Brain and mind; or, Mental science considered in accordance withthe principles of phrenology, and in relation to modern physiology (1882)
Drayton, H. S. (Henry Shipton), 1840-1923, McNeill, James, 1846-1916 · New York, Fowler & Wells · leaf 187
e no charm. The explanation whichPhrenology gives of these cases of preternatural impres- i8o BRAIN AND MIND. sions is, that man is endowed with a mental organ which,in its normal activity, produces a love of the new and thewonderful, and disposes to a belief in the supersensuous,but which in its… … Fig. 83.—Ann Lee, founder of the Shakers. ature. It is extremely large in the skulls of the Peruvians,and they were exceedingly credulous, taking the Spaniardsfor supernatural beings. In the New Hollanders it is verysmall, and Captain Cook says of them, that when his shipwent near the shore some…
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