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 19 to the body. Added to these, and perhaps of all the most important, is the want of knowledge respecting the constitutional temperament of the individual, of which those to whom the examination was committed were entirely ignorant.

"In respect both to sentiments (feeling), and intellect, Phrenologists arrange mankind into different classes:—

"1. Those who from the felicity of their natural constitution, desire only what is good, who act from love and manifest pure morality in all their actions. In these happy beings the superior feeling predominate over those common to men and animals.

"2. Those in whom all the faculties are more equally balanced; those who act according to education and external circumstances, and conform without examination to the moral and religious principles of those among whom they live.

"3. Those in whom certain inferior faculties are very active, and all the superior very weak. Such individuals are exposed to the danger of being overwhelmed by vice, in proportion to the weakness of the superior motives, especially when subjected to temptation.

"In the latter class may be ranked the chieftain Yagan, with all others of a similar organization.

"The sexual feeling, and the animal attachment to offspring, are prominent in the character.

"Of the social feelings, his attachment to his friends or tribe would be very strongly manifested.

"There are indications of an impatient, irritable, and violent temper; of a domineering and overbearing character.

"He would be more remarkable for cunning than for caution, and if uninfluenced by moral education, or good patriarchal legislation, (the controlling influence of fathers and elders), the property of others might be endangered.