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Combativeness, Destructiveness, Secretiveness, Acquisitiveness, 
Alimentiveness. Animal traits that can be grouped under Fero- 
city, accompanied with large-sized temporal and auricular muscles. 
Amativeness. Animality, with large neck muscles, occipital 
ridge and mastoid process. 
Perceptives. In proportion to size of eye-brow ridge. 
The remaining half of the phrenological faculties appear wholly 
or nearly wholly, unjustified. 
Divested of the less plausible alleged faculties, the remaining 
ones, when subjected to the crucial test of Herbert Spencer’s classi- 
fications of the feelings and cognitions, stand the scrutiny quite 
well, for the presentative feelings can be assigned to the cortical 
centres for sight, ete., and the impulse areas will include from 
behind forward the presentative-representative or emotions, the 
representative as “sublimity,” and re-representative such as acqui- 
sitiveness, which might tempt us to take the latter out of the tem- 
poral muscle and allow it the position assigned by the phrenologists 
as cerebral. The cognitions similarly classified end in the highest 
of all, being placed in the apex of the frontal lobe, the re-representa- 
tive cognitions, aggregations of representations, the appreciation of 
the general relations of things. 
There is something beside generalizations in phrenology hidden 
beneath a load of trash. In shoveling this away scientific men are 
apt to jeer the labor ; they can be as mulish as the most ignorant 
In refusing to see what they do not want to know; they are human, 
as witness the reluctance with which the majority accepted Dar- 
Winism, though emanating from a reputable source. 
It should not be forgotten that phrenology was founded by good 
anatomists, and that scientists turned against it because charlatans 
built error upon it; but quacks have taught us a few things worth 
knowing. 
