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obfervations on man and animals, fuch as the dog and horfe, 

 have induced him to fuppolc it to bo the organ of memory 

 for perfons. Its expanfion, like thut of the preceding, uiud 

 have -An influence on the pofition of the eye; it muft con- 

 tribute to remove it from the upper edge of the orbit, and to 

 pufli it towards the exterior and lateral part, if an equal ex- 

 panfion of the preceding organ does not counterbalance its 

 effea. 



25. Organ of Liberality , 



The organ of liberality is placed in the anterior part of the 

 frontal bone, above thole of the fenfe of locality and of the 

 fenfe for painting (16 and 18), and clofc to the niufical 

 fenfe (20) : a very great expanfion of it accompanies prodi- 

 gality : it is wanting in mifers, and in thele this part of the 

 frontal bone exhibits a cavity. Dr. Gall has in his pofleflion 

 numerous examples of it. 



" The proximity of the orcran of mufic and of the fenfe 

 for painting (18 and 2 ) feems often to favour the expanfion 

 of that of liberality ; and this, perhaps, is one of the reafons 

 why we fo often find prodigals among thofe men who excel 

 by their talents for thefe two arts." 



We conitantly obferve, that the older a man grows the 

 more nisrcardly he becomes : at an advanced age, therefore, 

 ihe dimuuition of this organ is fo Uriking, that it fonielimes 

 gives rife to a very confiderable exienfion of the frontal 

 finuses. 



z6. Organ of the Spirit of Coviparifon. 



The organ above the fenfe for fafts in the middle of the 

 forehead \s deltined for a faculty which Dr. Gall calls the 

 comparative ipirit {judicium compurativuvi). It forms an 

 oblone eminence, and is found in nsen who in fpeaking have 

 a ready command of figures or tropes; who are not at a lofs 

 fpr cxprcflicns ; who relate well, and have a great deal of 

 loquence. 



27 • Organ of the meiaphjfical Spirit. 



If this oro;an is more expanded towards the fides, fo that 

 it forms a round eminence which rii'es in the middle ot the 

 forehead, it indicates a metaphyfical fpirit. Among the 

 huiif ot the a)itientphilofoi)hers that of Socrates in particular 

 afiords one of the mofi firiking examples ot this orjian. 

 Among the n.odern philofophers, I fliall mention only Kant, 

 as one ot the molt celebrated. 



[; recoiled that the loichead of one of my firft fchoolfel- 

 low3, whom we (tylcd the philofopher, on account of his at- 



taclimen^ 



