Brain and mind; or, Mental science considered in accordance withthe principles of phrenology, and in relation to modern physiology . is fact has been demonstrated bynumerous observations, which have established the loca-tion of an organ, called Size, adjoining Form, on eachside of Individuality, at the internal extremity of the archof the eyebrow. (See Fig. 17-S). Its function is to givethe idea of dimension, distance, and space in general. Itis essential to the landscape painter and the draughtsman, 92 BRAIN AND MIND, and to skill in all occupations which have to do with di-mension, distance,
Brain and mind; or, Mental science considered in accordance withthe principles of phrenology, and in relation to modern physiology . is fact has been demonstrated bynumerous observations, which have established the loca-tion of an organ, called Size, adjoining Form, on eachside of Individuality, at the internal extremity of the archof the eyebrow. (See Fig. 17-S). Its function is to givethe idea of dimension, distance, and space in general. Itis essential to the landscape painter and the draughtsman, 92 BRAIN AND MIND, and to skill in all occupations which have to do with di-mension, distance, and perspective. A tutor in the family of Sir George Mackenzie oncesaid to Mr. Combe, while looking at a landscape : Thatseems to me a plane surface, exhibiting difference of lightand shade. Now, I am told that to some people differ-ent parts appear at different distances, and that to them itappears to have a fore and back ground. He attributedhis inability to see the landscape as other people to hiswant of mathematical education ; but an examination ofhis head, revealed the fact that the organ of Size was de-cidedly Fig 32.—Size Small. On the other hand, in Mr. Douglas, a landscape painter,this organ was very large, and when a mere child, he wasso struck with the apparent difference in the width of thenear and far ends of the ridges of a plowed field, that hecrawled across it, before he could well walk, to measurethe actual distance with a stick, and was greatly surprisedto find that no difference existed. In the casts from the heads of Newton, Herschell, andGeorge Law, this organ is conspicuous; and it will be found OF THE INTELLECT, 93 well marked in the foreheads of men who have acquiredreputation as engineers and builders. WEIGHT. This organ lies next to Size in the frontal convolutions,and its place on the superciliary ridge is about one-thirdthe length of the ridge, outward from the root of the nose.(See Fig. 17-W). It is to the reasoning and investigationof
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