15°. Phrenology.—Phrenologists estimatethe size of the moral organs by the extent to which the brainrises above a plane passing through the centres of ossificationof the frontal and parietal bones, the centres of Causality B,and Cautiousness 12. The correct measurement should be aplane passing… … * Moral Philosophy, p. 308. 228 ASYLUM FOR THE BLIND. This day Dr. Pancoast, at my request, was so obliging as tosaw open the skull of a negro woman, aged about fifty, in theplane of A B, the centres of Causality and Cautiousness, and cutthe brain, with an amputating knife, across in the same…
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