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Neither does Gall pretend to have enumerated all the funda- 

 mental faculties of the mind. " Probably," says he, " those who 



ou Dtcouvertes nouvelles du Docteur Gall, traduit de T Allemand. Paris, 1807, p.72. 

 Gall, 8vo. t.iv. p. 63. sq.) Dr. A. Combe, however, in the Ed. Phr. Journ., 1826, 

 contended that the love of life was a distinct faculty, and mentioned the case of an 

 old lady who had long been remarkable for her love of life, and in whose brain 

 the only thing peculiar was an enormous convolution at the base of the middle 

 lobe. Dr. Spurzheim, without referring to Dr. A. Combe or any one else, 

 coolly says he thinks " it is highly probable that there is a peculiar instinct to 

 feel a love of life ; and I look for its organ at the base of the brain, between the 

 posterior and middle lobes, inwardly of combativeness." (Phrenology, ed. 1832, 

 vol. i. p. 142.) Dr. Vimont says (Traiti de Phonologic, 1835, vol. ii. p. 165.), 

 that persons assured him that Dr. S., in his lectures at Paris, in 1830, arrogated 

 to himself the discovery of the organ. Dr. Vimont, however, is equally culpable 

 with Dr. S. ; for he not only says that Dr. S. made no such discovery, but 

 that neither Gall nor Dr. S. speaks of the faculty ; and Mr. G. Combe only in 

 the third edition of his System of Phrenology, in 1830. Now, 1. Dr. Spurz- 

 heim did mention it in his edition of 1832, under the beautiful name vitative- 

 ness ; and Gall long before, though to disprove it. 2. In the passage which Dr. 

 Vimont refers to, in Mr. G. Combe's work, the case seen by Dr. A. Combe is 

 fully detailed from the Ed. Phr. Journ., vol. iii. p. 467. sqq., published in 1826. 

 But, Dr. Vimont's mention of it is in his second volume, published 1835, 

 p. 105. and 16O. sqq. ; and he there says that he mentioned it in a memoir pre- 

 sented to the French Institute only in 1827. 



Gall, in treating of attachment, gave strong reasons, in opposition to Dr. Spurz- 

 heim, for believing that there is a faculty for marriage. Dr. Vimont fancies that 

 he himself has established this ; as well as, in certain brutes, a faculty which 

 he calls sens ggome'trique, inclining them, when moving in numbers, to arrange 

 themselves in a certain figure ; and one in men, which he terms sensdu beau dans 

 les arts. Dr. Spurzheim conceived that there is a distinct faculty for judging of 

 weight or resistance, one for judging of size, as well as one of hope.* Gall was 

 opposed to all three. In Edinburgh they fancy there is a faculty for keeping 

 other faculties in simultaneous action towards one object, and they call it concen- 

 trativeness. Dr. Spurzheim argues against it through no fewer than eleven 

 pages; and Gall considered it unfounded. Dr. Spurzheim says that a friend 

 of his, a M. De Tremmon of Paris, suggested the idea of an organ of which 

 agriculture is the result. (Phr., Am. ed. vol. i. p. 168.) An Irish gentleman, 

 who had just commenced the study of phrenology, announced the discovery of 

 seventy-four new faculties one night to the Phrenological Society of London. 

 It appears to me, however, that there must be a faculty which makes us wish to 

 communicate our ideas to others, and another which makes us love society. 

 Some persons can keep nothing for an instant. Now no want of secretiveness 

 (if there is such a faculty, though Gall more properly, as I imagine, con- 



* Phrenology, or the Doctrine of the Mental Phenomena. By G. Spurzheim, 

 M.D. 2 vols. Boston, 1832. Editions of some of his works, with his latest cor- 

 rections, were printed there by Marsh, Capen, and Lyon, 1832-3. 



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