Report on the phrenological classification of J. Stanley Grimes / by E.N. Horsford ... ; adopted by the Albany Phrenological Society, September 3, 1840.

  • Horsford, Eben Norton, 1818-1893.
Date:
1840
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Credit: Report on the phrenological classification of J. Stanley Grimes / by E.N. Horsford ... ; adopted by the Albany Phrenological Society, September 3, 1840. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    at the American Institute. The subject being one of particular interest, viz. the highest range of the ipseal faculties, as he calls them, or those peculiar to man, as distinguished from all other animals. Mr. G.'s last lec- ture was received with great approbation, and fully sus- tained his bold original theory—which has the merit of producing conviction, because, as Ave have before re- marked, its illustrations are drawn from the only sure foundation for these investigations. We mean a com- parative view of the animal structure of the whole range of the organic world, animal and vegetable, tracing it from the first gleams of vitality or intelligence, in its most uncombined or simplified condition, up to its high- est and most complicated arrangement, as evinced in our own species, beyond which limits our comprehen- sion of superior intelligence can only grow out of the re- ligious impression produced by the sublime architecture of the boundless regions of universal space. It beauti- fully sustains the principles of religion. Mr. Grimes shows, as Cuvier and all profound zoologists have, that certain traits of organization, derived from the scull, teeth, features, and indeed the whole constitution of the animal, are always and necessarily accompanied by im- mutable traits of character. On this sound basis is his common sense and lucid theory created.—Star. Mr. Grimes commences a third course of lectures to- night, having been engaged to deliver the same before the Mechanics' Library Association, at their lecture room, in Crosby street, near the corner of Grand. The popularity of this gentleman is increasing daily, as is evinced by the flattering demands upon him by the most respectable literary institutions of our city.