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Credit: Phrenological dictionary / By L.N. & J.A. Fowler. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![[42] place your fingers upon his head that the second finger shall reach upward to the back part of Firmness ; then la}^ the first and second joints of that finger evenly with the head, and place the first and third fingers upon the head alongside of it. When Self-Esteem is larger than Approbativeness, the second finger will be pushed up farther than the others ; but when the two lobes of Approbativeness are larger than Self-Esteem, the second finger will fall into a hollow running up and down, w^hile the first and third fingers will rest upon the two lobes of Approbative- ness. Or thus : In nineteen females out of every twenty, Approbativeness will be found considerably larger than Self- Esteem ; and b)' appl3'ing this rule to their heads, a hollow will generally be found at Self-Esteem, and a swell at Approbativeness, by which you can localize these organs ; and a few applications will soon enable 3'ou to form correct ideas of their appearance when large and small. Hope and Conscientiousness are found thus: That line already drawn to find Firmness passes over the back part of Hope, which is on each side of the fore part of Firmness, while Conscientiousness is just back of that line, on the two sides of the back part of Firmness, and joins Approbativeness behind. As these two organs run lengthwise from Firmness down toward Cautiousness, and are near together, it is sometimes difficult to determine which is large, and which small. The upper part of Conscientiousness, next to Firmness, experiences feelings of obligation to God, or sense of duty to obey His laws ; while the lower part creates a feeling of obligation to our fellow-men. Veneration is on the middle of the top of the head, or about an inch forward of the point already described for finding h'irmness ; while BENEVOLENCE is about an inch forward of Veiieraiion. When, therefore, the middle of the top-head rounds](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21053030_0050.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
