The present volume is designed to exhibit the subject of Practical
Phrenology in as clear and as perspicuous a light as its nature will
admit. To this purpose the author has aimed to divest it of all
extraneous matter, and at the same time to avoid all unnecessary
conciseness. The learner will here find a comprehensive view of the
functions of each organ, with their different effects on the character
when in various stages of developement, and also when compounded with
each other.
The author presents few claims to originality. In a few instances he
has even adopted the language of others where it presented itself in a
felicitous manner--his aim being to make a good book rather than to add
to his own reputation.
It is but proper here to state that the work has passed through the
press without the benefit of the author’s personal inspection--an
affection of the eyes rendering this service impossible. But for this
it might have received many _retouches_, which, if they did not add
materially to its _value_, might have improved its appearance.