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23. MIRTHFULNESS Perception of the absurd and ridiculous; gaiety, levity, 



playfulness, and buffoonery. 



24. INDIVIDUALITY Power to identify individual objects ; observation of details; 



desire to be an eye-witness. 



25. FORM Sense of shape, likeness, expression, and outline ; memory of counte- 



nances a.nd configuration. 



26. SIZE Sense of proportion, magnitude, and equality; and relation of outlines; 



exactitude. 



27. WEIGHT Sense of gravity; power to balance, and apply the laws of gravity in 



machinery and muscular motion. 



28. COLOR Sense of colors ; their beauty, arrangement, and harmony in nature and 



painting. 



29. ORDER Sense of, and desire for convenience and arrangement; neatness; 



perception of general economy. 



30. CALCULATION Perception of numbers, and their relations numerical com- 



putations. 



31. LOCALITY Sense of place, position, and direction; memory of objects by 



location ; desire to travel, see places, &c. 



32. EVENTUALITY Sense of action, events, phenomena, statistical knowledge; 



memory of facts ; love of narrative. 



33. TIME Sense of chronology, of duration, of passing time ; when, and how long ; 



equality in step and beat 41 music. 



34. TUNE Perception of sound, of melody, of proper emphasis, and modulation of 



the voice ; abi aty to compose music. 



35. LANGUAGE Sense of words or signs to communicate ideas; ability to talk; 



memory o r words and names. 



36. CAUSALITY Sense of cause and effect; power of abstract thought, penetration, 



planning, invention, originality. 



37. COMPARISON Sense of resemblance, of analogies, similes, and power of 



analysis ; association, comparison, &c. 



The celebrated Alexander Campbell, founder of the, Campbellite Baptists, was 

 examined by Mr. Fowler. After which he addressed him the following letter, cor- 

 roborating the correctness of the examination : 



New York, May 3, 1847. 

 MR. N. L. FOWLER : 



" Dear Sir, When, at the request of Mrs. Campbell, one of your readers, I called at 

 your office, without in any way making myself known to you, simply saying that I had, 

 at the request of a friend, called upon you to obtain a chart of my head. I little expected 

 to hear you so soon begin to tell me your views of my physiological and mental charac- 

 ter, and describe, with such remarkable exactness, what I knew of myself two or three 

 points, at most, out of some twenty or more prominent characteristics of both, only 

 excepted. Had I had any doubts of the general principles of the science being founded 

 on facts, and facts well-arranged, I should have been delivered of them all. so far as 

 my own knowledge of myself will justify me in forming an estimate of the different 

 attributes you noted in my physiological and mental constitution. 



" I am not one of these who imagine that any science, and still less that of the human 

 mind, or of human nature, can in a few years, or by one class of contemporary minds, 

 be completely and perfectly developed and matured. I am, therefore, of the opinion, 

 that the Science of Phrenology is but in progress, and not yet perfected ; but that it 

 should have, in so few years, and in defiance of the hoary and consecrated systems of 

 metaphysical science arrayed against it, and sustained by names the most admired and 

 revered in Christendom, attained its present state of perfection, is truly wonderful, and 



