Examination of the objections made in Britain against the doctrines of Gall and Spurzheim / by J.G. Spurzheim.

  • Spurzheim, Johann Gaspard, 1776-1832.
Date:
1817
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    Tims, the more the reader will compare our works, and the reports given by our antagonists, and their and our opinions with nature, the more he will be enabled to decide of whom it may be said, “ Were they even to succeed in shaking off the suspicion of mala Jidcs, which we apprehend is inseparably attached to their character, we should not hesitate to say, that we do not know any writers, who, with a conceit so truly ludicrous, and so impudent a contempt for the opinions and labours of others, are so utterly destitute of every qualification necessary for the conduct of a philosophical investiga- tion.” Edinburgh Review, No. 49. p. 228. CHAPTER III. PHILOSOPHY. This chapter may be very short, since in this depart- ment our British antagonists confine themselves to gene- ral considerations. The logical study of the author in the Quarterly Review, No. 25. p. 165. is the most simple: he admits in the mind only one understanding, and in that one he seems defective. “ There is,” says he, “ no more solid reason for dividing understanding into facul- ties, than for dividing heat or light into faculties.” This comparison, however, of understanding with heat and light, is not very apt for simplicity, since neither has been proved to be a single substance. Besides, as one single understanding does not explain the phenomena of the mind, and as all other logicians found it necessary to F
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