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feels himself, as it were, personally attacked when 
they are assailed: it is a most difficult lesson to 
unlearn error; and to acknowledge it, requires no 
inconsiderable share of magnanimity. A disco- 
verer has to combat the prejudices of mankind, as 
well as the difficulties of science; such, at least, 
has been the fate of Gall and Spurzheim. Fanatics 
have assailed them, as being irreligious; while 
they have only shown, that the moral law of the 
Evangelists is the best adapted to the physical 
and intellectual capacities of man; and have, in 
fact, drawn from natural history new and power- 
ful evidence of the divine origin of Christianity. 
Moralists have railed at them, as confounders of 
right and wrong, while they have been only laud- 
ably employed in pointing out a method by which 
man may become more easily acquainted with the 
predominant propensities of his nature, without 
the instructive, but often painful, lessons of ex- 
perience. The sages of antiquity; the legislators, 
philosophers, and divines of modern times; have 
all added to a knowledge of the general nature 
of mankind; but phrenology shows the indivi- 
dual to himself, setting his natural character 
naked before his eyes. 
ccLxxv. Gall and Spurzheim allege, that diffe- 
rent parts of the brain are destined for certain 
specific purposes, and that each pair of nerves is 
a separate system, communicating together at the 
