Phrenology vindicated : being a reply to the article by Dr Andrew Wilson, entitled "The old phrenology and the new", which appeared in "The gentleman's magazine", January, 1879 / by A.L. Vago.

  • Vago, A. L. (Ambrose Lewis)
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[1879?]
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Credit: Phrenology vindicated : being a reply to the article by Dr Andrew Wilson, entitled "The old phrenology and the new", which appeared in "The gentleman's magazine", January, 1879 / by A.L. Vago. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the mind were so much in opposition one to the other that they have all been abandoned, and now the voluminous descantations of Locke, Stewart, Brown, Reid, and other writers of their school, have fallen into oblivion consequent on the introduction of Phreno- logy, which furnishes the only true philosophy of the mind. While the metaphysicians were engaged in their elaborate propoundings of perception, conception, memory, abstraction, imagination, reason, and so forth, they never suspected that they were dealing but with terms that refer to qualities which merely characterise the various degrees and modes of operation of the faculties of the mind, and that such terms did not even serve to nominate or define the nature of a single elementary faculty of the mind. The discovery of this error was due to the doctrines of Phrenology; and now the phrenological nomenclature of the mental faculties has become general, while the terms percep- tion, memory, and the like, have become obsolete as denominations of the special faculties of the mind. Indeed the doctrines of Phrenology are now so gene- rally accepted that their origin is altogether overlooked. Being unaware that the acknowledged philosophy of the mind is appreciable tbut in proportion as it is con- sistent with the principles of Phrenology, Dr. Andrew