My battle for life. The autobiography of a phrenologist (1857)
Goyder, David George, 1796-1878 · London, Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. · leaf 703
m unkingd by Bolingbroke,And straight am nothing. 20. Wit.—The organ of Wit is situated on the upperand outer part of the forehead, on the side of Causality, andimmediately before that of Ideality. Of this faculty Dr.Spurzheim remarks, that it diffuses over the mind a dis-position to view objects… … it be applied to ideas and conceptions of importance, itsagency is called vnt; directed to common events andlesser notions, it appears as humor ; in union with Con-structiveness and Configuration, it produces caricatures A rilBENOLOGIST. 559 and pictures, in the manner of Hogarth and of…
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