Obituary JVoiice of Dr. Gaspar Spurzheim. 363 



** The death of his wife, which took place about three years since, 

 seemed to remind him more strongly that his life and his labors be- 

 longed to all mankind, whose vital interests he thought most effectu- 

 ally to promote by developing particularly the principles of education, 

 morality, and religion, to which his studies of human nature had led 

 him. He had visited England again in 1825, and was engaged partly 

 in lecturing, and partly in the publication of different books. The 

 first work he had published in England, ' The Physiognomical 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 the mind, with its practical bearings on religion and mo- 

 rality is carried out in his Philosophical Principles of Phrenology. 

 The same principles, in a more condensed and practical form, are 

 set forth in his Philosophical Catechism, of the J^atural Laws of Man. 

 The subject 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. — 

 The improvement in the anatomy of the brain, was chiefly Spurzheim's 

 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 

 brought 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 tlie staircases, corridors, and passages leading to it, were filled with 

 hearers.' Still, from the nature of the science itself, whieh requires 



