Key to ghostism Author:Thomas Mitchell Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: to the medulla oblongata the sense of the want of respiration, and thus also preventing the reaction of this part upon the spinal marrow. FACTS ESTABLISHED BY... more » PHREHOLOGY. Phrenology has established the facts, first, that the moral and intellectual faculties are innate. Second, their exercise, or manifestation, depends upon organization. Third, that the brain is the organ of all the propensities, sentiments, and intellectual faculties. Fourth, that the brain is composed of as many particular organs as there are propensities, sentiments, and faculties, which essentially differ from each other. Dr. Lee says : " These four propositions may be said to constitute the phrenological doctrine ; and they are sustained by such numerous experiments, observations, and facts, that a large proportion of enlightened physiologists of the present day acquiesce in their correctness." And we may remark that his book was published in 1843 ; since which time phrenological investigation has been such that not a physiologist probably can be found who-doubts its truthfulness. The Doctor also says : "The brain, like all the organs of the senses, is double : the one side, as in the eyes, ears, and limbs, being exactly similar to the other ; so that it may be said that we have two brains, as well as two optic nerves and two eyes. " As the structure of the brain is fibrous (that is, composed of fine threads), in order that the two sets of nerves may co-operate, and constitute a single organ, they pass obliquely across from one side of the brainTHE BRAIN DOUBLE | BUT MIND A UNIT. 29 Lee's Physiology, p. 130. to the other, and these bridges constitute what are called commissures of the brain (a place where two parts meet and unite). It follows from this, that if the right side of the brain rece...« less