A lecture on phrenology, as illustrative of the moral and intellectual capacities of man / by Disney Alexander.

  • Alexander, Disney, 1769-1844
Date:
1826
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Credit: A lecture on phrenology, as illustrative of the moral and intellectual capacities of man / by Disney Alexander. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    morrow, my boy ; and hear me out, before you give your opinion; and only see if I do not astonish your A day or two afterwards, on his receiving some compliments on the eloquence and ingenuity of his harangue ; « I think, said he, - 1 have drawn a little of the sting out of the poisoned shafts, that have been levelled against me; and / know the lads of the village will he pleased with my cow- Lamentable! that this feeling had not been controlled by the better Faculties of his nature, and directed to the approbation of the virtuous and respectable part of mankind ! Permit me, fourthly, to call your attention, for a few moments, to the Organ of Benevolence, which <]iall and Spurzheim have placed at the up- per and middle part of the Frontal bone, imme- diately above the Forehead. It has been objected, that Nature cannot have been so inconsistent with herself, as to plant a Fa- culty of Benevolence, and another of Destructive- ness in the same Mind. But Man, is, confessedly, an assemblage of contradictions. He differs not more from others than from himself. Nil fuit unquani Sic impar sibi.