Sir William Hamilton and phrenology : an exposition of phrenology; shewing the complete inefficacy of the objections lately advanced in the Royal Society, and the real grounds on which the system ought to be assailed.

  • Hamilton, William, Sir, 1788-1856.
Date:
1826
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    AN EXPOSITION OF PHRENOLOGY. Not a little noise has, of late, been made, by what we may call the jackalls and running footmen of literature, respecting the contest between the Baronet, whose name stands at head of the present pages, and the unclean and blustering absurdity which, it seems, passes under the appellation of Phrenology. Every insignificant art of philosophical quack- ery appears to have been exhausted in embel- lishing the interest of the combat—not mere- ly by the friends, but by the antagonists, of the system :—those friends, we mean, who are stupid enough to hope that any plan of para- mount investigation may be foisted into fame by the small confliction of “ Transactions” and “ Societies—and those antagonists, we would be understood, who are laudably strug-