disprove them all, with respect to the 

 asserted locality of any organ ; and such 

 contradictory facts have, as I believe, also 

 presented themselves before me. 



I am aware how exceedingly difficult it 

 must be to decide on this point; for 

 though organs may be large, yet they may 

 be more extended and less prominent than 

 usual J though small, they may be active 

 from constitutional vivacity, education, and 

 habitual employment ; and though large 

 and prominent, they may be inactive from 

 disuse or controul. Surely the foregoing 

 considerations, together with the nume- 

 rous and indisputable instances which we 

 possess, proving that the character and 

 conduct of persons * depend very much 

 upon education, habit, and association. 



* In my opinion, Miss Edgeworth has done the 

 public a most important service by showing, even to 



