Relative suggestion of Dr Brown, Rousseau, J. J., denies the social
Resemblance and difference, percep- Sanguine temperament, how distin-
Respect and deference, feelings of, produced by Veneration, 276, 280.
Respiratory nerves, 63. Revelation, 277.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, his impres- sions on seeing Raphael's pictures, 579.
Sarcasm, satire and invective sharp- ened by Destructiveness, 172. Satire, produced by Destructiveness and Wit, 172, 353.
Savages have generally a large or- gan of Philoprogenitiveness, 130. Their compression of the infant head, 608.
Robespierre's Benevolence defi- Scepticism, by what caused, 295.
Roget, Dr, supposes the functions
of the brain to be still incompre- hensible, 46.
Rope-dancers manifest strongly the faculty of Concentrativeness, 150. Roscoe, 469.
Rosini's organ of Tune, 438. Ross, Ann, case of, 199.
Captain, on the notation of development, 90.
Rotherham, John, murderer, 176,
Roughness and smoothness, percep- tion of, 388.
Schonberger, painter, his powerful
faculty of Locality, 414. Scheidler, a companion of Dr Gall, 414.
Scientific men, their perceptive of- ten larger than their reflecting organs, 383, 884. Scolding women, voices of, 441. Scots have generally small Indivi- duality, 384.
Scott, Sir Walter, his description of the New Hollanders, 36. His de- scription of King Robert Bruce's vengeance on Cormac Doil, 167. Recognises several phrenological
faculties, ib. His account of the secretive character of Napoleon and Louis XI., 193. His deli- neation of Cormac Doil's Secre- tiveness, 200. His Imitation large, 355. On supernatural per- sonages, 313. His Wonder large, 317. His Individuality and Even- tuality large, 384, 431. His large Locality and pictorial description of scenery, 416. His retentive memory, 516.
Scott, Mr William, on Amativeness, 120.
On Philoprogenitiveness, 126. On Adhesiveness, 153. On Secretiveness, 193. On humour, 196. On the genius and cerebral development of Raphael, 221. On the functions of the organ of Wit, 345. His theory of acting, 356, On Music, 439. On Comparison, 466. On the arrangement of the cerebral organs, 534.
murderer, ominous dreams of,
Scripture much addressed to the fa-
culty of Comparison, 468. Sculpture, talent for, from what fa-
culties arising, 222, 329, 358, 580. Sea, love of the, in landsmen, gene. rally caused by large organs of Wonder, 316.
Sea-sickness, Mr Simpson's views of
its probable cause, 398.
Second sight, whence arising, 321. Secretaries, Eventuality essential to, 433. Secretiveness, one of the propensi- ties, nature and objects of it, 191. Its abuses, 194, 195. An ingre- dient in humour, 196. Stronger in the English and Italians than in the French, 197. Gives the power of repressing the outward expression of pain, 199. Illustra-
tion of, from Sir W. Scott, 200. Its effects on the style of authors, ib. Prompts generals to employ stratagems, 201. Not admitted by metaphysicians, 202. Secretiveness, organ of, its situa- tion, 190. History of its disco- very, ib. Large in actors and ar- tists, 197. Large in thieves, 198. Its situation in the heads of the lower animals, 201. Its disease, ib. Engravings of two skulls, in which it is large and small, 202. Sedgewick, Mr, his essay on the compression of the infant head by barbarous nations, 607. Self-Esteem, one of the inferior sen-
timents, uses of, 233. Its abuses, 234. Gives rise to egotism, 235. Supposed by some phrenologists to be the origin of the feeling of individual personality, 237. Ad. mitted by Reid, Stewart, and Brown, 239.
organ of, its situation, 231. History of its discovery, 231. Cases illustrative of, 232. En- gravings of two heads in which it is large and moderate, 233. Its deficiency predisposes to humili- ty, 234. Its physiognomy, 239. Possessed by the lower animals, 240. Its disease, 242. Gene- rally larger in men than in wo- men, 243. Selfishness, by what produced, 211, 234, 265. Sensation, what, 497. 59, 61. Senses, external, their power in pro- portion to the size of their organs, 27-29. Their functions, 359. Er- roneous opinions that all ideas come into the mind through them, &c. ib. Do not form ideas, 363,
366. Mode of ascertaining the li- mits of their functions, 365. Ef fects of their disease, 367. Why they, though double, perceive sin- gle impressions, 368. The mind not conscious of the existence of their organs, 370. Dr Spurzheim's opinion that they have one com- mon cerebral organ, 371. Improv. able by exercise, 379. Feeling, 371. Taste, 372. Smell, ib. Hear. ing, 373. Sight, 375. Sentiment, what, 113, 230. Sentiments common to man and the lower animals, 231-260. Su- perior, or proper to man, 260 358. Modes of their activity, 489.
Servants, choice of, by the aid of Phrenology, 128, 280, 495, 591. Points to be attended to in choos- ing them, 592.
Sexual feeling orginates in Amative- ness, 118.
Shakspeare, an accurate observer of
human nature, 41. His Ideality, 326. Engraving of his head, 330. His large Imitation, 355; and Wonder, 317. His head large, 563. Supposed cause of his ge nius, 570. His greatness, 628.
illustrations of Phrenology from, 12, 192, 267, 432, 469. Sheep, their Destructiveness defi- cient, 183. Origin of their olfac- tory nerves, 184. Sheridan, Mr H. Watson's analysis of his wit, 349, 352. His Indi- viduality large, 384, 427. En- graving of his profile, 425. His Eventuality large, 427. Speci- men of his composition, ib. Sight, sense of, acute in proportion to the size of its organs, 28. Er- roneous theory of its rectification
by touch, 361, 362, 375. The me- mory and judgment of forms and colours independent of its exist- ence or acuteness, 386, 399, 413. Simple suggestion of Dr Thomas Brown, 434.
Simpson, Mr James, on Weight and Equilibrium, 394. On Time, 434. His report of the case of Miss S. L. 504. Singers, their organs of Tune and Imitation, 438, 439.
Sinus, frontal-See Frontal sinus. Size and form, ideas of, different, 389.
Size of an organ, cæteris paribus, a measure of power in its function, 23, et seq. Effects of, modified by temperament and disease, 32, 34. How ascertained, 89, 91, note. Its effect on the manifestation of the faculty, 562, et seq.
one of the perceptive faculties, probably connected with the pow- er of perceiving distance, and the talent for perspective, 390. II. lustrative cases of, ib. 391, 322.
organ of, its existence inferred by Dr Spurzheim, by reasoning, 390. Its situation, ib. Skating, talent for, 393. Skull, never supposed to be the cause of different talents, 49. Ac- commodates itself to the size and form of the brain, 77, 79, note. Its anatomy, 78. Its plates near- ly parallel, 79. Effects of disease and old age upon its structure, 80. Its plates not parallel in heads of some animals, 271. Ef fects of temperament on its tex- ture, 620.
S. L., Miss, curious case of spectral illusions, 396, 504.
Sleep proves the connexion of the
mind with the brain, 10. Mr A. Spectral illusions.-See Visions.
Carmichael's theory of, 511. Sloane, Mr, case of inability to dis-
tinguish colours, 403, 499.
Speech, faculty of, not the result of the sense of hearing, 374.-See Language.
Slyness, arises from Secretiveness, Spinal marrow, anatomy and func-
Smell, sense of, 27, 372.
tions of, 60. Consists of three columns, ib.
Smellie's account of the New Hol- Spurzheim, Dr J. G., birth of, 52.
Smith, Dr Adam, on Self-Esteem, 234. On virtue, 290. On Won- der and Surprise, 319. Displays great Causality, 481. On Sym- pathy, 548, 552. Explanation of two cases stated by him, 588, 589.
Sir J. E., his organ of Language large, 462; and Causality mode- rate, 481.
Sir William, his Acquisitive- ness large, 205. Smoothness and roughness, percep- tion of, 388.
Social state natural to man, 155. Society, uses of Benevolence in, 264.
Socrates had no genius for sculpture, 227. His great forehead, 282, 482. His Demon, 309. Admit-
Associated with Dr Gall, ib. His labours, 53. His division of the faculties, 113. On Inhabitive- ness, 134, 146. His visit to Mr Milne's workshop in Edinburgh, 223. On Conscientiousness, 269. His analysis of Veneration, 284. On Firmness, 285. His analysis of Ideality, 325. On the percep- tion of resemblance and difference, 346. On the faculty of Wit, 347. On the cause of single impressions being communicated to the mind by double organs of senses, 369. On the faculty of Hope, 304. On Marvellousness, 313, 317; Form, 387; Locality, 415'; Even- tuality, 432; Language, 455; Comparison, 473; Causality, 478. On the passions of children, 540. His merits and discoveries, 667. Stammering, 453.
Soil and climate, effect of, on the Standard of Taste, 561.
character of nations, 603. Soldiers, their Combativeness, 160. Manual and platoon exercise of, 435.
British and French, differ- ence of their character, 287. Somnambulism produced by animal magnetism, effects of, 521. Soul unknown but in connexion with
the brain, 112.-See Mind. Spaniards, ignorance and supersti- tion of the, 282. Sparrows, an example of their Be- nevolence, 273.
Stealing prompted by Secretiveness and Acquisitiveness, 198, 206, 207, 212. Sterne, Mr H. Watson's analysis of the wit of his Sentimental Jour- ney, 347, 352. His large Form, 389.
Stevenson, Mr, engineer, his organ of Weight large, 394. Stewart, Mr Dugald, on habit, 38,
553. On variety of character, 40. His style deficient in Concentra- tiveness, 145. On the desire of
wealth, 203. On desire of power, 239. On desire of esteem, 250. Admits a moral sense, 291, 303. On Taste, 332. On Beauty, 333. On Vision, 377. On the inabili- ty of some men to distinguish co- lours, 399. His style of language, 449. His Causality not great, 481. His theory of the origin of the pleasure derived from trage- dy, 491. On Conception, 501. On Imagination, 513. On Taste, 556. On the difference of the ta- lents and dispositions of nations, 600. Admits more faculties than
the phrenologists, 624. Stomach, supposed by Van Helinont to be the seat of the soul, 50. Stratagems, military, prompted by Secretiveness, 201. Street, Mary, 299. Stubbornness, the effect of large Firmness, 285.
Style of authors how affected by their predominant faculties, 412, 449; by their Secretiveness, 200; Ideality, 337; Concentrativeness and Eventuality, 145, 429, 430; and Language, 452, 453. Sublime, feeling of the, 330, 336. Successive appearance of the facul-
ties, a proof of the plurality of ce- rebral organs, 15.
Sudden resentment of Mr Stewart
and Dr Reid, 159.
Surgeons, eminent operative, have large Constructiveness, 224. Surprise and Wonder, Dr Adam Smith on, 319.
Sutures of the skull, what, 78. Slightly interrupt its parallelism,
Swallows, Constructiveness of, 225. Benevolence of, 272. Migration of, 419.
Swedenborg's belief in supernatural revelation to himself, 310. Swift's Individuality and Eventua- lity large, 431. His powerful writings, 568.
Swiss skull, engraving of, 618. Swooning, proves the connexion of the mind with the brain, 10. Sympathy, analysis of, 545.
Tacitus, his style characterized by Concentrativeness, 145. His de- scription of the Gauls and Ger- mans, 604.
Tact, conferred by Secretiveness, 193.
Tailors, skilful, have large Construc- tiveness, 224.
Talents, natural diversity of, 51, 67. Tasso's Ideality very large, 325.
Believed that he saw and con- versed with spirits, 309. Portrait of, shewing Ideality and Wonder large, 313. His Locality large,
Suicide, predisposition to, by what Taste, sense of, 372. caused, 257, 306.
Suicides, their cerebral development,
Supernatural events, belief in, pro- duced by the sentiment of Won- der, 313, 317.
Supernaturality, 317.-See Wonder. Superstition, by what caused, 276, 279, 282.
correct, produced by Love of Approbation and Ideality, 329. in colouring, 413.
analysis of 556. How suscep- tible of cultivation, 561. Stand- ard of, ib.
Teachers, qualifications of success- ful, 430, 433. Effects of smallness of heads of, 566.
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