598 THE LINGERING ADMIRERS OF PHRENOLOGY. 
nences of the child project forwards, and the head arches 
boldly above them, giving the appearance of a large fore- 
head; but, in point of fact, the forehead of the child is pro- 
portionally very small and undeveloped; and its apparent 
prominence is due partly to the shallowness of the orbits, 
giving a comparative prominence to the frontal eminences, - 
and partly to the whole skull being so set on the top of the 
spine that the forehead and face bones are turned more 
downwards than in the adult. The arch of the upper part 
of the child's forehead is afterwards lost, because it is turned 
back to lie more level on the roof of the head. So also, in 
the female, the head being not so much tilted up, there is à 
persistent upward arching of the roof of the skull, as it is 
traced backward, which is peculiarly feminine and graceful. 
With regard to development of the back part of the skull, 
it has been justly remarked by some good observers, that 
fulness of that region appears to be quite as important as a 
full forehead ; and it is instructive to note, that if a sketch 
be made of a head in profile, a change of expression, ranging . 
from almost idiotic weakness to great strength of character, 
may be produced by varying the outline of the lower occip- 
ital region and back of the neck without altering any other 
portion. But the alteration of that line indicates not a mere 
addition to the posterior lobes of the brain or subtraction 
from them, but a change in the anatomy of the whole inte- 
rior of the head, affecting the cerebral hemispheres through- 
out their extent. 
So, also, those anatomists who have written as if the char- 
acteristic posterior lobes of the brain in man and apes were 
so much matter added to the back of the hemispheres, -o 
really mistaken ; for the hemispheres of a sheep rest against 
precisely the part of the cerebellum corresponding to that 
which they rest against in the human subject ; but the human 
. brain differs from that of the sheep in the vastly increased 
. Curvature and greater diameter of the cranial cylinder. —— 
. In bringing these cursory remarks to a conclusion, it 1$ 


