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He looked at me like a dim phrenological bust. "The information ?" "Vereker's secret, my dear man the general intention of his books: the string the pearls were strung on, the buried treasure, the figure in the carpet." He began to flush the numbers on his bumps to come out. "Vereker's books had a general intention?" I stared in my turn. "You don't mean to say you don't know it?"
Mine, you see, is an ill-balanced affair," smiling quizzically in his effort to be condescending, perhaps. "This is a mere business transaction, you know," seeing that I hesitated to comply, "and your phrenological developments must atone for my deficiencies, or all will go wrong at once but do as you like. Now that you have thrown back your veil, I can see that the brow is a good one.
Fraternally, I. Physiognomy of Matrimony. II. Study in Ancient Skulls The Cliff Dwellers. III. A Phrenological Study Henry W. Grady. IV. Was Hawes Insane? V. How Living Heads and Dead Skulls are Measured. VI. Crime and its Causes. VII. A Murderer's Mentality Fritz Anschlag. VIII. Phrenology in Politics. How Mental Characteristics are Displayed in Personal Appearance. "Now," said Prof.
Sometimes when the wine went round and things grew merry, then sentimental, then confidential, Scott would snatch off his wig to display to the company his fine phrenological development, and tell a story about Nelson, who, too, used to wear a wig just like his, and after every battle would take it off and hand it over to his valet to have the bullets combed out of it.
"Besides," said Squills, "it is easy to see, from the phrenological development of the organs in those several heads which Pisistratus has allowed us to examine, that we have seen no creations of mere fiction, but living persons, whose true history has set in movement their various bumps of Amativeness, Constructiveness, Acquisitiveness, Idealty, Wonder, Comparison, etc.
She did not seem to be very much shocked, either; he could not tell why. But they punished The Boy. They made him eat the rest of the orange! He lost all subsequent interest in that tropical glade, and he has never cared much for domestic oranges since. Among the many bumps which are still conspicuously absent in The Boy's phrenological development are the bumps of Music and Locality.
The old idea that magnetism is a kind of invisible form of intellectual or psychic electricity has gone down the grotesque phrenological vagaries of Gall as well as some of the pseudoscientific theories of that very unusual man, Mesmer. We all possess what is known as magnetism. Some have it in an unusual degree, as did Edwin Booth, Franz Liszt, Phillips Brooks and Bismarck.
It was a bare, unfurnished, comfortless room, with an unframed portrait hanging up at the head of the bed; a likeness, I take it, of the Doctor, for the forehead was fully displayed, and great stress was laid by the artist upon its phrenological developments. The bed itself was covered with an old patch-work counterpane. The room was destitute of carpet or of curtain.
His writings are all upon subjects of the greatest importance and universal interest, and full of the soundest moral philosophy and the most enlightened humanity; and their only drawback, to me, is the phrenological element which enters so largely into his treatment of every question.
I suppose the tomb of David will be explored by a commission in due time, and I should like to see the phrenological developments of that great king and divine singer and warm-blooded man. If, as seems probable, the anthropological section of society manages to get round the curse that protects the bones of Shakespeare, I should like to see the dome which rounded itself over his imperial brain.
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