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it is received as an established principle, by almost all physiologists. 

 That the faculties of the mind are manifested by different parts of 

 the brain, and that each particular faculty depends for its manifes- 

 tation upon its own particular part of the brain, constitutes the 

 second proposition of Phrenology. As the whole brain is called the 

 organ of the mind, so the particular parts of the brain are called the 

 organs of particular faculties of the mind. Several distinguished 

 physiologists still dispute this division of the brain into distinct or- 

 gans ; but it is Mr. W.'s belief, that there is evidently an increasing 

 tendency to admit its accuracy. The third phrenological proposition 

 is, that, when health and other circumstances are alike, the facul- 

 ties are powerful or feeble in manifestation according to the sizes of 

 their organs — size being one measure of functional power. Some 

 few physiologists yet refuse to recognize this doctrine : but a close 

 correspondence between size of organ and power of functional mani- 

 festation being found to pervade the whole organic frame, analogy 

 decidedly supports the phrenologists and those other physiologists 

 who agree with them in regarding this to be a law of Nature — a 

 rule, says Mr. W., without exception. 



Phrenologists consider these three fundamental principles as fully 

 proved by a multitude of facts, and confirmed by manifold analogies. 

 It is a well-known fact, that the heads of brutes differ much from 

 the heads of men, and similar differences of shape or proportions 

 exist, also, in their brains. Such differences, however, are observed, 

 not only between the different species of animals, but also between 

 individuals of the same species or race : thus, the forehead and fore 

 part of the brain are always proportionally smaller in the brute 

 creation, than they are in human beings ; and, amongst men, some 

 have the greatest bulk of brain in the front, and others have it in 

 the back part of the head. 



From the fact, that the power of manifesting each particular fa- 

 culty corresponds with the size of the particular part of the brain 

 constituting the organ of that faculty, it must follow that the differ- 

 ently proportioned brains are attended with corresponding differ- 

 ences in the power of manifesting the faculties. While reason 

 infers this position, Mr. W. avers it is also proved by thousands of 

 observed facts. Hence it is, likewise, that different dispositions and 

 talents are exhibited by animals and by individuals having differ- 

 ently proportioned brains ; and this explains the curious circum- 

 stance — which remained inexplicable previously to Gall's discoveries, 

 that the talents and dispositions of individuals differ widely, even 

 from earliest childhood — why one child evinces a decided talent for 

 music, but is a dunce in learning languages, while a second is a 

 capital linguist, yet has no talent for drawing or music ; why one 

 is rough, and another is gentle ; and why character is as diversified 

 as the form of the head. 



Now, seeing these differences of disposition and talent depend, 

 for their manifestation, on the size or proportions of the different 

 parts of the brain, we obtain an easy key to the real dispositions 



