estimate its size, because though Language may be large,yet the Perceptives may be still larger, in which case the lat-ter will project forward still farther, even beyond large Lan-guage. Hence the fullness of the eyes shou
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