Lectures on phrenology : including its application to the present and prospective condition of the United States . ing materials together, or by chipping off frag-ments, or by moulding, or by drawing lines and laying oncolours. It does not invent : but merely fashions or con-figurates, though when large it stimulates the understand-ing to invent what will employ it agreeably in takes its direction from the other faculties. Combinedwith large Weight, it leads to machine-making; withIdeality and Form, to statuary ; with these and Colour, topainting. Compare these heads : in this
Lectures on phrenology : including its application to the present and prospective condition of the United States . ing materials together, or by chipping off frag-ments, or by moulding, or by drawing lines and laying oncolours. It does not invent : but merely fashions or con-figurates, though when large it stimulates the understand-ing to invent what will employ it agreeably in takes its direction from the other faculties. Combinedwith large Weight, it leads to machine-making; withIdeality and Form, to statuary ; with these and Colour, topainting. Compare these heads : in this of Franklin, it is small; inthis, of Canova, very large. The development is very small,as you see, in the New-Hollanders, and of all mankind theyare the least constructive. When visited by Capt. Cook,they were naked, built no houses, and had no implementsof agriculture, fishing or hunting. They were destitute, inshort, of every art which can add comfort or decency to life,depending for a subsistence on spontaneous vegetation, andthe fishes which are left by the tide among the rocks. Com- C0N8TRUCTIVENESS. 173.
Size: 1491px × 1676px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorcombegeorge178, bookcentury1800, booksubjectphrenology
