50 Dr. Spurzhei/n's deimn$lialiie Course rf Lectures 



expressed on many occasions more- ck-ajly than the j)erplexed' 

 jargon of the scliools. 



St. B;uti.oloincu's Ilospitd, T. FoilSTER. 



2rt!i Jan. ]815. 

 P, S. — ^^I have omitted entering into the particular proofs of 

 the doctrine, as this would be trespassing on Dr. Spurzheim'fe 

 lectures, which every candid inquirer should attend himself be- 

 fore he makes up his mind on this subject. Even if the doctrine- 

 were false, these lectures contain sufficient interesting matter to 

 repay the trouble of attending them. 1 have only to. apologize 

 for these very h^stv and imperfect observations, which the time 

 allotted for a periodical publication will not allow me to revise, 

 and to which I .should not affix my name, had not several persons 

 carelessly ascribed many unsigned letters on this subject, from 

 artists and medical andjother persons, on its particular bearings,, 

 to its authors themselves, and have thus accused them of an 

 anonymous encomium of their own discoveries. I publish them 

 OJilv to invite students to examine the facts for themselves, and 

 verify their truth or falsehood by their own iny.estigation?. 



XIII. Dr. Siiurzheim's dprnotistr alive Coune of' Leclures on. 

 Drs. Gall mid ifpuRZHiiiM's Phyi'wgnomonkal Sijstem., 



[Continued from vol. xliv. p. 370.] 



Lecture 10. JtIavixg finished the knowing or perceiving- 

 faculties which are common to all animals, Dr. S. proceeded 

 to the reflecting faculties ; jjhilo.sophers call the latter reasoij^ 

 and the former understanding. Animals liav«. understanding 

 and some reason. Examples of dogs; one ujontioned in the 

 French translation of Locke's Essays, where a dog that was se- 

 cluded by others from the fire, went out and i)arked so as to at- 

 tract the attention of all the rest, and immediately returned and 

 then took possession, of the best place near the tire. Other in- 

 stances of reasoning in aijimals were also mentionedj furnishing 

 unequivocal proofs that animals reason, but in an inferior degree. 

 Man is more than an animal. IVIen use facts ; one states a fact, 

 and is satisfied ; another adduces a similarity or analogy, and 

 convinces all who hear him. IMen of fact have the lower part 

 of the forehead prominent over the eyebrows ; men of analogy and 

 parable have a kind of inverted pyramid at the top front of the 

 forehead ; popular preachers have this part developed, parables 

 and similes being the best means of conveying knowledge to the 

 vulgar, and was adopted by Christ. 



