I feel sometimes that phrenologyis the refuge of mediocrity.
A new Illustrated Hand-Book of Phrenologyand Physiognomy, for Students and Examiners, with a Chart for the Delineation of Character.
He proceeded to Paris to complete his medical studies, and whilst there he investigated phrenology on anatomical principles.
Phrenology is related to physiognomies as the bony support of the skull to its softer ones, and as a man's physiognomy depends especially upon the conformation of his skull, so physiognomies must deal with the forms of the skull.
Phrenology remains the research of physicians, anthropologists and psychologists, so that the science of physiognomy as important in itself is left to us lawyers.
From phrenology he learned there was a time to be born; from this he passed to astrology.
Phrenology also taught him his intellectual superiority to his father in other ways.
Those who consider its relative bearing, both upon individuals and the human race, will be convinced that Phrenology carries in its train the most valuable assistance in furthering the cause of education, morality, and religion.
Phrenology then is one of those beautiful revelations of applicable science which could only have been made known in an aera of intellectual cultivation.
Why then single out Phrenology for disbelief, because it is new, is gold the less gold because fresh from the mine?
But the pseudo-sciences, phrenology and the rest, seem to me only appeals to weak minds and the weak points of strong ones.
Whether Phrenology is made any clearer or not by MRS.
To illustrate the whole of Phrenology by Music in one evening must be impossible.
At this time the old dispute over phrenology had broken out afresh, and the studies of Flourens were aimed, in part at least, at the strictly scientific investigation of this troublesome topic.
Kaspar Spurzlieim, a man of no mean abilities, who became the propagandist of phrenology in England and in America.
It may appear strange to the reader if a system so completely exploded as that of phrenology should have any value as a mental discipline.
But I studied phrenology long ago and think I understand it quite well.
How to Teach according to Temperament and Mental Development; or, Phrenology in the School Room and the Family.
A book the author of which publishes his own portrait as a frontispiece is opened with prejudice by most sensible men, we believe, and phrenology is not regarded with great favor by the majority of such readers.
You must be running mad to have the idea that phrenology can be true!
Hamilton, as all students of contemporary philosophy are aware, denounced the pretensions of Phrenology with curious vehemence and asperity.
He was still more attracted by the controversy that then raged in Edinburgh and elsewhere on the value of Phrenology and Animal Magnetism.
The mind doubtless consists of a congeries of faculties, and phrenology affords the best classification of them that has yet been devised.
In adopting the nomenclature of phrenology, I am not to be understood as advocating strictly the localization of the faculties which phrenology prescribes.
The science of phrenology explains most beautifully the cause and nature of sin or crime, and demonstrates that it is simply the perverted or unbalanced action of the natural faculties of the mind.
I incessantly repeat," says he, "that the aim of Phrenology is never to attempt pointing out what the mind is in itself.
Now, even the adversaries of Phrenology must, to a certain extent, admit the dependence of the soul on the body.
The ablest advocates ofPhrenology have repudiated Materialism.
How came he, a phrenologist, so far and no further, but from certain information gathered from his consciousness, or his memory, which convicted phrenology of error?
If they are impossible according to the doctrines of phrenology, let phrenology look to this, and rectify her blunder in the best way, as speedily as she can.
I do not say that Phrenology was one of the Pseudo-sciences.
I have often met persons who have been altogether struck up and amazed at the accuracy with which some wandering Professor of Phrenology had read their characters written upon their skulls.
Spurzheim and George Combe, and a Review of the Science of Phrenology from the period of its discovery by Dr.
Harmony ofPhrenology and the Bible, including the Definitions.
Brain and Mind; or, Mental Science Considered in Accordance with the Principles of Phrenology and in Relation to Modern Physiology.
Defence of Phrenology; Containing an Essay on the Nature and Value of Phrenological Evidence; A Vindication of Phrenology against the Attack of its opponents.
How to Teach According to Temperament and Mental Development; or, Phrenologyin the School-room and the Family.
Matrimony; or, Phrenology and Physiology applied to the Selection of Congenial Companions for Life, including Directions to the Married for living together Affectionately and Happily.
Showing the Harmony betweenPhrenology and the Bible.
A New Illustrated Hand-book ofPhrenology and Physiognomy, for Students and Examiners, with a Chart for recording the sizes of the different Organs of the Brain in the Delineation of Character; with upwards of 170 Engravings.
At that time phrenology was in high favour, was patronized by the great and the learned, and generally regarded as going to do wonders.
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