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erty is founded on it. It takes its direction from other faculties, 

 and hence, may lead to collecting coins, paintings, minerals, and 

 other objects of curiosity and science, as well as money. Idiots, 

 under its influence, are known to collect things of no intrinsic 

 value. This instinctive tendency to acquire and to accumulate, 

 is the foundation of wealth, and of the conveniences and luxuries 

 of civilized society. 



9. Secretiveness. This organ is situated at the inferior edge of 

 the parietal bones, immediately above destructiveness, or in the 

 middle of the lateral portion of the brain. This faculty produces 

 instinctive tendency to conceal spontaneous thoughts, emotions, 

 etc., from outward expression, until the understanding shall have 

 decided on their propriety and probable consequences. Besides, 

 man and other animals are occasionally liable to the assaults of 

 enemies, which may be avoided by concealment, in cases where 

 strength is wanting to repel them by force. Nature, therefore, 

 by means of this propensity, enables them to act with prudence, 

 slyness, or cunning, according to the dictates of the other facul- 

 ties possessed by the individual, to their other means of defence. 

 The organ has been found large in actors, and in those who excel 

 in the imitative arts. 



II. Sentiments. 



These faculties, like those which we have already considered, 

 do not form specific ideas, but produce merely a sentiment; that 

 is, a propensity, connected with an emotion, or feeling of a cer- 

 tain kind. Several of them are common to man and the lower 

 animals; others are peculiar to man. 



Sentiments common to man and other animals. 



10. Self-Esteem. This organ is situated at the vertex or top 

 of the head, a httle above the posterior or sagittal angle of the 

 parietal bones. This faculty produces the sentiment of self-es- 

 teem or self-love in general. If modified by other organs, it is 

 the source of great good. The lower animals, such as the tur- 

 key-cock, peacock, horse, etc., manifest feelings resembling pride 

 or self-esteem. Nations differ in regard to the degree of this sen- 

 timent. The English have more of it than the French, and 

 hence the manner of a genuine EngUshman appears to a French- 

 man, cold, haughty, and supercilious. When the organ becomes 

 excited by disease, the individual is prone to imagine himself a 

 king, emperor, or a transcendant genius, and some have fancied 

 themselves even the Supreme Being. 



11. Love of Approbation. This organ is situated on each side 

 of that of self-esteem and commences about half an inch from ths 



