Lectures on phrenology, including its application to the present and prospective condition of the United States . nd thehymn of adoration to rise. Sometimes this organ becomes diseased, and is then oc-casionally the source of the most beatific emotions. In establishment near Glasgow, I saw, in 183G, apatient whose tendency to prayer, when labouring under afit of insanity, was irresistible. In his head I found Venera-tion small: yet he was on his knees all day. This wasthought to be an opposing fact; but this patient had alucid interval, when I conversed with and asked himwhether he e
Lectures on phrenology, including its application to the present and prospective condition of the United States . nd thehymn of adoration to rise. Sometimes this organ becomes diseased, and is then oc-casionally the source of the most beatific emotions. In establishment near Glasgow, I saw, in 183G, apatient whose tendency to prayer, when labouring under afit of insanity, was irresistible. In his head I found Venera-tion small: yet he was on his knees all day. This wasthought to be an opposing fact; but this patient had alucid interval, when I conversed with and asked himwhether he enjoyed his devotional exercis3s when excited. FIRMNESS 201 t4No,,Tsaid he, ! I d) not; I feel very unhappy—and Ipray that I may not be vished by Divine wrath. Cau-tiousness and Dottructiveness were very large in him ; andmy belief is that he felt overpowering terror, and that in hisprayers he was deprecating punishment. Mr. Drury him-self became satisfied that this was the true explanationThe natural languige of Veneration is to carry the headand hands upward.* 15. Firmness. 1. Mrs. —- is. jte 3- John. rv mncss email, Conscien-tiousness large. Firmness largz, Conscien-tiousness small. Firmnesstiouanei^ This organ is situated at the posterior pan cf the cororegion, close upon the middle line. You can readrly dis-tinguish the middle of Cautiousness : this organ ies direc:-ly upwards from it. I shall exhibit specimens of thia organin very different degrees of development. In this head ofMrs. H„ Conscientiousness is large and firmness very de-ficient. In Haggart you see Conscientiousness very de-ficient and Firmness very large. In the Rev. Mr. Martinboth organs are much developed ; and you perceive that thispart of the coronal region constitutes a large and full arch. * 1 knew a sailor, in whom both Benevolence and Veneration wer>very largu; who, when intoxicated, was particularly kind and generousin his manners, and who would kneel down and pray aloud, in themost ferve
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