Reminiscences of Dr. Spurzheim and George Combe : and a review of the science of phrenology, from the period of its discovery by Dr. Gall, to the time of the visit of George Combe to the United States, 1838, 1840 / by Nahum Capen.

  • Capen, Nahum, 1804-1886.
Date:
1881
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Credit: Reminiscences of Dr. Spurzheim and George Combe : and a review of the science of phrenology, from the period of its discovery by Dr. Gall, to the time of the visit of George Combe to the United States, 1838, 1840 / by Nahum Capen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    and gardener, we have before us, in tliis silent Paek of THE Dead, the magiiificei'it and nndjing bloom of love, in all its relations of beauty, tenderness, and sublimity. I can not repress the deep emotions of my soul, when I speak of these impressive realities of the past. I am, indeed, overwhelmed with reflections upon persons and characters I have known, and upon the events of a period, which, though it seems short to me, when meas- ured by days and years, long to others. In these grounds we find the familiar names of persons who have characterized the metropolis and commonwealth of Massachusetts during the present century. Among them, variously inscribed, are the names of Kirkland, Quincy, Eliot, Warren, Bigelow, Everett, Story, Choate, Appleton, Lawrence, Jackson, Bowditch, Ticknor, Gray, Sparks, Longfellow, Holmes, Prescott, Walker, Brooks, Otis, Savage, Ballon, Adams, Austin, Amory, Sears, Tuckerman, Parkman, Shaw, Lyman, Kuhn, Lowell, Perkins, Channing, Codman, Cabot, Parker, Ward, Parsons, Brereton, Peirce, Motley, Welles, Lewis, Worcester, Hedge, Bartlett, Lothrop, Hale, Sargent, Bell, Wigglesworth, Ware, Pickering, Emerson, Capen, Coolidge, Thacher, Ligalls, Lee, Curtis,—^indeed, the enumeration would almost exhaust the necrologic regis- ter of ]^ew England. What varied reflections and as- sociations crowd upon the memory in the review of so many departed persons, who, while they lived, accom- plished so much for their age, their country, and the world. Active friends of education, interpreters of history, science, law, and government, and the promot- ers of art and industry, of commerce and refinement, though gone from earth, their names will be forever