Present Claims of Phrenology 73 extend much further than anyone as yet has even imagined. But minute portions of the brain convolutions cannot singly have influence on the form of the head; therefore, whatever psychological facts may have been brought forward by Americans, I can have little faith in their evidences of new faculties, if based on minute morphological observations of the head. Regions of the head, or groups of correlated faculties-I mean correlated in reference to their genesis, historical development and analogy of character—is about all that forty years of observation, for the purpose of testing the principles of phrenology, has confirmed to my mind. It is my firm conviction, however, that no one who will carefully, extensively, and without prejudice observe nature for himself can fail to become convinced of the physical basis of mental life, and further, that different classes of faculties are located in different parts of the head. Phrenology at present cannot claim to offer a complete scheme of the functions of the brain, nor a perfect system, of mental phenomena. In connecting man, however, with the rest of the animal kingdom; in distinguishing primary, and comparatively simple faculties-the so-called animal faculties or instincts-from the secondary and more complex of an intellectual and moral nature, it marks out the true method of investigating mental life, and affords G valuable standpoints for further progress. The objective method of investigation, moreover, by checking indulgence in subjective speculation, and in the pleasures of systematising, to which thinkers are so prone-is the only one on which a sound and consistent theory of psychology can ever be arrived 'It is not good,' says a German proverb, 'to turn the child into the gutter along with the water of its bath.' Neither is it good to continue to ignore, as men of science and thinkers do, the broad basis of truth in phrenology, because of the stigma which imperfectly educated and superficial manipulators of heads may have cast on the subject. LONDON: PRINTED BY History, Politics, Historical Memoirs, &c. Estimates of the English Kings The History of England from CABINET EDITION, 12 vols. cr. 8vo. £3 12s. LIBRARY EDITION, 12 vols. 8vo. £8 18s. The English in Ireland in the Eighteenth Century. By JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE, M.A. late Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. In Two Volumes. VOL. I., 8vo. price 16s. The History of England from the Accession of James II. By Lord STUDENT'S EDITION, 2 vols. crown 8vo. 12s. Lord Macaulay's Works. Com- Memoirs of Baron Stockmar. By Varieties of Vice-Regal Life. By The Constitutional History of A Historical Account of the Neu- The History of England, from the A |