Phrenology examined / by P. Flourens ; translated from the second edition of 1845, by Charles De Lucena Meigs.

  • Flourens, P. (Pierre), 1794-1867.
Date:
1846
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    I know it might be greater and more perfect. Thus, for example, if I consider my faculty of conceiving, I find it of very small extent, and very limited. If, in the same manner, I exa- mine the memory, the imagination, or any other one of my faculties, I find not one that is not very limited and very small. Within me there is only my will or my liberty of free will, which I feel to be so great that I conceive not the idea of another more full and of greater extent. * Descartes, t. i. p. 299. It is always in our power to prevent ourselves from pursuing a good which is clearly known to us, provided we should think it a good to show in that way our free will.—Descartes, t. vi. p. 133. The fulness of liberty consists in the great use of our positive ability to follow the worse, while we truly know the better.—Ibid. p. 138.