Brain and mind; or, Mental science considered in accordance withthe principles of phrenology, and in relation to modern physiology . ation, becoming active, give rise to theirappropriate feelings; and if outward expression were al-lowed to these on all occasions, society would be disfiguredby a muddle of rude and disgusting improprieties. Afool, says Solomon, uttereth all his mind; but a wiseman keepeth it till afterward. In the common affairs oflife a reasonable endowment of this faculty is essential inalmost every undertaking. It confers the prudent dis- 8o BRAIN AND MIND. position of keepin
Brain and mind; or, Mental science considered in accordance withthe principles of phrenology, and in relation to modern physiology . ation, becoming active, give rise to theirappropriate feelings; and if outward expression were al-lowed to these on all occasions, society would be disfiguredby a muddle of rude and disgusting improprieties. Afool, says Solomon, uttereth all his mind; but a wiseman keepeth it till afterward. In the common affairs oflife a reasonable endowment of this faculty is essential inalmost every undertaking. It confers the prudent dis- 8o BRAIN AND MIND. position of keeping our affairs to ourselves, when nothingwould be gained by communicating them. Where the organ is small, the individual will be frankand outspoken, and characterized by a deficiency of will say many things, on the spur of the moment, whichhe will afterward wish unsaid, and frequently be otherwiseembarrassed by his openness. On the other hand, whenthe organ is unduly active, it gives a love of intrigue andconcealment for their own sake. Such an individual willbe sly, artful, treacherous, and deceitful, if the faculty be. Fig. 25.—Secretiveness Large. not held in check by compensating sentiments. It isusually large in thieves, its ill-regulated activity producingthe capacity for sly cunning, which distinguishes that classof rogues. It was large in the woman Gottfried, who isquoted by many authors, and co-operated with her largeDestructiveness; she murdered by poison—a mode of com-mitting the crime usually employed by secretive offendersagainst law and humanity—both parents, her children, twohusbands, and six other persons; and she still furthermanifested the activity of this faculty by feigning the PRESER VA TIVE OR SELFISH ORGANS. 81 most poignant grief at the bedside of her victims, whileshe was in reality gloating over their protracted suffering. It was very large in Warren Hastings of East Indian in-famy. In diplomatists and statesmen of eminent sagacityit is la
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