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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-02-02 00:00:00

Thorten laid the unwariantahle unction to his soul, that he would
-do a service to others by destroying Weave. He considered Weare
as a complete rascal, one who had rot:bed many as well as himself;
and one, who, if he had lived, would have robbed many more!!!
" A theory," says Mr. Percival B. Lord, in his treatise on
" Popular Physiology," "which Lan thus convert benevolence,
into the active cause of murder, needs no further examination
on these grounds, 'by its fruits ye shall know it.'" We shall,
perhaps. lecur to this subject again with a few more facts, if
Mr. Rumba I! is not satisfied. And now let us see what is to be
" inferred fin the 'Newtonian principle of deduction from facts,",
on the facts which we have stated. First, that non-develope-.
tent of a faculty does not preclude a man from acquiring per-'
feet ion in that which the want of .the factiltv would denote that
he could not. Therefore phrenological judgment of capacity.is
futile. Secondly. that the phrenological theory of accounting
for geniuses is without foundation, or all Turks would be geniuses
in every thing. Thirdly, that the faculties are at work, whether
developed or not, and are 1111 t necessarily dere'oped, else won't'
the high-minded' Incas of Peru have no intellectual faculties,
awl none of the, propensities whirl tend to the continuance of
the race. .Fourthly,-that all parts of the brain have. been in,
jured, without any of the faculties being injured particularly,
and that the only result has been, when the injury has been etc,
tensive, that all the faculties have been affected by losing power.
That therefore the brain, instead of being-divided into organs,
is essentially one organ. Fifthly, that the cerebellum is not
the seat otamativeness, and that no such faculty abides there
as the phrenologists state: Sixthly, that the skull is not iho
• prototype of the brain, and• that, therefore, judgments formed
-from it of the brain, are very likely to lie erroneous. Seventhly,
that injuries have been foun-d in one organ which affected facul-
' ties given to dthers distant from it, and that, therefore, either
the organ is wrong named,. or the hypotheses on which it• is
• named is altogether wrong; and eighthlv, that the vile'st faculties
. base been found in the best-men, and the most exalted faculties
'have been found in thieves and murderers, and. therefore, the
resumption is, that the whole phrenological system is a pretty
theory and nothing more, which is set up contrary to facts, and
which "the Newtonian principleof deduction from facts" com-
pletely overturns.
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ERRA rA.—ln our last remarks on Mr. Rumball's lectures,
there were several errors of the press, arising out, of hasty
reading, some of which materially affect the sense. For "the
cerebrum of a bird being cut away by degrees, affecting its powers
of motion by degres,'.' read "cerebellum.": Instead of. "that
of each hemisphere of the brain was enough for the performance
of all its functions,"- read ." that part of each hemisphere," &c.
Instead of " we have several cases to quote to prove this portion
as well founded," read "this position as well founded."