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The exact situation of the organs can be learnt from delineations 

 or marked heads only. I shall therefore confine myself to Gall's 

 general remarks. 1st. The organs of the faculties or qualities 

 common to man and brutes, are placed in parts of the brain com- 

 mon to man and brutes, at the inferior-posterior, the posterior- 

 inferior, and inferior-anterior parts of the brain ; v. c. of the instinct 

 of propagation, the love of offspring, the instinct of self-defence, 

 of appropriating, of stratagem, &c. 2dly. Those which belong 

 to man exclusively, and form the barrier between man and brutes, 

 are placed in parts of the brain not possessed by brutes, viz. the 

 anterior-superior and superior-anterior of the front: v. c. of com- 

 parative sagacity, causality, wit, poetic talent, and the disposition 

 to religious feelings. 3dly. The more indispensable a quality, or 

 faculty, the nearer are its organs placed to the base of the brain, 

 or median line. The first and most indispensable the instinct 

 of propagation lies nearest the base ; that of the love of offspring 

 follows. The organ of the sense of localities is more indispensa- 

 ble than that of the sense of tones or numbers ; accordingly the 

 former is situated nearer the median line than the two latter. 

 4-thly. The organs of fundamental qualities and faculties which 

 mutually assist each other, are placed near to each other ; v. c. 

 the love of propagation and of offspring, of self-defence and the 

 instinct to destroy life, of tones and numbers. 5thly. The organs 

 of analogous fundamental qualities and faculties are equally 

 placed near each other: v.c. the organs of the relations of places, 

 colours, tones, and numbers are placed in the same line, as well 

 as the organs of the superior faculties, and the organs of the in- 

 ferior propensities. 6 



Although the arrangement of the organs is so beautiful, we 

 must not imagine that Gall mapped out the head at pleasure, 

 according to preconceived notions. He discovered one organ 

 after another, just as it might happen, and marked down its situ- 

 ation and size upon the cranium ; and after all left several spots 



Mr. Combe, in his visit to the Richmond Lunatic Asylum, Dublin, and the pri- 

 sons and lunatic asylums of Newcastle. (Dr. Combe On Mental Derangement : 

 and Ed. Phr. Journal, No. xlvi.) On Idiotism with no defect of development, 

 see Gall, 1. c. 8vo. t. vi. p. 50. 



e Gall, 1. c. 4to. vol. iii. p. 78. sq., and 8vo. t. iii. p. 208. sqq. So much 

 less have the writings of Gall than those of Dr. Spurzheim been studied in Edin- 

 burgh, that Mr. Scott published these two last principles as his own ; and they 

 thus stand, with great praise, in Mr. Combe's System of Phrenology, p. 534. sqq. 



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