The Principles of PhrenologyWilliam Tait, 1838 - 223 páginas |
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... nature is not less unpardonable than deplorable . By universal consent philosophers consider the topic as tabooed ; and the enlightened and liberal conductors of the public press , from sheer unacquaintance with the Bible , and ...
... nature is not less unpardonable than deplorable . By universal consent philosophers consider the topic as tabooed ; and the enlightened and liberal conductors of the public press , from sheer unacquaintance with the Bible , and ...
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... nature , and what he believes to be their practical deductions . They will placidly state , that Phrenology , for example , has enough of prejudice to overcome , without its expounder increasing its force by openly disregarding the ...
... nature , and what he believes to be their practical deductions . They will placidly state , that Phrenology , for example , has enough of prejudice to overcome , without its expounder increasing its force by openly disregarding the ...
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... nature are those alone to which it owns allegiance , and it will not admit the obligation of any other statutes . As the captain would scout the absurdity of measuring his recruits by their correspondence in height with a drummer who ...
... nature are those alone to which it owns allegiance , and it will not admit the obligation of any other statutes . As the captain would scout the absurdity of measuring his recruits by their correspondence in height with a drummer who ...
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... nature , in its generous impulses , in its healthy mental condition , in its uniformity of genuine and unsophisticated feeling . They might have been the lead- ers of mankind , had they trusted in man . The same ears that heard the ...
... nature , in its generous impulses , in its healthy mental condition , in its uniformity of genuine and unsophisticated feeling . They might have been the lead- ers of mankind , had they trusted in man . The same ears that heard the ...
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... nature , because it is very probable that our most sincere convictions and confident opinions may be altogether fallacious . Phrenology , therefore , may be established on a perfectly solid foundation , although it were to be altogether ...
... nature , because it is very probable that our most sincere convictions and confident opinions may be altogether fallacious . Phrenology , therefore , may be established on a perfectly solid foundation , although it were to be altogether ...
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Acquisitiveness action activity altogether Andrew Combe anterior lobe appears Benevolence betwixt blood brain called Causality Cautiousness cerebellum cerebral character circulation colours Combe combined consciousness consequence coronal surface cranium Daniel O'Connell deficient desire Destructiveness disease doctrine effect emotion equally excited existence external fact feelings fibrin Firmness forehead former function Gall give head heart herbivori Hewett Watson human ideas Imitation impressions individual instinct intellectual language largely developed latter Love of Approbation lower animals Malebranche manifested mental metaphysicians mind nature nerves nervous ness never objects observed occipital bone optic nerve organ parietal bone particular passion peculiar perceive persons phenomena Philoprogenitiveness philosophy Phrenology possess present principle produce propensity quadrupeds reason recollection relation remarkable resemblance result says Secretiveness Self-Esteem sense skull sound Spurzheim stimulates superciliary ridge supposed Temperament theory thing Thomas Brown thought tion truth Tune Vimont whole Wonder words
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