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between size of 
head an d 
cl e v ernes s. 
Many clever 
men, it is true, 
have big heads, 
but so have 
many lunatics 
and imbeciles. 
The weight of 
the brain is a 
surer guide to 
its quality than 
the size of the 
head. Other 
things being 
equal, brain- weight corresponds with intelli- 
gence. The average weight for a man is 
from forty-six to fifty-three ounces — of a 
woman from forty -one to forty -seven (a 
bitter fact for advocates of the superiority of 
the fairer sex). The heaviest human brains 
known were Dr. Abercrombie’s, which was 
sixty-two and a half ounces, and Cuvier’s, 
the great French naturalist, an ounce and a 
half heavier. It falls to the lot of but few 
geniuses, however, to have this test applied to 
them. The brain of a man, on the whole, is 
about one-fortieth of the weight of his body. 
Of a dog, but one hundred-and-twentieth. 
Only two kinds of animal, the whale and 
elephant, have larger brains than man, but 
in both these the proportion to the weight of 
the body is greatly less. 
But it is in the shape of head, rather than 
in the weight or in the size, that the true 
nature is displayed. Quite instinctively we 
realize this fact and form our own judgments. 
To take one most famous example, surely 
not one of his loyal subjects could fail to 
recognize, from picture, photograph, or actual 
observation, the “ good head ” of the late 
King Edward (Fig. 6). Phrenologists or no, we 
can all of us 
trace immedi- 
ately in the 
h a 1 1 e r’s pat- 
tern— b r o a d, 
shapely, and 
s y m m e trical . 
the kindliness, 
the humanity, 
the consum- 
mate tact and 
knowledge of 
mankind that 
made Edward 
the Peacemaker 
the revered 
and beloved of all the world. King Edward 
took a 7J in hats — his illustrious nephew the 
Emperor of Germany has a 6£ “ easy ” (Fig. 
7\ His head is also very talented and sym- 
metrical, and, for a German, quite unusually 
long. German heads, as already stated, are 
generally round — that of the late Duke of 
Cambridge (Fig. 8) being much more typical 
in this respect. 
The Duke's head, we observe, was very 
broad. Breadth of head denotes common 
sense and reasonableness ; a somewhat 
pointed back the self-respect and desire for 
the good opinion of others which strengthens 
a man’s character and makes him prize his 
good name above all other possessions. Self- 
esteem tilts up the back of the head, loo 
much of it produces selfishness and arrogance ; 
too little, diffidence and self-distrust. The 
absence of the u bump ” (so-called) of love 
of approbation is often observed in criminals, 
and the result is shamelessness. This organ, 
as might be supposed, is apt to be larger in 
the female than in the male sex. 
Remarkably alike are the heads of two 
great soldiers — one of the past, the other, 
most happily, yet with us and nobly labouring 
fig. 6. fig. 7. 
FIG. 8. FIG. 9. FIG. 10. 
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