Sketches and characters, or, The natural history of the human intellects / by James William Whitecross.

  • Whitecross, James William.
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1853
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    CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. The present Essay is composed of gleanings on the field of mental philosopliy, and is but a natural bistory of human intellects. The obvious disparity in the iutellectual powers of men pointed out. The influence of diet, of the game of draughts and chess and of whist; the influence of daylight, of the weakness or excellence of the senses, or of the want of one of them; the influence of passions, of society, of parliamentary life, of education, and of music, upon our intellectual faculties. The influence which difierent deficiencies, as well as excellences, capacities, and bias of our intellect, arc exerting upon our morals, passions, and judgment. Sources and modifications of mental disparity. An account of the motives, occasions, and sources of the observations dis- playing the diversity and disparity of mental characters, ]3p. 1—40 CHAPTER II. Mental capacities of difierent nations—The facial angle of Camper— Dr. Prichard’s types of cranial conformation—The Bushmen—The primitive inhabitants of Australia—The Hottentots—The Negroes The North American Western Indians—Indians of California— Aborigines of North America at the moment of the discovery of America by Columbus—The Puris, or Brazilian Indians. Asiatics : Aborigines of Egypt—Turks—Arabs—Persians—Hindoos— Chinese. iiiuropeans : Spaniards—Portuguese—Italians—-French—Germans— Englishmen Welshmen—Scotchmen—Irishmen—Anglo-Ameri- cans Poles Bohemians — W ends — Russians— Hungarians — South-blavonians—Ancient and Modern Greeks , . ])p. 41—lOS