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disquisitions establish many views well calculated to improve the 

 practical adaptations of philosophy, morals, and legislation. Two 

 essays stand next in the System. The first is on the coincidence 

 between the natural talents and dispositions of nations and the de- 

 velopment of their brains. This brings under review successively 

 the national characters of the Hindoos, Caribs, New Hollanders^ 

 New Zealanders, North American Indians, Brazilian Indians, Ne- 

 groes, Sandwich Islanders, Swiss, Ancient Egyptians, Ancient 

 Greeks, Scotch Lowlanders, English, Germans, and French: and 

 the characteristic differences delineated in the essay are confirmed 

 by figures demonstrating fundamental distinctions in national heads, 

 both in size and shape. The second is on the importance of includ- 

 ing development of brain as an element in statistical inquiries into 

 the manifestations of the animal, moral, and intellectual faculties of 

 man. The value of this essay is greatly enhanced by comparative 

 tables of the statistics of insanity, crime, and instruction. 



Mr. Combe concludes the System with a truly philosophical 

 examination and refutation of objections to the new mental science, 

 especially those founded on materialism, and the effects of injuries 

 of the brain. His appendix contains four documents, — additional 

 evidence that the brain is the organ of the mind ; objections to classi- 

 fications of the mental faculties ; table of Dr. Gall's original names 

 of the faculties ; and a list of testimonials in support of a represen- 

 tation addressed, in 1836, to the Secretary for the Colonies, recom- 

 mending a method for classifying convicts sent to New South 

 Wales, as a punishment for their crimes. 



The preceding dense outline of ^Ix. Combe's System, will 

 serve to exhibit the very comprehensive and influential bearings of 

 his doctrines upon the foundations of man's virtue, happiness and 

 power, as he is a responsible ag^nt in this world and an aspirant for 

 an higher inheritance which will be permanent as his immortality. 

 May these doctrines be impartially, deliberately, and fully inves- 

 tigated. 



