ng convolutions appear. The organs of Benevolence andImitation, however, form an exception. They run lon-gitudinally, and, although here classed with the organsproper to man, they are found in the lower animals. Thefaculties now to be treated of produce emotions or feel-ings, but do not form ideas.… … This organ is situated at the upper part of thetal bone, in the coronalaspect, and immediatelybefore the fontanel. The faculty producesthe desire of the happi-ness of others, and dis-poses to active benevo-lence, and, in cases ofdistress, to compassion.It communicates mild-ness and cheerfulness…
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