Elements of phrenology / [George Combe].

  • George Combe
Date:
1850
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Credit: Elements of phrenology / [George Combe]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ral sufficiently distinguishable on the skull, and the line can easily be traced. The convolutions lying above the Ime AB must have been shallow and small, compared with those below, which are devoted to the animal pro- pensities. Fig. 4. is a sketch of the head of a Negro named HKustache,* who was as much distinguished for high morality and practical benevolence as Gottfried was for deficiency of these qualities. During the mas- sacre of the whites by the Negroes in St Domingo, Eus- tache, while in the capacity of a slave, saved, by his ad- dress, courage, and devotion, the lives of his master and upwards of 400 other whites, at the daily risk of his own safety. The line AB is drawn from Causality B, through Cautiousness 12; and the great size of the convolutions of the moral sentiments may be estimated from the space lying between that line and the top of the head C. Both of the sketches are taken from casts, and the outlines of the head, and the points B and 12 are ex- act representations of nature drawn to a scale; but the convolutions are filled in suppositively for the sake of illustration. The depth of the convolutions also, in both cuts, is greater than in nature, that the contrast may be rendered the more perceptible. It will be kept in mind that I am now giving merely rules for observing heads, and not proving particular facts. Dr Abram Cox has suggested, that the size of the convolutions which con- * The Phrenological Journal, vol. ix., p. 134.
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