Phrenology Vindicated, and Antiphrenology UnmaskedSamuel Colman, 1838 - 156 psl. |
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... views of the anatomy and physiology of the brain . Some merit was awarded to them for their method of dissecting the brain , and for some other improvements they had made ; but many of the discoveries which they claimed as original were ...
... views of the anatomy and physiology of the brain . Some merit was awarded to them for their method of dissecting the brain , and for some other improvements they had made ; but many of the discoveries which they claimed as original were ...
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... views directly the opposite of what its author intended . Not only has he rejected from his garbled extract every expression favourable to Gall and Spurz- heim , which the " Biography " contains ; he has , in disregard of truth ...
... views directly the opposite of what its author intended . Not only has he rejected from his garbled extract every expression favourable to Gall and Spurz- heim , which the " Biography " contains ; he has , in disregard of truth ...
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... views of Professor Warren ; provided he has tho- roughly examined the subject . Taking his departure from this point of " Lecture II . " Dr. Sewall threads his way through a wilderness of er- rors and misstatements , the most gross and ...
... views of Professor Warren ; provided he has tho- roughly examined the subject . Taking his departure from this point of " Lecture II . " Dr. Sewall threads his way through a wilderness of er- rors and misstatements , the most gross and ...
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... views to a fourth part of the extent with many others . Nor did he ever , I believe , attempt to practise the art . Gall , on the contrary , was no Animal Magnetist . Nor was he in any degree an imaginative man . On the contrary , he ...
... views to a fourth part of the extent with many others . Nor did he ever , I believe , attempt to practise the art . Gall , on the contrary , was no Animal Magnetist . Nor was he in any degree an imaginative man . On the contrary , he ...
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... views are constitutional , and depending wholly on organization . Such find a false peace an imaginary comfort in the doctrine , that virtue and vice are alike the result of organs implanted by the Creator , and thus persuade themselves ...
... views are constitutional , and depending wholly on organization . Such find a false peace an imaginary comfort in the doctrine , that virtue and vice are alike the result of organs implanted by the Creator , and thus persuade themselves ...
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