Marriage, its history and ceremonies : with a phrenological and physiological exposition of the functions and qualifications for happy marriages / by L.N. Fowler.
- Lorenzo N. Fowler
- Date:
- 1848
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Credit: Marriage, its history and ceremonies : with a phrenological and physiological exposition of the functions and qualifications for happy marriages / by L.N. Fowler. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![and at the present time are not generally received by the phrenological world. Gall was disposed to ascribe its in- fluence to Self-esteem, and states that in the examination of the brains of animals, he uniformly found that those classes which voluntarily soared aloft—eagles, falcons, &c., and such as are accustomed to be found on the higher peaks of the mountains, far above the region where they are accus- tomed to live, such as the chamois—had the organ (Self- esteem) largely developed. In short, that the feeling in man which prompts to moral height, the elevation of autho- rity, &c., is but a higher gradation of the instinct of ani- mals, giving a predilection for physical heights and alti- tudes. Spurzheim went farther than this, and recognised a distinct faculty under this name : but, in so doing, he clashes with the opinion and observations of Combe, who describes the same faculty as being but an adjunct of another under some modifications, called Concentrativeness, or- a tendency to concentrate the mind within itself, and to di- rect its powers in a combined effort to one object. This caused a difference of opinion between these great phrenologists, which, not leading to a satisfactory result, was suspended by Combe's remarking, I am convinced that he [Dr. Spurzheim] has not correctly apprehended the quality of mind which 1 designate as Concentrativeness. This must, no doubt, be my fault; but it affords good rea- son for not prolonging the controversy. It has been long settled in the Author's mind, and constant observation is demonstrating more clearly every day, the correctness of the position, that we are endowed with two distinct facul- ties of the mind—Inhabitiveness and Concentrativeness : the one giving attachment to place, love of country, &c., the oth- er, continuity of mind and connectedness of purpose. There is much aaalog3 between the relative position of Concen- trativeness and Inhabitiveness at the present time and that of upper and lower Inhabitiveness formerly, in both so far as regards organic position, difficulty of settling definitely](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2112033x_0114.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
