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the same in man ; and that these animal 

 propensities operate in him independently 

 of reason, and often in opposition to its 

 dictates, is well known, and so urgent also, 

 are their impulses that some have believed 

 them to be uncontrollable, and founded 

 upon this belief the pernicious doctrine of 

 necessity. 



Secondly. T admire the very explicit 

 manner in which Gall and Spurzheim have 

 shown, that, though man resembles animals, 

 in possessing, in various degrees, the fore- 

 going propensities, and even most of the 

 inferior intellectual faculties, he yet differs 

 from them in possessing others, and also 

 superior rational faculties and sentiments, 

 which dignify his nature, and exalt it above 

 his present station. Gall and Spurzheim 

 think that animals possess inferior intel- 

 lectual faculties, which modify the infor- 

 mation received by means of the senses, so 

 ^s to produce particular kinds of knowledge 



