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Forty years in phrenology; embracing recollections of history, anecdote, and experience (1888)

Sizer, Nelson, 1812-1897 · New York, Fowler & Wells · leaf 386

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place. Gall studied thebrain in connection with character, and regardingthe brain as the organ of the mind, he learnedto look for similar character in heads which were alikein form; and thus, step by step, he gained positiveknowledge, and faculty after faculty were located. Be-fore he decided on… … Fig. 6.—Dr. F. J. Gall, the Founder opPhrenology. De. Spuezheim. 381 able to comprehend facts and willing to follow truthregardless where it may lead, is an excellent illustrationof his great problems: The brain is the organ of themind, and size of brain, if the quality be good, is themeasure of…

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