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A system of phrenology / By George Combe.

  • George Combe
Date:
1843
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Credit: A system of phrenology / By George Combe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    die, I have been requested to continue the circula- tion of these documents along with the present edi- tion, in the expectation that sooner or later they will lead to practical results. Dr Spurzheim, in the American Edition of his « Phrenology,” published at Boston in 1832, adopt- ed a new arrangement of the organs, different from any which he had previously followed. It will be impossible, however, to arrive at a perfect classi- fication and numeration of the organs until the whole of them shall have been discovered, and the primitive or elementary faculties shall have been ascertained. Any order, therefore, adopted in the mean time, must be to some extent arbitrary. Dr Spurzheim has shewn this to be the case by the fre- quent alterations which he has made in the nume- ration of the organs, without having added any cor- responding discoveries to the science. The diffi- culties attending a correct classification are stated in the Appendix, No. IL, and for the present I re- tain, as a matter of convenience, the order followed in the third and fourth editions of this work. EpINBURGH, 31st March 1843.
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