Rivalry, Profligacy, or Lawless Impulse, Irritability,
Baseness, Destructiveness, Hatred, Disgust, Animalism, Turbulence,
Virility.
5. SENSITIVE AND ENFEEBLING ELEMENTS.
Interior Sensibility or Disease, Appetite, Relaxation, Melancholy
or Sullenness, Insanity, Idiocy, Rashness and Carelessness,
Expression.
The reader should be careful not to attach too much importance to
classification or nomenclature. The special descriptions of organs are
necessary to a correct understanding.
CONTRASTS OF DEVELOPMENT
The contrast of intellectual development is seen in comparing the
world-renowned philosopher Humboldt and the idiot figured by
Spurzheim. The contrast of coronal and basilar development is seen in
comparing the benevolent negro Eustace, who received the Monthyon
prize for virtue in France with the skull of the cannibal Carib, as
figured by Lawrence. As to the coronal or upward development of the
brain, there is always a great contrast between untamable wild
animals, such as the lion and the eagle, and those of gentle and
lovely nature, such as the gazelle and the dove.
[Illustration: HUMBOLDT IDIOT
EUSTACE CARIB
GAZELLE LION
DOVE EAGLE]
SUPERFICIAL CRITICISM.
A RESPONSE TO MISS ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS.
The publication in the Chicago _Inter-Ocean_ of two columns of
sharp criticism on the spiritual movement by Miss Phelps,
which were widely republished, induced the editor to send the
following reply to the _Inter-Ocean_, which was duly
published.
BOSTON, MASS., Jan. 23.
The rhetorically eloquent essay of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps on
spiritualism has been read by the undersigned with that peculiar
pleasure with which we witness an intellectual or psychic _tour de
force_ which produces singular results. It is quite an able
production, for the ability of an advocate is measured by his capacity
to make that which is obviously absurd appear quite rational, and to
give to that which is intrinsically small or mean an air of refined
dignity. Divested of its dignified and delusive rhetoric, what does
the lady say or mean in plain, homely English?
She says that "cultivated thought" has a "slippery surface" on which
spiritualism has made "a clutch," and that it has lately made an
"encroachment upon scientific attention," so that psychical societies
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