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rorULAR SCIENCE REVIEW. 
THE LINGERINa ADMIRERS OF PHRENOLOGY. 
By Professor CLELAND. 
[PLATE LIE] 
T O slay those that are already" slain may be excellent sport 
to employ the courage of a Falstaff, but the reader perusing 
the title of tliis article may perhaps be disposed to ask why the 
pages of this review should be occupied with the discussion of 
so dead a doctrine as Phrenology. The answer is, that although 
phrenology never had much countenance from scientific men, 
and has long since been banished by them, with one consent, to 
the limbo of exploded chimeras, yet among educated men and 
women not physiologists, and not pretending to know anything 
.about anatomy, it still holds its ground wonderfully, and counts 
considerable numbers of people who believe in its miraculous 
skull maps ; while, beside these, there is a far more numerous 
class of persons, including, imdeniabl}?-, a certain proportion of 
scientific men, who, admitting that the minute division of the 
cranial vault into organs is untenable, yet profess belief in a 
larger mapping, and have no hesitation in relegating the reason- 
ing faculties exclusively to the forehead, and the moral senti- 
ments and volitionary powers to other parts of the brain-pan. 
This state of matter does not exist without a sufficient reason 
to account for it. Long before the time of Gall and Spurzheim, 
men were in the habit, sometimes consciousl}^, and much more 
frequently half unconsciousl}^ of gauging the intelligence and 
moral qualities of their neighbours by their personal appearance 
generally, and more particularly of estimating them according 
to crude impressions derived from the shapes of their heads. 
Tliey judged rightly enough that there was some connection 
})ctween brain and mind. Much of the evidence that the brain 
is the organ of the mind is so palpable that it could not remain 
long hid. The effects of injuries and diseases of the brain in 
disturbing tlie intelligence, its larger size in the higher than in 
the lower classes of animals, and more especially its distinctively 
great development in man : these circumstances, together with 
the indubitable frcf|uency of finely proportioned lieads among 
