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all the elementary powers cognizable in 

 the actions of the human mind: powers 

 which seem exclusively to belong to man. 

 I am even pleased with the station which 

 the organs supposed to be productive of 

 these powers are said to occupy, for we 

 find them arranged in a regular phalanx on 

 a part of the head peculiar to man, the 

 summit of the lofty forehead. As I have 

 said in the lectures addressed to this Col- 

 lege, if we find the head more produced 

 in parts peculiar to man, it is reasonable to 

 suppose that he will possess more of the 

 intellectual character ; and if in those parts 

 common also to brutes, that he will possess 

 more of those propensities in which he 

 participates with the brute creation. We 

 are all naturally physiognomists ; and al- 

 -most every observant person has remarked 

 the amplitude of this part of the head to 

 be indicative of intellectual power. Shake- 

 speare denotes the eye as the herald of the 



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