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$ Cranial and Facial Protuber- 
ances.-To the phrenologist, quality is as 
important as quantity; and in nothing is the 
quality of the individual indicated more 
than in the protuberances of the head and 
face. In people of an uncouth nature they 
partake of their low surroundings, and are 
heavy and coarse; while in advanced and 
cultivated people they are more delicate- 
indeed sometimes too delicate. 
In our life's experiences we see all shades 
of character; some too coarse; some too 
fine ; but I think the majority have more 
or less of that happy balance that indicates 
the higher culture ami character of our 
nineteenth century civilization. 
If there is one thing the phrenologist be- 
lieves in, it is the proposition that the brain 
is the seat of the intellect in man, and that 
the brain forms the man, and not the man 
the brain. Of course the man's actions, 
conditions, and surroundings, may and do, 
more or less, affect the brain. But, even 
under these conditions, the brain has first 90 
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to be formed before it can affect the human 
action; and when formed, and not until 
formed, doesit govern the body. The bod- 
ily conditions, more or less, affect the men- 
tal action, but the brain is the seat of power. 
If we go back to the early ages of man 
we find facts enough to reconstruct the 
primeval races. They were of a rude or- 
ganization, and the protuberances of the 
skull proper were in accordance with their 
rude and barbarous lives. Coming down to 
the ancient Oriental nations-the Jews, the 
Assyrians, the Egyptians, the Persians-we 
see finer types of organization, with culture 
and refinement,yet an aggressive cast withal. 
The well-developed bridge of the nose, in 
particular, is most conspicuous. In the 
earlier Greeks we see a combination of the 
primeval and cultivated man,. Later, the 
more refined outline, that has become clas- 
sical for artistic beauty and culture. The 
mental organization of the Greeks, from the 
time of their first coming into notice to the 
decline of their power, was in harmony with 
their surroundings. The brain developed 
the man; as he was, so was the brain power 
behind: or, better, as was the brain power 
so was the man. 
The ancient Romans only sustain the 
theory, and add weight to the facts and 
conclusions. The Roman nose is proverbial. 
It was an aggressive nose, of the military 
type. Later it became more refined; in 
some cases as delicate as the Assyrian, and 
when this type was reached the intellect of 
the nation was in harmony with it. 
The phrenologist, in his earlier researches 
and observations, noticed that where there 
was a large osseous development just be- 
hind the ears the individual was combative 
in proportion to its size ; and where the pro- 
tuberance was continued, a little lower down, 
the individual had powers of endurance in 
proportion to its development. 
The prominence of the bridge of the nose, 
and the character indicated by it, are older 
than physiognomical science itself. The 
phrenologist simply accepted the anatom- 
ical fact, as it was in harmony with his ideas 
and not opposed to them. It was like the 
key in music-it indicated a certain pitch 
or character in the make-up of the man. 
The points I have indicated correspond to 
that key-note. They govern the analysis of 
the character of the subject under the ex- 
aminer's notice, but the examiner does not 
depend merely upon the size and shape of 
the brain any more than the sailor, in judg- 
ing of a vessel, would look simply at its 
size, or tonnage, and model. He would 
look also at the material of which it was 
built, how it is built and rigged. 
Somehow the world seems to think that 
a phrenologist should not, like other men, 
in other departments, have common sense, 
and exercise it. He should, they seem 
to think, merely see so much brain and 
such a development of shape. He should 
not look at texture and corresponding 
points whereby character is indicated. 
The architect, when he passes judgment 
upon the strength of a column, must 
know more than its mere size; he must 
know of its material, whether pine or oak, 
whether brick, stone, or metal. The mere 
contour maybe there, but that contour may 
be made up of some weak and perishable 
material, or it may be made of enduring 
brass- The opponents of the science of 
Phrenology refuse to believe in it for one 
reason, viz., they claim that in certain 
points on the skull there is no brain corres- 
ponding to the external protuberance. Their 
reasoning is as follows: The phrenologists 
claim that the brain is divided up into or- 
gans, and they have the skull all mapped off 
into certain groups, but here and there no 
brain lies to correspond to certain external 
prominences. No sensible man will contra- 
dict the statement that there are crests and 
ridges on the skull that do not exhibit brain 
development. But these objectors do not 
go far enough. They do not seem to see 
that nature has put certain marks upon the 
human skull that are correspondent to the 
brain's nervous quality, and type of the 
individual, and not to its contour merely. 
The phrenologist is guided by these exter- 
nal marks and by other external signs also 
for his estimation of quality a most impor- 
tant item of diagnosis. This is no fine- 
spun or ingenious theory. The fact is as 
potent as any scientific fact of value. These 
protuberances bear proof that the brain is 
the seat of power, and that the power is not 
confined to the mere contour of the brain, 
but that there is a power there that causes 
the strong points of the brain to assert its 1889.] 
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quality in bony protuberances of the cra- 
nium and face, or in the whole of the skull 
proper. 
Under the light of these facts the " frontal 
sinus" is no longer a drawback and appar- 
ent contradiction to the claims of Phrenol- 
ogy. The external sign is there in bold re- 
lief. That quality of the mind that governs 
the perceptive element makes itself known 
by the presence of certain projections over 
the nose and elsewhere. Notwithstanding 
all the ridicule, and the anti-prenological re_ 
search, the contour of the skull, its protub- 
erances included, is a sure indication of the 
nature of brain. The variety is infinite. No 
matter what the character of the individual, 
the contour of the skull-the whole skull 
proper-reveals it. 
Phrenology is a most practical science; 
of great benefit to the world in general, but 
of greater value to the individual. By it 
he may not only the better study and under- 
stand the world in general, but the better 
understand himself, and how to call on 
one faculty to supplement another. 
ISAAC P. NOYES. 
Washington, D. C.