Selections from the Phrenological Journal: Comprising Forty Articles in the First Five VolumesRobert Cox Maclachlan & Steward, and John Anderson Jun., 1836 - 359 psl. |
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... Nature has to a certain extent performed this opera- tion to our hand , in regard to different portions of the brain ... natural sentiment of Cautiousness , and that he who possesses the smaller portion , manifests very little of this ...
... Nature has to a certain extent performed this opera- tion to our hand , in regard to different portions of the brain ... natural sentiment of Cautiousness , and that he who possesses the smaller portion , manifests very little of this ...
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... nature and merits of phrenology than other individuals who have devoted much time and labour to its investiga- tion . Such a piece of conceit might have passed without severe animadversion while the phrenologists were few in number and ...
... nature and merits of phrenology than other individuals who have devoted much time and labour to its investiga- tion . Such a piece of conceit might have passed without severe animadversion while the phrenologists were few in number and ...
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... nature is ever beautiful and har- monious . You smile at this assertion ; but you have no authority for the opposite opinion . You are aware , moreover , that many great discoveries have been treated with derision at their first ...
... nature is ever beautiful and har- monious . You smile at this assertion ; but you have no authority for the opposite opinion . You are aware , moreover , that many great discoveries have been treated with derision at their first ...
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... examination , and prove to be a correct interpretation of nature , they will surpass , in substantial importance to mankind , the discoveries even of Harvey , Newton , or Galileo ; and this age A DIALOGUE ON PHRENOLOGY .. 9.
... examination , and prove to be a correct interpretation of nature , they will surpass , in substantial importance to mankind , the discoveries even of Harvey , Newton , or Galileo ; and this age A DIALOGUE ON PHRENOLOGY .. 9.
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... natural talents and dispositions as a cast from the original skull itself , supposing phrenology to have a foundation in nature . There was a lack , therefore , not only of wit but of judgment , in the very conception of the trick . If ...
... natural talents and dispositions as a cast from the original skull itself , supposing phrenology to have a foundation in nature . There was a lack , therefore , not only of wit but of judgment , in the very conception of the trick . If ...
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