A PLEA FOR PHRENOLOGY,
[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIB,—Referring to the first few lines of the article in your issue of March 8th, headed " The Bump of Destructiveness," it would probably, as you say, "be very ridiculous for the writer of the article to feel the heads of his friends in order to estimate their• characters"; but that does not indicate unsoundness in the science of phrenology in competent hands. England's greatest living scientist, Alfred Russel Wallace, in
his work, " The Wonderful Century," says
Phrenology is a true science, step by step the result of obser- vation upon the connexion between development and function. In the coming century phrenology will assuredly attain general importance. It will prove itself to be the true science of mind. Its practical uses in education, in self-discipline, in the reformatory treatment of criminals, and in the remedial treatment of the insane, will give it one of the highest places in the hierarchy of the sciences."
In proof of its availability and reliability in indicating character, the writer• of this letter• will undertake to read the characters of your staff by means of phrenology, and without being so " ridiculous " as to "feel their heads " : so manifest, indeed, are the differences in the build and form of the brain, indicating differences of mental endowment, that in a general way " feeling " is not necessary.—I am, Sir, &c., GEORGE HART-COX,
Ex-President British Phrenological Society (Incorporated).
81 Huron Boad, Tooting Common, S. W.
[Our staff, we regret to say, refuses to r•un the risk, and so does the Editor•. Suppose the examination of our bumps proved that we were really Home Rulers, Tariff Reformers, and Pacificists—where would the Spectator be then F—ED. Spectator.]
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