on Drs. Gall and Spurzheim' s Vhyilognnmonlcal Svitem, 379 



light in existence ; as the one can never perfectly understand the 

 nature of vision, so neither can the other rehgion or veneration. 

 No sentiment indeed can be taught. As men cannot be taught 

 the sentiment of hunger v.it'nout feeling it, so neither can tha 

 feehng of veneration be learned. The organ of veneration is si-- 

 tuated on the front-top of the head. 



XV. Orcian of' H"pe : This beinngs to rehgion. There is in 

 man a sentiment of faith : the faculties are given for the use of 

 man in this life, and the indulgence of hope becomes faith. Gall 

 supposed that hope ariees from every active fr^cuity, but Dr. S. 

 considers it as having something more than mere desire ; many 

 persons evince, by their lives and acii;jn>, that tliey are all hope, 

 and neglect every thing in this v.orld in iiopes of the great en- 

 joyments of the next ; tliey are enthusiasts and very credulous. 

 The organ of hope ar.d faith is situated longitudinally on each 

 side of the organ of veneration. Some perL,ons have faith and 

 liot benevolence, others benevolence and not faith: soiue are 

 pious in sayiu:; their prayers ar^d yet liave no faith, justice, Sec. 

 JExampIes: Mitchell, tlie murderer, had no veneration or faith, 

 and only a little benevolence; but the animal propensities pre- 

 dominated in the great mass of head behind. Hollings, ajiother 

 murderer, had faith, some veneration and benevolence, he re- 

 pented and was piou?; Mitchell died callous. 



XVI. Orgrin of ideaiiiy or of poetry : it is situated above 

 that of covetiveness, ajid is that expanded projection rising over 

 the temples, as in the heads of Dryden, Miiton, Shakespeare, 

 &;c. contrasted with the head of Locke, in whicii it is wanting; 

 Homer and Horace contrasted v^ith Demosthenes who also 

 v^anted this organ. Souie persons are pleased with poetry al- 

 though they do not write it ; others are pleased and write it, and 

 some make verses and not poetry, jkit, tlie question is, what 

 is the primitive faculty of poet? ? Versification is not poetry, 

 neither is rhyme, because poetry existed long before rhyme ; 

 there are versifiers who are no poets, and prc^e writers whose 

 diction is entiieiy poetical. Poets have a peculiar manner of 

 action ; ahvays exalted, elevated, thcv consider man as he sliouid 

 be and never as he really is ; they contemplate tiie whole moral 

 world in an exalted and purified state ; it is by this continued 

 exaltation they become, as it weie, inspired. Artists may have 

 this faculty with great advantage to their art. He who writes in 

 a calm reasoning way is certainly no jjoet. Pnets who contem- 

 plate all objects in an ideal view, have probably this faculty, 

 which is denominated ideality. It is often very injurious to men, 

 as all their otiier feelings are exalted in like nianiicr, by this in- 

 cessant exaltation of the imagination, U/ the neglect of reasoning,, 

 judgernejit, and expcrieuced observation. 



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