90 LECTURE II. 



Doctors Gall and Spurzheim further tell 

 us, that the instincts or propensities of 

 brutes may be judged of from the form of 

 their heads, and assert the same with re- 

 gard to the human subject ; which latter 

 assertion does not appear discordant to 

 general observation. For if the human 

 head be more produced in those parts pe- 

 culiar to man, so does its possessor fre- 

 quently appear to have more of the intel- 

 lectual character ; or if in those parts com- 

 mon to him and brutes, so has he more of 

 the propensities in which he participates 

 with animals in general. Even this was 

 observed by the Greeks, who, to use Dr. 

 Spurzheim's own expression, " never com- 

 mitted such an absurdity as to put the head 

 of a gladiator on the shoulders of a philo- 

 sopher, or the reverse." 



The speculations of these gentlemen ap- 

 pear to me very ingenious, and calculated 

 to unravel some of the intricacies of the 

 human character, as well as to establish a 

 just distinction between the faculties of 

 animals and those of man. The peculiar 



