The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing / A Manual of Ready Reference
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and each has its seat in a
definite region of the brain.
Fourth--That the size of each of these regions is the measure of the
power of manifesting the faculty associated with it.
The faculties and their localities, as originally constructed by Dr.
Gall, were for the most part identified on slender grounds. His
procedure was as follows: Having selected the place of a faculty, he
examined the heads of his friends and casts of persons with that
peculiarity in common, and in them sought for the distinctive feature of
their characteristic trait. Some of his earlier studies were among low
associates in jails and lunatic asylums, and some of the qualities
located by him were such as tend to perversion to crime. These he named
after their excessive manifestations, and thus mapped out organs of
theft, murder, etc. This, however, caused the system to be discredited.
Later his pupil, Dr. Spurzheim, claimed that the moral and religious
features belonging to it greatly modified these characteristics of Dr.
Gall's work. The chart of the human head as invented by Dr. Gall
represented 26 organs; the chart as improved by Dr. Spurzheim makes out
35 organs. This is the chart now generally used and which is shown on a
preceding page. The number specifies the location of each organ, which
is followed by its phrenological name, and classified as follows:
Propensities. (1) Amativeness. (2) Philoprogenitiveness. (3)
Concentrativeness. (4) Adhesiveness. (5) Combativeness. (6)
Destructiveness. (6a) Alimentiveness. (7) Secretiveness. (8)
Acquisitiveness. (9) Constructiveness.
Lower Sentiments. (10) Self-esteem. (11) Love of Approbation. (12)
Cautiousness.
Superior Sentiments. (13) Benevolence. (14) Veneration. (15)
Conscientiousness. (16) Firmness. (17) Hope. (18) Wonder. (19) Ideality.
(20) Wit. (21) Imitation.
Perceptive Faculties. (22) Individuality. (23) Form. (24) Size. (25)
Weight. (26) Color. (27) Locality. (28) Number. (29) Order. (30)
Eventuality. (31) Time. (32) Tune. (33) Language.
Reflective Faculties. (34) Comparison. (35) Causality. The judgment of
the phrenologist is determined by the size of the brain in general, and
by the size of the organs that have been formulated, and these are
estimated by certain arbitrary rules that render the boundaries of the
regions indefinite.
The controversy over phrenology has served undoubtedly the very useful
purpose of stimulating research into the anatomy of the brain.
It is generally conceded that any psychological theory which correlates
brain-action and mental phenomena requires a correspondence between the
size of the brain and mental power, and generally observation shows that
the brains of those whose capacities are above the average are larger
than those of the general run of their fellow men.
A study of the cuts and comparison of the sizes of different heads and
their shape will prove very entertaining with most any group of persons
intellectually inclined, and it will be found that persons who are
naturally good readers by instinct of human nature can, with its help,
make remarkable readings in the delineation of character.
PRINCIPLES OF PARLIAMENTARY LAW.
List of Motions Arranged According to Their Purpose and Effect.
[Letters refer to the rules below.]
Modifying or amending.
8. To amend or to substitute, or to divide the question K
To refer to committee.
7. To commit (or recommit) D
Deferring action.
6. To postpone to a fixed time. C
4. To lay on the table A E G
Suppressing or extending debate
5. For the previous question A E M
To limit, or close debate A M
To extend limits of debate. A
Suppressing the question.
Objection to consideration of question A H M N
9. To postpone indefinitely. D E
4. To lay upon the table. A E G
To bring up a question the second time.
To reconsider--
Debatable question D E F I
Undebatable question A E F I
Concerning orders, rules, etc.
3. For the orders of the day. A E H N
To make subject a special order M
To amend the rules M
To suspend the
