PART II FAILURES 



CHAPTEK XVI. 



THE NEGLECT OF PHRENOLOGY. 



All be turned to barnacles, or to apes 

 With foreheads villainous low. 



Shakespeare. 



His searching wisdom taught 

 How the high dome of thought 



Pictured the mind ; 

 On that fair chart confest, 

 Traced lie each reckless guest 

 Which in the human breast 

 Lies deep enshrined. 



Eulogy of Dr. Gall. 



IN the preceding chapters I have, to the best of my 

 ability, given a short, but I trust accurate, sketch of the 

 most prominent examples of material and intellectual 

 progress during the nineteenth century. In doing this 

 I have fully recognized the marvellous character of 

 many of these discoveries, as well as the great amount, 

 and striking novelty, of the material advances to which 

 they have given rise. But, along with this continuous 

 progress in science, in the arts, and in wealth-produc- 

 tion which has dazzled our imaginations to such an ex- 

 tent that we can hardly admit the possibility of any seri- 

 ous evils having accompanied or been caused by it 

 there have been many serious failures, intellectual, 

 social, and moral. Some of our great thinkers have 

 been so impressed by the terrible nature of these fail- 



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