The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-07-26
rue scienos Of Heads.


skulls of notable persons on view. from
down to the latest 'crank."
A reporter, having noticed the phreno-
logical bearing of the pamphlets etc.,
in The window, recently sought from
the proprietors of the place information
as to their business. The chief room
of the establishment showed row after
row of plaster casts Of heads ranged
along the side wall from floor to ceiling.
The mixture was curious. Cheek by
jowl were murderers and diyines;
statesmen and idiots; the negro, the
Caucasian, and the Indian; women of
note and women of notoriety; the bull
ging water-on-the-brain young man,
and his antipode; the "one-storied"
chimpanzee-humanity, in short, in its
highest and lowest examples from many
countries and of all degrees Of age.
"How diauyou get themH" suggested
the reporter.
"Some are only studies, as that of
Mary Queen of Scots, for instance; but
most Of them were taken from life, or
after death-as in the case of the muir
derers.''
81 notice." pursued the reporter,
''that the casts do not, as rule, show
bumps and ridges. Yet, are not the
heads hills and hollows, so to speak,
guiding principle in phrenology?"
"Not so much as is popularly suppos-
sed. The prominences and ridges are
less noted than the length of the fiber
from the centre of the brain THAT is
from the earl to points on its circum-
ference, Just as one would measure the
size Of a wagon-wheel by noting the
length of the spokes. OF two heads
wearing the same size Of hat, one will
often rise above the ears an inch and a
half higher than the other rises. Again,
some heads are two and half inches
wider than others above and about the
ears, while the brains may be equal in
size though differently developed"
"And as this distance from the ear or
radiating point is greater or less to this
or that circumference point, so you de-
termine the presence or absence of GER
tain qualitiesP"
"Exactly. A scholarly person will
have good length Of brain from the
opening of the ear, to the root of the
nose, and will be full all across the brow.
| The mechanical man has wide head at
the temples upward and forward Of the
ear. The poet is expanded in the upper
part of the temples. The commercial
man has broad head just forward of
the ears, where the desire for property
is represented. The quarrelsome man
is broad above and behind the ears;
such men are inclined to be warlike, or
very forcible and energetic In business.
The pious and sympathetic person is
developed in the top head. Those who
have lordly, proud, dominating nature
are high at the crown of the head.
Those who are social, warm. hearted,
loving, affectionate, are largely develo-
ped in the back part of tine head, and
the distance from the opening at the ear
is long"
"See," continued the phrenologist,
'here is skull very broad from side to
side, above and about the ears; that is
the skull of the celebrated Winneb4so
chief, Big Thunder, and that Wilderness
of the head indicates the power that
gave him his name. Here is another
skull two inches and half narrower
than the first, and just as long; the
whole side of the head was fiat, and he
was deficient in force, but had intellec-
tual, moral and social power.
"IIere is the cast of the head of
Black Hawk; note how broad it is
about the ears, the distinguished char
acteristic of all these chleftain heads.
Look at the cast Of Elihu Burritt's
head-how full in the lower part Of the
forehead, which phrenology interprets
as educational talent. Or, observe this
bust of Thomas Adds Emmett, the
great Irish orator; how wonderfully
full the eyes are, indicating language.
Now contrast with it the eyes of the
noted lawyer, John S. Speed, of Balti-
more-retreating not full; and he was
not able to make motion in court with
out first writing it. In this head of
Wadsworth, the poet, what reasoning
powerl what idealityI Note the head of
Benjamin Franklin-what a massive
forehead it shows In the region of Tea-
son. This here is Thomas II. Benton,
with his pride, and prowess and pluck.
Look at Edison-that wonderful expan-
sion in the region of the temples gives
him his inventive talent Here is the
cast Of Daniel Webster-the only one
ever taken of him his modelled busts
are numerous. How large the forehead,
how massive the entire head, correspon-
ding with his well-known traits.
''That cast2 The only one ever taken
of Calhounl Force of character, dig
nlty and determination are phrenolOgi-
cally evident in it. And over yonder
are number of portraits. There is the
portrait of Edgar A. Poe. expanding
in the region of imagination. There,
again, is Longfellow; notice his large
perceptive organs and the fulness of tho
brow, and you will see the rhythm and
Jingle of the hundreds of particulars
iterated and reiterated in Hiawatha.
| And there also is Darwin, with his
large perceptive and his prodigious
firmness. And so with these casts of
Napoleon l., Huxley, Lincoln, Seward,
Douglas, Sumner, Chase, Horace Gree
ley and Bryant, or those Of Lucretia
Mott, Mrs. Stanton and Susan B. An
thony-every one of them indicating
/ their characters according to the princi-
pies of phrenology."
"Well, what about the face etc. ; do