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t a dreamy influence, and a disposition to close the eyes. Carried farther, it produces the mesmeric sleep. CAUTIOUSNESS (the 10th of both Spurzheim and Gall) was too far back in Spurzheim's map, occupying space that belongs to adhesiveness. It runs downward along the course of the lateral convolutions, and its more timid and gloomy functions are developed near the ear, differing widely from the functions of its upper portion. APPROBATIVENESS (the 11th of Spurzheim, and 9th of Gall) is located with substantial correctness, covering, however, more functions than that term expresses. Gall's location and definition are also substantially correct. SELF-ESTEEM (the 12th of Spurzheim, 8th of Gall) is well located and described with approximative correctness. FIRMNESS, RELIGION (Veneration or Theosophy), and BENEVOLENCE are so well located and described by both Gall and Spurzheim as to need but little comment at present. The four superior organs on the median line, and the organ of CONSCIENTIOUSNESS were more correctly located and described than any other large portion of the brain. HOPE is not adjacent to Conscientiousness, but parallel to Religion. MARVELLOUSNESS has a preposterously large space assigned it, being really a small organ at the summit of Ideality, which exercises a more intellectual and less superstitious function than has been given it. Marvellousness, Hope, Conscientiousness, Time, Order, Weight, Size, and Individuality are the eight organs discovered and added by Spurzheim, not having been recognized by Gall. The exterior portion of Spurzheim's Marvellousness occupies the space devoted by Gall to Poetry. POETRY, recognized by Gall, is brought lower by Spurzheim and called IDEALITY. Both locations are substantially correct. The location of Gall is the seat of Marvellousness, Imagination, and Spirituality; that of Spurzheim is well expressed by the term Ideality, and the description given, but the word Poetry is rather too limited as the definition of Gall's organ. It gives brilliance to prose and to oratory, or even conversation, as well as to poetry. IMITATION, adjacent to Benevolence, is somewhat better located by Gall than by Spurzheim, who gives it too much breadth anteriorly. WIT or MIRTHFULNESS is a confused and erroneous statement. The two faculties are distinct, Wit being intellectual and occupying a small space adjacent to Causality or Reason, while Mirthfulness, or the sentiment
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