Names of the Phrenological Organs REFERRING TO THE FIGURES INDICATING THEIR RELATIVE POSITIONS. AFFECTIVE 1.PROPENSITIES 1. SENTIMENTS INTELLECTTAL 1. PERCEPTIVE 1 Amativeness Page 116 10 Self-esteem 231 22 Individuality 4 Adhesiveness 5 Combativeness 6 Destructiveness + Alimentiveness 7 Secretiveness 8 Acquisitiveness 9 Constructiveness 11. REFLECTIVE 380 34 Comparison 389 261 25 Weight 393 214 26 Colouring 3.00 285 21 Locality 414 Conscientiousness 288 28 Number 420 203 18 466 474 OF PHRENOLOGY. BY GEORGE COMBE. RES NON VERBA QUÆSO. FOURTH EDITION. VOL. I. EDINBURGH: MACLACHLAN & STEWART, AND JOHN ANDERSON JUN. JOHN MACLEOD, GLASGOW; W. GRAPEL, LIVERPOOL; MDCCCXXXVI. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. THE following are the circumstances which led to the publication of the present Work. My first information concerning the system of Drs Gall and Spurzheim, was derived from No. 49. of the Edinburgh Review. Led away by the boldness of that piece of criticism, I regarded the doctrines as contemptibly absurd, and their authors as the most disingenuous of men. In 1816, however, shortly after the publication of the Review, my friend Mr Brownlee invited me to attend a private dissection of a recent brain, to be performed in his house by Dr Spurzheim. The subject was not altogether new, as I had previously attended a course of demonstrative lectures on Anatomy by Dr Barclay. Dr Spurzheim exhibited the structure of the brain. to all present, (among whom were several gentle b men of the medical profession,) and contrasted it with the bold averments of the Reviewer. The result was a complete conviction in the minds of the observers, that the assertions of the Reviewer were refuted by physical demonstration. The faith placed in the Review being thus shaken, I attended the next course of Dr Spurzheim's lectures, for the purpose of hearing from himself a correct account of his doctrines. The lectures satisfied me, that the system was widely different from the representations given of it by the Reviewer, and that, if true, it would prove highly important; but the evidence was not conclusive. I therefore appealed to Nature by observation; and at last arrived at complete conviction of the truth of Phrenology. In 1818, the Editor of the "Literary and Statistical Magazine for Scotland," invited me to a free discussion of the merits of the system in his work, and I was induced to offer him some essays on the subject. The notice which these attracted led to their publication in 1819, in a separate volume, under the title of "Essays on Phrenology." A second edition of these Essays has since been called for, and the present volume is offered in compliance with that demand. In the present Work, I have adopted the title of "A System of Phrenology," on account of |