The Republican., 1900-12-13
STUDENTS OF pHRENoLoGY.
Persons from All Parts of the WOrI6
Come to America to Study
the SuhiPct

sOHS nave III New 1Ofk stunned pnTe- |
nology. People have come here from |
all parts of the world to study it. |
From every part of the United States, |
England, the continent, and even from
New Zealand and Australia have come
young and middle-aged persons for
the purpose of learning how to read
character by exploring the surface of
the human head. The expert phrenol-
ogist assumes to be able to estimate
to a nicely the power of ones mental
faculties, separately and together, and
to clap his hand at a glance on the
precise part of the head which shows
if one can be a merchant, lawyer or
an Arctic explorer, says the New York
Sun.
How are your pupils taught to
discover the different traits of char
acter?" was asked by the Sun reporter
of a veteran professional phrenologist
in this city.
IAN adequate reply to that ques-
tion," said the professor, would fill
a book of a thousand pages; but,
briefly, we teach that the brain is
the center and source of all mentali-
ty. There is no thought, purpose or
emotion that belongs to human life
that does not originate in the brain.
We may feel sensations that are pro-
duced upon the eXtremities, but those
sensations are reported at the sem
sorium, and then the brain 'ac-
quiesces' or protests, according to cir
cumstances. According to the size or
form and quality of the brain, char
acter is possessed and manifested by
individuals.
"A moments observation will show
any person that heads differ in form
and size. There are heads that are
broad and heavy above and about the
ears. Those belong to burly, hard,
selfish, secretive, treacherous, animal
people. Other heads are tall-that is,
they rise at the top. Those carry
with them the aspirations, the moral
ity, the susceptibility, the sympathy,
the enthusiasm and the invention of
life. Still others are massive in the
frontal section; from the opening of
the ear forward the head is long and
broad. Those belong to the thinkers,
the persons of commanding talent.
those that carry genius into the works
and ways of life. They are the lead
ers, the creators, the master spirits,
the pioneers of civilization, progress
and reform.
''If one will look at the broad tenn
pies of Edison and his massive upper
forehead he will see what lies at the
foundation of all that genius great in
ventions and successes. Then the head
of Ericsson, who invented the Monitor
and the propeller for steamers, indi-
Gates to the phrenologist the source
of his power. Whoever looks at the
portrait of William NJ. Evarts will see
n wonderful development across the
brows, which gather knowledge. and
the middle section of the forehead,
which remembers the knowledge. This
always enabled Mr.. Evarts to make a
paragraph two pages long full of
sense and grammar.
''In the chronological school there
are long rows of busts and skulls of
| murderers and other malefactors,
with their low brows and their broad
base of brain and their brutal physi-
| ognomies. Students are taught to
| classify the nationalities of mankind
| by the skull alone. All the races can
| be graded. The very dark races and
| the ighter-compleXioned people can
| be assorted historically and accurate
| ly. The chronological graduate will
not make a mistake between the white
mans skull and the Chinaman's, the
American Indians and the Africans,
and he will generally be able to desig-
nate a mulatto, half negro and half
white by dry and ghastly skull that
is so years old. After about two
months study student is sufficiently
equipped with information to enable
him to go into an audience. and. if
confronted by a man who is half Ger
man, to recognize the German blood in
him at once, and to do so blind
| folded"
rs it necessary to study the face
IN connection with the head, in order
to judge of ones characteristics?
asked the reporter.
1--WE regard character reading as
centralized in the brain, and whatever
is shown by the form and expression
of the face or by the form and move
ments of the body is simply an ex-
ternal manifestation of what the brain
itself reveals. No motion of the body
can take place that isn't instigated in
the brain or in its ganglionic out
posts. Students not only have busts
and skulls as a source of information,
but they have hundreds of portraits
of historic characters, illustrating
temperament, constitution and talent
in every phase. In addition, they are
trained in practical examinations of
living heads and temperaments. The
human brain is also dissected and ex-
planned to the class.
AT present courts of justice are be-
ing enlightened by phrenology con-
cerning mental alienation, and moth
ers are studying phrenology and
learning how to teach the young idea
how to shoot, or rather how to avoid
shooting. In England some of the