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LOCATION OF THE SOCIALS.

1st. AMATIVENESS, or the Cerebellum, is so situated as to produce width and fullness in the neck, between the lower part of the ears, as in Burr, and Socrates. When large, it causes the muscles below it to appear large and full, and crowds the bones behind the ears outward, and makes them prominent. It is small in W. H. H., the good natured schoolmaster, and in children.

2d. PARENTIVENESS is just above Amativeness, in the median line; it is a large organ, and produces, when much developed, great length from the ear to the back part of the head. In many instances, it produces a large protuberance, as in W. H. H. Sometimes it combines with 3d and 4th, to give general length behind, as in Dioclesian and T. Burr.

3d. INHABITIVENESS is just above Parentiveness, in the median line. It is large, combined with Firmness, while Parentiveness is small in the head of J. Brutus, who condemned his son to death, for treason against the liberties of his country.

4th. ADHESIVENESS is at the side of 3d and above V and the lateral parts of 2d. It gives length and breadth to that part, and when 2d and 3d are small, it sometimes presents two round prominences. The whole of this Group is very large in Dioclesian, the Roman Emperor, who abdicated the throne to enjoy domestic happiness.

5th. IMPERATIVENESS is in the median line, between 3d and 7th; see Peter the Great, and contrast him with W. H. H.

6th. APPROBATIVENESS is on the side of 5th, above 4th, and gives both width and length to that part, in the same

way that 4th does below it; and when 5th is depressed, and 6th is large, it will present two distinct protuberances; but when the adjacent organs are all large, it only combines to produce general fullness in the region, as in Themisotcles, the Athenian general, in Clinton, in Peter, and in Franklin. Sometimes it is considered large, compared with 5th, because the head, at that place, is more remarkable for its width, than its length in the median line. (See Perkins.)

7th. FIRMNESS gives height to the back of the head, in the median line, above 5th and behind 9th, as in Themistocles, Burr, Brutus, and Red Jacket's wife.

8th. CONSCIENTIOUSNESS is situated on the outside of 7th, and when large, gives the part a full rounded appearance, as in Aristides the Just, in Sir Matthew Hale, and in Samuel Adams. When small, and 7th large, the head falls off on each side of the median line, like a roof. When both 7th and 8th are small, the whole upper back of the head declines from 9th, as in Americus, and W. H. H. Sometimes the combination of organs adjacent to 8th will be such as to render it doubtful in what precise degree it is developed; its deficiency is frequently indicated by a slight depression, which is sensible only to minute examination; but we must not mistake a depression that is sometimes found so far from 7th and so near to VII as to allow of a good developement of 8th, between VII and 8th.

9th. SUBMISSIVENESS is in the median line, between 7th and 10th, at the place where the anterior fontenelle is formed in children. I find the organ to extend farther laterally than it is generally marked upon phrenological busts. In the heads of men, particularly at the West, a depression here is general; but in women, this organ is so full, and 7th so small, as to give the top of the head the regular form of the side of an egg, as in T. Burr. In Socrates this organ is very large. It is large in most Negroes, with 7th small.

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I have found it in many of the higher animals distinctly developed, particularly in the dog and horse.

10th. KINDNESS is between 9th and 14. It gives height to the forehead above 14. Sometimes that part which is next to 9th is large, and that which is nearest to 14 is small, and sometimes the reverse is true. I have found the former oftenest in women, and the latter in men. When the front part of 10th is large, it is manifested more intellectually and deliberately than when the back part is largest; the latter act more by impulse, the former by reason—see the difference between Burr and his daughter Theodosia in this respect; contrast also the heads of Socrates, and West, and W. H. H., with the Parricide, and with Mrs. Rapp.

11th. IMITATIVENESS is situated on the side of 10th, and runs parallel with it; the convolution, (see view of the brain,) originates with 9th, and runs forward into 14 and 15; thus indicating its true and natural relation to those organs. See Socrates and West, and contrast their heads in that part with that of Red Jacket's wife, and with Mrs. Rapp.

12th. CREDENCIVENESS also originates at 9th, borders upon XII, and runs forward to 15. It gives both height and width to the upper lateral part of the forehead, before XII, above XI, and at the outside of 11th. Observe in this organ, the great contrast between the heads of Paine, Hume, and Gibbon, in whom 12th is small, and the heads of Socrates, West, and Lougel, in whom it is very large. I have observed that when the front part of 11th and 12th is much developed, and the back part but little developed, the manifestation was very different from the cases in which the back part of these organs is large, and the front part small: the latter seem to have a greater desire to know, to be curious, to inquire, to understand human nature-in short, to use these conforming social propensities in combination with the intellect; while the former are apt to act upon impulse,

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