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MY LIFE 



[Chap. 



indicated, and is shown in my character by my disregard for 

 mere authority or rank, its place being taken by Ideality and 

 Wonder, both marked as well developed, and which lead to 

 my intense delight in the grand, the beautiful, or the mysteri- 

 ous in nature or in art. 



Coming now to the estimate of the other lecturer, Mr. 

 James Quilter Rumball, an M.R.C.S. and author of some 

 medical works, we have a more detailed and careful " Phreno- 

 logical Development," founded on the comparative sizes of 

 thirty-nine organs. It is as follows, only omitting a few words 

 at the end, which are of a purely private and personal nature. 



" {a) There is some delicacy in the nervous system, and 

 consequent sensitiveness which unfits it for any very long- 

 continued exertion ; but this may be overcome by a strong 

 will. There is some tendency to indigestion ; this requires air 

 and exercise. 



{b) The power of fixing the attention is very good 

 indeed, and there is very considerable perceptive power, so 

 that this gentleman should learn easily and remember well, 

 notwithstanding verbal memory is but moderate. Concen- 

 trativeness is the chief organ upon which all the memories 

 depend, and this is undoubtedly large. 



(c) He has some vanity, and more ambition. He may 

 occasionally exhibit a want of self-confidence ; but general 

 opinion ascribes to him too much. In this, opinion is wrong : 

 he knows that he has not enough ; he may assume it, but it 

 will sit ill. 



" {d) If Wit were larger he would be a good Mathe- 

 matician ; but without it, however clear and analytical the 

 mind may be, it wants breadth and depth, and so I do not 

 put down his mathematical talents as first-rate, although 

 Number is good. The same must be said of his classical 

 abilities — good, but not first-rate. 



" {e) He has some love for music from his Ideality, but I 

 do not find a good ear, or sufficient time ; he has, however, 

 mechanical ability sufficient to produce enough of both, 

 especially for the flute, if he so choose. 



