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Gall and Spurzheim have pointed out a 

 protuberance, greater or less in different 

 individuals, which thej believe to be the 

 result of an organization exciting in us re- 

 spect to distinguished and intellectual cha- 

 racters, even of our own kind, and reverence 

 to the Supreme Intelligent Cause that has 

 ordained and maintains the order of nature, 

 and they have called the sentiment venera- 

 tion. If this organization be excessive 

 when combined with fear and credulity, 

 they think that it produces absurd super- 

 stition ; when with pride and unbenevo- 

 lence, that it may render its possessors 

 strict and devout in performing the cere- 

 monial duties of religion, though they live 

 in violation of its most essential mandates, 

 without either being humble or charitable ; 

 and when combined with arrogance and 

 cruelty, that it may qualify a man to be a 

 judge or executioner in the chambers and 

 dungeons of the inquisition. That people 



