CALL'S CRANIOGNOMIC SYSTEIvf. *>29 



The automatic motion of man who endeavours to recollect, 

 feems to relate to thefe organs. He places his hand, uncon- 

 fcioufly, upon the lower part of his forehead. This a£lion, 

 though unobferved by him who performs it, is neverthelefs con- 

 tent, and is never confounded with that mentioned' before, 

 under the head of the organ of courage. 



1 6. Organ of the Senfe of Locality. 



The organ of the fenfc of locality occupies the fore part of 16. Senfe oflo- 

 the os fronds, which correfponds to the protuberances above ca lty * 

 the orbits (protuberandafupra orbitales) ; it is generally found 

 in the craniums of thofe who are diftinguifhed by large frontal 

 finufes, and uniformly have an anterior cavity adapted to an 

 elevation of the brain. 



When it a&s reproductively, it constitutes what we term 

 local memory (memoria localis) ; by its productive operation, 

 on the contrary, it inclines to combinations of new localities. 



It is this organ which, in unknown places, dire&s the 

 blood-hound, in whom it is ftrongly defined ; it exifts in all 

 birds of paflage ; it incites them to change of place, to take 

 "long flights, and to return to their firft habitations: the fiork 

 and the f wallow are eminently provided with it, as well as 

 thofe animals which remove the fartheft from our climates. 

 In fuch men as are furnifhed with it, we alfo difcover a ftrong 

 remembrance of places and a defire to travel ; it is alfo con- 

 stantly found in good painters of landfcapes. 



" A general, who regulates the difpofitions of an army, 

 .and who at a glance mult difcern all the localities of the coun- 

 try he occupies, cannot fucceed without it." The great 

 Frederic furniflies us with a finking example. In advanced 

 age, this organ is one of thofe which fenfibly diminishes : it 

 is alfo notorious that every kind of memory and of imagina- 

 tion grow weaker as the individual becomes older ; the frontal 

 finufes then increafe within; the a&ion of the brain is no 

 longer capable of obftrucVing their developement. 



17. Organ of the Senfe of Things (fenfum rerum.) 



The fenfe of things has its correfpondent organ in the lower 17. Senfe of 

 and anterior part of the os fronds, between and higher than thlB S s 

 the preceding ; its action is both productive and reproduc- 

 tive ; and, in the latter cafe, it gives the remembrance of 

 facts and things. 



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