Morton’s Crania Americana. 357 
European ; and he contends that the opposite and popular notion 
is the result of superficial observation, and is true only of certain 
degraded tribes on the coast of Africa 
We entertain a great respect for Prof. Tiedemann, but we can- 
not subscribe to his principle that the whole brain is the measure 
of the intellectual faculties ; a proposition which assumes that the 
animal and moral feelings have no seat in this organ. He does 
not grapple with Dr. Gall’s facts or arguments, but writes as if 
Gall had never existed. Dr. Morton has followed a different 
course, and we think wisely. He says, “I was from the begin- 
hing, desirous to introduce into this work, a brief chapter on phre- 
nology ; but, conscious of my own inability to do justice to the 
subject, I applied to a professional friend to supply the deficiency. 
e engaged to do so, and commenced his task with great zeal ; 
but ill health soon obliged him to abandon it, and to seek a distant 
and more genial climate. Under these circumstances, I resolved 
to complete the phrenological table, and omit the proposed essay 
altogether. Early in the present year, however, and just as my 
work was ready for the press, George Combe, Esq., the distin- 
guished phrenologist, arrived in this country; and I seized the 
occasion to express my wants to that gentleman, who, with great 
zeal and promptness, agreed to furnish the desired essay, and ac- 
tually placed the MS. in my hands before he left the city.” He 
adds that Mr. Combe provided his memoir without having seen a 
word of the MS. of the work, or even knowing what had been 
written, and besides, owing to previous arrangements, he was 
limited to a given number of pages. 
*'Tiedemann’s Essay has been ole, oe by Dr, A. Combe, in the 
Phrenological Journal, (vol. xi,) who shows not only the error of principle com- 
mitted by the author in assuming the w abl sia to be the organ exclusively of 
the epllectael par tee, but the more aekang fact that Tiedemann’s own tables re- 
3 Pah Se females, - 
do. pe 
do. height of bai in 3 Negroe : 
d e Ea krdpuise imiied : 
fute his ns. 'Tiedemann’s measurements are a following: 
Inches. Lin 
Average length of a in 4 odie 53 «Boga See 
do. do. European males, 6 21-7 
do. do. c 6 European fainales, + ae 
do. = .. in 4 Negroes, a ice ai 81-6 
do.  Barhpean sone Sees 117 
a 4} 
“ee 
3 
2 
do. oct Se European females 
The inferiority 7) the Negro brain in size, is salCevident frosa these dimensions. 
