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the brain which the phrenologist may desire to prove, equally 
with that which the mere anatomist finds or presumes to exist in 
all the other organs. 
The cases being perfectly parallel, no objection can be urged 
against the one that does not apply also to the other, and the argu- 
ments in support of both are quite in common. 
It thus appears that the existence of many organs in the brain, 
with their appropriate nervous apparatus, is in no way inconsistent 
with the general analogies of structure in the body. 
_ Other analogies might be found in the lacteals and absorbents, 
systems of vessels having again, inconceivable minuteness as well 
as great extent, and still operating without interference with any 
of the other systems in the body, while they perform their own 
appropriate and most important functions. It is then not only 
possible that there may be different organs in the brain adapted 
to different manifestations, but there appears a strong antecedent 
probability in favor of such a structure. ; 
_We may now assume that the mind is local to the brain, and 
that there are no indications of intellectual operations or moral 
affections in any other parts of the system; and notwithstanding 
the vague remarks which sometimes fall even from people of un- 
derstanding, implying that they are uncertain where their minds 
reside, we must conclude that this indistinctness of conception 
arises simply from their neglect to think accurately at all on the 
question, or from a fear that if this first step is admitted, phrenol- 
ogy will claim much more, and demand the admission of all the 
organs, each with its appropriate location. Sa 
Plainly then, if there be so much locality in the mind that it 
resides in the brain, there may be a distribution of faculties still 
more definite and different manifestations r y belong to different 
parts of this organ. Let us observe also that locality is predica- 
ble of every portion of the body. The bones are appropriate to 
the different members and to the various parts of the trunk and 
head. ‘The proper muscles are spread over the frame for volun- 
tary or involuntary motion: the mouth receives the food, the 
teeth masticate it, the saliva, discharged from appropriate local 
glands, dilutes it, so that it can pass down the esophagus to the 
stomach, where it is digested ; it is mingled with the bile secreted 
by the liver and stored in the gall bladder ; the intestines receive 
it in the state of chyme to be subjected to the action of the lacte- 
als, which are ready with their myriads of mouths to take up the 
