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The idea of classing the several intellectual fa-
culties under certaiu prominences of brain, and
assigning different seats to the animal capacity, is
not, as may be supposed, • novel one, which is ex-
clusively to be attributed to Doctor Gall. The
origin of this system is to be found in the opinions
of Albert-le-Grand, of Ludovico Dulci, cit Van
Swicten, and even of Bonnet, who supposed each
fibre of the brain allotted to a particular function.
But it would be unjust to dispute the claim of
the celebrated man whose work we announce, to
the extensive acquirements which have enabled him
to treat profoundly what others have only slightly
sketched. He has developed circumstances of the
deepest interest, and shed • bright ray of light
upon subjects, of which we have hitherto only hail a
glimpse through the abstractions of metaphysics,
and the uncertainties of physiology.
He proposes to establish in volumes, which shall
be published in succession, four thesis, which, be.
rug intimately connected, form a must complete
treatise on the mural qualities and intellectual fa-
culties. The first of these bold thesis is, that moral
qualities and intellectual faculties are innate; the
second, that their exercise or mandestatiou depend
on the organizstion ; the third, that the brain is the
organ of all propensities, all sentiments, and all
faculties; the fourth, tends lastly to prove that the
brain is composed of us unity distinct organs as
there are propensities, sewitnentr, and faculties,
which differ essentially from each other.
These propositions, without doubt, could only
flow from • mind which had mastered its subject,
and which was capable of considering it under
every point of view. But we regret to say, this
edifice, which boasts so much regularity, this ad-
mirable temple, which seems dedicated to truth,
frequently exhibits the worship of error, and the
chimera. of falsehood. The reader, who is seduced
by the inscriptions on the front, Soda in the recesses
of the sanctuary hideous fatality and gross mate-
rialism.

These, we admit, ire serions charge*, and we
must justify them. The first fault which Dr. Gall
commit. is in placing on the same line both men
and animals, to whom he attributes innate disposi-
tions ; for the Doctor does not dare to say instate
ideus, lest he should fall in with Plato, Malle-
branche, and Descartes. To a certain length, it
is true, 'animals may be compared with men with
respect to organization purely material, rod in-
stinct with which they are more or less endowed ;
but to attribute innate faculties to men and brutes
without distinction, and to institute a systematic
comparison between them, is attempting to dike
the celestial stamp which God has impressed upon
the brow of man, to indicate his origin and gua-
rantee hi* immortality. In this mortifying
system, Doctor Gall, moreover, only retreat*
what has been advanced by many writers on ma-
terialism. According to Vicq-d'Azyrn and several
Professors, the difference between the intellectual
faculties of a man and an ape is explainetl by the
difference of their hands. Rut nobody before Dr.
Gall, ever attributed innate faculties, without dis-
tinction, to men and beasts. In troth, by innate
faculties or dispositions, lw does sot mean those
mysterious presentiments which place our soul in
reatiou with the Divinity, from which it emanates,

and those sublime emotions whoa make it exult at
the right of all that remindo it of • olivine abode,
of which it seems to have preserved a confined
recollection. In his creed, inunter dispositions (and
he is Out willing to recognise others) are only the
aptitudes, instinct', provemetire, and, in general,
all the moral qualities and all the hands with
which animals are endowed at their birth, until
each organ of the brain being impressed with it set-
tled tendency, the result is as impulse which no-
thing can change or modify: To demonstrate that
animals have innate dispositions. the Doctor asks—
", Who has instructed ducks and beetles to coun-
terfeit being dead when menaced by an enemy ?
Who has taught the spider. which having scarcely
left the egg, weaves a. net ancl envelops the captive
Airs that they may not be drip? Wliydo aut.
male things which they have nevos seen done 2"—
We will puzzle the Doctor, in our into, 17
asking him, why has mail. who by the sim-
plicity of his physical organization is subjected
to few wants, such vast desires, which nothilig
in this world ever satisfies ? Why does he seek
glory at the expeose of happiness, sod why
will he he proud to die for duty and for virtue's
sake? Who can make him wish to survive himself?
Why in his misfortunes does he raise his supplicat-
ing hands to a consoling God ? These may with
more certainty be called innate dispositious, because
nothing nn earth will reveal the secret, which is
kept in heaven. What M. Gall styles innate facul-
ties is, properly speaking, merely an instinct appro.
prated to a life of • purely animal nature. Brutes
receive those faculties, which form • part or their
mechanist*, as they do body and sense. This dif-
ference between animals, whose instinctive faculties
turn to the satisfying of their wants, and the inutile
notions of man, which, far from being auxiliary to
• mere terrestrial life, on the costumer make him
often despise it, and which sometimes conspire
against it, is the devotion of magnanimous beings
and .the noble works of genius, so inconsistent with
a due-economy of the human body, testify—this
difference; we say, sufficiently proves into what
ettoethey fall who do not assign to man • privileged
place and a claim to another future. Innate dialect.
sitteitir, such, as they are supposed by Doctor Gull,
not only degrade human 'mime, by placiug it on a
level with brutes, but they also destroy free will,
and make men a miserable herd, led by a blind
fatality. • He declares that education can neither
destroy or give growth to any innate faculty. He
quotes the melancholy example of Nero, whose
celebrated instructors could not soften his hardness
of heart. But might not the avowal of Socrates be
opposed to this, who acknowledged that he felt in
himself an inclination to every vice ?
It is upon the earth, it is in the course of life,
that evil is engendered. All men at their birth are
endowed with the same aptitude for what is good;
but a thousand and • thousand circuinstences occur
which modify in an infinite degree existences, which
would have been similar if there were identity of
organization, of regulation, of habits, and of fie-
casions. This thesis, which ought to be gravely
developed, would be of too great length for our
limits. We shall here conclude the ;present article,
and await the remainder of M. Gall's work. with
a view to examine it under the head of die Physio-
logical System.—(/french Paper.)