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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    tastes and inclinations, By great application he became a scholar and a man of considerable learning. Besides, his medical friend spoke of him in terms of the highest respect, as a minister esteemed by all his congregation; as a man of n most exemplary conduct, and of the strictest in- tegrity, who shewed great care and economy in the management of his own affairs. The cast of the Rev. Mr. M. represents the development generally found when the dispositions are natur- ally virtuous. The lines are drawn immediately under the organs of Causality and Cautiousness, and along the upper margin of Secretiveness ; the space below the line indicates the size of the organs of the propensities, and the space above, that of the organs of the sentiments, so far as they can be done by profiles. It is a principle of Phrenology, that it is the size of the organs to each other in the same head that determines the relative power of the faculties in any individual; and hence the dispositions of Hare must be judged by comparing the relative proportions of the dif- ferent organs in each by itself; and the experi- enced Phrenologist will find them highly instruc- tive when so considered. The head of Philip Melancthon, the illustrious reformer and associate of Luther, furnishes an example of the decided predominance of the moral and intellectual regions over that of the animal propensities. The drawing is copied from a por- trait, by Albert Durer. The following description of Melancthon’s head and character, is given in Dr. Spurzheim’s work