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ted. In persons thus, as it were, intuitively disposed to the cr.rc 

 and love of children, the posterior lobe of the brain is aWays large. 

 Even very young persons thus organized, must have a doll; and 

 among animals, the like variation as to the feeling and correspond- 

 ing discrepancy, as to the organ, is evinced. The monkey tribes 

 for example, whose care of their offspring is remarkable, have the 

 posterior lobe much elongated. The faculty is called philopro- 

 genitiveness, and is generally larger in women than in men. 



Animals are prone to remain in certain places, and in consider- 

 ing the cause of this, an interesting philosophical inquiry arises, 

 viz. How far exterior circumstances are the cause of powers? — 

 In education it constitutes an important subject of investigation, 

 to discover what is derived from nature and what from circum- 

 stances. According to Phrenology circumstances never give 

 talent, though they are important aids to its development, and in 

 this, but in no other sense, is there truth in the saying, ' misery is 

 the mother of invention.' Give materials to the beaver and he 

 will build, yet obviously his instinct leads him to the act, though 

 the materials were requisite. Had there been no French Revolu- 

 Ition, there would have been no Napoleon. 



Birds choose localities for their nests very variously. Some 

 choose a bough, others a hollow tree, one a water-cliff, and anoth- 

 er the cottage roof. The Hare, as is well known, manifests a 

 strong attachment to the place of his nativity. These, and innu- 

 merable other instances of a like nature, occur throughout the ani- 

 mal kingdom. When we turn to man, we find this disposition no 

 less evidently manifested, though in different degrees. There are 

 wandering tribes, and there are those who settle at once and per- 

 manently. Some individuals desire to return to a distant home, 

 though all friends and relations have long since departed. And an 

 individual who attended the phrenological lectures on the conti- 

 nent, came six miles in the evening, for that purpose, but could 

 not be induced to sleep out of his own house, even for one night. 

 He had the part of the brain at the upper end of the occipital 

 bone very much developed. This organ is more or less devel- 

 oped, according to the strength of the propensity, and is called in- 

 }iabitiveness. 



Among the means provided by the creator, for the preservation 

 of the race, is a tendency among animals and men to defend their 

 rights. This is evinced among birds when they return to their 

 nests in the spring, and wage war with the hapless intruder who 

 has pre-occupied them, and it is universally exhibited. The at- 

 tempt has been made to attribute this manifestation to muscular 

 power, which, it is said, inclines to vent itself in action. If 



