Horace Mann said: "I declare myself a hundred times more indebted to phrenology than to all the metaphysical works that I ever read. . . . I look upon phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true phrenology is a public benefactor."
Joseph Cook declared: "Choosing a foreman or clerk, guiding the education of children, settling my judgment of men in public or private life, estimating a wife or husband, and their fitness for each other, or endeavoring to understand myself and to select the right occupation, there is no advice of which I so often feel the need as that of a thoroughly able, scientific, experienced and Christian phrenologist."
Oliver Wendell Holmes changed his views on phrenology in his maturer years and said: "We owe phrenology a great debt. It has melted the world's conscience in its crucible and cast it in a new mould, with features less like those of Moloch and more like those of humanity."
Andrew Carnegie said: "Not to know phrenology is sure to keep you standing on the 'Bridge of Sighs' all your life."
I think the superiority of the phrenological classification of the mental powers to that of other systems of psychology will be apparent from the following:
Phrenological Analysis of Mental Faculties.
I. Domestic Propensities (Family Affections).
1. Amativeness—Love between the sexes. 2. Conjugality—Matrimony, love of one. 3. Parental Love—Regard for offspring, pets, etc. 4. Friendship, sociability. 5. Inhabitiveness—Love of home. 6. Continuity—One thing at a time.
II. Selfish Propensities (Lookout for "No. 1").
1. Vitativeness—Love of life. 2. Combativeness—Resistance, defense. 3. Destructiveness—Executiveness, force. 4. Alimentiveness—Appetite, hunger. 5. Acquisitiveness—Accumulation. 6. Secretiveness—Policy, management. 7. Bibativeness—Fondness for liquids.