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George Combe's A System of Phrenology, 5th edn, 2 vols. 1853.

Vol. 1: [front matter], Intro, Nervous system, Principles of Phrenology, Anatomy of the brain, Division of the faculties 1.Amativeness 2.Philoprogenitiveness 3.Concentrativeness 4.Adhesiveness 5.Combativeness 6.Destructiveness, Alimentiveness, Love of Life 7.Secretiveness 8.Acquisitiveness 9.Constructiveness 10.Self-Esteem 11.Love of Approbation 12.Cautiousness 13.Benevolence 14.Veneration 15.Firmness 16.Conscientiousness 17.Hope 18.Wonder 19.Ideality 20.Wit or Mirthfulness 21.Imitation.
Vol. 2: [front matter], external senses, 22.Individuality 23.Form 24.Size 25.Weight 26.Colouring 27.Locality 28.Number 29.Order 30.Eventuality 31.Time 32.Tune 33.Language 34.Comparison, General observations on the Perceptive Faculties, 35.Causality, Modes of actions of the faculties, National character & development of brain, On the importance of including development of brain as an element in statistical inquiries, Into the manifestations of the animal, moral, and intellectual faculties of man, Statistics of Insanity, Statistics of Crime, Comparative phrenology, Mesmeric phrenology, Objections to phrenology considered, Materialism, Effects of injuries of the brain, Conclusion, Appendices: No. I, II, III, IV, V, [Index], [Works of Combe].

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A

SYSTEM

OF

PHRENOLOGY.

 

BY

GEORGE COMBE.

 

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RES NON VERBA QUAESO

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FIFTH EDITION,

Revised.

VOL. I.

 

EDINBURGH:

MACLACHLAN AND STEWART.

LONGMAN & CO., AND SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, & CO., LONDON.

MDCCCLIII.

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CONTENTS.

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VOLUME I.

Page

INTRODUCTION, ..... 1

Opposition to Discoveries, ... 2

The Brain the Organ of the Mind, . . 8

Plurality of Faculties and Organs, . . 24

Influence of Size on the power of Organs, . 34

Temperament and Disease modify the effects of Size, 49

Effects of Exercise, . . . . 55

Connexion of particular Faculties and Organs, 56

Efforts of Metaphysicians, ... 53

of Moralists, Poets, and Divines, . 68

of Physiologists, ... 65

History of Dr Gall's Discovery, . . 75

General view of the nervous system, . 84

principles of phrenology, ... 97

Discrimination of Mental Dispositions and Talents, 103

general remarks on the brain, . . 107

Popular Observations on its Structure, . . 115

Integuments of the Brain, . . . 123

Bones of the Skull, .... 125

Frontal Sinus, . . . . . 130

Anatomy of the brain , &c., . 134
Description of the Plates, . . . 140

Practical Application of the Principles of Phrenology, 142

Relative Sizes of the Cerebral Lobes, . . 143

Length and breadth of the Organs, . . 146

Phrenological Bust, .... 149

Forms and appearances of the Organs, . . 152

Terms used to express their Sizes, . . 154

Table of Measurements by Callipers, . . 157

Absolute Size no criterion, . . . 158

Brains of the Lower Animals, . . . 160

Temperaments, .... 49, 163

Power and Activity, .... 16

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What is a Faculty? .... 171

Is the Mind Simple ? . . . . 172

division of the faculties, . . . 180

natural language of the faculties, . 182

FACULTIES.

order I.-FEELINGS, ... 183

Genus I.-propensities, ... ib.

1. Amativeness, . . . ib.
2. Philoprogenitiveness,
3. Concentrativeness, . . 211
4. Adhesiveness, . . . 237
5. Combativeness, . . . 243
6. Destructiveness, . . . 255
Alimentiveness, . . . 277
Love of Life, . . . 289
7. Secretiveness, . . . 294
8. Acquisitiveness, . . . 311
9. Constructiveness, . . . 326
Genus II.-sentiments, . . . 340
I. Sentiments common to Man and the Lower Animals, . . 341
10. Self-Esteem, ... ib.
11. Love of Approbation, . . 357
12. Cautiousness, . . . 369
2. Superior Sentiments, . . 381
13. Benevolence, . . . 382
14. Veneration, . . . 399
15. Firmness, . . . 413
16. Conscientiousness, . . 418
17. Hope, .... 443
18. Wonder, ... 449
19. Ideality, .... 469
20. Wit or Mirthfulness, . . 490
21. Imitation, . . . 511

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LIST OF ENGRAVINGS.*

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Amativeness, illustrations of, i. 183 Jervis, Jacob, . . -i. 519

American Indian,skull,i.212; ii. 344 John, St, head, (1) . . i. 403

Angelo, Michael, head, (1) ii. 29 Kandian, skull, . . i. 381

Boy addicted to falsehood, i. 437 Linn, parricide, head, . i. 184

Brain: upper surface, (l)i. 108; Locke, head, (1) . . i. 477

under surface, (1) 141 ; side M., Rev. Mr, head, . . i. 184

view, lb.; section of, (1) 116; Maxwell, murderer, head, ii. 310

connection with spinal mar- Melancthon, head, (1) . i. 144

row and nerves (1), 85, 88, 89 Miser, (1) ... i. 308

Brazil Indian, skull, . . ii. 349 Moore, profile, . . . ii. 92

Burns, skull, . i. 19S, 212, 382 Negro, skull, . . . ii. 351

Carib, skull, . . . ii. 338 Nerves, (2) . . i. 85, 89, 91

Cat, skull, (2) . . . ii. 389 New Hollander, skull,

Chaucer, head, (1) . . i. 477 i. 57, 331 ; ii. 339

Cingalese, skulls, New Zealander, skull, . ii. 344

i. *144, 247, 255, 256, 369, 373, 381 Ormerod, Ann, head, . ii. 114

Crow, skull, (2) . . ii. 390 Papuan, skull, . . i. 184, 264

Dobson, William, head, (1) ii. 40 Peruvian, skull, . . i. 195

Esquimaux, skull, i. 203, 264, 438 Pitt, profile, . . . ii. 92

Eustache, Negro, head, i. *141, 386 Rammohun Roy, head, . i. 45

Firmness large, . . i. 416 Sandwich Islander, skull ii. 356

Fisher, Clara, . . . i. 519 Scotch skull, . . . ii. 359

Forms associated with names, ii. 38 Secretiveness large, . . i. 295

François Cordonnier, . i. 341 Self-Esteem large, . . i. 341

French soldier, skull, . i. 416 Sheridan, profile, . . ii. 92

Frontal sinus, . . . i. 127 Skull: section shewing falciform

Girl with small Cautiousness and process, i. 125 ; section shew-

Firmness, skull, i. 369, 399, 416 ing frontal sinus, 130 ; bones

Gottfried, murderess, i. *141, *144 of, 140 ; skull as marked by

Greek, skull, . i. 331 ;ii. 358 Vimont, . . . 211,232

Griffiths, murderer, . i. 382 Spaniel Bitch, skull, (2) ii. 389

H., Mrs, head, . . . i. 437 Spinal marrow, (2) i. 89, 91

Hare, murderer, head, . i. 144 Spurzheim, skull, . . i. 57

Haggart, head, . . . i. 437 Swiss, skull, . . . ii. 357

Handel, head, (1) . . ii. 114 Tardy, murderer, . i. 255, 256

Head divided into regions by Tasso, head, (1) . . i. 453

Dolce, (1) ... i. 33 Temperaments, illustrations of

Hette, Dr, skull, . . i. 399 the, (2; . . . i. 50

Hindoo, skull, . i. 294 ; ii. 337 Vitellius, head, (1) . . i. 146

Idiot, head, . . . i. 45 Wurmser, General, skull, . i. 247

* The figures marked (1) are copied from engraved portraits, &c., in general circulation ; the others, with the exception of those marked (2), are drawn from skulls, or casts from nature, in the collection of the Phrenological Society. These figures of skulls and casts are drawn as nearly as possible on the same scale, the dimensions being reduced to one fifth of those of the real subjects, except in the case of the figures on pages 122 and ] 27 of vol. i. The scale is subjoined.

 

Scale of Inches.

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0 l 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

*The measurement in the Tables in vol. i. p. 157, and vol. ii. p. 370, are taken by inserting the point of the leg of a pair of callipers into the hole of the ear, and bringing the point of the other leg to the centre of the situation of the organ on the skull. The distance noted in the tables is the length of a straight line extending from one of these points to the other. In reducing the skulls to a flat surface in the drawings, the measurements could not be made to correspond exactly with those given in the tables, because the lines represented are different. The approximation, however, is as great as possible, and one principle is followed in all the drawings, so that relatively to each other they are correct.

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ERRATA.

Vol. i. p, 18, ninth line from bottom, for James Gmapes, read James J. Mapes
228, second line from bottom, for eighteenth read eighteen
335, line 25, for planes read Planets
379, - 11, for quadrumani read quadrumana

Vol. ii. p. 343, line 13, for relicts, read relics,

388 to 391, head-title, for cerebral read comparative 423, line 3, after text, insert vol. i.
425, - 3, after text, insert vol. i.
433, - 3, after text, insert vol. i.

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DIRECTIONS TO THE BINDER.

The Engraving of the Phrenological Bust faces the Title-

Page of vol. i.

Plates I. and II. face vol. i. p. 50. Plates III., IV., V., and VI., face vol. i. p. 140. Let pages 71 to 74 of vol. i. be properly inserted between pages 70 and 75.

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Vol. 1: [front matter], Intro, Nervous system, Principles of Phrenology, Anatomy of the brain 1.Amativeness 2.Philoprogenitiveness 3.Concentrativeness 4.Adhesiveness 5.Combativeness 6.Destructiveness, Alimentiveness, Love of Life 7.Secretiveness 8.Acquisitiveness 9.Constructiveness 10.Self-Esteem 11.Love of Approbation 12.Cautiousness 13.Benevolence 14.Veneration 15.Firmness 16.Conscientiousness 17.Hope 18.Wonder 19.Ideality 20.Wit or Mirthfulness 21.Imitation.
Vol. 2: [front matter], external senses, 22.Individuality 23.Form 24.Size 25.Weight 26.Colouring 27.Locality 28.Number 29.Order 30.Eventuality 31.Time 32.Tune 33.Language 34.Comparison, General observations on the Perceptive Faculties, 35.Causality, Modes of actions of the faculties, National character & development of brain, On the importance of including development of brain as an element in statistical inquiries, Into the manifestations of the animal, moral, and intellectual faculties of man, Statistics of Insanity, Statistics of Crime, Comparative phrenology, Mesmeric phrenology, Objections to phrenology considered, Materialism, Effects of injuries of the brain, Conclusion, Appendices: No. I, II, III, IV, V, [Index], [Works of Combe].