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the brain which the phrenologist may desire to prove, equally 

 with that which the mere anatomist finds or presumes to exist in 

 all the other organs. 



The cases being perfectly parallel, no objection can be urged 

 against the one that does not apply also to the other, and the argu- 

 ments in support of both are quite in common. 



It thus appears that the existence of many organs in the brain, 

 with their appropriate nervous apparatus, is in no way inconsistent 

 with the general analogies of structure in the body. 



Other analogies might be found in the lacteals and absorbents, 

 systems of vessels having again, inconceivable minuteness as well 

 as great extent, and still operating without interference with any 

 of the other systems in the body, while they perform their own 

 appropriate and" most important functions. It is then not only 

 possible that there may be different organs in the brain adapted 

 to different manifestations, but there appears a strong antecedent 

 probability in favor of such a structure. 



We may now assume that the mind is local to the brain, and 

 that there are no indications of intellectual operations or moral 

 affections in any other parts of the system ; and notwithstanding 

 the vague remarks which sometimes fall even from people of un- 

 derstanding, implying that they are uncertain where their minds 

 reside, we must conclude that this indistinctness of conception 

 arises simply from their neglect to think accurately at all on the 

 question, or from a fear that if this first step is admitted, phrenol- 

 ogy will claim much more, and demand the admission of all the 

 organs, each with its appropriate location. 



Plainly then, if there be so much locality in the mind that it 

 resides in the brain, there may be a distribution of faculties still 

 more definite and different manifestations may belong to different 

 parts of this organ. Let us observe also that locality is predica- 

 ble of every portion of the body. The bones are appropriate to 

 the different members and to the various parts of the trunk and 

 head. The proper muscles are spread over the frame for volun- 

 tary or involuntary motion : the mouth receives the food, the 

 teeth masticate it, the saliva, discharged from appropriate local 

 glands, dilutes it, so that it can pass down the esophagus to the 

 stomach, where it is digested ; it is mingled with the bile secreted 

 by the liver and stored in the gall bladder ; the intestines receive 

 it in the state of chyme to be subjected to the action of the lacte- 

 als, which are ready with their myriads of mouths to take up the 



