270 Phrenology. 



sic. Time is requisite to a just perception of intervals ; ideality^ 

 to give elevation and refinement; secretiveness and imitation, to 

 produce expression; and conslructiveness, form, weight, and in- 

 dividuality are requisite besides, to supply the mechanical expert- 

 ness, necessary to successful performance. Dr. Spurzheim ob- 

 serves, that the heads and skulls of birds which sing, and those 

 Avhich do not sing, and the heads of the different individuals of the 

 same kind, that have a greater or less disposition to sing, present 

 a conspicuous difference at the place of this organ. The heads 

 of males, for instance, and those of females of the same kind of 

 singing birds, are easily distinguished by their different develope- 

 ment. 



29. Language. A large developement of this organ is indicat- 

 ed by the prominence and depression of the eyes; this appear- 

 ance being produced by convolutions of the brain, situated in the 

 posterior and transverse part of the upper orbitary plate, pressing 

 the latter, and with it the eyes, more or less forward, downward, 

 and outward, according to the size of the convolutions. The spe- 

 ciaJ faculty of this organ is, to enable us to acquire a knowledge 

 of, and to give us the power of using artificial signs or words. 

 Persons who have a great endowment of it abound in words. In 

 ordinary conversation their language flows like a copious stream — 

 in a speech, they pour out torrents. Individuality and compari- 

 son greatly assist this faculty, when applied to the acquisition of 

 foreign languages and granmiars. 



Reflecting Faculties. 



30. Comparison. This is an eminence of the form of a re-" 

 versed pyramid, in the upper and middle portion of the frontal 

 bone, and gives the power of perceiving resemblances, similitudes, 

 and analogies. Tune may compare different notes; color con- 

 trast different shades; but comparison may compare a shade and 

 a note, a form and a color, which the other faculties by them- 

 selves could not accomplish. In popular preachers, this organ is 

 generally fully developed. It is more rarely deficient than any 

 other intellectual organ; and the scripture is addressed to it in a 

 remarkable degree, being full of analogies and comparisons. It 

 tends to the invention and use of figurative language; and the 

 speech of different nations is more or less characterized by this 

 quality, according to the predominance of the organ. 



•31. Causality. This faculty is situated between comparison 

 and wit, and furnishes the idea of causation, as implying something 

 tnore than mere juxta-position or sequence, — and as forming an 

 Invisible bond of connexion between cause and effect. It impress- 



