An inquiry into Dr. Gall's system concerning innate disposition, the physiology of the brain, and materialism, fatalism, and moral liberty: including reflections on prison discipline, the prevention of crimes and the reformation of malefactors, etc.

  • Tupper, James Perchard.
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1819
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    enter into the discussion of the abstruse and interesting points M-^hich all those questions embrace. But he renounces the task, by affirming that whatever may be the opinion of the theologist and ijie- taphysician upon those matters, such opi- nion cannot affect the fundamental prin- ciple of his doctrine^. The author however cannot, consist- ently, separate from his inquir3^ the con- sideration of the subjects embraced by the questions alluded to ; and indeed he appears to contradict his own observation upon this point, by what he tells us re- specting the nature of that inquiry, which he says has no reference to the inanimate body, nor directed to the soul alone, but relates to man as a living being, the re- sult of the union of the soul and body*. ^ Vide the author’s work “ Des dispositions innieSf page 6. ! Ibid, page 7.