The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1840-04-30

OppOTtat7aaty 10 become acquainted 2Cath
the details Of the science.
BY STUDENT OF Law. lto
The proper study of mankind is man-Pope.
Man know thyself.-Ancients.
Some novices in religion are alarmed at eve
ry new discovery in science, lest it should mill
tate against the Bible Astronomy, geology,
chronology, have all been prescribed, like
Calico, by some untaught and unteachable
ecclesiastics. We fear nothing from true sci
ence. Phrenology, herself, when she takes
her seat in the temple of science, will lift up
her voice for the necessity of the bible, and of
| religion. She does it already, by showing that
man is made to worship and adore, to be both
! that in order to be happy, he must both know
and reverence, and delight in the true God.
She proves man as he now is, to be a religious
animal, and in need OF revelation from God !;
and leaves to reason and conscience to prefer
truth to Christianity to idolatry-reali
! ty to fable.-Rep. A. Campbell. it3 z
THE OBJECT OF PHRENOLOGY, IT'S
VI, PRINCIPLES, &c. 4
/ The name phrenology is derived from
two Greek words, phre'e and logos, mind
and discourse. 1t signifies the science of
the mind, and has for its object the dis
covery Of the true faculties of the mind,
and the material conditions under which
they have place. Its fundamental princi-
pies are,
!, LIST. The brain Is the organ of the
mind. End. The brain consists of a
congerie. or plurality Of organs, each
connected a0ith some particular mental
faculty.. .
GALL, sPuRZHEIM AND CoMBE.
/ The author, or rather liscoverer of
phrenology, was Doctor John Gall, ply
stefan of Vienna, afterwards resident in
Paris, born at Tiefenbrun, in Suabia, on
9th March, 1857; died in Paris 22d Au-
gust, 1928. His first discovery in phren-
ology was accidental, and happened when
! he was student at college. Among his
classmates were two students remarkable
for their talents of verbal memory, who
were not noted for mental superiority in
any thing else, but thought in most other
respects to be inferior to their compan-
ions. Young Gall was at a loss to &C.
count for the singularity as well as diver.
sity of talents possessed by these stu.
dents, and observing them closely while
going through their Rotations and other
; school exercises, he thought he distin-
guished in the Development of their eyes
singularity not possessed by the other
students.
He then recollected that a student at a
former school he had attended, also noted
| for his verbal memory, had develop.
ment of eyes very similar to those of the
4 students under his immediate considera.
ton. From this time on, he carefully
observed every person he met with noted
for their verbal memory, to ascertain if q
similar development Of eyes held true in
regard to them, and to his great surprise
!, he found such was the case. He was
convinced that the eyes, themselves, were
not the organs Of the talent to repeat, bu
that it must be part of the brain lying
Immediately above them, which, in pro.
portion to its size, pressed them outward
and downward and caused their develop
ment and he concluded if verbal memo
ry were indicated by an external sign
: such must be the case with the other pow
ers of the mind, to ascertain which, h
travelled for many years over the create
part of Europe, visiting the numerous
schools, asylums, prisons, &C., will
i which that country abounds, examining
and comparing the heads, talents, and dis
n positions of their inmates, and he had tn
n satisfaction to discover that whereve
there was sameness of talent, or dispo
} sition, in two or more individuals the,
were possessed of corresponding cere
: bral development. After having becom
. fully satisfied Of the truth of his system
: he promulgated it in public lectures a
Vienna, in the year 1895.
Doctor Spurzheim, born near the cit,
of Treves, 3lst December, l776, com
: menccd the study Of Phrenology wit
Gall in 1900, and in 1904 was admitte
partner of his labors. He was possess
Il ed of great natural mind and learning
: and done much by his writings and lee
OF lures to advance phrenology in the est
nation of the learned, as true science
Spurzheim arrived in the United States
/, 1893, and died at Boston about tire
months after his arrival. Every. 1espe,
So had been shown to him which his gre;
N. merits deserved, and the next mornin
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