

THE LINGERING ADMIRERS OF PHRENOLOGY. 
BY PROF. CLELAND. 

To slay those that are already slain may be excellent sport 
to employ the courage of a Falstaff, but the reader perusing 
the title of this article may perhaps be disposed to ask why 
the pages of this review should be occupied with the discus- 
sion of so dead a doctrine as Phrenology. The answer is, 
that although phrenology never had much countenance from 
scientific men, and has long since been banished by them, 
with one consent, to the limbo of exploded chimeras, yet 
among edueated men and women not physiologists, and not 
pretending to know anything about anatomy, it still holds its 
grounds wonderfully, and counts considerable numbers of 
people who believe in its miraculous skull maps; while, be- 
sides these, there is a far more numerous class of persons, 
ineluding, undeniably, a certain proportion of scientific men, 
who, admitting that the minute division of the cranial vault 
into organs is untenable, yet profess belief in a larger map- 
ping, and have no hesitation in relegating the reasoning 
faculties exclusively to the forehead, and the moral senti- 
ments and volitionary powers to other parts of the brain-pan. 
This state of matter does not exist without a sufficient 
reason to account for it. Long before the time of Gall and 
Spurzheim, men were in the habit, sometimes consciously. 
and much more frequently half unconsciously, of gauging 
the intelligence and moral qualities of their neighbors by 
their personal appearance generally, and more particularly 
of estimating them according to crude impressions derived 
from the shapes of their heads. "They judged rightly enough 
that there was some connection between brain and mind. 
4 Much of the evidence that the brain is the organ of the mind 
is so palpable that it could not remain long hid. The effects 

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