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P. Flourens
Phrenology Examined
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4066338060341
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I.
OF GALL.
OF HIS DOCTRINE IN GENERAL.
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The great work in which Gall sets forth his doctrine is well known.[1] That work shall serve as the groundwork of my examination. I shall examine in succession each of the questions studied by the author; merely introducing some slight changes in the order in which they are arranged.
The entire doctrine of Gall is contained in two fundamental propositions, of which the first is, that understanding resides exclusively in the brain, and the second, that each particular faculty of the understanding is provided in the brain with an organ proper to itself.
Now, of these two propositions, there is certainly nothing new in the first one, and perhaps nothing true in the second one.
Let us commence our examination with the first proposition.
I say that in the first proposition, namely, that the brain is the exclusive seat of the understanding, there is nothing new. Gall himself admits this to be the case.