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Title: Lectures on phrenology : including its application to the present and prospective condition of the United States
Year: 1839 (1830s)
Authors: Combe, George, 1788-1858 Boardman, Andrew
Subjects: Phrenology
Publisher: New-York : Colman
Contributing Library: U.S. National Library of Medicine
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ls who commit murder or set (ire to propertywithout rational motive, often ascribe their actions to thetemptation of the devil; they say that he never ceases towhisper in their ears exhortations to mischief. Diseasedactivity of this organ, filling the mind with the desire todestroy, probably gives rise to such impressions. Destructiveness is the great fountain of passion ; its natu-ral language is to give a sort of wriggling motion to the head,like that of a dog in the act of worrying. The foot isstamped, the face wears a scowling expression, and thebody is drawn up towards the head. In Dr. Chalmers it islarge; and when operative in his speeches, he clinchesevery thing with a blow. When preaching against sin, itseems as though he were endeavouring to pound it out ofmankind. In this drawing,by a very able artist who pro-proses visiting this country, Mons. Edouart, you see itstrongly manifested in a scene of matrimonial strife: thewoman is daring her husband, and he stands with his head
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f aeuari feci1 NATURAL LANGUAGE OF DESTRUCTIVENESS ALIMENTIVENESS. 161 bent forward, his fists clenched, but retracted, his counte-nance peculiarly expressive of the power which he has toexercise,in order to prevent passion from boiling over andrelieving itself by blows. If, in friendly converse with aperson in whom this organ is large and Secretiveness small,one happens to touch on some irritating topic, in an instantthe softness of Benevolence, and the courtesy of Love ofApprobation, are gone, and the hoarse growl of Destructive-ness ushers in a storm. Q.a Alimentiveness. That the appetite for food is an instinct not referable toany of the recognized faculties of the mind early occurredto Gall : but neither he nor Spurzheim discovered its situa-tion. Observations made by various individuals have provedthat there is in man an organ of appetite for food, situated inthe zygomatic fossa. The stomach is to this organ what the eye is to the senseof seeing. Cut off the communication betwee

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