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The physiognomical system of Drs. Gall and Spurzheim; founded on an anatomical and physiological examination of the nervous system in general, and of the brain in particular; and indicating the dispositions and manifestations of the mind / Being at the same time a book of reference for Dr. Spurzheim's demonstrative lectures.

  • Spurzheim, J. G. (Johann Gaspar), 1776-1832
Date:
1815
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Credit: The physiognomical system of Drs. Gall and Spurzheim; founded on an anatomical and physiological examination of the nervous system in general, and of the brain in particular; and indicating the dispositions and manifestations of the mind / Being at the same time a book of reference for Dr. Spurzheim's demonstrative lectures. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the desires are as different as the faculties, and the energy and number of desires are proportionate to the activity and number of the faculties. It is the same with pain and pleasure. Every faculty being satisfied perceives pleasure; and every faculty being disagreeably affected feels: pain : conse- quently the kinds of pain and pleasure are as nu- merous as the faculties. One individual’ delights in generously pardoning offences, another in taking revenge. One is happy in the possession of riches, . another glories in disdaining the vanity of man- kind. It follows that pain and pleasure are the result, and not the cause, of the particular faculties. PASSIONS. ‘Helvetius and several others consider the passions, principally the love of glory or ambition, as the source of faculties. Let us examine their doctrine. The ex- pression, passion, has different significations : some- times passion is confounded with the affections in general; or it signifies the highest degree of ac- tivity, or it denotes any special faculty. Passions in the sense of affections, as anger, envy, shame, affliction, joy &c: are only modifications of the sensations, and’ cannot produce the faculties whose — modified actions they are. Passions, ‘as the highest degree of activity of any faculty, produce evidently great phenomena. Every faculty which is extremely active, whether by its own power and internal energy, or by external excitement, will perform actions-which are impossible in the ordinary state