80 Phrenology. 



chyle or nutritious portion, which is conveyed, as a milky fluid, 

 through appropriate vessels to the left subclavian vein, by means 

 of which it is poured into the mass of the blood to recruit its 

 waste. 



All our senses except feeling are local, and most of our organs 

 are double ; the eye and the ear, each in pairs, corresponding to 

 the double brain, are placed close to that intellectual organ, and 

 communicate directly with it ; they are the most elevated and 

 dignified of the senses, and are worthy of their honorable neigh- 

 borhood. The nostrils are also double, while the tongue is sin- 

 gle, although composed of two perfectly similar halves. These 

 organs of sense are in the descending scale of honor, and their 

 communications with the brain are less direct than those of the 

 eye and ear ; the pleasures we enjoy from them have their seat 

 also in the organs themselves, while those of sight and hearing 

 are in the mind, and the organ itself is not sensible of the pleas- 

 ure. Thus the pleasures of sight and hearing are almost intel- 

 lectual. Lastly, the sense of feeling is perceived over all the 

 surfaces; it has no particular locality, but varies in intensity with 

 the number and delicacy of the nerves belonging to this sense in 

 particular parts. 



The numerous glands existing in many parts of the body for 

 the secretion of saliva, of mucus, of milk, of bile, and other things 

 are instances of local organs. The lungs are a very remarka- 

 ble example of an organ for a specific purpose ; and they, like the 

 heart, are required to be in constant action while life continues. 

 We have already cited the arteries and veins which are local in 

 their respective courses, while the blood which passes through 

 them is thus compelled to move in its appointed channels. The 

 nerves also have been named with the same intention, and in 

 many instances they are sent forth in pairs to supply correspond- 

 ent double portions of the body. It is not necessary to cite other 

 instances of local organs destined for particular and some of them 

 most important purposes, as they will occur on the slightest re- 

 flection, and it is thus proved that locality is almost universally 

 characteristic of the structure of the body. 



It would then be strange indeed if there were no organ devoted 

 to the mind. What organ can be the residence of the mental 

 faculties if the brain is not ? Every other has its uses, in general 

 well ascertained, but, without mental manifestations, there is no 

 use for the brain ; for even the nerves that proceed from it, would 



