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V. Organ of covihativeneis. Some children are quarrelsome, 

 others peaceful ; even delicate women sometimes fi^ht with great 

 obstinacy. Rabbits figltt and beat hares which are generally 

 larger animals, and. little dogs often chace large ones. Gall ad- 

 mits of negative qualities, which Professor S. opposes; a positive 

 sentiment or feeling cannot be the result of the want or absence 

 of another ; fear is not the want of courage, but a real senti- 

 men.t. This organ of combativeness or courage is situated in 

 the posterior angle cf t!ie parietal bone, nearly parallel with the 

 ear ; (it is generally great in ])roportion to the space between 

 the ears measured behind, and in thick necks and broad heads 

 very distinctly marked). 



VI. Organ of destruct'rveTress ; it is a liorizontal ridge in the 

 skull passing immediatelv above the ear. Carnivorous animals 

 have more brain bohind than the herbivorous, instanced in the 

 tyger, polecat, weasel, &c. v.hich have great brain backwa; d^, 

 and hares, rabbits, &c. which have very little. Claws, teeth, 

 &c. are merely the instruments which carnivorous animals u-e, 

 but they are not the cause of their destructive habits ; it is the 

 internal propensity to devour. IVIan dLVours every thing ; he 

 is omnivorous. Tiie " tyger preys not on the tyger brood ;" but 

 men in all conditions and degrees of life liave this propensity, this 

 desire to kill. Instances of an apothecary wlio turned execu- 

 tioner merely to gratiiV his love of destroying animal life, of 

 merchants vvho became butchers, and others who paid bn.tchers 

 for permission to kill cattle. Some robbers always murder as 

 well as rob ; others only rob ; some soldiers in the field put all 

 to death, men, women, and children indiscriminately ; others 

 spare all they can. Idiots and madmen often evince tliis de- 

 structive propensity, and have occasional fits of destructivcncss,. 

 It it notov;ing to the food, as man eat both flesh and vegetables, 

 whereas tygers, &c. eat flesh only ; animals know where to kill 

 others quickly, as they invariably attack them on the neck. 

 Hence it is unquestionably an internal propensity and peculiar 

 to man, who manifests it in the pleasure v.hich some individuals 

 derive (both children and grown persons) from torturing ani- 

 mals, breaking things, as tables, chairs, glasses, &;c. and is very 

 properly denominated destnictiveness. Dr. S. exhibited busts 

 of Klitchell, Holiings and Sharpe the murderers, of Bellingham 

 the assassin, and of the Frenchwoman M. Ampere, who killed 

 her mother and two sisters, in all cf whom this organ v.'as very 

 conspicuous : a demonstrative proof of the truth of this system ; 

 for, considering the infinite diversity of skulls, it would be im- 

 possible to account for this similarity on any other supposition 

 than that of congeniality of character. 



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