A new illustrated hand-book of phrenology, physiology and physiognomy (1878)
Wells, R. B. D · London, H. Vickers · leaf 187
d moving the finger directly upward one inch, and thenhorizontally forward the same distance, when the finger 164 will rest upon the organ. It gives width to the headat the back of the temples, from the eyebrows backwardover the tops of the ears. The natural function ofthis organ is to acquire and… … Fig. 8i.—Peabody. Acquisitiveness Large. robbery, and garotting. When it is controlled by the moraland intellectual brain it stimulates to thrift, economy, andfrugality ; but when these faculties are small, it induces itspossessor to palm off inferior articles for good ones, to rundown everything…
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