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Perfons provided with it eafily retain words by heart. Gall* 

 while young, remarked this faculty in feveral of his fchool- 

 fellows, who excelled merely by this talent, and who were 

 diftinguiflied by the protuberance of their eyes. This was the 

 firft obfervation which afterwards led him to thefe investiga- 

 tions. A number of fubiequent obfervations have eftablilhed 

 the truth of its exiftence and of its function. 



23. Organ of Senfe for Languages. 



83. Languages. The organ at the exterior and upper part of the orbit, is 

 called by Gall, the organ of fenfe for languages. Its prefence 

 has a confiderable influence upon the pofition of the ball of 

 the eye ; it pufhes it downwards and towards the nofe, and 

 increafes its diftance from the upper edge of the orbit ; it 

 never exifts in animals, in whom the ball of the eye is di- 

 rected more towards the exterior fide of the orbit. 

 • Diftinguiflied talents for the languages are invariably at- 



tended by its developement; it is eminent in great philolo- 

 gies ; and though it may be difficult to deckle from external 

 appearances, refpecling its exiftence, we have neverthelefs 

 remarked that it never efcaped the penetrating eye of Gall, 

 and that he was never miftaken in this point. 



24-. Organ of the Memory of Perfons. 



34. Memory The funclion of the organ at the upper internal part of the 



© per ons. orbit, has not yet been difcovered by Gall ; neverthelefs many 



obfervations on man and animals, fuch as the dog and the 

 horfe, induced him to fuppofe it the organ of recollection of 

 perfons. The developement of it, like that of the preceding, 

 muft influence the poiition of the eye ; it fhould contribute to 

 remove it from the upper edge of the orbit, and to pufli it to- 

 wards the external fide, if an equal developement of the pre- 

 ceding organ do not counterbalance its action. 



25. Organ of Liberality. 



tc. Liberality. The or g an or * liberality is fituated in the anterior part of the 

 os fronds, above that of the fenfe of locality, and of the fen fe- 

 for painting (Nos. 16 and 18), and befide that of the mufical 

 fenfe (No. 20) ; its extreme developement is a concomitant 

 of prodigality ; it it not to be found in the mifer ; in that cafe, 

 a hollow is formed in this part of the osfrontis. Gall is in 

 pofleffion of numerous examples. 



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