Heads and Faces, and How to Study Them

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Excerpt from Heads and Faces, and How to Study Them: A Manual of Phrenology and Physiognomy for the People Near the close of the last century the physiology of the brain became the sub jcet of special investigation by an emi nent physician of Germany, Dr. Gall, and. He claimed that he had discovered signs of character in the brain, that it can be safely studied as the basis of character, and that whatever the face or attitudes or motions may reveal, the impulse comes from the brain. His mode of investiga tion has acquired the name of Phrenology. For nearly a hundred years the term Phrenology has been before the world, and has been understood to relate to the laws and activities of the human mind, and that in some way it is related to the brain as its organ. A few have studied Phrenology and accepted it heartily, others have made it a topic for contempt or ridicule, and though thousands of the general public have little or no knowledge on the subject, other thousands have more or less information respecting it, and. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.