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and innate propensity. A few women, indeed, have l)een found 

 almost destitute of this organ, and wherever it is wanting, it is 

 a certain indication of a predisposition to infanticide, should ex- 

 ternal circumstances encourage the propensity. In twenty-fives 

 cases observed by Dr. S. in France, where this organ was de- 

 fective, infanticide occurred. Some nations have this propensity 

 stronger than others; in negroes it is particularly conspicuous. 

 It is, however, jJecuHarly characteristic of females, and were men 

 to be nurses infanticide would be much more common. Boys 

 prefer whips, dogs, &c. girls babies, dresses, &c. 



III. Tlie oriran of inhab'itiveness, Gah confounded with that 

 of self-love, and alleged that physical propensities in animals might 

 become moral ones in men. This is opposed by Professor S. Cer- 

 tain animals prefer elevated situations, as the chamois, eagle, lark, 

 kc. delight in places far remote from the spliere of their wants 

 in procuring food; the lark might sing on the ground, and eat 

 its food ; the eagle cannot get its prey in the air, and the cha- 

 mois roams where every thing is sterile. No external want, 

 however, can ever produce, although it may excite, a faculty. 

 ?»Iigration is not occasioned by want of food, as birds generally 

 depart before anv scarcity even appears. There are two va- 

 rieties of rats, one inhabits cellars, the other garrets ; their 

 skulls indicate their peculiar localities, as the garreteer has this 

 organ an elevated ridge, on the back of the skull, which the 

 cellarer wants. Different faculties have different organs ; and 

 it is very improbable that any physical propensity is changed in 

 man from what it is in animals, or that anything physical 

 even, in brutes ca.n ever become moral in man. The faculties 

 never change ; even Platonic love in man terminates in physical 

 love. There is, then, a peculiar propensity for certain situations, 

 wliich is indicated by this organ. All space was destined by the 

 Creator to be inhabited with some beings. This organ is more 

 cons|ucuous in aquatic animals ; but the inquiry relates to com- 

 parative anatomy. 



IV. Organ of adhesiveness or attachment . Some animals 

 live in society, others not ; some live in society and are not mar- 

 ried, others are married, as canary birds, <Scc. Daws live in so- 

 ciety, jays and magpies isolated. These habits are not owing 

 to the activity of any faculty, but to a peculiar sentiment, 

 which is indicated by this organ of adhesiveness. Dr. S. gives 

 it this name, because its import is more extensive than that of 

 attachment or friendship ; the latter is only a modification of 

 this faculty, which includes ])atriotism, national and local attach- 

 ment, &:c. Nostalgia is an abuse of this propensity, a carica- 

 ture of patriotism. 



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