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good that I should not be surprised to be informed that he was ac- 

 tually a composer, and that in such case he would have a preference 

 for sacred music, and probably might also indulge in amatory strains.* 

 He clapped his hands with evident satisfaction at my remarks, and 

 with great candour said, " I am sure you have never seen me before, 

 nor am I known to any one on board ; therefore your accurate 

 knowledge of my character and pursuits convinces me that Phreno- 

 logy is a very valuable science : I am a composer of sacred music !" 

 He then went into the cabin and unlocked a case, from whence he 

 took a quarto volume of sacred compositions for the organ, of which 

 he was the author. In the satisfaction of the moment I omitted to 

 inquire his name, but subsequently ascertained that it was Mr. 

 Greenwood, of Leeds, and that he exercised the triple occupation of 

 organ-builder, organist, and composer of sacred music. My foreign 

 companion seemed also much gratified, as he confessed he " could 

 not have given any particulars of Mr. Greenwood's mental qualifi- 

 cations by the most minute and accurate examination of the face, 

 although he professed to be a physiognomist. 



Let the most talented advocate of physiognomical science contem- 

 plate the busts or portraits of Raphael, Rubens, or Salvator Rosa ; 

 would he be enabled to explain their respective excellencies ? — that 

 Raphael was most powerful in imitating forms ? — that Rubens had 

 more poetic conception, and an exquisite perception of the harmony 

 of colours ? — and that Salvator Rosa luxuriated in the sublime and 

 the horrible ? I think he could not, so as to explain the data he 

 judged from, by which, on examining other artists, he could enable 

 a disciple to say which branch of the art any embryo artist would be 

 most predisposed to select. Now I claim the palm for Phrenology 

 because it would enable a professor to make such discrimination. 

 He could ascertain the particular bias, and also how far any one 

 might hope to vie or approximate to the great masters of the art. 

 Or let the Lavaterian put his rules to this test ; let him decide on 

 examining a number of students just entered at Cambridge (of 

 course, all strangers to him), and say whether they will or will not 

 take honours, and, if so, who amongst them would be most likely to 

 be the senior wrangler, or second, or third, &c. Should he form 

 his opinions from the features of a Newton, he would probably find 

 the faces different in every one of the individuals on whom the expe- 

 riment was tried. But this would be no kind of obstacle to a phre- 

 nologist; whatever the difference in the general forms of their 



• He had large organs of Amativeness and Adhesiveness. 



