The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-30

rs soon rs man
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 i'll rude way that on the gen
eral average they acted rs they looked.
When they had observed cases enough Ia,
makeh gener'u rule phrenology was born
but they did not know it by that name.
on cannot grow n whale in IA 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 ridiculei
pbrenology into a group of low browed,
square headed fellows. menwlose brains lie
chiefly bnck of their ears, andyou will never
near him enter into IN intellectual dis.
course with one of them. He will never
once think of asking their views on.th
ENTITY of space" or 'thr relatively of mat
ter and force" and the com bined judy-
ment of a thousand such men on tariff and
free trade would not influence his opinion
particle
Why, then, is there; so much ridicule of
phrenologys Simply because Of its too
earnest opponents, who have pushed the
bump theory to'an absurd extreme and
have almost persuaded themselves that
man Is lot responsible for his acts because
he was born So" Bc'that.llS itmav how.
ever, this happy capacity OF man to talk
one way and ACT anothcris SO well known
that when General Adlai Stevenson. Dem
ocratic candidate for vice president, sub
mitted his head to phren0logist and nj
lowed the latter's opinion to be published.
there was much curiosity to read the
'ChartO r1U IL ir,, Of ; H., Il.
yet those who ridiculed 1t were to the fun
as curious as the rest. Internationally they
admitted the tcuth and the science
We'll, according to this inanipulator.
General Stevenson is man of superb
mold, both III body md mind. Though
SIX feet in height and weighing over 2oO
pounds, his build is quite symmetric. His
head is typicnlly masculine and his tenn
permanent is we'll balanced and would, nc
cordlng to the old writers, be called nerv-
ous-bilious, or in the modern classification.
the mental motive. This 'temperameut is
conducive to Ereut activity both Of mind
and muscle The circumference of the
head on the center of the occput is 1og/
inches"
NOW let us trace the processes by which
phrenologlsts have arrivedat their conclu-
sions for tie history is really quite Gu rious
In the years Tres 10 and ,thoreahout n Ger
man schOolhuy noticed that while he could
see into things" as quickly us any one in
his class, he could notmemoriZe, and that
the boys noted for their memories and
readiness in the use of words all had full
eyes and rather smooth, round foreheads.
In fact, this little German philosopher and
keen observer had unconscionsly laid. the
foundation of science This WAS joseph
Franz Gall, born at Tiefenbronn. Baden.
March 8, 175S.
Aften leaving the school for boys he
went to Strasburg to study anatomy and
then to Vienna, where he received his di-
plona as Il physician and went to work in
the hospitals He soon'noted that n Ger
tain shape of the hend WAS cOrrelntivc
with the practice of vices that led TO Ger
tain diseases. aud even before he wrote IA
line on the subject he had diagnosed the
''drrnkard's head and the 'wcak volup-
tuary's head" The correspondence was
not uniform of course, for moral training
and general strength of character count
Tor 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 the
brain is the seat of the mind, and defined
the location of some twenty faculties He
published his theory in 1891, and began lee
turing thereon in Vienna in 1896. He soon
lHhec u Cou'trt OI IT. JOnhDn GlSDar
Spurzheim, who was born in 1916 and they
went on vigorously with their work till
the church came down upon them. In
1902 the Austrian government forbade the
teaching Of the new doctrine as '''inimical
to religion" and they had to go to other
countries. DR.. Gall died near Paris in
.1SaS. and DR.. Spurzheim in Boston in 1892.
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