The mysteries of the head and the heart explained : including an improved system of phrenology, a new theory of the emotions, and an explanation of the mysteries of mesmerism, trance, mind-reading, and the spirit delusion (1875)
Grimes, J. Stanley (James Stanley), 1807-1903, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · Chicago : W.B. Keen, Cooke & Co. · leaf 111
personsthey seem to be indisposed to change the subject ofconversation. They literally dwell upon it even whenthey have nothing new to say in regard to it. I con-sider this tendency to continuity as an incidental and 90 MYSTERIES OF HEAD AND HEART. secondary effect of Inhabitiveness. Phrenologists… … George Combe—Fig. 34. Mr. George Combe, the distinguished phrenologicalauthor, insisted upon changing the name of this organto Concentrativeness, and considered his own head,Fig. 34, a good illustration of it when largely devel-oped. One objection that has been made by Dr. Elder andothers to Mr.…
Phrenology · Mesmerism · Spiritualism
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