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manifestation of function. These determinations were 

 never blindly accepted, but were tested by their followers 

 in every possible way, and were only generally admitted 

 when ever) 7 ordeal had been passed successfully. To 

 reject such determinations without full examination of 

 the evidence in support of them, without applying any of 

 the careful tests which the early phrenologists applied, 

 and on the mere vague allegations of insufficient obser- 

 vation or unscientific method, is itself utterly unscientific. 

 In the coming century Phrenology will assuredly at- 

 tain general acceptance. It will prove itself to be the 

 true science of mind. Its practical uses in education, 

 in self -discipline, in the reformatory treatment of crimi- 

 nals, and in the remedial treatment of the insane, will 

 give it one of the highest places in the hierarchy of the 

 sciences; and its persistent neglect and obloquy during 

 the last sixty years, will be referred to as an example of 

 the almost incredible narrowness and prejudice which 

 prevailed among men of science at the very time they 

 were making such splendid advances in other fields of 

 thought and discovery. 



