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means of serving himself but those with 

 which nature has endowed him, and which, 

 in the instance and under the circumstances 

 referred to, may indeed be those of fraud 

 and cunning. 



If a man, like Dr. Spurzheim, who had 

 made the motives of human actions a 

 particular study, possessing also great in- 

 tellectual powers combined with benevo- 

 lence and caution in decision, should from 

 the survey of another's head suppose that 

 he had discovered his character, he would 

 next observe his conduct with particular 

 attention, in order to determine how far his 

 cranioscopical inferences were confirmed 

 by facts. Thus would his speculations only 

 lead to an enquiry which of itself alone 

 forms the fairest and surest criterion that 

 we can possess of judging of one another. 

 But if an unbenevolent and inconsiderate 

 man who had never studied human nature, 



