How to Study Character, or the True Basis for the Science of Mind: Including a Review of Alexander Bain''s Criticism of the Phrenological System (Classic Reprint)

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Character is not to be found in the True Basis, but only the general outline; and one type discussed somewhat in detail, The Oratorical Type, as an example of the utility of studying character according to the principles advocated in this essay. The re marks on a True System of Elocution and Oratory, which occur in several parts of the essay, together with other philosophical principles, will be found fully elaborated in a System of Elocution and Oratory, based upon the Analysis of the Human Constitution, which the author is writing. The essay, when read before the Professor of Psychology, was favorably commented upon by him, and he declared that he believed there was much truth in,phrenology.

The scope and aim of the essay is wide and inde pendent. The author has no especial partiality for Phrenology. His interest in it has been purely one of truth - the desire to obtain the best information possible upon a science which he considers next in importance to a knowledge of God, the science of Mind and Character. Having studied, nevertheless, the three great departments of the science of Anthro pology, the Psychological, Phrenological, and Experi mental schools of philosophy, it has been his aim to weigh carefully the philosophical principles under lying each, and their importance in founding a science of Mind and Character; and whatever his decisions have been, they are the result of an impartial spirit.

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