SOME REMARKS ON A REVIEW, &C. 315 



and the org^an to have increased materially in size. The mani- 

 festations of course coincided. Mr. Deville keeps these two casts 

 in his collection, and shows them as remarkable instances of the 

 increase of an organ after the individual had attained the age 

 of forty. 



The writer of the article under consideration proceeds to ob- 

 serve, that "the point in dispute between Dr. Milligan and the 

 Phrenologist is the relationship existing between the outer table 

 and subajacent diploe on the one hand, with the inner or 

 vitreous table, as it is termed, in the passage just quoted, on the 

 other." Now this "point in dispute" is a question which does 

 not at all concern the Phrenologist, but the anatomist and the 

 physician; the Phrenologist must determine the fact — which has 

 been done long ago — that the outward form of the skull is regu- 

 lated by the conformation of the encephalon,* and draw his in- 

 ferences from the fact. The reason why it is so, is quite another 

 department, and that he is not able to explain the reason of it 

 does not in the least disprove the truth of his argument. I will 

 proceed to quote further: — "A genuine specimen of the Phre- 

 nological tribe exhibits so much versatility in argument, — such 

 an extraordinary facility in changing the grounds of his position 

 upon all occasions in which the science seems to be in danger, 

 that we really hesitate to place our index upon any one opinion 

 as a certain and indubitable tenet of the sect." As to Phreno- 

 logists displaying such wonderful " versatility in argument," I 

 do not at all wish to deny it, this being, in my opinion, by no 

 means discreditable; but when C. R. proceeds to make the 

 groundless assertion that a true Phrenologist displays "such an 

 extraordinary facility in changing the grounds of his position 

 upon all occasions in which the science seems to be in danger," 

 &c. I openly challenge him to prove the truth of this in any one 

 instance. To proceed. "Now it is here that Dr. Milligan 

 meets the Phrenologist, by shewing that the causes which act 

 in the development of the external table, and consequently 

 of its irregularities of surface, are alike independent of the 

 brain, and of the inner table of the skull, &c." Now it is 

 evident that if the brain has no connection with the inner and 

 outer tables of the skull, it must be the skull itself that 

 regulates the operations of the mind. Whether or not this 

 Is the case with C. R. I cannot determine, but certainly with 

 the generality of mortals, the inner table of the skull has 

 connection with the brain. In another part Dr. Milligan speaks 

 of 'the organs marked' on the skull 'at their pleasure, by writers 

 on Phrenology.' The fallacy of this has so long been satisfac- 

 torily proved, that I consider it quite unnecessary for me to say 

 anything about it in this place, but merely refer those who are of 



* Encephalon; from ly in, and xi!pa\yi the head: a scientific term for the 

 brain ; used by some for the cerebrum only. 



