PHRENOLOGY

The faculties generally recognized by phrenologists are gines to injure or destroy, and fabrication of objects to the following.* deceive mankind. Order I. Feelings. Genus I. Propensities — Common to Man, with the Lower Animals. r The Love of Life. K Appetite for Food — Uses: Nutrition. — Abuses: L Gluttony and drunkenne . 1. Amativene — Produces sexual love. 2. Philoprogenitivene . — Uses: Affection for young and tender beings. — Abuses: Pampering and spoiling children. 3. Concentrative ne Uses: It renders permanent emotions and ideas in the mind. — Abuses: Morbid dwelling on the internal emotions and ideas, to the neglect of external impre ions. 3. a. Inhabitivene — Uses: It produces the desire of permanence in place — Abuses: A version to raoveabroad. 4. Adhesivene . — Uses: Attachment, friendship, and society result from it Abuses: Clanship for improper objects, attachment to worthle individuals. 5. Combativene . — Uses: Courage to meet danger and overcome difficulties, tendency to oppose and attack whatever requires opposition and. to resist unjust encroachments— Abuses: Love of contention, and tendency to provoke and a ault. This feeling obviously adapts man to a world in which danger and difficulty abound. 6. Destructivene . — Uses: Desire to destroy noxious objects, and to kill for food. It is very discernible in carnivorous animaXs. ~ Abuses: Cruelty, murder, desire to torment; tendency to pa ion, rage, and harshne and severity in speech and writing. This feeling places man in harmony with death and destruction, which are woven into the system of sublunary creation. 7. Secretivene . — f/jtes; Tendency to restrain within the mind the various emotions and ideas that involuntarily present themselves until the judgment has approved of giving them utterance; it is simply the propensity to conceal, and is an ingredient in prudence. — Abuses: Cunning, deceit, duplicity, and lying. 8. Acquisitivene . — Uses: Desire to po e , and tendency to accumulate articles of utility to provide against want. — Abuses: Inordinate desire of property, selfishne , avarice, theft. 9. Constructivene . — Uses: Desire to build and construct works of art. — Abuses: Construction of en* The organs are double, each faculty having two lying in corresponding situations of the hemispheres of the brain; except in those organs, such as individuality f eventuality, benevolence, ., represented in the fig. by 22, 30, l3, ., whicn occupy the central part of the skull. t These organs are not fully ascertained, but some facts indicate that they lie in the base of the brain The first is not marked on the bust, but the second is indicated by 6 a. on Fig. 1. 925 Genus II. Sentiments. I. Sentiments common to Man with the Lower Animals. 10. Self-esteem.— f/ses: Self-respect, self-interest, love of independence, personal dignity. — Abuses: Pride, disdain, overweening conceit, exce ive selfishne , love of dominion. 11. Love of Approbation — Uses: Desire of the esteem of others, love of praise, desire of fame or glory. — Abuses: Vanity, ambition, thirst for praise independently of praiseworthine . 12. Cautiousne . — f/s^5; It gives origin to the sentiment of fear, the desire to shun danger, and circumspection; and it is an ingredient in prudence Abuses: Exce ive timidity, poltroonery, unfounded apprehensions, despondency, melancholy. 13. Benevolence. — Uses: Desire of the happine of others, universal charity, mildne of disposition, and a lively sympathy with the enjoyment of all animated beings Abuses: Profusion, injurious indulgence of the appetites and fancies of others, prodigality, facility of temper. W. Sentiments proper to Man. 14. Veneration. — Uses: Tendency to venerate or respect whatever is great and good; gives origin to religious adoration — Abuses: Sensele respect for unworthy objects consecrated by time or situation, love of antiquated customs, abject subserviency to persons in authority, superstitious awe. 15. Firmne Uses: Determination, perseverance, steadine of purpose. — Piuses: Stubbornne , infatuation, tenacity in evil. 16. Conscientiousne . — Uses: It gives origin to the sentiment of justice, or respect for the rights of others, openne to conviction, the love of truth Abuses: Scrupulous adherence to noxious principles when ignorantly embraced, exce ive refinement in the views of duty and obligation, exce in remorse or self-condemnation. 17. Hope. — Uses: Tendency to expect future good; it cherishes ^a.\t\\. — Abuses: Credulity with respect to the attainment of what is desired, absurd expectations of felicity not founded on reason. 18. Wonder. — Uses: The desire of novelty; admiration of the new, the unexpected, the grand, the wonderful, and extraordinary. — Abuses: Love of the niarvellous and occult; sensele astonishment; belief in prodigies, magic, ghosts, and other supernatural absurdities. 19. Ideality. — Uses: Love of the beautiful and splendid, desire of excellence, poetic feeling Abuses: Extravagance and absurd enthusiasm, preference of the showy and glaring to the solid and useful, a tendency to dwell in the regions of fancy and to neglect the duties of life. 19. a. The organ of Sublimity; but not sufficiently ascertained. 20. Wit — Gives the feeling of the ludicrous, and disposes to mirth. 21. Imitation — Copies the manners, gestures, and actions of others, and appearances in nature gere rally. Order II. Intellectual Faculties. Genus I. External Senses. Uses: To bring man into communication with external objects, and to enable him to enjoy them. — Abuses: Exce ive indulgence in the pleasures arising from the senses, to the extent of impairing bodily health and debilitating or.deteriorating the mind. Genus II. Knowing Faculties, which perceive the Existence and Qualities of External Objects. 22. Individuality — Takes cognizance of existence and simple facts. 23. Form— Renders man observant of form. 24. Size — Gives the idea of space, and enables him to appreciate dimension and distance. 2.5. Weight — Communicates the perception of momentum, weight, and resistance, and aids equilibrium. 26. Colouring — Gives perception of colours and their harmonies. Genus 111. Knowing Faculties, which perceive tub Relations of EjJternal Objects. 27. Locality — Gives the idea of relative position 28. Number — Gives the talent for calculation. 29. Order — Communicates the love of physical arrangement. 30. Eventuality — Takes cognizance of occurrences or events. Feeling or Touch. Taste. Smell. Hearing. Sight. [s. 938]