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32. Organ of Theofophy. 



The organ of theofophy occupies the mod elevated part of 3 2 » Theofophy, 

 the osfrontis. 



All the portraits of faints which have been preferved from 

 former ages, afford very inftructive examples, and if this cha- 

 racter is wanting in any one of them, it will certainly be def- 

 titute of exprefiion. 



It is excejfrvely developed in religious fanatics, and in men 

 who have become reclufe through fuperftition and religious 

 notions. 



It is the feat of this organ, which according to Gall, has 

 determined men to confider their gods as above them in a more 

 elevated part of the heavens. In fact, when we confider this 

 fubject philofophically, there is no more reafon for fuppofing 

 that God is placed above the world, than there is to fuppofe 

 him below it. 



33. Organ of Perftvcrance. 



The lafl of the organs hitherto difcovered by Gall, is that 33. Perfevc- 

 of perfeverance, of conftancy, of character; it is fituated in rance# 

 the anterior and fuperior part of the parietals in the middle of 

 the head ; when it is in excefs it caufes obftinacy, but its de- 

 fed produces inconftancy. 



'* With regard to thofe parts of the fkull in which Gall has * 

 not yet difcovered organs, it is probable that his future inves- 

 tigations will afford him the means of fuccefs ; on this fubject, 

 the work which he is about to publifh, will give us more am- 

 ple details. It will alfo be for him to convince us, by arguments 

 perhaps inconteftable, of the truth of his fyftem, the expofi- 

 tion of which cannot be very fatisfactory in a curfory 01111106." 



We think it neceffary alfo to remark, that the organs here 

 enumerated are not diflinctly perceptible, except in indivi- 

 duals who pofTefs fome faculty in an eminent degree, and 

 that it is not poffible to form a correct judgment of a moderate 

 talent, on account of its organ being confounded among thofe 

 which furround it. " We fee no reafon, philofophically 

 fpeaking, for the calumnies which have been lately thrown 

 upon the fyftem of Gall, that it tends direclly to materialifm. 

 W T hen we admit of organs of the action of the internal facul- 

 ties, the immeafurable fpace between mind and matter will 



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