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The Heads of Great Men . 
indeed, learn that the Australians treat phthisis as a vested 
interest to be reverently conserved on ethical grounds, as 
some of the “ unco guid ” do at home with another disease 
which is secretly undermining the vigour of the race ; but 
they regarded it as a libel to be told that the Australian 
climate was no antidote for or safeguard against consump- 
tion, and that natives of Australia, black or white, were as 
liable to this scourge as if they had been born in Britain. 
For seeking to arouse his neighbours from this delusion the 
author has been proclaimed a fanatic and a firebrand. A 
premier of Victoria a(5tually asked him — “ What are our 
young people to die from, since they may not die from 
typhoid fever or phthisis ? ” Surely he was a typical speci- 
men of the men whom we “ Anglo-Saxons ” at home or in 
the Colonies set to rule over us ! 
VI. THE HEADS OF GREAT MEN, AND 
THEIR OCCURRENCE. 
By D. Yewdall Cliff. 
S R. GILBERT, Physician to Queen Elizabeth, so 
famous for his researches in magnetism, was, it is 
said, the first to suggest that men of great intel- 
lectual powers have large and massive heads. This conclu- 
sion is as commonly accepted as it is agreeable to ourselves 
in theory ; but if before deciding we take a review, by means 
of the busts, pictures,* photographs, &c., of the world’s 
most famous celebrities, the opinion most certainly is not 
universally borne out by faCts. I have noted in earlier 
paintings that men are distinguished by this trait, showing 
that the painters had, perhaps, also the same notion. In 
Mr. Wallace’s “ Australasia ” there are as fine heads, of 
savages, as ever civilisation has produced, apparently in the 
pure native. The remark of a wise Englishman, “ If per- 
severance is not genius, it is something very like it,” may 
therefore not unlikely be true. 
f * See Art Journals; Cassell’s, Ward and Lock’s, Macmillan’s, &c., publica- 
tions; The Graphic, Illustrated London News, &c. 
