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food. IV. Organ of the external senses. V. Instinctive sexual union, 

 VI. Organ of the mutual love of parents and their offspring. VII. Organ 

 of friendship. VIII. Organ of courage. IX. Organ of murder or as- 

 sassination. X. Of cunning. XI. Circumspection. XII. Vanity, con- 

 ceit, or self-love. XIII. Love of glory. XIV. Love of truih. XV. 

 General memory, otherwise called sense of places and things. XVI. 

 Painting, or sense of colours. X^ll. Sense of numbers, XVIII. Musical 

 sense, XIX. Sense for mechanics. XX. Verbal memory. XXI. Sense 

 for languages. XXII. Memory of persons. XXIII. Liberality. XXIV. 

 Talent for satire. XXV. Talent for comparing things. XXVI. Meta- 

 physical talent. XXVU. Talent for observation. XXVIII. Goodness. 

 XXIX. Theatrical talent. XXX. Theosophy. XXXI. Perseverance. 

 The remaining two to complete the thirty-three being, at the time Dr. 

 Bojames wrote, unappropriated ; a sort of terra incognita, which the 

 master of the system had not yet sufficiently explored, but one of which 

 he subsequently discovered to be, the natural organ for theft or stealing.* 

 A few alterations have since been made in the general arrangement, both 

 by Dr. Gall himself and by several of his pupils, especially by Dr. Spurz- 

 heim, but of no essential moment in a cursory survey. t 



It is not a Httle singular that men should be supposed to be provided by 

 nature with express organs for the cultivation of murder and theft ; terms 

 which are softened down by Dr. Spurzheim, in his own catalogue, into 

 the words destructiveness and covetiseness ; but which, in the 

 body of his works, he treats of under the common and more intelligible 

 names. 



The proofs of these organs have been laboured with peculiar force, and 

 not without some apology for their formation, " Our opponents," says 

 Dr. Spurzheim, maintain that such a doctrine is both ridiculous and 

 dangerous ; ridiculous because nature could not produce any faculty ab- 

 solutely hurtful to man ; dangerous, because it would permit what is 

 punished as a crime by the laws. Gall was accustomed to answer, no- 

 body can deny the facts which prove that theft exists ; and as it exists, 

 it is not against the will of the Creator ; and there are very few persons 

 who have never stolen any thing. The organ is, moreover, very consi- 

 derable in inveterate thieves. "| 



The morality here offered is certainly not of the purest kind. It directly 

 avows that the Creator has given an express sanction and countenance to 

 robbery and murder by the construction both of the body and mind ; by 

 natural organs and propensities for the commission of these crimes. It 

 cannot, indeed, be denied, that God has willed them, for nothing can take 

 place contrary to his will But there is a little logical nicety or special 

 pleading in this assertion, and it is necessary to recall to our recollection 

 what I endeavoured to prove in a late lecture,§ that the will and the de- 



* The Physiognomonical System of Drs. Gall and Spurzheim, &c. p. 280. 8vo. Lond. 

 1815. 



t The table, as modified by Dr. Spurzheim, gives us the following arrangement. 1 . Order 

 of amativeness. 2. Philoprogeniiiveness. 8. Inhabitiveness. 4 Adhesiveness. 6. Comba- 

 tiveness. 6. Destructiveness, 7. Coustructiveness. 8, Covetiseness. 9. Secretiveness. 

 10. Self-love. 11. Approbation. 12. Cautiousness. 13. Benevolence. 14. Veneration. 

 15. Hope. 16. Ideality. 17. Consciousness. 18. firmness. 19. Individuality. 20. Form. 

 21. Size. 22. Weight. 23. Colour. 24. Space. 25. Order. 26. Time. 27. Number. 

 28. Tune. 29. Language. 30. Comparison. 31. Causality. 32. Wit. 33. Imitation. 



X Physiolog. System, &c. p. 398. 8yo, Lond. 1815. 



§ Ser. III. Lect. VIU. 



