Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1892-08-12

had advanced far enough to observe his
fellows closely he was struck by the diff
ferences in their facial expression and the
general getup of their heads, and surely
he could not have noticed this long with
out noting in rude way that on the gen
eral average they acted as they looked.
When they had observed cases enough C
make general rule phrenology was born
but they did not know it by that name.
you cannot grow a whale in mud
puddle" This ancient proverb gives us a
good hint for the explanation of the seem.
ing paradox that SO many people ridicule
science and yet order their conduct in
strict accordance with it. Take the most
sarcastic lecturer who ever ridiculed
phrenology into group of low browed,
square headed fellows, men whose brains lie
chiefly back of their ears and you will never
hear him enter into an intellectual dis.
course with one of them. He will never
once think of asking their views on the
ENTITY of space" or the relatively of mat.
ter and force" and the combined judg-
ment of thousand such men on tariff and
free trade would not influence his opinion
particle.
Why, then, is there so much ridicule OF
phrenologyY Simply because of it's toe
earnest opponents who have pushed the
bump theory to an absurd extreme and
have almost persuaded themselves that
man is not responsible for his acts because
ne was born SOL Be that as it may, how
ever, this happy capacity of man to talk
one way sSld act another is so well known
that when General Adlai Stevenson, Dem
ocratic candidate for vice president, sub
mitted his head to phrenologist and al
ba lot orig mi 70 no iu1,
there was much curiosity to read the
chart" and much ridicule of the idea, ant
yet those who ridiculed it were to the full
as curious as the rest. Unconsciously they
admitted the truth and the science.
Well, according to this manipulation
General Stevenson is a man of superl
mold, both in body and mind. Though
six feet in height and weighing over 20,
pounds, his build is quite symmetric. "Hi'
head is typically masculine and his TEN
permanent is well balanced and would, &C
cording to the old writers, be called nerv
ous-bilious, or in the modern classification
the mental motive. This temperament il
conducive to great activity both of mine
and muscle. The circumference of til,
head on the center of the occiput is 22s.
inches"
Now let us trace the processes by which
| phrenologists have arrived at their conclu
sions, for the history is really quite curious
In the years 1850 and thereabout Ger
man schoolboy noticed that while he coult
''see into things" as quickly as any one il
his class, he could not memorize and tina
the boys noted for their memories ant
readiness in the use of words all had full
eyes and rather smooth, round foreheads
In fact, this little German philosopher anC
keen observer had unconsciously laid tn,
foundation of a science. This was JOSEPH
Franz Gall, born at Tiefenbronn, Baden
March 0, l15s.
Aften leaving the school for boys h,
went to Strasburg to study anatomy, ant
then to Vienna, where he received his di
ploma as a physician and went to work il
the hospitals. He soon noted that Ger
tain shape of the head was correlativ,
with the practice of vices that led to Ger
tain diseases, and even before he wrote
line on the subject he had diagnosed TIL
"drunkard's head" and the weak volup
tuary's head" The correspondence wa
not uniform of course, for moral trainin!
and general strength of character coun
for much; still the tendency was marked.
After twenty years of study in hospitals
asylums, prisons and institutions of learn
ing he claimed to have proved that tn
brain is the seat of the mind, and define
the location of some twenty faculties. II
published his theory in 1871, and began lee
turing thereon in Vienna in 1896 He 500
made a convert Of DR.. Johann Gaspa
Spurzheim, who was born in 1716, and the
went on vigorously with their work til
the church came down upon them. L
1902 the Austrian government forbade tn
teaching of the new doctrine as "inimica
to religion" and they had to go to othe
countries. DR.. Gall died near Paris i
1928, and DR.. Spurzheim in Boston in 1888.