

596 THE LINGERING ADMIRERS OF PHRENOLOGY. 
surface of the hemisphere, namely, the part looking to the 
middle line and to the base, is beyond the reach of all phren- 
ological observation; and how the most minute organs have 
been crowded by phrenologists over a part of the skull whose 
configuration is certainly not in the slightest degree affected 
by the form of the brain, namely, the line of bone immedi- 
ately over the nose and eyes. But the accompanying figure 
speaks for itself. It has been obtained by tracing from a 
horizontal section of a skull, made half an inch above the 
orbit, dividing the phrenological organs of individuality, 
size, weight, color, and order, as indicated by Spurzheim, 
and passing quite above three still more nonsensical organs, 
viz., that of form, lying on the nasal cavity; calculation, 
which is never anything but the solid external orbital process 
of bone; and language, the so-called large size of which is 
an appearance of the eye dependent on want of projection 
forwards of the face bone on which it rests. 
Turning now to the less special but more generally dif- 
fused notions respecting localization of different faculties in 
different parts of the skull, a few words may be said about 
fine foreheads. It may be freely granted that a handsome 
forehead is a beautiful feature, and one frequently, though 
by no means always or exclusively, met with in persons of 
talent ; but a spacious and well-shaped forehead by no means 
necessarily indieates preponderance of the frontal lobes of 
the hemispheres over the others. This, with some other 
interesting points, will best appear by considering the gen- 
eral dise: and mode of growth of the cranium. The siil 
cavity, as has been already said, is originally the upper part 
of a long cylinder, the remainder of which becomes the 
spinal PISA and it may be regarded, even in its adult state, 
as a cylinder much modified and distorted. At an early 
= embryonic period it is in all animals. curved remarkably 
Page downwards on itself. Examining it, however, in adults, the 
-~ total  curvation of the cranial ixliddawi is seen to differ much 
Tene species, ene greater the higher the position 

