Lectures on phrenology, including its application to the present and prospective condition of the United States . inks thisorgan is sometimes singly diseased, in cases where wordsare sent forth incessantly without meaning or should be careful, therefore, to distinguish be-tween actions and expressions, in their investigations andtestimony concerning cases of insanity. He thinks thatthe manifestation of what is called the gift of tonguesamong the Irvingites, and others, depends in part upon de-rangement of this organ. That the brain is deranged, issufficiently evident from
Lectures on phrenology, including its application to the present and prospective condition of the United States . inks thisorgan is sometimes singly diseased, in cases where wordsare sent forth incessantly without meaning or should be careful, therefore, to distinguish be-tween actions and expressions, in their investigations andtestimony concerning cases of insanity. He thinks thatthe manifestation of what is called the gift of tonguesamong the Irvingites, and others, depends in part upon de-rangement of this organ. That the brain is deranged, issufficiently evident from the appearance of such personsin a paroxysm—the bright, piercing and restless eyes, theextended and waving arms, the unusually deep, full voice,and wild manner, often continue till they fall down ex-hausted.* * A man was one day presented to Frederick II., endowed with sucha memory, that he recited by heart a considerable piece which he hadnever heard read but once. The same day. Voltaire had to read someverses to the kin<r Frederick concealed the stranger behind a screen- Comparison. 363.
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