Statistics of phrenology : being a sketch of the progress and present state of that science in the British Islands.

  • Hewett Watson
Date:
1836
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Credit: Statistics of phrenology : being a sketch of the progress and present state of that science in the British Islands. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2. Phrenologists, Antivhuenologists, See. Professed P/trcnoloyists.* — In addition to members of societies, most of ^vhom may bo called professed plireno- logists, the local notices make it abundantly evident tliat there are many phrenologists scattered tlirougli Britain, who do not limit themselves to mere belief, but really study the subject to some extent. In Rugby, it is said, that there are only about five persons conversant with the science ; six or eight in Kilmarnock; a score inlNTontrose ; a score at least, and possibly ten times as many, in Dun- dee; fifty in Dunfermline; about a hundred and twenty in Portsmouth ; and two or three hundred in ^Manchester. In Beverlej', Coventry, Derby, Doncaster, Nottingham, Wakefield, i!v;c. Sec. there are individuals competent to in- struct others in the science. A few are to be found in Alytb, Bath, Brechin, Dunbar, Greenock, Haddington, Halifax, Hull, Leeds, Liverpool, Newcastle, Sec.; several in Arbroath and (apparently) Belfast; and many in Dublin, Edinburgh, and London. In phrenology, how- ever, as in every other science, the number of I'cri/ com- petent disciples must be few. If any individual were required to make a list of very competent geologists or entomologists, astronomers or botanists, his list would necessarily be very short; and lists of individuals, who are incderately conversant ^^ ith those sciences, Mould still be extremely limited, if com])arid with the mass of the people. The conjecture may be hazarded, that there are * The words profess and profi-ssion are frequently used in tbis volume, in the sense attached to declaration, open avowal, or public repute. I make an exjjlaiialion of it here, in conse- quence of having given offlnce to a jihrenologist, by this use of the word profession, when addressing him on the subject of the present volume. He took it in the sense of jiretcnsion without practice. Ko offence was at all intended on my ])art, but tlje circumstance called attention to the word, and I then peiiiivid in myself a very great tendency to tlie use of it with various applications. BsmiaimeerKmmammm
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