My battle for life. The autobiography of a phrenologist (1857)
Goyder, David George, 1796-1878 · London, Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. · leaf 710
themore appropriate and correct, namely. Configuration. To me there seems to exist an essential and fundamentalpower, says Dr. Spurzheim, taking cognizance of Con-figuration generally, and one of whose peculiar applicationsor offices is recollection of persons, for persons are onlyknown by their… … by every one of the external senses, by smell and hearingas well as by feeling and sight, while the two latter senses 566 THE AUTOBIOGEAPHY OF alone assist the organ of Configuration. It is this powerwhich disposes us to give a figure to every being andconception of our minds—that of a venerable…
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