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the child’s forehead is afterwards lost, because it is turned back 
to lie more level on the roof of the head. So also, in the 
female, the head being not so much tilted up, there is a per- 
sistent upward arching of the roof of the skull, as it is traced 
backward, which is peculiarly feminine and graceful. 
With regard to development of the back part of the skull, it 
has been justly remarked by some good observers, that fulness 
of that region appears to be quite as important as a full fore- 
head ; and it is instructive to note, that if a sketch be made of a 
head in profile, a change of expression, ranging from almost 
idiotic weakness to great strength of character, maybe produced 
by varying the outline of the lower occipital region and back of 
the neck, without altering any other portion. But the altera- 
tion of that line indicates not a mere addition to the posterior 
lobes of the brain or subtraction from them, but a change in the 
anatomy of the whole interior of the head, affecting the cerebral 
hemispheres throughout their extent. 
So, also, those anatomists who have written as if the charac- 
teristic posterior lobes of the brain in man and apes were so 
much matter added to the back of the hemispheres, are really 
mistaken ; for the hemispheres of a sheep rest against precisely 
the part of the cerebellum corresponding to that which they rest 
against in the human subject; but the human brain differs from 
that of the sheep in the vastly increased curvature and greater 
diameter of the cranial cylinder. 
In bringing these cursory remarks to a conclusion, it is only 
necessary to add, that the reader is not to imagine, because it 
has been argued that different faculties are not localised in dif- 
ferent parts of the cerebral hemispheres, that therefore it follows 
that there is no connection between the shape of the head and 
the mental character. Let the reader who still preserves a lin- 
gering fondness for judging men by their appearance continue 
to take the skull into account, if he pleases ; but let him be 
assured that whatever connection really exists is to be explained, 
not by the phrenological dogma, but as he would explain why 
massive chins are often conjoined with strong wills, different 
types of hand with different types of mind, well-built frames 
with healthy mental tendencies, and rickety bodies with eccen- 
tric, though often keenest-witted natures. The explanation is 
physiognomical. 
While, however, this is probably the case with regard to the 
shape of the head, it is obvious that the relationship of the 
amount of brain to the mental faculties is more than physio- 
gnomical. Possibly an analogy may be drawn between the brain 
and a galvanic battery, and increase of the grey matter of the 
one be correctly compared with addition to the cells of the 
other; but as in an electric instrument the working is de- 
