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ABERNETHY, Mr., quoted on the con-
nexion of the mind with the brain, 30.
Absolute size of a cerebral organ no
criterion of the predominance of the
faculty attached to it, 95.

Abuses of the faculties, what, 350.
Acquisitiveness, organ of, its situa-
tion, 165. History of its discovery,
167. Large in thieves, 167. Its dis-
172.

ease,

large organ of Number reported by,
304.

Akenside's description of the senti-
ment of Wonder, 235.

Albert the Great, his division of the
head into regions, 40.

Alderson, Dr., of Hull, his cases of
spectral illusion, 358.

Alexander, Dr. Disney, his testi-
mony in favour of Phrenology, 492.
Alexander VI., Pope, his head, 181,
215, 406.

Algebra, talent for, 304.

a primitive propensity, 166.
Not treated of by the metaphysicians
generally, ib. Admitted by Lord
Kames, ib. Gives rise to avarice, Alimentiveness, or organ of the ap-
167. Not in itself base or sordid, 169. petite for food, 151. Views entertain-
Its uses, ib. Its existence disputed ed respecting it, by Dr. Hoppe, ib.,
by Mr. Owen, ib. Its effects modi- Dr. Crook, 153, and Dr. Spurzheim,
fied by Self-Esteem, 170. Gives rise ib. Cases of its disease, 154. Views
to a tendency to steal, 171. Mani- of MM. Ombros and Theodore Pen-
fested by the lower animals, 173. Re-
marks on, 480.
Acrel, case of diseased Acquisitive-
ness from, 172, 477.

Actions, why they cannot be pre-
dicted by the aid of Phrenology, 415.
Activity of mind distinguished from
power, 98, 403. Influenced by tem-
perament, 100, 351. Combination of
faculties favourable to, 100.

Actors have large organs of Secre-
tiveness and Imitation, 162, 261.
Walks in which they are most succes-
ful, dependent on the combination of
their faculties, 262. Ideality neces-
sary to tragic actors, 244.

Adaptation of parts of the creation
proves the existence of God, 348.
Adaptation of the external world to
the intellectual faculties of man, 349.
Addison, nature of his genius, 402.
Adhesiveness, one of the propensi-
ties, 130. Situation and discovery of
its organ, ib. Its effects on the cha-
racter, ib. Generally stronger in wo-
men than in men, 131. Distinguish-
able from Benevolence, 132. Gives
rise to society, ib. Very strong in the
dog and other animals, ib. Its disease,
ib. Its natural language, 133. Re-
marks on, 479.

Admiration, love of, 189.
Affections, 477.

Affective faculties, 105. Modes of
their action, 350. Are not the exclu-
sive sources of emotions, 478.

Africans, character of the, 421.
Their superstition, 434. Their sen-
timent of truth weak, 224.

telithe, 155. Appears to be the seat
of hunger and thirst, 155, 272, 479.
Its comparative developement in the
French, Germans, and Spaniards, 442.

Allan, Mr. Thomas, mineralogist,
his large organ of Form, 282.

Allegorical style, 336.
Almsgiving not the only manifesta-
tion of Benevolence, 202.

Amativeness, 107, 479. History of
the discovery of its organ, 108. Gives
rise to the sexual feeling, ib. Its in-
fluence in society, 110. Its abuses,
111. Its effects in combination, 406.

American Indians, their Secretive-
ness, Love of Approbation, and Firm-
ness large, 164, 190, 216. Their sense
of truth weak, 224. Their unimprove-
able nature, 421, 430. Character and
skulls of the North American Indians,
429. Engraving of the skull of one, ib.

Analogies, perception of, 335.

Anatomists, objection that they uni-
versally disbelieve Phrenology an-
swered, 454.

Anatomy does not reveal vital func-
tions of organs dissected, 56. Anato-
my of the brain, 72; of the skull, 79.
Anatomical researches of Dr. Gall, 62,
451.

Angelo, Michael, his large Construc-
tiveness, &c., 177, 341. Engraving
of his head, 277.

Anger, a manifestation of Destruc-
tiveness, 146.

Animal magnetism, 371.

Animals, the lower, brains of, 42,
47, 97. Relation between their intel-
ligence, and the depth and number of
Aikin, Dr., on love of life, 156. their cerebral convolutions, 77. Ac-
Ainslie, Sir Whitelaw, case of a curate comparison of their brains can

deficient, 348. Answers to some of
their arguments, ib.

Attachment, 130.

Attention, analysis of, 380.
Augustus Cæsar, Self-Esteem large

Authority, love of, 185.
Avarice, 164.

be made only between those of ani-
mals of the same species, 42, 96, 321.
Their Philoprogenitiveness, 118; Con-
centrativeness, 128; Adhesiveness,
132; Combativeness, 138; Destruc-
tiveness, 150; Secretiveness, 165; in the busts of, 185.
Acquisitiveness, 173; Constructive-
ness, 177, 180; Self-Esteem, 187;
Love of Approbation, 194; Cautious-
ness, 198; Benevolence, 205; Imita-
tion, 263; Form, 281; Locality, 302;
Number, 306; Time, 315; Tune, 321; Bacon, Lord, on latent propensity,
Language, 332; Their capability of 99. On cunning, 163. On the innate-
being tamed and taught, on what ness of Benevolence in man, 207. His
dependent, 312. Do they possess style imbued with Ideality, 248. On
Comparison and Causality? 341, 342,

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Appetite for Food, organ of,
See Alimentiveness.

Approbation, Love of, 189.
Love of Approbation.

151.

See

Arachnoid tunic of the brain, 79.
Archery and quoits, talent for play-
ing at, 286, 302.

Architectural talent, 310.

Aristotle, different reception of his
philosophy at different times, 28. His
assignment of the faculties to different
parts of the brain, 40, 58. His doc-
trine concerning the senses, 269.

Arithmetic, the chief sphere of the
faculty of Number, 304.

Arnott, Dr. Neil, on the connexion
between mind and body, 31. On the
error of persisting in the cultivation
of defective musical talent, 321.

Arrangement, love of, 306.

Artists have large organs of Secre-
tiveness, 162; Constructiveness, 174,
et seq.; and Imitation, 262. Indivi-
duality, Form, and Size useful to, 280,
281, 285. Effect of temperament on,
398. Influence of the reflective facul-
ties on their productions, 408.

Ashantees, their character, 434.
Asiatics have generally large Vene-
ration, 212. Inferior to Europeans,

421.

Awe, religious, produced by Vene-
ration, 213.

the faculties of perceiving resemblance
and difference, 252. On the difference
of the powers of mathematical and
logical reasoning, 301. His Causality
large, 345. His want of morality, 375.
His large head, 400.

Bailly, Dr., on Dr. Gall's anatomical
researches, 451.

Barclay, Dr. John, objections of his
to Phrenology, 449, 459. His theory
that the mind fashions the organs, ib.
Barlow, Dr., his testimony in favour
of Phrenology, 487.

Barristers, Combativeness useful
to, 136.

Bashfulness, cause of, 407.
Bayle, Peter, his love of opposition,

137.

Beauty, emotion of, its origin, 242.
Mr. Dugald Stewart on, 245. Dr.
Thomas Brown on, 246. Lord Jeffrey
on, 247, 283, 293. Standard of taste,
399.

Beavers, Acquisitiveness and Con-
structiveness of, 173, 174, 180. Whe-
ther they possess Causality, 342, note.

Bees, Acquisitiveness and Con-
structiveness of, 173, 177.

Bell, Sir Charles, his discoveries of
the functions of the spinal marrow and
nerves, 64. On the duplicity of the
brain, 73, 76. Admits that the shape
of the skull determined by that of
the brain, 81. His objections to Phre-
nology, 81, 451.

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Bellingham, John, murderer, 142,
188, 199, 202. His style, 324.

Benevolence, organ of, its situation,
200. History of its discovery, ib.
Association, analysis of, 380. As- Deficient in the heads of deliberate
sociation of names with shapes and murderers, 202. Supposed by Dr.
colours, 278, 292; and of colours with Gall to be the organ of Justice, 204.
musical notes, 316. The emotion of Its effects on the lower animals, 205.
Beauty erroneously supposed by Lord How to be observed in them, 206. Its
Jeffrey to depend on association, 247, disease, 207.
283, 293. Association of words and
ideas, 322.

Astronomers, eminent, their Loca-
lity large, 300.

Atheists, their Causality generally

one of the superior sentiments,
its effects on the character, 201. Dif-
ference between its manifestations
and those of Love of Approbation, 191,
201. Instances of its great develope-

ment, 201. How it ought to be exerted trine held by several eminent physio-
in society, 202. Effects of its defi- logists, 39. Partial injuries of, 39,
ciency, ib. Its abuses, 203. Its ex- 459, et seq. Influence of size of, 45.
istence not inconsistent with that of Small in children and idiots, 45, 432.
Destructiveness, ib. Ought to be cul- Large in men of powerful minds, 46,
tivated in education, 207. Its exis- 400. Functions of, not discoverable
tence generally admitted by metaphy- by dissection, 56. Recent state of its
sicians, 207, 208. Laws of its action, anatomy, 59. Its anatomy, 72. En-
208. Its effects in combination, 406, gravings of, 73, 74, 75. Duplicity of
407. Is a propensity as well as a its parts, 73. Result of that duplicity
sentiment, 479.
in cases of injuries of the brain, 464.
Its weight and consistence at different
ages, 75.

Bennelong, a New Hollander, 428.
Berkeley, Bishop, his theory of
vision, 274. His ideas on the evi-
dence of existence of the material
world, 347.

What are the functions of
the cineritious and medullary sub-
stances? 76. Its form varies more in
the human species than in any other,

Bewick, Mr. Thomas, his large 78. Destitute of sensibility, ib. Its
organ of Form, 282.

Bidder, Mr. George, mental calcu-
lator, 300, 304.

Bilious temperament, how distin-
guishable, 48. Its effects, ib.
Birds, carnivorous, have large organs
of Destructiveness, 151.

migration of, 303.
singing, skulls of, 321.
Blair, Lord President, his Construc-
tiveness large, 180.

Blanchard's mind enfeebled by an
injury of the head, 476

Blind men, case of one couched by
Cheselden, 275. The organ of Co-
louring generally small in persons born
blind, 276, 297. Whether they can
distinguish colours by touch, 298.
See apparitions, 363.

Blood circulated in the brain, 78,
319, note.

Blumenbach on the connexion of
the mind with the brain, 30. On smell,

44.

Bonaparte's head large, 47, 400.
His description of the characters of
Ney and Murat, 136, 400. Intonation
of his voice when angry, 159. His
Secretiveness, ib. His Self-Esteem,
186. Was unable to understand in-
tegrity of character, 222. His generals,
400. His description of the French
character, 440.

Bonnet taught that the brain is an
assemblage of organs, 39.

Booth, murderer, 143:

Boshuans, some account of the, 433.
Botany, study of, 280, 350. Memory
of botanists, 372.

Bouillaud's investigations into the
pathology of the organ of Language,
330.

Brian, demonstrated to be the organ
of the mind, 30-36, 476. Circulation of
blood in its vessels increased by men-
tal excitement, 33. Arguments tend-
ing to prove that it is a congeries of
organs, 36-39, 396, 469. This doc-


integuments, 79. Its figure during life
discoverable by observation, 81. Func-
tions of some of its parts still unknown,
82, 449. Brains of the same absolute
size may indicate very different ta-
lents, 95. Texture of the brain finer
in some individuals than in others, 97.
Retentiveness of memory supposed to
be affected by its quality, 226, 367,
373. Its different parts distinguish-
able, 450. Answer to the objection
that its parts may be injured without
affecting the mind, 450, 460. These
functions not discoverable by mutila-
tions, 471. Cases of change of cha-
racter in consequence of injury of the
brain, 476.

Brazil Indians, account of their cha-
racter and brains, 432.

Brewster, Sir David, his organ of
Weight large, 286.

Brigham, Dr. Amariah, case of in-
jury of the head quoted from, 32.

Bright's account of the devotion of
the inhabitants of Vienna, 209.

Brougham, Lord, his doctrine that
mind is independent of matter com-
bated, 35.

Brown, Dr. Thomas, on the connex-
ion of mind with body, 35. On latent
propensity, 98. On resentment, 134.
On love of life, 156. His style cha-
racterized by Secretiveness, 162. His
views of desire of wealth, 164. Eu-
logy of his character, intellect, and
philosophy, 227, note.

Browne, Mr. W. A. F., references
to essays by, 215, 237, 332. On de-
rangement of Language, 331. His
testimony in favour of Phrenology, 494.
Brunel, engineer, his large organs
of Constructiveness, Weight, and
Causality, 176, 287, 346.

Burke's eloquence, 324, note. His
Comparison and Causality large, 336,
345.

Burton's division of the brain into
organs, 40.

90.

Business, talent for, 311.

die on the cerebella of the lower ani-
Bust, phrenological, 84. Its uses, mals, 109. Relation of its size to the
tone of the voice, 319.
Busts, ancient, 346.
Chalmers, Dr., his Ideality large,
Byron's poems strongly manifest 92. Fond of unusual words and ex-
Destructiveness, 145. On passion pressions, 234. His Weight large,
and poetry, 387. Bad taste displayed 286. His Comparison large, 336.
in some passages of his Don Juan, 396. Sometimes sins against taste, 398.
His large head and powerful mind,
402.

Cabinet-makers, skilful, have large
Constructiveness, 177.

Caffres, some account of the, 432.
Caligula, character of, 147.

Benevolence small, 203.

Callipers, use of, 94.

His

Camper's facial angle described;
its fallacy, 58.

Caribs, 115, 137, 143, 304, 337, 345.
Account of their heads and character,

425.

Carmichael, Mr. Andrew, his views,
of the proximate cause of sleep, 365.
Mr. Richard, his testimony in

favour of Phrenology, 410.

Carnivorous and gramnivorous ani-
mals, difference between the brains
of, 139. Destructiveness and Secre-
tiveness of the former, 150, 163.
Carrier-pigeons, 303.

Catholics, strongly manifest Vene-
ration, 231.

Caucasion, variety of the human
species, 436.

Causality, one of the reflective fa-
culties, 341. Analysis of, ib. Whe-
ther possessed by the lower animals,
343, note. Dr. Spurzheim on, 344.
Effects of its strength and weakness
on the character, ib., 346. Is a fountain
of resources, 345. Its effects on the
works of authors, ib. Its effects in
producing belief in Phrenology, 346.
A source of abstract ideas, ib. Gene-
rally weak in atheists, 348. Leads
us to infer the existence of God, 349.
Its effect on artists, 408.

organ of, history of its dis-
covery, 341. Not large in the French,

345.

Cautiousness, a positive sentiment,
and not the mere want of courage, 195.
Effects of its extreme activity, 196.
Seldom acts alone, 389. Its excite-
ment by sympathy, 391. Remarks on,
476.

organ of, its situation, 194.
Combined with large Destructiveness
and deficient Hope, predisposes to
suicide, 197, 228.

Censoriousness, an abuse of Self-
Esteem, 183.

Cerebellum, size of, at different
periods of life, 36, 108. Its anatomy,
79. Is the organ of Amativeness, 107.
Experiments of Flourens and Magen-

Change of character, cause of, 413.
Cases where it was occasioned by in-
juries of the head, 476.

Character, by what formed, 420.
Charity, St. Paul's description of,

201.

Charleton, Dr., quoted, 100.
Chaucer, engraving of his head,
showing large Ideality, 244. His Cau-
sality large, 341.

Chaymas, their difficulty in compre-
hending numeration, 305.

Chesselden, case of a blind man
couched by, 275.

Chess players, eminent, their large
Locality, 300.

Chesterfield on laughter and wit,
250. His recommendation of polite
deceit, 397.

Chevalley, a man who accurately
estimated the lapse of time, case of,
314.

Chinese, their large Self-Esteem,
186; Form, 281, and Colouring, 297.
Christ's cerebral developement, how
represented by Raphael, 211.
Christianity, the religion of civilized
man, 430.

Chronology, memory of, 305.
Churchyards, respect for, produced
by Veneration, 213.

Cicero's love of fame, 190.
Cineritious substance of the brain,
75. Supposed by some to be exclu
sively the organ of the mind, 76.

Cingalese, skulls of, 88, 136, 143,
144, 190, 194, 196, 199.

Circumspection, 195.

Clarke, the traveller, his organs of
Weight and Locality large, 286.
Clerks, choice of, by the aid of Phre-
nology, 418.

Climate and soil, effect of, on the
characters of nations, 422.

Cobbett quoted on the signs of men-
tal activity, 49. His Combativeness,
136, and Self Esteem, 184.

Colburn, Zhero, calculating boy,
300, 305.

Colouring, a perceptive faculty, 289
organ of, effects of its large-
ness and deficiency, 290. Generally
larger in women than in men, 297.

Columbus's Locality represented
large, 300.

Combativeness, one of the propen-
sities, 133. Elementary nature of the
faculty, 138, 479. Distinguished from
Destructiveness, 141. Its effects in
combination, 407, 410.

Combe, Dr. Andrew, on plurality of
organs in the brain, 36. On size and
power, 41. On mental exercise, 50.
On the sense of sight, 276, note. Case
of derangement of Tune reported by,
320. On the talent for recollecting
names, 332, note. On happiness, 352.
On sympathy, 390. His answer to
Dr. Barclay's objections, 449. On the
effects of injuries of the brain on the
mental manifestations, 460.

Combinations in size of the cerebral
organs, 404; in their activity, 412.
Practical application of the doctrine
of, 415. The effects of unusual com-
binations ought not to be rashly pre-
dicated, 411.

Commands, most effectual way of
giving, 393.

Companion of Gall, his large organ
of Language, 332.

Comparison, one of the reflective
faculties, 334. Whether possessed by
the lower animals, 341.

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Compression of the brain, effects of,
32; of the infant head by savage na-
tions, 426.

Concealment of thoughts and emo-
tions, power of, produced by Secre-
tiveness, 158.

Concentrativeness, organ of, 173,
310, 311, note.

Conception, a mode of action of the
intellectual faculties, 357. Wherein
it differs from imagination and me-
mory, 366, 367.

Conditions, perception of, 337.
Configuration, organ of, 281.
Conscientiousness, organ of, its
situation, 218. Not admitted by Dr.
Gall; established by Spurzheim, 223.
Its disease, 226.

sentiment of, 219. Its impor-
tance as a regulator of the other facul-
ties, 220. Its effects in combination,
225. Its deficiency cannot be sup-
plied by other faculties, 411. Re-
marks on, 480.

Consciousness does not reveal or-
gans, 29, 55, 270, 457. Localizes the
mind in the head, 34. Unity of, 312.
Analysis of, 378. Does not inform us
of the nature of mind, 457. Cases of
double or divided consciousness, 102,
969, 379.

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Coup d'œil conferred by Locality,
300.

Coverley, Sir Roger de, 202.
Cowper quoted, 98, 100, 184. Source
of his diffidence, 137.

Cox, Robert, on Combativeness,
139. On Destructiveness, 142, 150.
On the laws of action of Benevolence,
208. On the mutual influence of the
faculties, 386. His objections to Dr.
Combe's views of sympathy, 390, and
to Dr. Spurzheim's classification of
the faculties, 477.

Cox, Dr. Abram, his suggestions for
estimating the size of some of the
cerebral organs, 87.

Crawford, Dr., of Dublin, remarks
on insanity by, 148.

Cretins, Constructiveness of the,
179.

Criminals not always punished by
remorse, 223. Their Ideality generally
small, 243. Effects of large heads of,
401. Treatment of, 418, 482. Sta-
tistics of Crime in France, 445. Do-
cuments laid by Sir G. S. Mackenzie
before Lord Glenelg relative to Con-
victs sent to New South Wales, 482.
Phrenology of great service in the
treatment of, 595, 502. Examination
of heads of Criminals at Glasgow and
Newcastle, 502.

Crook, Dr., on the organ of Alimen-
tiveness, 153.

Cruelty, 147, 148.
Crystallography, 281.

Cudworth maintained the existence
of the moral sense, 218.

Cullen, Dr., on the obscurity of the
functions of different parts of the brain,
59.

Cunning, arises from Secretiveness,
160.

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