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diff --git a/30489-h/30489-h.htm b/30489-h/30489-h.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9193f3e --- /dev/null +++ b/30489-h/30489-h.htm @@ -0,0 +1,329 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" + "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> + +<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> + <head> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" /> + <title> + The Project Gutenberg eBook of Phrenological Development of Robert Burns, by George Combe. + </title> + <style type="text/css"> + + p { margin-top: .75em; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: .75em;} + + h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 {text-align: center; clear: both;} + + hr { width: 33%; margin-top: 2em; margin-bottom: 2em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; clear: both;} + + table {margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;} + + body{margin-left: 12%; margin-right: 12%;} + + .pagenum {position: absolute; left: 92%; font-size: smaller; text-align: right;} + + .page {font-size: 10.5px; text-align: center;} + .right {text-align: right;} + .center {text-align: center;} + .smcap {font-variant: small-caps;} + + .figcenter {margin: auto; text-align: center;} + + a:link {color:#0000ff; text-decoration:none} + a:visited {color:#6633cc; text-decoration:none} + + </style> + </head> +<body> +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 30489 ***</div> + +<p> <a name="cover" id="cover"></a></p> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/cover.jpg" alt="" /></div> +<p class="page"><a href="#text">Text of Cover</a></p> +<p> </p><p><span class='pagenum'>[Pg 1]</span></p><p> <a name="title" id="title"></a></p> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/tpage.jpg" alt="" /></div> +<p> </p> +<p class="page"><a href="#text2">Text of Title Page</a></p> +<p> </p><p> </p> +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'>[Pg 2]</span></p> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/plate_001.jpg" alt="" /></div> +<p class="center"><b>VIEWS OF THE SKULL OF ROBERT BURNS.</b></p> + +<p> </p><p><span class='pagenum'>[Pg 2]</span></p><p> </p> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/plate_002.jpg" alt="" /></div> +<p class="center"><b>KEY TO THE PHRENOLOGICAL ORGANS.</b></p> +<p class="page"><a href="images/plate_002big.jpg">Larger Image</a></p> + + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'>[Pg 4]</span></p> +<h1>OBSERVATIONS ON THE SKULL OF BURNS,</h1> +<h3>BY</h3> +<h2>GEORGE COMBE.</h2> + +<p>Robert Burns was born on 25th January 1759, and died at Dumfries on 21st +July 1796, in the 37th year of his age, and, on the 26th, was interred in +St Michael's Churchyard. Eighteen years afterwards, a Mausoleum was +erected by subscription to his memory in that cemetery; and, on the 19th +September 1815, his remains were privately exhumed and transferred to the +vault attached to it. Mrs Burns, the Poet's widow, having died on 26th +March 1834, the vault was opened for the purpose of depositing her remains +beside those of her husband; and the gentlemen who took charge of the +proceedings, being aware of the anxiety which had long been generally felt +to obtain a Cast of the Poet's Skull, resolved to avail themselves of the +opportunity to gratify this desire. The consent of the relatives having +been obtained, Mr M'Diarmid, the Editor of the <i>Dumfries Courier</i>, went +with several other gentlemen to the vault, and successfully effected their +purpose.</p> + +<p>The following description is written by Mr Archibald Blacklock, Surgeon: +"The cranial bones were perfect in every respect, if we except a little +erosion of their external table, and firmly held together by their +sutures; even the delicate bones of the orbits, with the trifling +exception of the <i>os unguis</i> in the left, were sound and uninjured by +death and the grave. The superior maxillary bones still retained the four +most posterior teeth on each side, including the dentes sapientiæ, and all +without spot or blemish; the incisores, cuspidati, &c., had, in all +probability, recently dropped from the jaw, for the alveoli were but +little decayed. The bones of the face and palate were also sound. Some +small portions of black hair, with a very few grey hairs intermixed, were +observed while detaching some extraneous matter from the occiput. Indeed, +nothing could exceed the high state of preservation in which we found the +bones of the cranium, or offer a fairer opportunity of supplying what has +so long been desiderated by Phrenologists—a correct model of our immortal +Poet's head; and in order to accomplish this in the most accurate and +satisfactory manner, every particle of sand or other foreign body was +carefully washed off, and<span class='pagenum'>[Pg 5]</span> the plaster-of-Paris applied with all the tact +and accuracy of an experienced artist. The Cast is admirably taken, and +cannot fail to prove highly interesting to Phrenologists and others.</p> + +<p>"Having completed our intention, the Skull, securely enclosed in a leaden +case, was again committed to the earth precisely where we found it.</p> + +<p class="right">"<span class="smcap">Archd. Blacklock.</span>"</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Dumfries</span>, 1st <i>April</i> 1834.</p> + + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>CEREBRAL DEVELOPMENT OF BURNS.</h2> + +<h4>I.—DIMENSIONS OF THE SKULL.</h4> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="5" summary="Skull Dimensions"> +<tr><td> </td><td> </td><td align="right">Inches.</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2">Greatest circumference,</td><td>22¼</td></tr> +<tr><td>From</td><td>Occipital Spine to Individuality, over the top of the head,</td><td>14</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">...</td><td>Ear to Ear vertically over the top of the head,</td><td>13</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">...</td><td>Philoprogenitiveness to Individuality (greatest length),</td><td>8</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">...</td><td>Concentrativeness to Comparison,</td><td>7⅛</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">...</td><td>Ear to Philoprogenitiveness,</td><td>4⅞</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">...</td><td>Ear to Individuality,</td><td>4¾</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">...</td><td>Ear to Benevolence,</td><td>5½</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">...</td><td>Ear to Firmness,</td><td>5½</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">...</td><td>Destructiveness to Destructiveness,</td><td>5¾</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">...</td><td>Secretiveness to Secretiveness,</td><td>5⅞</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">...</td><td>Cautiousness to Cautiousness,</td><td>5½</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">...</td><td>Ideality to Ideality,</td><td>4⅝</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">...</td><td>Constructiveness to Constructiveness,</td><td>4½</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">...</td><td>Mastoid process to Mastoid process,</td><td>4¾</td></tr></table> + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<h4>II.--DEVELOPMENT OF THE ORGANS.</h4> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="5" summary="Organ Development"> +<tr><td> </td><td> </td><td align="right">Scale.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">1.</td><td>Amativeness, rather large,</td><td align="right">16</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">2.</td><td>Philoprogenitiveness, very large,</td><td align="right">20</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">3.</td><td>Concentrativeness, large,</td><td align="right">18</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">4.</td><td>Adhesiveness, very large,</td><td align="right">20</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">5.</td><td>Combativeness, very large,</td><td align="right">20</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">6.</td><td>Destructiveness, large,</td><td align="right">18</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">7.</td><td>Secretiveness, large,</td><td align="right">19</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">8.</td><td>Acquisitiveness, rather large,</td><td align="right">16</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">9.</td><td>Constructiveness, full,</td><td align="right">15</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">10.</td><td>Self-Esteem, large,</td><td align="right">18</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">11.</td><td>Love of Approbation, very large,</td><td align="right">20</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">12.</td><td>Cautiousness, large,</td><td align="right">19</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">13.</td><td>Benevolence, very large,</td><td align="right">20</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">14.</td><td>Veneration, large,</td><td align="right">18</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">15.</td><td>Firmness, full,</td><td align="right">15</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">16.</td><td>Conscientiousness, full,</td><td align="right">15</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">17.</td><td>Hope, full,</td><td align="right">14</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">18.</td><td>Wonder, large,</td><td align="right">18</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">19.</td><td>Ideality, large,</td><td align="right">18</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">20.</td><td>Wit, or Mirthfulness, full,</td><td align="right">15</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">21.</td><td>Imitation, large,</td><td align="right">19</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">22.</td><td>Individuality, large,</td><td align="right">19</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">23.</td><td>Form, rather large,</td><td align="right">16</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">24.</td><td>Size, rather large,</td><td align="right">17</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">25.</td><td>Weight, rather large,</td><td align="right">16</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">26.</td><td>Colouring, rather large,</td><td align="right">16</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">27.</td><td>Locality, large,</td><td align="right">18</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">28.</td><td>Number, rather full,</td><td align="right">12</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">29.</td><td>Order, full,</td><td align="right">14</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">30.</td><td>Eventuality, large,</td><td align="right">18</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">31.</td><td>Time, rather large,</td><td align="right">16</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">32.</td><td>Tune, full,</td><td align="right">15</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">33.</td><td>Language, uncertain,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">34.</td><td>Comparison, rather large,</td><td align="right">17</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">35.</td><td>Causality, large,</td><td align="right">18</td></tr></table> + +<p class="center"><i>The scale of the organs indicates their relative proportions to each +other;<br />2 is Idiotcy—10 Moderate—14 Full—18 Large—and 20 very Large.</i></p> + +<p> </p> +<p>The cast of a Skull does not show the temperament of the individual, but +the portraits of Burns indicate the bilious and nervous temperaments—the +sources of strength, activity, and susceptibility; and the descriptions +given by his contemporaries of his beaming and energetic eye, and the +rapidity and impetuosity of his manifestations, establish the inference +that his brain was active and susceptible.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'>[Pg 6]</span>Size in the brain, other conditions being equal, is the measure of mental +power. The Skull of Burns indicates a large brain. The length is 8, and +the greatest breadth nearly 6 inches. The circumference is 22¼ inches. +These measurements exceed the average of Scotch living heads, <i>including +the integuments</i>, for which four-eighths of an inch may be allowed.</p> + +<p>The brain of Burns, therefore, possessed the two elements of power and +activity.</p> + +<p>The portions of the brain which manifest the animal propensities are +uncommonly large, indicating strong passions, and great energy in action +under their influence. The group of organs manifesting the domestic +affections (Amativeness, Philoprogenitiveness, and Adhesiveness), is +large; Philoprogenitiveness uncommonly so for a male head.</p> + +<p>The organs of Combativeness and Destructiveness are large, bespeaking +great heat of temper, impatience, and liability to irritation.</p> + +<p>Secretiveness and Cautiousness are both large, and would confer +considerable power of restraint, where he felt restraint to be necessary.</p> + +<p>Acquisitiveness, Self-Esteem, and Love of Approbation, are also in ample +endowment, although the first is less than the other two; these feelings +give the love of property, a high consideration of self, and desire of the +esteem of others. The first quality will not be so readily conceded to +Burns as the second and third, which, indeed, were much stronger; but the +Phrenologist records what is presented by nature, in full confidence that +the manifestations, when the character is correctly understood, will be +found to correspond with the development, and he states that the brain +indicates considerable love of property.</p> + +<p>The organs of the moral sentiments are also largely developed. Ideality, +Wonder, Imitation, and Benevolence, are the largest in size. Veneration +also is large. Conscientiousness, Firmness, and Hope, are full.</p> + +<p>The Knowing organs, or those of perceptive intellect, are large; and the +organs of Reflection are also considerable, but less than the former. +Causality is larger than Comparison, and Wit is less than either.</p> + +<p>The Skull indicates the combination of strong animal passions, with +equally powerful moral emotions. If the natural morality had been less, +the endowment of the propensities is sufficient to have constituted a +character of the most desperate description. The combination, as it +exists, bespeaks a mind extremely subject to contending emotions—capable +of great good or great evil—and encompassed with vast difficulties in +preserving a steady, even, onward course of practical morality.</p> + +<p>In the combination of very large Philoprogenitiveness and Adhesiveness, +with very large Benevolence and large Ideality, we find the elements of +that exquisite tenderness and refinement, which Burns so frequently +manifested, even when at the worst stage of his career. In the combination +of great Combativeness, Destructiveness, and Self-Esteem, we find the +fundamental qualities which inspired "Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled," and +similar productions.</p> + +<p>The combination of large Secretiveness, Imitation, and the Perceptive<span class='pagenum'>[Pg 7]</span> +organs, gives the elements of his dramatic talent and humour. The Skull +indicates a decided talent for Humour, but less for Wit. The public are +apt to confound the talents for Wit and Humour. The metaphysicians, +however, have distinguished them, and in the phrenological Works their +different elements are pointed out. Burns possessed the talent for satire: +Destructiveness, added to the combination which gives Humour, produces it.</p> + +<p>An unskilful observer looking at the forehead might suppose it to be +moderate in size; but when the dimensions of the anterior lobe, in both +length and breadth, are attended to, the Intellectual organs will be +recognised to have been large. The anterior lobe projects so much that it +gives an appearance of narrowness to the forehead which is not real. This +is the cause, also, why Benevolence appears to lie farther back than +usual. An anterior lobe of this magnitude indicates great Intellectual +power. The combination of large Perceptive and Reflecting organs +(Causality predominant), with large Concentrativeness and large organs of +the feelings, gives that sagacity and vigorous common sense for which +Burns was distinguished.</p> + +<p>The Skull rises high above Causality, and spreads wide in the region of +Ideality; the strength of his moral feelings lay in that region.</p> + +<p>The combination of large organs of the Animal Propensities, with large +Cautiousness, and only full Hope, together with the unfavourable +circumstances in which he was placed, accounts for the melancholy and +internal unhappiness with which Burns was so frequently afflicted. This +melancholy was rendered still deeper by bad health.</p> + +<p>The combination of Acquisitiveness, Cautiousness, Love of Approbation, and +Conscientiousness, is the source of his keen feelings in regard to +pecuniary independence. The great power of his Animal Propensities would +give him strong temptations to waste; but the combination just mentioned +would impose a powerful restraint. The head indicates the elements of an +economical character; and it is known that he died free from debt, +notwithstanding the smallness of his salary.</p> + +<p>No Phrenologist can look upon this head, and consider the circumstances in +which Burns was placed, without vivid feelings of regret. Burns must have +walked the earth with a consciousness of great superiority over his +associates in the station in which he was placed—of powers calculated for +a far higher sphere than that which he was able to reach—and of passions +which he could with difficulty restrain, and which it was fatal to +indulge. If he had been placed from infancy in the higher ranks of life, +liberally educated, and employed in pursuits corresponding to his powers, +the inferior portion of his nature would have lost part of its energy, +while his better qualities would have assumed a decided and permanent +superiority.</p> + +<p>The Drawings of the Skull are ably executed by <span class="smcap">George Harvey</span>, Esq., S.A.</p> + + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><a name="text" id="text"></a></p> +<p class="center"><b><a href="#cover">Cover</a> Text</b></p> +<p class="center">Phrenological<br /> +DEVELOPMENT<br /> +of<br /> +<span class="smcap">Robert Burns</span><br /> +<br /> +BY<br /> +George Combe.<br /> +<br /> +Engraved & Published by W. & A.K. Johnston, Edinburgh. April 1834.<br /> +<i>REPRINTED JANUARY 1859.</i></p> + +<p> </p><p> </p><p><a name="text2" id="text2"></a></p> +<p class="center"><b><a href="#title">Title Page</a> Text</b></p> +<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Phrenological</span><br /> +DEVELOPMENT OF<br /> +<span class="smcap">Robert Burns</span>,<br /> +from a Cast of his skull<br /> +<span class="smcap">Moulded at Dumfries</span>.<br /> +THE 31<sup>ST</sup> DAY OF MARCH 1834.<br /> +<br /> +With Remarks by<br /> +George Combe,<br /> +AUTHOR OF "A SYSTEM OF PHRENOLOGY,"—"THE CONSTITUTION OF MAN" &c.<br /> +<br /> +MAUSOLEUM,<br /> +Erected at Dumfries, to the Memory of<br /> +Rob<sup>t</sup> Burns<br /> +<br /> +Engraved & Published by W. & A.K. 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