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forehead, that august feature, which the poet considers asthe glorious characteristic of humanity. The forehead risesin animals as they are advanced in the scale of intellect, butit is in man alone that the front assumes that graceful swell,which is no less beautiful to the eye of taste, than signifi-cant to the physiognomist. 23d. The organ of rhetoricalacuteness lies on the middle of the forehead, above theorgan of thinking and beneath that of good nature. Thesethree organs follow each other; therefore, in a straight line,from the gabella to the sagittal future. 24th. Of metaphy-sical subtlety, on each side of that of rhetorical acuteness;so that when strongly marked by the law organ, an appear-ance of a prominent round swelling is formed. 25th. Ofwit, at the outside of the last mentioned organ. 2Gth. Oftheoscrophy, in the centre of the top of the forehead.
It is not our intention to enter into a detail of thoseorgans as given by the author of the invention. We proposeto transcribe the remarks upon some few of them only, aswe find them in a work of merit, to furnish a general ideaof the proof, and as an illustration on which the theory ofcranioscopy is established.
“ The organ of sexual love is placed in the cerebellum.It comprises that part of the occiput, which lies below thetinea semicircularis inferior towards the great occipitalhole; and in living subjects, therefore, it is to be judged ofby the thickness and breadth of the throat and neck. Itappears double on the skull, though the two organs andeminences of the cerebellum join each other, and produce aswelling apart on the skull, occasioned by the crista occipi-talis interna, which lie between them. As the sexualpassion rises in the subject, this pait of the brain grows indisproportion to the other parts; but when by castration,the purposes of nature in its formation are defeated, itceases to develope and perfect itself. In those men andanimals who have sutfered this operation, whilst young, itmay be observed, the back part of the skull ceases to grow,the neck becomes narrow, and the voice, whose seat is inthe throat, loses its manly vigour.
This remark applies to many species of animals. In themore simply formed animals, as well as in certain iusects,which generate in the usual way, the whole mass of brainconsists of mere knots in appearance, which are, as it were,the commencement of the cerebellum; while, in other ani-mals, which do not procreate in the usual way, those knotsare wanting. The stallion and bull have a more perfectlydeveloped cerebellum, and, consequently, have a thicker