A new illustrated hand-book of phrenology, physiology and physiognomy.

  • Wells, R. B. D.
Date:
[1878?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A new illustrated hand-book of phrenology, physiology and physiognomy. 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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    We no longer hear the old abusive epithets applied to Phrenology, to the effect that it is merely a money-making humbug, and leads to fatalism and infidelity. We do not think the Professors of Phrenology have found it to be a very money-making science. If it is a humbug it has wonderful vitality, for its vigour increases with age. Fig. 4.—Coarse-grained, gross, and carnal. Phrenology gives no countenance to fatalism or infidelit}'', hut rather demonstrates an over-ruling Providence, developes veneration, and encourages men to practise self-control and work out their own salvation. Phrenology enables a man to know himself, and thereby to strengthen the highest organs and control the lower propensities. The offensive caricature of Phrenology as the science of bumps has no basis in fact. Phrenologists do not judge of character