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ployments of this nature with the greatest faciiity. To ascribe this 

 tendency or its absence to any other than an inherent quahty, 

 seems as vain as it is unphilosophLcal. 



The head of Canova exhibits the organ of this faculty very 

 prominently, as do those of a boy who excelled in cutting like- 

 nesses and of the celebrated Raphael. The Esquimaux and 

 South Sea Island Indians, afford interesting proofs ot the contra- 

 riety both of the faculty and its organ, and the French milliners, 

 who always give a tone to the fashionable world, possess it remark- 

 ably developed. Its phrenological name is constructiveness. 



Society is obviously a divine institution, or one resulting from 

 the constitution of men and animals; not a compact induced by 

 the necessity or desire of affording mutual protection; for while 

 the little magpies, after having paired, are the sole residents of 

 one tree, the rooks and raven species, in general, dwell in almost 

 innumerable companies, and the timorous hare occupies some 

 favorite spot nearly isolated from his fellows. 



There are men who seem to be naturally separated, by their 

 peculiar mental constitution, from their fellow-beings; or, in other 

 words, they do not readily, and in frequent instances, never, at- 

 tach themselves to their kind with anything like warmth or per- 

 manency. 



Children grieve at a separation from their nurses or familiar at- 

 tendants and friends, and yet some perceive the change without 

 emotion. The faculty thus indicated more or less powerfully is 

 stronger in women than in men, and is styled adhesiveness. 



Individuals are habitually careful or they are otherwise. The 

 infant, when moved clings to the supporting arm of its mother 

 and gladly seeks even the most frail aid to its first attempts at 

 walking ; or, on the other hand, is remarkably bold and uncon- 

 cerned. 



Doubt, in the minds of many, opposes action, even after the 

 most mature deliberation, and anxiety and watchfulness are often 

 constantly active, and induce the frequent warning 'take care!' 



Prompted by the impetus of feeling, some persons rush un- 

 thinking into action, others weigh and consider prior to the most 

 comparatively trifling undertaking. Hope ever cheers the breast 

 of one, and gloomy despondency darkens the path of another. 



These and similar phenomena result from a greater or less de- 

 velopment o( cautiousness^ an endowment at once necessary, and 

 immeasurably useful to man and animals. 



There are two fundamental feehngs, which greatly influence our 

 conduct. Their legitimate object is to direct us to the constant 



