350 MENTAL FUNCTIONS OF 



21. Metaphysical sagacity, by which we examine into cause and 

 effect; 22. Wit; 23. Poetic talent; 24. Goodness, and moral 

 sense ; 25. Faculty of imitation ; disposition to have visions ; 

 26. Religious feeling; 27. Firmness. He had been long inclined 

 to admit also a sense of order and a sense of time, and waited 

 only for proofs of their organs. 



Gall gives various other names to each faculty, more anxious 

 to express his view of the nature of each than to quibble for 

 appellations. 6 



For information respecting the precise nature of each faculty, 

 many of which may be ill understood from their designations, I 

 refer to the third and fourth volumes of Gall's work, Anatomic du 

 Cerveau, and the third, fourth, and fifth volumes of his Fonctions 

 du Cerveau portions of the work which the most indolent will 

 find entertaining. 



That the faculties enumerated are not modifications of each 

 other, or of any other, but distinct and primitive, Gall considers 

 proved by the circumstance of each having one or more of the 

 following conditions. 



" An instinct, inclination, sentiment, talent, deserves," says he, 

 "the denomination of fundamental, primitive, radical: 



"1. When a quality or faculty (or its organ) is not manifested 

 nor developed, nor diminishes, at the same time with others. 

 Thus the instinct of generation (with its organ) is generally 

 developed and manifested later than other inclinations. Thus, 

 the memory of names usually grows weak sooner than the other 

 faculties. 



" When, in the same individual, a quality or faculty is more 

 or less active (and its corresponding cerebral part more or less 



" Dr. Spurzheim gave to the majority of these faculties new names, which 

 he afterwards changed from time to time, some of which were long and uncouth, 

 and still destitute of the uniformity he aimed at, some new-coined words, and 

 some expressive of a doubtful, if not decidedly erroneous, view of the faculties ; 

 and to most of which Gall objected, as I confess I do. Dr. Vimont thus gives 

 his opinion of them : " Des expressions ridicules. J'ai vu avec plaisir que les 

 medecins les plus distingues en France n'ontjamaispu condescendre arecevoirles 

 mots secretivit, marveillosit, &c. langage pretentieux, de mauvais gout, et qui 

 figurerait a merveille dans la comedie des Precieuses Ridicules, ou des Femmes 

 Savantes." (Traitt de Phrenologie, 4to. Paris, t. ii. p. 105.) It would have 

 been much better to have followed the example of Gall, and rested contented 

 with a few names for each faculty, so as to show what was meant, and waited 

 till the science is so far advanced that an appropriate name cannot be difficult. 



