Practical Phrenology: Giving a Concise Elementary View of Phrenology, Presenting Some New and Important Remarks Upon the Temperaments: and Describing the Primary Mental Powers in Seven Different Degrees of Development |
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... qualities of mind , and kinds of disposition and * Phrenologists are often unjustly accused of making these " other conditions " scape - goats for their alleged errors . This charge is groundless ; because , first , the rules of science ...
... qualities of mind , and kinds of disposition and * Phrenologists are often unjustly accused of making these " other conditions " scape - goats for their alleged errors . This charge is groundless ; because , first , the rules of science ...
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... qualities , and therefore , that the build and form of body indicate the qualities of the mind , the author believes to be new and original suggestions . They are the result of much observation and experience , and though by no means ...
... qualities , and therefore , that the build and form of body indicate the qualities of the mind , the author believes to be new and original suggestions . They are the result of much observation and experience , and though by no means ...
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... qualities of this temperament take their complexion entirely from its combinations , which will presently be considered . 3. THE MENTAL TEMPERAMENT , or the Nervous Apparatus . - This em braces the brain and nervous system , or that ...
... qualities of this temperament take their complexion entirely from its combinations , which will presently be considered . 3. THE MENTAL TEMPERAMENT , or the Nervous Apparatus . - This em braces the brain and nervous system , or that ...
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... qualities of morality and intelligence . Life and probation are worth too much to be all swal- lowed up in merely gratifying our physical animal wants . The body is only the servant of the mind , and for us thus to use up both the mind ...
... qualities of morality and intelligence . Life and probation are worth too much to be all swal- lowed up in merely gratifying our physical animal wants . The body is only the servant of the mind , and for us thus to use up both the mind ...
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... qualities from parents to children through successive generations , illustrated by a vast amount of facts drawn from the history of the first settlers of this country and their descendants down to the present time , showing that the ...
... qualities from parents to children through successive generations , illustrated by a vast amount of facts drawn from the history of the first settlers of this country and their descendants down to the present time , showing that the ...
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Page 42 - Which varies in the two sexes of the same species ; 3. Which is not proportionate to the other faculties of the same individual ; 4. Which does not manifest itself simultaneously with the other faculties ; that is, which appears or disappears earlier or later in life than other faculties ; 5.
Page 24 - Sir Charles Bell also observes, " that the bones of the head are moulded to the brain, and the peculiar shapes of the bones of the head are determined by the original peculiarity in the shape of the brain.
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Page 42 - ... animal and not in another; 2, which varies in the sexes of the same species ; 3, which is not proportionate to the other faculties of the same individual; 4, which does not manifest itself simultaneously with the other faculties, that is, which appears or disappears earlier or later than they...