Phrenology Vindicated, and Antiphrenology UnmaskedSamuel Colman, 1838 - 156 páginas |
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action anatomists anatomy animal Animal Magnetism antiphrenologists Aristotle assertion attempt believe brain CALDWELL Carib Caucasian Caucasian race cerebellum cerebral character charge chief christian crania cranium Cuvier deception Deity delineated Destructiveness discovery disgrace doctrines doubt efforts entire error faculties false falsehood favour feeble feeling frontal sinuses function Gall and Spurzheim garbled give groundless head Hence honour human Humbugs ignorance imputation individual inferior intellect knowledge labours lectures liar manly matter means ment mental mind misrepresentation mode Montagnana moral nature ness never New-York object occiput offence organ of Veneration philosopher Phre Phrenological Society Phrenology physicians plagiarism plate practice present production profession Professor Sewall Professor Warren pronounced propensity purpose referred religion remarkable render reply reputation respect SAMUEL COLMAN Seat sentiments Sewall's sion skull spected stratagem surpassed talent thickness thing tion tive treach treachery true truth ture vice Voltaire writings
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Página 152 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Página 155 - Did I but purpose to embark with thee On the smooth surface of a summer's sea ; While gentle Zephyrs play in prosperous gales And Fortune's favour fills the swelling sails ; But would forsake the ship, and make the shore, When the winds wHistle, and the tempests roar...
Página 129 - From wandering on a foreign strand? If such there breathe, go mark him well: For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim; Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
Página 128 - Content!' to that which grieves my heart, And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions.
Página 17 - System. From an early age he was given to observation, and was struck with the fact, that each of his brothers and sisters, companions in play, and schoolfellows, possessed some peculiarity of talent or disposition, which distinguished him from others.
Página 58 - Deity was so great, his sensibility upon the subject of devotion so exquisite, that he became shocked and disgusted with the irreverence of even the most devout Christians, and that out of pure respect and veneration for the Deity, he attempted to exterminate the Christian religion from the earth.
Página 34 - The cause of the difference of skulls, in such cases, is this : The peculiar distinctions of man, will and understanding, have their seats in the brain, which is excited by the fleeting desires of the will, and the ideas of the intellect. Near the various spots where these irritations produce their effects, this or that part of the brain is called into a greater or less degree of activity, and forms along with itself corresponding parts of the skull."* But I will not detain you with further details...
Página 117 - All that we feel of it begins and ends In the small circle of our foes or friends; To all beside as much an empty shade...
Página 49 - ... counteracting organ very large, it is contended by those who are acquainted with the fact, that he manifests his inherent disposition to murder, by his mighty efforts to destroy vice and break down systems of error. In this way he gratifies his propensity to shed blood. By a recent examination of the skull of the celebrated infidel Voltaire, it is found that he had the organ of Veneration developed to a very extraordinary degree. For him it is urged, that his veneration for the Deity was so great,...
Página 148 - Tis education forms the common mind ; Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.