Phrenology simplified : being an exposition of the principles and applications of phrenology to the practical uses of life / by a member of the Phrenological Society of Edinburgh.

Date:
1836
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    We solicit the reader to remember that Preno- logy has never yet been opposed, much less re- futed, by established facts, and honest arguments ; that those who have most fiercely and pertina- ciously railed at it, have been uniformly actuated by motives of real or supposed interest in its re- jection and overthrow ; that every one who has faithfully and attentively studied it, has become its proselyte; that once proselyted, no one has ever been known to apostatize, but that all be- come, by further enquiry, and in progress of time, more fully and irrevocably convinced of its truth ; that when they have been induced to examine it, without prejudice, the most rigid inquirers, and the closest reasoners, have promptly become its most zealous advocates. It would require more than our present limits to enter fully here into the services which Phre- nology will be the means of rendering to human society, as soon as it shall be universally known and appreciated as it ought—all that we can aim at is, to call attention to the nature and importance of its assistance, in order that all those who are actuated by a desire of doing good, and who con- sider it a duty to contribute to the amelioration of our social condition, and of the human race in general, may concentrate their exertions in pro- pagating and bringing it to perfection. Of all the enquirers who have engaged in the cultivation of the philosophy of mind, the Phreno- logists alone have made it a fundamental rule to ascertain, and to take it into account, in all their inferences, the influence of changes in the state