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nishing power of calculation, though in all other respects a 

 child, his pre-eminence cannot be explained by particular habits 

 of study or of business, nor by mere strength of judgment. 



For my own part when I reflect upon the various talents and 

 dispositions of persons all in the same circumstances — how un- 

 successfully some apply, with the utmost perseverance, to a branch 

 of study, in which another under the same instructors, or perhaps 

 scarcely assisted at all, reaches excellence, with little trouble — 

 how early various tempers are developed among children of the 

 same nursery — how hereditary peculiarities of talent and charac- 

 ter are — how similar some persons are to each other in one re- 

 spect, and dissimilar in another— how positively contradictory 

 many points of the same character are found j I confess myself 

 unable to deny that there is one innate faculty for numbers, ano- 

 ther for colours, a third for music, &c. &c. with a variety of 

 distinct innate sentiments and propensities ; and that memory, 

 judgment, &c. are but modes of action common to the different 

 faculties and partly to different sentiments and propensities. 



The sentiments and propensities which Dr. Spurzheim enume- 

 rates, respect sexual love, love of offspring, inhabiting particular 

 situations, attachment, contention, destruction, construction, ac- 

 quirement, concealment, love of self, love of praise, cautious- 

 ness, benevolence, veneration, hope, conscientiousness, decision,* 

 and imitation. f The particular intellectual faculties, according 

 to the same author, are for judging of form, size, weight, 

 colour, space, number, tune, order ? time ? He enumerates like- 

 wise a faculty relating to languages, one to the ludicrous, one to 

 poetry, one to judging of cause and effect, one to the cognisance 



* I was convinced of this being a distinct power, upon perusing an Essay 

 on decision of character, written some years ago by a dissenting minister who 

 I dare say never thought of craniology. Essays by John Foster. 



•f" A wonderful instance of this propensity is detailed in the Philos. Trans. 

 1677. The strength of it seems part of the national character of the Ashan- 

 tees. Bowditch, Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee. p. 292. 



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