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ing of foreign languages painful to me, and interferes 

 with my success as a public speaker; since, though I 

 know what ideas or arguments I wish to advance, I can- 

 not at once find the right words by which to express 

 them adequately, and in the effort to find the words the 

 connection of ideas is liable to be lost. 



Lastly, JSTo. 7 states the exact nature of my mind in 

 relation to music. Grand or pathetic music affects me 

 strongly; but I should not detect considerable errors in 

 the performance; my ear, as it is termed, being exceed- 

 ingly deficient, while my perception of time is only a 

 trifle better. 



There are some other estimates as to my innermost 

 nature which I know to be correct, but which are not 

 suitable for exposition here; and these, combined with 

 the more obvious characteristics above enumerated, pro- 

 duced a strong impression on my own mind as to the 

 value of phrenology, which has remained unimpaired 

 throughout my life. 



The evidence of the value of phrenology in determin- 

 ing the hidden springs of character here given, might be 

 increased ten- or twenty-fold from the records of the 

 early part of the century ; and they produced an effect on 

 the public mind which has not yet disappeared, since it is 

 not an uncommon thing to meet with people who are 

 quite unaware that the phrenology of their youth has 

 been wholly rejected by the scientific world of to-day. 

 Let us therefore now briefly consider how and why it was 

 so rejected. 



The first great objection was a religious one. The 

 orthodox clergy both in Scotland and England held it to 

 be contrary to Scripture and dangerous to morality. 



