A view of the philosophical principles of phrenology / by J. Spurzheim.

  • Johann Spurzheim
Date:
1825
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    cause of the universe, the origin of beings, the cause of life, the nature of the soul, its immortality, ^c. I incessantly repeat, that the aim of Phrenology is never to attempt pointing out what the mind is in itself Phrenologists are observers of nature, and as such they examine only the manifestations of the mind and the circumstances under which these take place. In my work, entitled Phrenology, a great mass of incontestable facts is collected. This volume will contain philosophical reflections, and inferences only. It will be divided into seven sections. In the first I shall examine the modes of action of the fun- damental powers of the mind, and the necessity of rectifying by Phrenology all the systems of philo- sophy which have ever been given to the world; in the second, give a new nomenclature of the fundamen- tal powers of the mind, state their aim, the disorders which may result from them, and the consequences of their inactivity ; in the third, discuss their origin ; in the fourth, the conditions of their manifestations ; in the fifth, the moral nature of man ; in the sixth, make some practical reflections ; and, in the seventh, explain several philosophical expressions, according to the fundamental powers of the mind. The contents of this volume made a part of the two first editions of the Physiognomical System. The subjects, however, are here treated more in detail; new expositions are added, and the arrangement of the whole is undoubtedly improved.
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