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effects of size, is explained ; because the correct phrenological proposition is, that 

 other conditions being equal, the size of each organ is an indication of the vigor 

 of the mental faculty which it manifests. In examining national crania^ we are 

 not informed of the temperament and education of the individuals, but left to 

 judge of the natural character chiefly by the size of the brain and the proportions 

 of its different parts. Our additional information rarely extends beyond the 

 condition in which the tribes existed, viz: whether they were savages, barbarians, 

 or civilised. I shall, for these reasons, confine my remarks chiefly to the size of 

 the skulls, and to the proportions of their different regions. 



According to these views, the aggregate natural mental power, (animal, 

 moral, and intellectual,) of the individuals composing any nation, will (other 

 conditions being equal) be great or small in proportion to the size of their brains. 

 Plate LXXI represents a Swiss skull, of average size, part of the collection of the 

 Phrenological Society of Edinburgh. I have visited Switzerland and seen many 

 skulls of that people, and this one appears to me to represent fairly the average 

 characteristics. History informs us that in a rude age, before modern civilisation 

 was established, this people, in a wild and inhospitable country, displayed extra- 

 ordinary mental vigor (animal, moral and intellectual,) in vindicating and main- 

 taining civil and religious liberty; and we know that the same character continues 

 to distinguish them in the present day. They may here be assumed as a specimen 

 of a powerful race, to serve as a standard by which to compare the skulls of the 

 other tribes represented in this work. 



The measurements of this Swiss skull, as taken by Dr. Morton and Mr. 

 Phillips, are as follow^ : 



Amativeness, 

 Philoprogenitiveness, 

 Adhesiveness, 

 Self-esteem, 

 Approbativeness, - 

 Firmness, - 

 Conscientiousness, - 

 Veneration, 

 Hope, 



Marvellousness, 

 Ideality, 

 Benevolence, 

 Causality, - 

 Individuality, 

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2.7 



3.6 



4.4 



4.8 



4.7 



5.S 



4.9 



5. 



4.S 



4.9 



4.5 



5. 



4.8 



4.4 



Order, - - - - 4.2 



Secretiveness, - . - 3.45 



Cautiousness, - - - 4.55 



Destructiveness, - - - 2.85 



Combativeness, - - - 3.45 



Individuality to philoprogenitiveness, 7.2 



Comparison to concentrativeness, - 6.7 



Cautiousness to cautiousness, - 5.55 



Ideality to ideality, - - - 4.75 



Secretiveness to secretiveness, - 6. 



Destructiveness to destructiveness, - 5.4 



Combativeness to combativeness, - 5.3 



Constructiveness to constructiveness, 4.6 



Causality to causality, - « 2.1 



