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THE LINGERING ADMIRERS OF PHRENOLOGY. 599 
only necessary to add, that the reader is not to imagine, 
because it has been argued that different faculties are not 
localized in different parts of the cerebral hemispheres, that 
therefore it follows that there is no connection between the 
shape of the head and the mental character. Let the reader 
who still preserves a lingering fondness for judging men by 
their appearance continue to take the skull into account, if 
he pleases; but let him be assured that whatever connection 
really exists is to be explained, not by the phrenological 
dogma, but as he would explain why massive chins are often 
conjoined with strong wills, different types of hand with dif- 
ferent types of mind, well-built frames with healthy mental 
tendencies, and rickety bodies with eccentric, though often 
keenest-witted natures. The explanation is physiognomical. 
While, however, this is probably the case with regard to the 
shape of the head, it is obvious that the relationship of the 
amount of brain to the mental faculties is more than physi- 
ognomical. Possibly an analogy may be drawn between the 
brain and a galvanie battery, and increase of the gray matter 
of the one be correctly compared with addition to the cells 
of the other; but as in an electric instrument the working is 
dependent on the delicacy and fitness of the arrangements 
quite as much as on the strength of the current which sup- 
plies them, so in the case of the mind the result is depend- 
ent on the distribution and balance of the faculties and 
inclinations, and on other circumstances, none of which are 
proved to have any connection with the mass of cerebral 
substance. Certain it is that, although there are probably 
mental characters peculiar to large and small brains respec- 
tively, the size of the skull is, as any observer may easily 
satisfy himself, no good guide to the mental endowments. 
— Popular Science Revie, 
