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TWENTY-FIVE years have nearly elapsed since the question which we are now going to examine was first laid before the British public. Since that period, it has occasionally been brought into notice, or fallen into neglect, as the continental publications have made their way to this island, or as the teachers of the system have thought fit to address themselves directly to Englishmen. The manner in which it was then received was not such as to authorize a belief that it ever could be treated but with contempt. Within a few years, however, it has attracted so large a share of attention, it has been contemplated with so much. earnestness, with so much gravity-that we deem it a duty to allot some pages to its serious consideration. To the serious consideration of phrenology! What then, is the Foreign Quarterly, in the very outset of its career, to show itself a feeler of heads, a cranioscopist, a teller of fortunes from cerebral bumps and excrescences! No such thing; but the pages of this Review ever shall be open to any appeal that science makes to it, to any literary subject that comes within its sphere. VOL. II. NO. III. B Formerly, indeed, our co-mates and brothers in criticism made rather merry with the lucubrations of Drs. Gall and Spurzheim; but the thing is now beyond a jest; and as it has so long been left to writhe under the lash of ridicule in vain, it may be well to try it by some other test; and to apply to it some of the philosophic calmness by which phrenology itself professes to be guided. But, before we proceed one step in this inquiry, we must disclaim all intention to decide upon the truth or fallacy of the pretended science. We do not mean either to discuss or to judge it on our own account, but to let the parties speak for themselves; to give room to phrenologists to state whatever they can in support of their doctrine; and to anti-phrenologists, to refute as much as they can of it; to put our readers in possession of the materials which may enable them to form an opinion, and then leave them to judge for themselves. If, too, we are serious upon the subject, it is because the subject itself is a very serious one. That which threatens the subversion of every moral theory which has been devised since the days of the seven sages of Greece, deserves to be treated with some gravity. In the country of Bacon, all philosophic claims should be canvassed with equity; in the country of Shakspeare, to mention with levity any thing relating to the human heart is derogatory. The complaints of phrenologists, that their doctrines have been mis-stated, and their opinions purposely mis-represented, have led us to admit the present article, in order to rescue the land of juries from the imputation of condemning any man unheard, still more upon wilful perversions of his own words and meaning. Here then we shall proceed a little differently from the usual method of reviews, and utterly abstain from personal interference. We shall introduce the parties themselves to the bar, and let them severally plead their own cause. The sceptral WE of criticism we shall abdicate, and not once shall we use that plural pronoun in this article, but as appertaining to phrenologists, or to anti-phrenologists, in whose favour the choice spirits of the Foreign Quarterly abjure their magic, and become listeners like the public. The only part we take in the trial is to devote some of our pages as an arena in which we allow the combatants to wrestle as they please, but into which we ourselves shall never once descend. The fact is, that the present state of the question ought to be laid before the public candidly; for if the writings of one party have not always been exactly as might be wished, the clamours of the other have done them little credit. The method we adopt appears to us fair, and the use of the first person may a little dramatize the dull discussion. The pleadings shall be opened, on the part of the phrenologists, by a |
