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of seeing Moral Beauty, and of loving Truth — the 

 sense of Justice, and the desire of serving in her 

 cause — Conscience and Benevolence, Charity and 

 Faith — all that is best and noblest in the human 

 spirit — these are " manifested " in that bit of 

 Matter ! What new information does this give 

 us on the nature or the office of those glorious 

 attributes which are the joy of Earth and Hea- 

 ven ? None at all. They are just what we knew 

 them before to be. 



Phrenology is no longer popular, as it once was, 

 among Physiologists. Its mapping of the Brain is 

 now generally admitted to be imaginary. But the 

 fundamental error of the Phrenological School did 

 not lie merely, or even mainly, on any mistake as 

 to the mapping of the Brain. It lay in the idea 

 that a Science of Mind can be founded in any shape 

 or form upon the discoveries of anatomy. Their 

 error lay in the notion that Physiology can ever be 

 the basis of Psychology. And this is an error, and 

 a confusion of thought, which survives Phrenology. 

 A profound interest indeed attaches to every new 

 fact which connects together the parallel pheno- 

 mena of Mind and of Organisation. But it is the 



