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Reasons for believing them seated in the brain. Their 

 nature. 



Fundamental error of the fathers of phrenology. 



Phrenology a purely physical science totally unconnected 



with materialism. 

 Notice of the discoveries of Gall and Spurtzheim. 



Remarks on the cranium arid brain. 



Follies of the opponents of phrenology. 



Value of the pretended and real objections to the art of cra- 



nioscopy. 

 Two neglected difficulties in cranioscopy,and their results. 



Exercise develops the functions of an organ faster than its 

 bulk; and rest diminishes power faster than size. Phi- 

 losophy of habit. An organ may be of a different tem- 

 perament from the entire frame. 



Easier to estimate the balance of the physico-mental powers 

 of an individual than to compare one individual with an- 

 other. 



Preliminary remarks on the changes of physico-mental power 

 from infancy to age, from savage life to civilisation. Order 

 of the development of the functions. Differences of the 

 sexes. Advance of governments. Youth of communi- 

 ties. Communities should provide for the proper exercise 

 and regulation of all the physico-mental faculties, instinc- 

 tive, sentimental, and rational. Consequences of neglect- 

 ing this course. Eccentricity, insanity, folly, and vice. 



Grand object of education. Dangers of mismanagement in 

 infant schools. 



Mutual dependence of the different systems upon each other. 

 Nerves cannot act without arteries, and vice versa. Surgical 

 and medical illustrations. 



Balance of vital powers: 



Increased vital energy cannot be directed to one part without 

 weakening others. Singular illustration. This principle 

 applied to the mind. Repose necessary to the student. 

 Balance of vital powers varied in classes, races, or individuals 

 to a certain extent. TEMPERAMENT IDIOSYNCRACY. Ef- 

 fects on the constitution. 

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