My battle for life. The autobiography of a phrenologist (1857)
Goyder, David George, 1796-1878 · London, Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. · leaf 498
he portrait on page 855, Philoprogenitiveness is but moder-ately developed, and Self-esteem, marked 10, is verylarge, while in the portrait of the female, inserted on page317, these developments are reversed. As this prominence of the occipital bone is evidentlyproduced by brain, it follows that… … of a faculty, or quality, manifesting itself in a greaterdegree in woman than in man ? But then, the questionarose, what was that faculty or quality ? In examiningand comparing the skulls in his numerous collection,Dr. Gall at length discovered, that in the crania offemale animals, distinguished…
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