132 Short V'teiv of the Cran'wgnoviic Syjlem 



Dr. Gall : he, however, has fome reafons for confidering this 

 angle as the feat of the organ of the love of truth, but he ha» 

 not yet colleolcd a fufficient number of facls to be fully con- 

 vinced of it. 



[\Ve find feme difficulty in being perfuaded that there is 

 any truth in regard to this function afcribcd by Dr. Gall to 

 the la(l-nienlio!icd organ. It appears to us that an organ 

 placed in the middle of thofe with which animals as well as 

 men are provided, cannot be defined to a faculty fuch as 

 truth, which belongs only to the latter. 



^However, the cafe with this faculty is perhaps the fame as 

 with that of pride, which in animals undergoes a great mo- 

 dification : and we confefs we have feen two men, one of 

 whom, diftinguiflied by great veracity, was furnifhed with 

 this organ in the highelt degree; whereas the other, who had 

 a mofl: extraordinary propenfity to falfehood, was fo dcftitute 

 of it, that his head at that place inftead of a cavity exhibited 

 a protuberance.] 



In the anterior and inferior part of the frontal bone Dr. 

 Gall has found feveral organs the funftion of which is very 

 important. 



During his firft refearches he confidered them as the or- 

 gans of the different kinds of memory ; but finding afterwards 

 that they were not only reprodu6tive but alfo productive, he 

 was induced to confidcr them as the organs of a particular 

 fenfe, and to eftabliih on this oblervation the opinion, that 

 memory in general is only the reprodu6live a6lion of all the 

 organs : imagination, on the other hand, is their productive 

 action. 



The fpnnianeous movement of the man who endeavours 

 to recollott fometliiiio, feems to have a relation to thefe or- 

 gans. He carrie? his hand, as if involuntarily, to the bafe 

 of the forehead. This action, though not perceived by the 

 perfon who performs it, is h()wever«con(tant, and is never 

 <-onfounded with that already mentioned in fpeaking of the 

 organ of courage. 



l6. Organ of the Senfe of Localify. 



The organ of the fenfe of locality occupies the anterior part 

 of the frontal bone which correfponds to the protuberances 

 above the orbits {protubcranti^r' fupra-orbitahs) ; it generally 

 accompanies thofe crania which are diftinguiflied by large 

 frontal finuses, and which always exhibit in the infide a ca- 

 vity correfponding to an eminence of the brain. 



When it acts rcproduclivcly ii conflitutes what we call the 

 memory of locality {jncmuna iQcai'is)\ on the other hand, 



when 



