My battle for life : The autobiography of a phrenologist / Edited by David Geo. Goyder.

  • Goyder, David George, 1796-1878.
Date:
1857
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Credit: My battle for life : The autobiography of a phrenologist / Edited by David Geo. Goyder. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    talents as nothing above mediocrity. From all this evidence Dr. Gall concluded that this was a primitive faculty. Arithmetical talent has been often exemplified M//i JEDEDIAH BUXTON. in children in this country, and has called forth much discussion among metaphysicians, as to whether the faculty is intuitive. Some teachers are of opinion, that boys of moderate talent, may, by diligent practice, be brought to equal, if not rival, the feats of the celebrated Zerah Colhourn, the American calculator. Mr. Hill, in his ' Plans for the Education and Liberal Instruc- tion of Boys in large numbers,' says : — * At one of our public exhibitions, a class of ten or twelve boys stood prepared to extract the cube roots (disregarding fractions) of any numbers, whether exact cubes or surds, which did not exceed two thousand millions. Many gentlemen present were furnished with tables of cubes and their roots : several questions were proposed, and answered with a rapidity which astonished the audience. This class had