OF THE MENTAL FACULTIES. 



nishing power of calculation, though in all other respects a 

 child, his pre-eminence cannot be explained by particular habits 

 of study or of business, nor by mere 'strength of judgment. 



For my own part when I reflect upon the various talents and 

 dispositions of persons all in the same circumstances how un- 

 successfully some apply, with the utmost perseverance, to a branch 

 of study, in which another under the same instructors, or perhaps 

 scarcely assisted at all, reaches excellence, with little trouble 

 how early various tempers are developed among children of the 

 same nursery how hereditary peculiarities of talent and charac- 

 ter are how similar some persons are to each other in one re- 

 spect, and dissimilar in another how positively contradictory 

 many points of the same character are found ; I confess myself 

 unable to deny that there is one innate faculty for numbers, ano- 

 ther for colours, a third for music, &c. &c. with a variety of 

 distinct innate sentiments and propensities ; and that memory, 

 judgment, &c. are but modes of action common to the different 

 faculties and partly to different sentiments and propensities. 



The sentiments and propensities which Dr. Spurzheim enume- 

 rates, respect sexual love, love of offspring, inhabiting particular 

 situations, attachment, contention, destruction, construction, ac- 

 quirement, concealment, love of self, love of praise, cautious- 

 ness, benevolence, veneration, hope, conscientiousness, decision,* 

 and imitation. f The particular intellectual faculties, according 

 to the same author, are for judging of form, size, weight, 

 colour, space, number, tune, order ? time ? He enumerates like- 

 wise a faculty relating to languages, one to the ludicrous, one to 

 poetry, one to judging of cause and effect, one to the cognisance 



* I was convinced of this being a distinct power, upon perusing an Essay 

 on decision of character, written some years ago by a dissenting minister who 

 I dare say never thought of craniology. Essays by John Foster. 



t A wonderful instance of this propensity is detailed in the Philos. Trans. 

 1677. The strength of it seems part of the national character of the 

 tees. Bowditch, Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashautec. p. 2!)2. 



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