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every part and through every organ ; it is 
inherent in their ftructure, animating the 
vecetable as well as animals deftiture of 
brain, and manifetting itfelf throughout 
all organized nature by a general fenfibi- 
lity, irritability, and caloricity. If the 
region of the brain, to which Dr. Gall 
alcribes this power, appears to be more 
pirticularly its feat, it is becaufe the 
nerves, which originate there in large ant- 
mals, proceed to the apparatus for circu- 
lation and refpiration, -and becaufe inju- 
ries of any kind in this part of the brain 
neceflarily impede the courfe of thofe two 
fun@tions, without which life cannot exilt 
in animals. 
If the fpinal marrow be wounded or 
compreffed in a lefs elevated region, for 
inftance in fome of the articulations of the 
lumbar vertebra, all the fubjacent parts 
will be paralyfed by the interruption of 
the nervous influence ; and yet no phyfio- 
Jogift would pretend to’explain this pheno« 
menon by faying that the region of the 
fpinal marrow, injured -in this experi- 
ment, is the organ of the vital power of 
the members beneath it. : 
All the difcoveries hitherto made in 
phyfiology militate ftill more againft the 
idea of affigning the procreative faculty to 
a divifion of the brain; for it is well 
known, that in perfons deprived com- 
pletely, and from their infancy, of the or- 
gans of that faculty, the flames of love are 
never kindled, their voice, their form, 
every funétion, and every part, isina ftate 
of languor and imbecility, which would 
not take place if the brain contained the 
feat to which the procreative power, and 
all the changes which manifelt themfelves 
at the period of puberty, cught to be at- 
tributed. : 
That part of Dr. Gall’s Syftem which 
fixes the organs of courage, cunning, mo- 
ral fentiment, and imagination, has {till 
lefs foundation ; and it is fofficient to 
cata fingle Jook at the organization of 
the brain, to be perfuaded that the d ffe- 
rence of its various parts, Jn a certain 
number of individuals, has no perceptible 
connection with the development ef the 
faculties, 
The moft fevere mental difeafes do not 
always leave behind them traces in the 
brain ; and if fome of thofe dileafes feem 
to be occafioned by alterations of that ap- 
paratus, others have manifefted themfelves 
in perfons whofe brain after their death 
exhibited no unufual appearance. How, 
then, can we fuppofe that fome fhades, 
fome differences in the intelleSual facul. 
The third ftianza now firft appears. 
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ties and affe€tions, art conne&ed with 
thofe obfervable in the ftvuéture of the 
bain? Every thing, on the contrary,, 
proves that what devends on the organic 
caufe of life, and its nobleft attributes, as 
imagination, genius, and fentiment, can 
very feldom be difcovered by our too- 
limited means cf obfervation, and thar, 
in the ftruéture of any apparatus what- 
ever, we can only feize the leading traits, 
the moit prominent features, and thofe 
mechanical refeniblances, in confequence 
of which beings extremely different ap- 
proach, or even appear to be confounded 
with each other. 
Dr, Gall, im attempting to fimplify the 
ftudy of the conne&iton between the phy- 
fical and moral conftirution of man, has in 
general deviated too tar from the path of 
experience, and has not coniidered with 
fuihcient attention the different organs, 
which, though not of equal impertance 
with the brain, neverthelefs exercife a 
very fenfible influence on the nature of the 
affections and faculties. 
he phyfiognomonic part of his Sytem 
being deduced from the principles, the 
infuficiency of which we have endeavour- 
ed to demonftrate, it is evident that if 
thefe principles are unfounded, as we 
think has been already proved, the corol- 
lary cannot be admitted ; or ‘at leaft this 
phyhognomonic part prefents no ufeful res 
fults, excepting it be confidered in that 
point of view in which Lavater made his 
numerous and important obfervations, 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
BALLAD of LOGAN WATER. 
HE following is the ballad of Logan 
Water, which Mr. Burns (uppofed 
to be old, but of which, he fays, ina 
letter to Mr. Thompfon, dated 7th of 
April, 1793, that he recollects only thele 
two lines : 
While my dear lad maun face his faes, 
Far, tar frae me or Logan Biaes. 
Which two lines he has adopted as the 
burthen of a fong cf four ftanzas to the 
fame tune. The lovers of Scotith Poely 
are, however, moft refpecttully affured 
that this ballad was written in Glafgow, 
about twenty years fince, by the gentle- 
man whofe name is now prefixed to it. 
The firft two ftanzas were printed in the 
Siar newfpaper of Saturday, May 23, 
1789, figned with the initial letter of the 
authoi’s name. ‘They were thence co- 
pied and fung at Vauxhall, and publithed. 
But 
the 
