188 THE WONDERFUL CENTURY. 



fested by injury or destruction of the offending object; 

 the child beats or breaks what has hurt it, while the 

 despot tortures or kills the person who seriously angers 

 him. 



Mr. Webb gives illustrations from several other 

 organs, which are equally interesting. When Dr. Ter- 

 rier's centre (1) was excited in monkeys, the animal " ex- 

 tended its legs." This centre is in the position of the 

 phrenological organs of Firmness and Self-esteem, one 

 outward expression of which is the stretching the legs, 

 or putting down the feet with determination, whence has 

 arisen a proverbial expression for obstinacy. Excitation 

 of centre (12) caused the " eyes to open widely, the 

 pupils to dilate, and head and eyes to turn to the other 

 side." l^ow this centre corresponds to the phrenological 

 organ of Wonder, and nothing could better express won- 

 der than the motions described. Even more curious was 

 the result of exciting the lower part of the inferior 

 occipital convolution of cows and sheep, which " caused 

 uneasy movements of the hind legs and tail, while the 

 animals looked to the opposite hind leg and occasionally 

 uttered a plaintive cry, as if of pain or annoyance." 

 The part excited is the phrenological organ of Philopro- 

 genitiveness or love of offspring, and anyone who has 

 watched a cow whose calf has been taken away, must 

 recognize the accurate description of the motions by 

 which she expresses her feelings. 



"Now surely, this close correspondence of " motor- 

 centres " with the phrenological organs of which the 

 actions or motions under excitation are the natural ex- 

 pression, is very remarkable, and affords a new and strik- 

 ing test of the accuracy with which the phrenologists 



