APPENDIX. 



Phrenological Remarks on the relation between the natural Talents and Dispositions 

 of Nations, and the Developments of their Brains. By George Combe, Esq.* 



No object can be presented to the philosophic mind more replete with 

 interest than an inquiry into the causes of the differences of national character. 

 If the causes be natural, do they originate in the organisation of the body, in the 

 development of the brain, in the influence of climate, or on what other physical 

 agents do they depend ? If the differences result solely from moral and political 

 circumstances, it is important to trace their nature and modes of operation. 



This subject has been investigated by philosophers in general, without any 

 knowledge of, or reference to, the functions of the different parts of the brain. 

 Phrenologists have avoided this error, and have pointed out and pursued a more 

 perfect method of investigation; but they have not published any separate work 

 devoted exclusively to this inquiry. In presenting the following remarks, I aim 

 only at enabling the reader to observe the relative magnitudes of the whole brain, 

 and the relative proportions of the different parts of the brain, indicated by the 

 national skulls delineated by Dr. Morton, and to draw his own conclusions relative 

 to the influence of these on the natural talents and dispositions of the tribes. 



* Dr. Morton has requested me to furnish the present contribution to his work entitled Crania 

 Americana. As I have been greatly pleased with the correctness, as well as the beauty of the 

 Hthographic drawings, many of which I have compared with the original skulls; and as I have every 

 reason to expect that the text will equal, in intrinsic value, the workmanship of the plates, I supply 

 the present brief remarks v^ith all the satisfaction that can be felt in presenting to the public so 

 imperfect a sketch. It is proper to mention, that before I arrived in America Dr. Morton had entered 

 into definite arrangements for the publication of his work, by which limits were prescribed both to the 

 number of plates and extent of the letter press, in consequence of which it was not in his power to 

 alter, or in mine to procure a greater space than is occupied by the following observations. I refer the 

 reader to my own System of Phrenology for more detailed information, towards the end of which 

 there is a section on National Skulls. 

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