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be as various as character and countenance, and will have hourly 

 amusement both in remarking the relation between intellectual 



terly, p. 60.) Gall had only begun ! he had begun our researches ! he had pointed 

 out many relations ! Here is enough, again, to stamp Dr. S.'s character for 

 shortsightedness and effrontery, through his insane ambition. " Plusieurs relations f 

 vingt-sept facult^s ! " says Dr. Vimont: " Ce mot quelques ne me paroit pas seule- 

 ment une injustice ; c'est une maladresse ; car il resulte des faits avance"s dans le 

 corps de Pouvrage de Spurzheim que Gall avoit deja decouvert, par la voie expe"- 

 rimentale, le nombre de faculte"s que je viens de citer. La prevention done de 

 Spurzheim au titre de fondateur nous paroit tout-a-fait injuste." (1. c. vol. ii. 

 p. 53.) 



Although Madame Gall, being well acquainted with all the affair, freely, like 

 a good wife, bestowed upon Dr. S. the titles of jesuite, ingrat, perfide, vo- 

 leur, Gall was always dignified and calm, and on these occasions usually 

 said to her, " laissons cela." He considered himself basely treated, but 

 trusted to posterity for justice. He always contented himself with saying, 

 if others mentioned S.'s conduct, " C'est un mauvais homme ! " even on 

 his death-bed, when, after much difficulty, he was prevailed upon to consent 

 to see Dr. S., though his wife prevented the interview. When he mentioned, 

 in the middle of the second volume, that he united Dr. S.'s name with his 

 own no longer, he entered into no particulars. He afterwards yielded to 

 the wish of his friends to take notice of Dr. S.'s publishing, like so many other 

 of his auditors, a very incomplete account of his doctrines (un trait tres-in- 

 complet de ma doctrine), and " pretending in many places to have introduced 

 views much more philosophical than those of the original author, who, ac- 

 cording to the expressions of Dr. S.'s friends in the journals, had left his child in 

 its cradle." (4to. vol. iii. p. xvi.) He then accused Dr. S. of having copied 

 246 pages of his quarto work into his own 8vo of 361 pages. " He will affirm," 

 says Gall, " that he had a right to do so, because he worked with me at the first 

 volume and the sections on innate dispositions. But he knows that his occupation 

 was to furnish merely the literary notices. He should, at least, have mentioned 

 the sources of his riches. He had not the same right over my sections on the 

 organ of the soul and the plurality of organs. Others have already accused 

 him of plagiarism : it is, at any rate, very ingenious to make books with scissars." 

 Yet such was Gall's philosophy that he told me that, although Dr. S.'s con- 

 duct had been such as to determine him never to see Dr. S. again, he was far 

 more vexed at the speculative turn which Dr. S. gave to phrenology, more vexed 

 that, while he himself had adhered closely to observation, Dr. S. had introduced 

 conjecture and inference from too few observations. Gall lamented to me this 

 turn in the Edinburgh phrenologists ; and so, strange to say, did Dr. S. Having 

 once expressed his opinion of Dr. S.'s conduct, he was too dignified ever to re- 

 vert to the subject in the rest of the work, and merely refuted him here and there 

 on points in which Dr. S. had broached new and erroneous opinions. Dr. S. in 

 bis Essai Phibsophique, in 1820, attempted a defence, but with so much mis- 

 statement, sophistry, and rudeness, and withal weakness, that Gall, though he 



