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words in contradistinction to things, and inhabit an ideal 
world of theirown. The dealers in things and the dealers 
in abstractions mostly dwell apart, and too often regard each 
others’ pursuits with ill-disguised contempt. 
Now the phrenologist requires to unite to a considerable 
extent the capacities and tastes of both classes; to combine 
the powers of mental analysis—the facility for detaining 
abstractions before the mind’s eye for study—of the meta- 
physician and psychologist, with the instinct of observation 
and quick perception of physical differences by which the 
naturalist is distinguished—and in the fact that individuals 
who combine the two phases of capacity will be less 
numerous than those who possess one of the qualifications 
singly, we see an explanation of the cause why the scientific 
cultivators of phrenology are fewer in number than either 
the physicists or the metaphysicians. 
In scanning the causes of the hostility Phrenology has so 
widely encountered, amongst others we must not omit to 
notice its close bearing on the personality of individuals. 
Men with little heads, little minds, but great vanity, rebel 
against a standard of capacity which gauges them corre¢tly. 
A science which renders it possible— 
5 : : : “A des signes certaines 
Reconnaitre le coeur des perfides humaines,” 
will always have antagonists to whom such an idea is 
distasteful. The whole of the genus humbug, the empirics 
and impostors of the day, and men conscious of being at 
bottom thoroughly dishonest and unprincipled, instin¢tively 
recoil from a system which threatens to unmask their 
moral deformities to the eyes of the world, and reveal their 
true features, despite a whole wardrobe of trappings of 
duplicity. Napoleon boasted of having greatly contributed to — 
put down Gall. His own medical attendent, Corvisart, one 
of the greatest physicians France ever produced, was an 
admirer of Gall, and vainly endeavoured to introduce him 
to the Emperor. ‘‘Corvisart,” says Napoleon, ‘‘ was a 
great partisan of Gall, and left no stone unturned (fit 
limpossible) to push him on to me, but there was no 
sympathy between us.” In short, Napoleon confessed he 
felt the greatest aversion for those ‘“‘who taught that 
Nature revealed herself by external forms.” 
Again, the bulk of mankind have no doubt been organised 
by nature to lead a life of action, to do, and not to think. In 
youth they are plastic, and readily receive the impression 
stamped by their teachers, but by mature age the receptivity 
of childhood has vanished, and the clay of which they are 
