The phrenological & physiological register : with chart describing the phrenological developments of M------ as given by ------, date-----.

  • Lorenzo N. Fowler
Date:
[between 1900 and 1909?]
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Credit: The phrenological & physiological register : with chart describing the phrenological developments of M------ as given by ------, date-----. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SMALL, 2.—Are deficient in constructive talent, have no mechanica} kill or desire. VERY SMALL, 1.—Entirely wanting in skill and ingenuity. To CULTIVATE.—Always try and lay your own plans, make your own models, or improve those of others; remember that mechanism is necessary in everything you undertake. To RESTRAIN.—Is seldom necessary, yet the desire for invention may become a mechanical mania—a patent-right disease; in such cases never try to do a OVENS but what has been done before, and be as ital as possible in all that you make. IDEALITY. Sense of Perfection and Beauty; Scope and Susceptibility of Mind; Poetical Sentiment and Imagery; Love of Art, Oratory, Literature; Refinement; Gentility; Polish; Ability to Magnify and Embellish; Expansiveness. Excrss—A Distaste for Every-day Life; Fastidious- ness. DEFICIENCY—Want of Refinement, Polish and Taste. LocatioN—Between Sublimity and Mirthfulness. It has three The back part gives the power and ability to magnify, embellish, and to make a full representation of a subject. The middle part gives polish, taste, and the poetical sentiment; susceptibility to beauty, style, and imagery. The front part gives sense of the perfect, exquisite, and highly wrought; a desire to approximate to the highest degree of perfec- tion in character, literature, art, or workmanship. VERY LARGE, 7.—Have the most exquisite taste, the highest degree of refinement, and intense love of the beautiful; you live in an ideal world, and set up a high standard in character and manners; have @ vivid imagination, a high conception of poetry, beauty, and per- fection. LARGE, 6.—Are imaginative, refined and tasteful; you love poetry, art, and the beautiful in nature; have high ideas of propriety in ex- pression and conduct; are graceful and polished in manners, will strive after perfection in character and performance. © FULL, 5.—Are not wanting in taste, refinement, or love of the beautiful. You appreciate elegance and polished manners, have elevated notions of the proprieties of life, but are not sentimental, fanciful, or over-fastidious. AVERAGE, 4.—Will show more liking for the plain and substantial than for the ornamental; are a utilitarian, and live in a real, every- day, matter-of-fact world. MODERATE, 3.—Are somewhat deficient in taste, very plain in man- Herken uaye little imagination, and will show little taste for poetry or art. SMALL, 2.—You show a marked deficiency in taste, polish, and re finement; are extremely utilitarian. _VERY SMALL, 1.—Evince but little skill or taste, have no apprecia- tion of beauty and style. To CULTIVATE.—You should constantiy exercise your imagination, should study poetry, painting and eloquence; read choice books; sae choice language; cultivate refinement and a love of the beauti- ul. To RESTRAIN.—Learn to prize the useful and the practical] things of life; avoid all exaggeration in speaking.
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