CONTENTS. ARTICLE I. On the Phrenological Theory of Virtue,....... II.-Practical Phrenology,............... III.-A Phrenological Essay on Grief,.......... Page 491 514 .... 523 ..... 536 V.-Proceedings of the London Phrenological Society,.... 557 ology, founded on a Part of the Cerebral Deve- VII.-Spurzheim on Physiognomy,........... 564 ........ 578 VIII.-Character and Development of James M'Kaen, who who was executed at Glasgow on 25th January, 1797, for the Murder of John Buchanan, the IX.-On Education.-Hamiltonian System,...... 593 609 X.-Organ and Faculty of Language impaired,.............. 616 different Bases of Human Character and Talent, 628 THE PHRENOLOGICAL JOURNAL. No XII. ARTICLE I. ON THE PHRENOLOGICAL THEORY OF VIRTUE. THERE is perhaps no subject connected with the philosophy of the human mind on which more has been written, and on which, at the same time, a greater diversity of opinion has appeared, than on the theory of virtue. A term whose meaning the most ordinary mind thinks it can readily apprehend, has been bandied from one school to another, from the remote age of Aristotle to the times in which we now live, and it still remains a question, Whether it has ever received a true and satisfactory explanation? If indeed our search after the true meaning of this mysterious substantive were confined to the theories in which the problem is professedly solved, so essentially different are these in their principles, and so various in their results, we might readily doubt whether that which we sought had any real existence-whether we were not renewing, by such a pursuit, the visions of alchemy; searching after a bodiless creation, which had a name only, but no local habitation upon earth. And is virtue then of a nature so capricious and unstable as necessarily to appear under a new form to every successive VOL. III.-No XII. 2 M |