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BY P. FLOURENS, MEMBER OF THE FRENCH ACADEMY, PERPETUAL SECRETARY OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (INSTITUTE OF FRANCE), MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETIES OF LONDON AND EDINBURG, OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF STOCKHOLM, OF MUNICH, AND OF TURIN, ETC. ETC. PROFESSOR OF COMPAR...
M. Cuvier, in his report, observed: “It is essential to repeat, were it merely for the information of the public, that the anatomical questions we have been considering, have no...
5. Part 5He at first thought that a good memory was connected with a certain _conformation of the eyes_: “I remarked,” says he, “that they all had large projecting eyes.... I suspected,...
2. Part 2Now here is the sum and the substance of Gall’s psycology. For the understanding, essentially a unit faculty, he substitutes a multitude of little understandings or faculties, d...
1. Part 1BY P. FLOURENS, MEMBER OF THE FRENCH ACADEMY, PERPETUAL SECRETARY OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (INSTITUTE OF FRANCE), MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETIES OF LONDON AND EDINBURG, O...
4. Part 4But the error that Spurzheim combats is not the whole of Gall’s error; it is only a particular and secondary error:[139] the error that he does not perceive, the error that he f...
6. Part 6[148] The eight organs added by Spurzheim, are the organs of habitativity, order, time, right, supernaturality, hope, extent, weight. Gall’s remarks upon these eight organs prop...