ABDOMINAL temperament, 101. Absolute size of a cerebral organ no criterion of the predominance of the faculty attached to it, 97. Abuses of the faculties, what, 489. Acquisitiveness, organ of, its situa. tion, 203. History of its disco- very, 206. Large in thieves, ib. Its size in different nations, 211. Cases of individuals in whom it was large, 212-14. Its disease,
a primitive propensity, not admitted by the metaphysicians, 203. Admitted by Lord Kames, 204. Gives rise to avarice, 205, 212. Not in itself base or sordid, 208. Its use, 209. Its existence disputed by Mr Owen, 210. Its effects modified by Self-Esteem, 211. Gives rise to a tendency to steal, 212. Manifested by the lower animals, 216.
Acrel, case of diseased Acquisitive. ness from, 215.
Acting, theory of, 197, 356, 357. Activity of the faculties, modes of, 489. Influenced by temperament, 501.
of mind distinguishable from power, 103, 563. Definition
of, 104. How indicated, 104. Combination of faculties favour- able to, 105.
Actors have large organs of Secre- tiveness and Imitation, 197, 256, 355.
tragic, Ideality necessary to,
330. Acuteness, instantaneous, conferred by Comparison, 468. Adaptation of parts of the universe,
proves the existence of God, 486. Addison, an accurate observer of hu- man nature, 41. Nature of his genius, 568. Adhesiveness, one of the propensi- ties, effects of on the character, 154. Distinguishable from Be- nevolence, 155. Gives rise to so- ciety, ib. Very strong in the dog and other animals, 155. Its ef- fects in combination, 575.
organ of, its situation, 151. History of its discovery, ib. Its functions, 152. Generally larger in women than in men, ib. Its disease, 156.
Affective faculties, 260 et seq. Africans, character of the, 601, 616. Their superstition, 617. Their sentiment of truth weak, 299.
Alderson, Dr, of Hull, his cases of
spectral illusion, 503. Alexander VI., Pope, engraving of
his head, 572. Algebra, talent for, 421. Alimentiveness, or organ of the ap- petite for food, 184. Dr Hoppe's views of, 185. Supposed situation of, 186.
Allegorical style, 468.
Alms-giving, not the only manifes- tation of Benevolence, 264. Amativeness, situation of the organ of, 116. History of its discovery, 118. Gives rise to the sexual feeling, ib. Its influence on so- ciety, 120. Its abuses, 121. Its effects in combination, 575. Ambrose, St, his Veneration repre- sented large, 278.
Concentrativeness, 149. Adhe. siveness, 154. Combativeness, 164. Destructiveness, 183. Se- cretiveness, 201. Acquisitiveness, 216. Constructiveness, 225, 228, 229. Self-Esteem, 240. Love of Approbation, 251. Cautiousness, 258. Benevolence, 270. Imita- tion, 358. Form, 386. Locality, 418. Number, 423. Language, 461. Have no Causality, 476. Their susceptibility of being tamed and taught, 433. Anterior lobe of the brain, its size a measure of intellect, 85. Antiphrenologists unreasonable and ignorant, 54, 55, 641, et seq. Antiquarianism, tendency to, by what caused, 281. Apathy, whence arising, 541.
American brain smaller than the Apparitions, belief in, arises from
Indians, their Love of Ap- probation and Firmness large, 251, 287. Their sense of truth weak, 300. Their unimproveable nature, 602.—See North American Indians.
Analogies, perception of, 466. Anatomists, objection that they dis- believe Phrenology answered,
the sentiment of Wonder, 309, 311.-See Visions.
Appetite for Food, supposed organ of, 184. Distinguishable from hunger and thirst, 186. Approbation, Love of. See Love of Approbation.
Arachnoid tunic of the brain, 76. Archery and quoits, talent of excel- lence at, 393.
Architectural talent, 581.
Anatomy of the brain, 71. Its re- Architecture, ornamental, love of,
cent state, 46.
of the skull, 78.
Ancient temples, respect for, pro- duced by Veneration, 281. Angelo, Michael, his large Construc- tiveness, &c. 225.
Anger, an abuse of Destructiveness, 173.
Animal magnetism, 521. Animals, the lower, brains of, 99.
Their Philoprogenitiveness, 132.
whence arising, 329.
Aristotle, his account of the facul- ties, 21. His assignment of them to different parts of the brain, 45. Placed the intellect in the heart, 50. His theory of the senses, 367.
Arithmetic, the chief sphere of the
faculty of Number, 421. Arnott, Dr Neill, on the connexion between mind and body, 10.
Arragonese and Castilians have small Acquisitiveness, 211. Arrangement, love of, 424. Artists have large organs of Secre- tiveness, 197; Constructiveness, 224; and Imitation, 358. Indi. viduality useful to, 384. Effect of temperament on, 559. Ashantees, their character, 616. Asiatics have generally large Vene- ration, 280. Inferior to Euro-
Ass, brain of the, 100.
Association, analysis of, 531. Astronomers, eminent, their Locali- ty large, 416.
Atheists, their Causality generally deficient, 485. Answers to some
of their arguments, 486. Attention, analysis of, 531. Augustus Cæsar, Self-Esteem large
in the busts of, 238.
Aurelius, Marcus, his Benevolence and Veneration represented large, 266, 278.
Authors, manifest their predominant faculties in their works, 412. Ef- fects of their large or small Cau. sality on their works, 481. Ef- fect of temperament on, 559. Ef. fect of large heads of, 568. Avarice, 205, 212.
Awe, religious, produced by Vene- ration, 281.
Bacon, Lord, on cunning, 202. His
style imbued with Ideality, 337. On the faculties of perceiving re- semblances and differences, 344. His Causality large, 481. His want of moral sentiment, 523. His large head, 563. Barclay, Dr John, an objection of his to Phrenology, 624.
Bashfulness, cause of, 576. Basilar region of the brain, func- tions of, unknown, 80.
Bayle, Peter, Combativeness of, 162.
Beauty, emotion of, arises from I- deality, 332. Dr Thomas Brown on, 332. Mr Dugald Stewart on, 333. Mr Jeffrey on, 235, 388. Beavers, Acquisitiveness and Con- structiveness of, 216, 225, 228. Have no Causality, 476, note. Bees, Acquisitiveness and Construc- tiveness of, 216, 225.
Bell, Mr Charles, on plurality of ce- rebral organs, 21. A view of his discoveries of the functions of the spinal marrow and nerves, 56. Admits that the shape of the skull is determined by that of the brain, 79. Bellingham, John, murderer, 94, 97, 176, 260, 265, 297, 450. En. graving of his skull, 177. His style, 449. Benevolence, organ of, its situation, 261. Engravings of two heads in which it is large and small, ib. History of its discovery by Dr Gall, ib. Deficient in the heads of deliberate murderers, 265. Sup- posed by Dr Gall to be the organ of Justice, 268. Its effects on the lower animals, 270, 273. How to be observed in them, 272. disease, 273.
one of the superior senti- ments, its aim, 263. Difference between its manifestations and those of Love of Approbation, ib. Its effects on the mind of its pos- sessor, 263, 265. How it ought to be exerted in society, 264. Effects of its deficiency, 265. Its
abuses, 266. Its existence not inconsistent with that of Destruc- tiveness, 267, 345. Its existence generally admitted by metaphysi- cians, 274.
Berkeley, Bishop, his theory of Vi. sion, 375, His ideas on the evi-
dence of existence of the material world, 484.
Bidder, George, mental calculator, 418, 421.
Bilious temperament, how distin. guishable, 33. Its effects, ib. Birds, carnivorous, have large or- gans of Destructiveness, 184. migration of, 419.
singing, skulls of, 445.
Blair, Dr Hugh, an accurate ob- server of human nature, 41.
Lord President, his Construc- tiveness large, 227.
Blind men, case of one couched by Cheselden, 377. Cases of their distinguishing colours by touch,
Blumenbach teaches the connexion of the mind with the brain, 9. On smell, 27. Bonaparte's head large, 31, 563, 564.
His description of the characters of Ney and Murat, 161. Intona- tion of his voice when angry, 163. His Secretiveness, 193. His Self-Esteem, 238. Was unable to understand integrity of character, 295. His generals, 564. Booth, murderer, 177. Boshuans, some account of the, 616. Bossuet's face small and brain large,
Boundaries of the cerebral organs, 89, 93, 626.
Brain, demonstrated to be the or- gan of the mind, 7-13. Partial
injuries of, 20, 648, et seq. In- fluence of size in, 29. Small in children, the lower classes, and idiots, 30. Functions of, not dis- coverable by dissection, 43. Re- cent state of its anatomy, 46. Gall's researches on its structure, 52. Its anatomy, 71. Engrav- ings of, 71, 72. Its cineritious and medullary substances, and he- mispheres, 72. Its insensibility, 74. Its integuments, 77. Its fi- gure during life discoverable by observation, 79. Brains of the lower animals, 99. Texture of the brain finer in some indivi- duals than in others, 101. Dif. ference of its shape in males and females, 132. Its different parts distinguishable, 625. Answer to the objection, that its parts may be injured without affecting the mind, 626, 638. Observations on Sir E. Home's proposed method of investigating the functions of its different parts, 558. Brazil Indians, account of their cha-
racter and brains, 613. Engrav. ing of the skull of one, ib. Brewster's, Dr, organ of Weight large, 394.
Bright's account of the devotion of the inhabitants of Vienna, 276. Brown, Dr Thomas, on the connex- ion of mind with body, 13. On the simplicity or compound nature of the mind, 110. On instant an- ger, 159. His style characterized by Secretiveness, 200. His views of desire of wealth, 204; of power, 239; and of glory, 250. On Me. lancholy, 259. On Benevolence, 274. Eulogy of his character, in- tellect, and philosophy, 303, note.
His views of Beauty, 332; Vision, 378; Wonder, 319; and Simple Suggestion, 434. His definition of a cause, 474. Displays great Causality, 481. His views of Re- lative Suggestion, 483; Percep tion, 500; Consciousness, 528. Bruce, King Robert, 160, 251, 260, 278, 288, 299. His large head, 563.
Brunel, engineer, his large organs of Constructiveness, Weight, and Causality, 224, 395, 481. Bull-dog's Combativeness large, and that of the greyhound small, 164. Burk and Hare, profiles of, com- pared with that of the Rev. Mr M., 87. Development of, 176. Burke's eloquence, 450, note.
His Comparison and Causality large, 468, 481.
Burton's division of the brain into organs, 21.
Business, usefulness of Individuali-
ty and Eventuality in, 430. Bust, phrenological, its uses, 92. Byron's poems strongly manifest
Destructiveness, 172. Bad taste displayed in some passages of his Don Juan, 557.
Cabinet-makers, skilful, have large Constructiveness, 224.
Caffres, some account of the, 616. Calculation, talent for, 420. Caligula, character of, 175. His Be-
nevolence small, 266. Callipers, use of, 97. Campbell, the poet, his good taste,
whence arising, 560.
Camper's facial angle described, 44. Its fallacy, 45.
Caracalla's Benevolence small, 266.
Carmichael, Mr A., his views of sleep, 511.
Carmichael, Mr Richard, his report of case of Ann Ross, 199. Carnivorous and graminivorous ani- mals, difference beeween the brains of, 165. Destructiveness of the former, 183, 184.
Castilians and Arragonese have small Acquisitiveness, 211.
Catalani, Madame, her organ of Tune, 438.
Catherine of Medicis, her Benevo- lence small, 266. Catholics strongly manifest Venera- tion, 276.
Caucasian variety of Blumenbach, 619. Causality, one of the reflecting fa- culties, 474. Analysis of, 475 et seq. Not possessed by the lower ani- mals, 476. Dr Spurzheim on, 478. Effects of its strongness or weak- ness in active life, 479, 480. Its effects in the works of authors, 481. Its effects in producing be- lief in Phrenology, 482.
organ of, history of its discovery, 474. In whom large, 481. Not large in the French, 482. Represented large in the heads of Jupiter and Socrates, ib. Its ef- fects in combination, 577. Cause, Dr T. Brown's definition of, 474.
Cause and effect, perception of, 474, 477. Cautiousness, a positive sentiment, and not the mere want of courage, 253. Its aim, ib. Its effects on the character, 254. Its effects in com- bination with other faculties, 256, 576. Effects of its extreme acti- vity, 256.
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