Obituary Notice of Dr. Gaspar Spurzheim, 363 
_ “The death of his wife, which took place about 
seemed to remind him more strongly that his life and dictemaiie 
_Jonged to all mankind, whose vital interests he thought most effeetu+ 
ally to promote by developing particularly the principles of education, 
Seeslitrs and religion, to which his studies of human nature had Jed 
- He had visited England again in 1825, and was engaged partly 
in mien, and partly in the plaliontion of different books. The 
first work he had published in England, * The Physiognomieal Sys- 
tem,’ contained several summary views of different branches of an- 
thropology, which he now endeavored to make more generally appre- 
ciated, by extending the principal chapters, and making them sepa- 
rate books. In one of them, Phrenology, he treats of the different 
powers of the mind, and their cerebral organs, in general. A smaller 
book, Outlines of Phrenology, is an abstract of that work. “The two 
principal doctrines of Phrenology, that of the brain, and that of the 
mind, were carried out in different works. 
_ “In his Anatomy of the Brain, he laid down his and Gall’s inves- 
tigations of the brain and the nervous system. On the other hand, the | 
doctrine of she. mind, with.s its i bensinas 4 on seligion and mo- 
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The ‘same principles i in a more ‘condensed ———— form, are 
‘in his Phil osophical Catechism of the Natural Laws of Man. 
The sub ject of education, on which he rested all his philanthropic 
hopes, was treated of in his Elementary Principles of Education, a 
book full of the most important information, and excellent counsel, 
The deranged functions of the brain is the subject of his interesting 
work on Insanity, for which his frequent visits at the Insane Hospitals 
afforded him a great number of important observations. All the 
works which Dr. Spurzheim edited after his separation from Dr, Gall 
in the year 1813, show a spirit of free and indefatigable inquiry.— 
Thei improvement in the anatomy of the brain, was chiefly 
work ; he also discriminated more minutely between’ different facul- 
ties of | the mind which Gall had confounded, and he endeavored to 
point out their relation to the development of the brain ; he moreover 
aeaghe method and order into the scattered doctrines of Phrenology. 
“So great was the interest excited by his lectures, on his second 
visit to. England, that in 1826, when he delivered his course in Lon- 
don, ‘ not only the large lecture-room of the London Institution, but 
all the staircases, corridors, and passages leading to it, were i 
hearers,’ Still, from the nature of the science itself, which m 
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