OR,

AN EXPOSITION

OF THE

INSTINCTS, PROPENSITIES, SENTIMENTS, AND TALENTS,

OR OF THE

MORAL QUALITIES, AND THE FUNDAMENTAL INTELLECTUAL

FACULTIES

IN MAN AND ANIMALS,

AND THE SEAT OF THEIR ORGANS.

BY FRANÇOIS JOSEPH GALL, M. D.

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH

BY WINSLOW LEWIS, JR., M. D., M. M. S. S.

IN SIX VOLUMES.

VOLUME IV.

BOSTON:

MARSH, CAPEN & LYON.

Entered according to the act of Congress, in the year 1835, by MARSH, CAPEN & LYON, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.

PRINTED BY WILLIAM A. HALL & Co.

CONTENTS.

Page.

EXPOSITION of the fundamental faculties and qualities, and the

seat of their organs, or organology. Continuation

IV. Instinct of self-defence, disposition to quarrel, courage (Muth

Raufsinn).

History of the discovery

Natural history of courage, or the instinct of self-defence.

Derangement of the disposition to quarrel

Fundamental quality of the disposition to quarrel and fight

Of the seat of the organ of self-defence

Opinions of some other physiologists on the origin of courage

Cowardice..

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V. Carnivorous instinct; disposition to murder (Wurgsinn)

History of the discovery of this instinct, and of its organ

Natural history of this instinct in animals

External appearance of the organ of the carnivorous instinct,

and the seat of this organ in animals

Natural history of the carnivorous instinct in man

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Disposition to murder joined with mental imbecility

68

Disposition to murder in insanity

69

Criminal case of H**, who assassinated two persons

Continuation of the instinct of murder in a state of mental

Disposition to suicide, and consecutively to murder, proceeding

from an erroneous judgment of the nature of the crime

Disposition to suicide, and consecutively to murder, from relig-

ious fanaticism

Disposition to suicide; double homicide

What is the fundamental quality of the disposition to murder,

of the disposition to kill? :

pearance

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103

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Seat of the carnivorous organ, and its external appearance in the

human cranium

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VI. Cunning, trick, tact, (List, Schlauheit, Kluheit.) History .

Natural history of cunning in animals and man

Seat of the organ of cunning, and the external character by

which it is manifested.

VII. Sense of property, instinct of providing, covetousness, pro-

pensity to steal (Eigenthumssinn. Hang zu Stehlen.) His-

tory of

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Natural history of the propensity to steal.

131

Natural history of the propensity to steal in disease, accompanied

Property, an institution established by nature in animals .

In man also..

It is the sense of property, or the propensity to provide for one's self,

that is the fundamental quality from whence originates the

propensity to steal

149

Seat and external appearance of the organ of property and of

the propensity to provide for one's self. Modifications of

the manifestation of this orgai

VIII. Pride, hauteur, loftiness, elevation. (Stolz. Hochmuth, Hersch-

sucht.) History of the discovery

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156

Natural history of pride, hauteur, self-opinion, in a state of

health

157

Pride, arrogance, haughtiness, love of authority in a morbid

state

162

their habitations. (Aufenthalssinn)

Seat and external appearance of the organ of pride, &c. .

Of the instinct which directs animals in selecting the places of

External appearance of the organ of height in animals

Is there any analogy between the instinct of height in animals,

and pride or arrogance in man? ..