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edge of their own internal sensations, and also of the external 

 world; and their object is to know existence, and to perceive 

 qualities and relations. They consist of the yii^e senses, which con- 

 vey the impressions to the various organs, the province of which 

 is, to form ideas of such qualities; those powers which take cogni- 

 zance of external objects., called the knowing faculties.^ the object 

 of which is attended with a sensation of pleasure; and the facul- 

 ties which trace abstract relations, and reason, or reflect', which 

 . produce ideas of reason and reflection. 



19. Individuality. This organ is situated in the middle of the 

 lower part of the forehead. Two places are marked with the same 

 number, 1-19 and 2-19. The faculty gives the desire, accompa- 

 nied with the ability, to know facts and things, without determin- 

 ing the kind of knowledge, and without any view to the purposes 

 to which it may be subservient. Its organ is early and largely 

 developed in children, and the faculty is strongly developed by 

 them. It is of importance, not only in philosophy, but in the af- 

 fairs of life. It prompts to observation, and to investigation by 

 experiment; and is a great element in a genius for those sciences 

 which consist in a knowledge of specific existences. It greatly 

 aids in producing a talent for all practical business involving de- 

 tails, and hence to the medical practitioner, the lawyer, and the 

 merchant, it is of essential advantage. To the orator or the au- 

 thor, it communicates that power of observation which enables 

 him to seize objects and incidents presented to his mind, to store 

 them up, and to recall and apply them, when required, so as to 

 give substance to his mental productions. This organ is possess- 

 ed by the lower animals. Dr. Gall considers the faculty in them 

 to produce the capacity for education, and lie gives a scale of the 

 heads of animals, from the crocodile and frog to the elephant, 

 with the view of proving, that the more this part of the brain is 

 developed in each species, the higher are its susceptibihties of be- 

 ing tamed and taught. 



20. Form. The size of this organ is indicated by the distance 

 between the eyes; the different degrees of which correspond to 

 the greater or less developement of the portions of brain situated 

 on the mesial or inner side of the orbitary plates of the frontal 

 bone, on each side of the crista galla. The function of the or- 

 gan is to judge of form. It aids the mineralogist, the portrait 

 painter, and all persons engaged in the imitative arts. It gives 

 the power also of distinguishing faces. 



21. Size. Persons are found who have an intuitive facihty in 

 estimating size, and in whom the powers of distinguishing form 

 and relative position are not equally strong; and the part of the 



