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MENTAL FUNCTIONS OF 



Ghiradelli Bolognonese. In the British Museum I have seen a 

 chart of the universe and the elements of all sciences, and in 

 it a large head so delineated is conspicuous. It was pub- 

 lished at Rome so late as 1632, and, what is singular, engraved 

 at Antwerp by one Theodore Galleus, and the head is really a 

 good family likeness of Dr. Gall, who, however, was born at 

 Tiefenbrunn in Suabia, between Stuttgard and the Rhine, March 

 9. 1758. a 



a Notice Historique sur le Docteur Gall, 

 par M. Fossati, M. D. Journal de la So- 

 ciete Phr6nologiqu de Paris, t. i. 1832. 



It is remarkable that Aristotle, in his 

 Physiognomy, though he gives a number of 

 ridiculous signs of character from the face Ol f actus 

 and numerous parts of the body, gives 



three only from the cranium ; but that ^ 



, . , Gustus 



these are in strict accordance with the 



phrenology of Gall, who admitted of no 

 deduction of intellectual or moral charac- 

 ter from the developments of the face, but 

 from those of the cranium only.* " Those 

 who have a large head, are sagacious are 

 like dogs j those who have a small head, are 

 stupid are like asses ; those who have a 

 conical head, have no shame are like 

 birds with curved claws." 



Head given by Dolce, 1562. It is 

 copied into the Edin. Phrenolog. 

 Journ. vol. ii. No. 7. 



MeyaXnv ol rnv <j>aXiv 



, euo-0m>cor avatyiperai \it\ twq nvvaf ol 5s /uixpav, 



c. De Physiognomid, cap, vi. 



It is no less remarkable that one of each of these points is spoken of by each 

 of the three greatest poets. 



Milton distinguishes man from Eve and all the other beings in Eden, above 

 whom he was intended to rule through the force of intellect, by his spacious 

 forehead : 



" His fair large front and eye sublime declare 

 Absolute rule." Paradise Lost, b. iv. 



* 1. c. 4 to. vol. iv. p. 234. sqq., 8vo. t. v. p. 429. sqq. He of course allows 

 pathognomy, or the art of judging of the state of the feelings by the expression of 

 the countenance in action, to be real ; and he mentions a number of curious facts 

 illustrative of the coincidence of pathognomy with the seat of the organs. His 

 original genius is very conspicuous on this subject. 



