A System of Phrenology, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)

Book excerpt: Excerpt from A System of Phrenology, Vol. 2 These faculties communicate to man and animals knowledge of their own internal sensations, and also of the external world; their object is to know existence, and to perceive qualities and relations. Dr Spurzheim's latest division of them is into three genera: "I. The External Senses. "II. The Internal Senses, or perceptive faculties which procure knowledge of external objects, their physical qualities, and various relations. "II. The reflective faculties. For the sake of uniformity, I here adopt the same classification; although, as noticed in the Appendix, No. II., it is far from being unexceptionable. But until the analysis of the faculties themselves shall be more complete than at present, an accurate arrangement of them cannot be attained. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.