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parison and individuality are only moderate. Now, I 

 know very little of my own faculties if this order should 

 not be reversed. Individuality, or the ability of remem- 

 bering facts, if I be not much mistaken, takes the lead, 

 comparison comes next, causality follows, and wit at a 

 considerable distance brings up the rear. I find little 

 to remark regarding the rest of the head, constructive- 

 ness, benevolence, conscientiousness, firmness, ideality, 

 and caution are all large, self-esteem is moderate, love 

 of approbation is amply but not inordinately developed, 

 and the lower propensities are barely full. You see it is 

 not altogether my interest to become a sceptic to the 

 reality of the science ; but my opinions regarding it 

 have, notwithstanding, undergone a considerable change. 

 Phrenology, however, whatever conclusion the world 

 may ultimately arrive at regarding it, will be found to 

 have had an important use. It has brought the meta- 

 physician from the closet into the world, and turned his 

 attention, hitherto too exclusively directed to the com- 

 moner operations of our nature, as these may be ob- 

 served in the species, to the wonderful varieties of in- 

 dividual character. 



' I am glad you have read Edwards. He stands high 

 as a philosopher, even with those who differ with him. 

 Sir James Mackintosh, in his masterly dissertation on 

 Ethics, describes his reasoning powers as " perhaps un- 

 equalled, certainly unsurpassed, among men." Nothing 

 so common among thinkers of a low order as what are 

 termed common-sense objections to the Scripture doc- 

 trine of predestination ; from minds capacious enough 

 to receive the arguments of Edwards, we have none of 

 these. But the man who studies him would need be 

 honest. No sincere lover of the truth was ever the 

 worse for his admirable reasonings, and religious men 



