My battle for life. The autobiography of a phrenologist (1857)
Goyder, David George, 1796-1878 · London, Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. · leaf 358
Secretiveness and Conscientiousnessjust above named. Anatomists cannot discover the functionsof the brain, nor are they capable of discoveriug the func-tion of any organ. It is a general law of nature thateach function must have a separate organ. This provesthat the brain cannot be a single organ,… … DANIEL WEBSTER, Charles Bell has demonstrated this to be the case, andby this has added another illustration to the law, thatevery function must have its own organ. The analogyof the other parts of the body, therefore, are in favorof the phrenological doctrine, that the brain, although 320 THE…
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