Education: its elementary principles, founded on the nature of man / by J.G. Spurzheim ... With an appendix by S.R. Wells, containing a description of the temperaments, and a brief analysis of the phrenological faculties.

  • Spurzheim, J. G. (Johann Gaspar), 1776-1832.
Date:
1848
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Credit: Education: its elementary principles, founded on the nature of man / by J.G. Spurzheim ... With an appendix by S.R. Wells, containing a description of the temperaments, and a brief analysis of the phrenological faculties. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ferent impressions;—moreover, no obstacle, nei¬ ther river nor sea, prevents him from continuing* his excursions;—he transports with him animals and vegetables, and prepares by art what he can not use in the natural state; and he knows how to shelter himself and other useful beings against noxious influences from without. The internal structure of the body of man, also indicates that there is only one species. To prove that there are several, it would be necessary to show that the number of the essential parts is not the same in all; that Europeans, for instance, possess certain parts which Negroes have not Whoever could demonstrate, that one part of the brain in Europeans is wanting in Negroes, would prove that there is a natural difference between them ; I hope, during my stay in the United States, to be able to examine the brains of Negroes, and to ascertain that the same essential parts exist in them, subject, merely, to modifications, as it is the case in different individuals of the white race. Another argument to prove that there is only one species of Man, may be founded on the mani¬ festations of the mind. Every where, and at all times, the same primitive faculties, however modi¬ fied the actions flowing from them may be, are to be observed. Negroes, in general, are inferior to Europeans; yet some of the former excel in mu¬ sic, mathematics, and philosophy. Blumeneacii