Brain and mind : or, Mental science considered in accordance with the principles of phrenology, and in relation to modern physiology (1895)
Drayton, Henry Shipman, 1840-1923, McNeill, James, 1846-1916 · New York : Fowler & Wells Co., Publishers; London : L.N. Fowler & Co. · leaf 183
have no charm. The explanation whichPhrenology gives of these cases of preternatural impies 180 BRAIN AND MIND. sions is, that man is endowed with a mental organ whichin its normal activity, produces a love of the new and thewonderful, and disposes to a belief in the supersensuousbut which in its… … Fig. 83.—Ann Lee, founder of the M 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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