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inferior in the reflective ; that they acquired frequently by 

 a glance of thought, what men acquired by elaborate and 

 slow research. After detailing the benefit which might re- 

 sult from the refinement of this instinctive felicity of rea- 

 soning, he inquired, whether it could he traced in the ex- 

 ternal lineaments ? Notiiing could be more satisfactory 

 than the answer, for the female forehead uniformly differs 

 from that of man ; and the difference consists in this, that 

 in the forehead of man there is a strong indenture indica- 

 tive of application : in woman there is none. The former 

 is rectilinear, the latter curvilinear, — but curvilinenr with- 

 out bciny; project ins:;. In the former there are protuberances 

 and broken lines: in the latter the beautiful uubioken arch, 

 not only of the profile but of the eyebrows, demonstrates 

 the superiority of the perceptive faculty, chastened more or 

 less as it advances or recedes. 



Iinagination, the next division of the intellect, the learned 

 Lecturer stated, was a modification of perception and me- 

 mory. It must, therefore, be sought for in the upper arch 

 of the forehead. — Gall had placed wit in the two angles of 

 that upper part, and wit was the effect of imagination. It 

 had been before observed, that a retreating line was pecu- 

 liar to ardency of thought ; — a straight line to judgement ;■ — 

 a projecting line to immaturity of idea. When, therefore, the 

 curve peculiar to perception was felicitously mingled with the 

 slightly retiring line peculiar to production of ideas, there 

 was the character of Imagination, and such was the fore- 

 head of most females ; and when the lower arch of the 

 forehead indicated a connnutual expansion of the organs of 

 memory and judgement, there was the constitutional ideal 

 of a poetical construction. 



It follows, therefore, that the lower arch of the forehead 

 (the protuberance of which is as remarkable in the Greek 

 ideal as in the real busts of great men) must be the seat of 

 memory and judgement. Indeed, Gall and Lavater not 

 only both concur in this proposition, but afford a clue to 

 discover the distinct position of these two organs. Lavater 

 has remarked, that he never observed any one with project- 

 ing eyebrows who was not a calculating and enterprising 

 genius ; and that a perpendicular indenture of the fore- 

 head above the nose, was equally indicative of acuteness 

 and discrimination. Professor Gall, though he has con- 

 founded the organs of memory and judgement, concurs 

 singularly with Lavater; for he places the organ of calcu- 

 lation, which depends evidently on memory, at the ex- 

 iremily of the eyebrows ; and the organ of association 



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