Phrenology : and its application to education, insanity, and prison discipline / by James P. Browne.

  • Browne, James P.
Date:
1869
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Credit: Phrenology : and its application to education, insanity, and prison discipline / by James P. Browne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    Tiaunts of men, as happens to be the case with the domestic goat, in which animal also this organ is very protuberant. Is it not reasonable to infer that this characteristic difference as to choice of habitation depends upon a higher degree of docility and gentleness of disposition in ihe domestic goat? And it is beyond ^ all doubt that in the domestic goat the anterior and superior lobes of the brain, as these are indicated by the form of the scull of that animal, are far larger, both absolutely and rela- tively, than they are in the wild goat, although the entire compass of the scull of the latter is greater. And does not the flatness of the eagle's scull, and the corresponding absence of gentleness and docility in the disposition of that fierce bird of prey, offer a suffi- cient motive for his choice of a habitation, lofty enough to be inaccessible by human efforts, without seeking for the source of that tendency in the prominent develop- ment of the organ of Inhabitiveness, or The Love of Home. Surely the numerous facts quoted in this essay, and the inferences drawn from them, prove, beyond question, that this portion of the brain consists of but one organ; and that the true and only function of that organ is the *' Sense of Attachment to a particular place of abode; but especially to one's native home. And it cannot for one moment be supposed, after a scrupulous sifting of that evidence, that the said organ can have the smallest claim to be deemed a necessary ingredient in the com- pound of organs upon the harmonious co-operation of which the concentrated and combined action of the intellectual faculties altogether depend. The importance of taking this view of the case cannot K 2