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Excerpt from The Student's Text Book on Character Reading: Especially Adapted for Use in School, and for the Student Who Would Become a Practical Delineator of Character One hundred years ago, scientific accur character reading and the ability to determine mental manifestations by physical developments of the brain, by facial expression and development and by physiognomical conditions was a thing unknown and undreamed of. By a mere accident, Dr. Franz Joseph Gall, discovered that the brain is an aggregate of many parts or organs, each manifesting a particular mental faculty. Following up this fact he was enabled, by careful observation and experiment, to correctly determine the exact function of almost every 'mind faculty, by noticing what mental Characteristics invariably accompanied certain Cranial developments. This knowledge was later verified by observation of the effect of disease or injury of these parts. These investigations and experiments led to the fact, that the size of each organ, other things being equal, is the measure of the power of that organ. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.