Phrenology, and how to use it in analyzing character (1871)
Morgan, Nicholas · London, Longmans, Green · leaf 258
ndowed with an innatepower, which makes him behold the taking away of life withindifference, and sometimes to feel pleasure in the ghastlyspectacle; and, horrible to contemplate, that the emotionoccasionally rises so high as to arm the assassin, and imparta demoniacal thirst for the lifes blood of… … Fig. 41.—Linn, pugilist and parricide. The term Destructiveness is perhaps rather too expressive,and in consequence of its being frequently coupled withmurder, is apt to convey a wrong impression, and lead themind erroneously to consider that which is an effect of greatenergy and uncontrolled…
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