3GG Phrenology. 



farther back in the head they are situated. If a verticle hne be 

 drawn from the bony elevation behind the ear to the crucial spine 

 or occipital protuberance, what lies between this line and the 

 neck is the residence of the cerebellum. This cerebellum, or lit- 

 tle brain, is the seat of the faculty called by phrenologists amrtfiue- 

 ness. 



Men essentially differ in the evidence they give of worldly 

 knowledge, a deep and acute insight into matters and things, and 

 the ways and means of promoting their particular interests. 



Again, there are persons who seem to delight in going round 

 and round instead of coming to the point, who are very mysteri- 

 ous, and require a promise of secrecy before communicating 

 every trifling or well-known circumstance. And there are those 

 who deceive and lie without any apparent temptation, and upon 

 whose representations no reliance can be reasonably placed. 



Phrenologists regard these and similar phenomena as perver- 

 sions of a very requisite faculty, which they denominate secyefiue- 

 ness. 



There exists in the human mind a tendency to prepare for the 

 future. And there are individuals who have never enough, whose 

 chief happiness consists in acquiring, who exhibit a great fond- 

 ness for collecting, not for any scientific or ostensibly useful pur- 

 pose, but simply, as it would appear, for the sake of accumula- 

 ting. They have an instinctive sense of utility, which effectually 

 prevents them from forgetting self. They /eeZ that charity begins 

 at home. Instances are not few, in which persons, having a good 

 education, manifest a strong desire to appropriate whatever they 

 can conveniently lay hands on, and the circumstances of such in- 

 dividuals totally exclude the idea that want constitutes the actua- 

 ting motive. 



Furthermore, it is obviously requisite that men should be provi- 

 dent, look well to the actual advantage to be derived from certain 

 actions, and, in short, exercise a prudent foresight. Hence we 

 possess a faculty called acquisitiveness. Among the perversions 

 of this propensity, the most common is theft. All inveterate 

 thieves have the organ large. 



A mechanical turn, as it is called, or a peculiar aptitude for 

 those undertakings, requiring ingenuity and skill, is to a certain ex- 

 tent common among mankind, and is likewise evinced in the la- 

 bors and habits of animals. 



There is a wide difference among men, in regard to this fac- 

 ulty, some exercising great inventive, but no mechanical tal- 

 ents, others very awkward in their attempts; to draw, play upon 

 musical instruments,, construct, &tc. and some engaging in em- 



