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lambdoidal suture. The faculty produces the love of the esteem 

 of others, expressed in praise or approbation. A due endowment 

 of it is indispensable to an amiable character. It induces its pos- 

 sessor to make active exertions to please others, and also to sup- 

 press numberless little manifestations of selfishness, and to re- 

 strain many peculiarities of temper and disposition, from the dread 

 of incurring their disapprobation. It is the butt upon which wit 

 strikes, when, by means of ridicule, it drives us from our follies. 

 To be laughed at, is worse than death to a person in whom this 

 sentiment is predominant. The direction in which gratification 

 will be sought, depends on the other faculties with which it is 

 combhied in the individual. If the moral sentiments and intel- 

 lect be vigorous, it will desire an honorable fame, and hence ani- 

 mates and excites the poet, painter, orator, warrior, and states- 

 man. When too energetic, and not regulated by the higher pow- 

 ers, it produces great abuses; it then gives rise to a fidgety anxi- 

 ety about wliat others will think of us, which is at once subversive 

 of happiness and independence. It renders the mere dicta of the 

 society in which the individual moves, liis code of morality, reli- 

 gion, taste, and philosophy; and incapacitates him from upholding 

 truth or virtue, if disowned by those whom he imagines influen- 

 tial or genteal. It then overwhelms the artist, author, or public 

 speaker with misery, if a rival is praised in the journals in higher 

 terms than himself. A lady is then tormented at perceiving, in 

 the possession of her acquaintance, finer dresses or equipages than 

 her own. It excites the individual to talk much of himself, his 

 affairs, and connexions, so as to communicate to the auditor vast 

 ideas of his greatness or goodness; in short, vanity is one form 

 of its abuse. This organ is very powerful in some of the lower 

 order of animals, as the dog, horse, etc. 



12. Cautiousness. This organ is situated near the middle of 

 each parietal bone, where the ossification of the bone generally 

 commences. The faculty produces the emotion of fear in gene- 

 ral, and prompts its possessor to take care, and hence it is named 

 cautiousness. A due degree of it is essential to a prudent char- 

 acter. The tendency of it is, to make the individual in whom it 

 is strong, hesitate before he acts, and, from apprehending danger, 

 to trace consequences, that he may be assured of his safety. A 

 great and involuntary, but momentary activity of it, occasions a 

 panic, a state in which the mind is hurried away by an irresistible 

 emotion of fear, disproportioned to the outward occasion. The 

 organs are generally largely developed in children; and, in some 

 instances, are so prominent, as to alarm mothers with the fear of 

 disease or deformity. Such children may be safely trusted to 



