An Examination and Refutation of Phrenology.

by T. Halliwell

Head Master Of The Central District School, Dunedin.

"The phrenological doctrine of human affections, emotions, passions, or sentiments, being dependent on the condition of, and in proportion to the size of certain regions or lumps on the head, is contradicted by the self-evident fact, which shews that these emotions,—c., depend upon the enlightenment of the conduct of the understanding; and that what we feel depends chiefly upon what we think; and that men's characters, and the progress of the world, depend on knowledge, thought, and principle, and not on the outward formation of men's heads or bodily organization."—Edinburgh Review.

Fructu non foliis arborem aestima.—Plaut. (Judge of a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves.)

Dunedin: Published by Joseph Mackay, Bookseller, Stationer,—c., Princes-Street North.

1864.