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see that they are healthy and perfect, on no 

 account allow the dealer to touch them, or 

 remove them from their cages. Pay him a 

 deposit on the cages, and take the birds 

 away in your hand. You should previously 

 have prepared a local habitation for them at 

 home, well furnished with seed and water ; 

 and have nothing to wait for on your arrival. 

 When introducing them into their new resi- 

 dences, do not remove them with your hand, 

 but open the door of the new cage, placing 

 the old one dos-a-dos against it. Station a 

 lighted candle in front, and your little pri- 

 soners will hop in cheerfully, well pleased 

 at the change — for their late cramped and 

 ill-savored abode will have had little charms 

 for them. We shall speak of the proper- 

 sized cages, &c. anon. 



It will be desirable' to hang them up at 

 once, in the place you intend them to occupy. 

 If purchased at the season we have spoken 

 of, the chances are — they will sing within 

 ten minutes after they have been caged off. 

 The best trait in the character of a canary 

 is — he will sing, place him where you may. 

 These birds very seldom show a sulkiness of 

 disposition ; and even if they should occa- 

 sionally do so, a single hempseed, or a mor- 

 sel of cbickweed, would set all to rights in a 

 moment. An amiability of disposition is 

 herein shown, which should put some of us 

 to the blush. Intellect does not always con- 

 fer w r isdom. 



(To be Continued Weekly.) 



PHRENOLOGY FOR THE MILLION. 



" He ■who opposes his own judgment against the con- 

 sent of the times, outjht to be backedwith unanswerable 

 Truths ; and he who has Truth on his side is a iool, 

 as well as a Coward, if he is afraid to ovn it because of 

 the currency or multitude of other men's opinions." — 

 Defoe. 



No. V.— THE LIFE OF DR. GALL. 



I come at last to the means, which have served 

 me most, int he determination of the indepen- 

 dence of the natural qualities; and I begin by 

 pointing out more clearly the seat of the organs. 

 It is necessary, first, to show and to examine the 

 means by which we discover the seat of the 

 organs. Among these means I cite, 



1. The discovery of certain elevations or cer- 

 tain depressions, when there are determined 

 qualities. I mark here the course which it is 

 necessary to follow in like researches. 



2. The existence of certain qualities together 

 with the existence of certain protuberances. 



3. A collection of models in plaster. 



4. A collection of skulls. 



We shall find many difficulties with regard to 

 human skulls: you know how every one fears 

 for his own head : how many stories were told 

 about me, when I undertook such researches! 

 Men unhappily, have such an opinion of them- 

 selves, that each one believes I am watching for 

 his head, as one of the most important objects of 



my collection! Nevertheless, I have not been 



! able to collect more than twenty in the space of 



I three years, if I except those that I have taken 



i in the hospitals, or in the asylum for idiots! 



If I had not been supported by a man who 



knows how to protect science, and to consult 



prejudices, by a man justly and universally 



esteemed for his qualities of mind, and for his 



character — I should not have been able, in spite 



of all my labors, to collect even a few miserable 



specimens. 



There are those, indeed, who do not wish that 

 even their dogs and monkeys should be placed 

 in my collection after their death. It would be 

 very agreeable to me, however, if persons would 

 send me the heads of animals, of which they 

 have observed well the characters ; for example, 

 of a dog, who would eat only Avhat he had 

 stolen ; one who could find his master at a great 

 distance; heads of monkeys, parrots, or other rare 

 animals, with the histories of their lives, which 

 ought to be written after their death, lest they 

 should contain too much flattery. I wish you 

 could establish the fashion; for every kind of 

 genius should make me the heir of his head. 

 Then, indeed, [I will answer for it with mine 

 own], we should see in ten years a splendid edi- 

 fice, for which at present I only collect mate- 

 rials; it would be assuredly dangerous for a 

 Castner, a Kant, a Wieland, and other like cele- 

 brated men, if the exterminating angel of David 

 were placed under my order; but, with Christian 

 patience, I shall wait the tardy will of Pro- 

 vidence. 



However, in the meantime, my dear Retzer, 

 look a little with me into futurity, and see 

 assembled the choice spirits of men of past ages; 

 how they will mutually congratulate each other, 

 for each minute portion of utility and pleasure, 

 which each one of them has contributed fcr the 

 happiness of men. Why has no one preserved 

 for us, the skulls of Homer, Ovid, Virgil, Cicero, 

 Hippocrates, Boerhaave, Alexander, .Frederick, 

 Joseph II., Catharine, Locke, Bacon, and others? 

 — what ornaments for the beautiful templet of the 

 muses ! 



I come now to the fifth means. 



5. Phenomena of the Diseases and Lesions of 

 the Brain. I have also much to say on this sub- 

 ject. The most important is, the entirely new 

 doctrine of the different kinds of insanity, and the 

 means of cure, all supported by facts. If all my 

 researches should only conduct me to this result, 

 I should deem myself sufficiently rewarded for 

 my labors. If men of sense will not thank me, 

 I ought at least to be sure of the thanks of 

 fools. 



6. The sixth means for discovering the seat of 

 the organs, consists in examining the integral 

 parts of different brains and their relations, 

 always comparatively with the different faculties 

 and the different propensities. 



7. I come at last to one of'rny favorite subjects, 

 the gradual scale of perfections. , 



Here I imagine that I am a Jupiter, who 

 beholds from above his animal kingdom crowd- 

 ing upon the earth. Think a little of the im- 

 mense space which I am going to pass through : — 

 from the zoophyte to the simple polypus, up 

 to the philosopher and the theosophist! I shall 



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