DOI issue:
October 4, 1873
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October 4, 1873.] PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
133
COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY.
very philosopher, such
as Democritus, in-
cluded among the audi-
ence of a paper 4 4 On
the Localisation of
the Functions of the
I)rain,” read by Dr.
Ferrier, in the Ana-
tomical and Physiolo-
gical Department at
the late meeting of the
British Association,
must have been enter-
tained, if not in-
structed, by some part
at least of what he
heard there. Accord-
ing to the Morning
Post, Dr. Ferrier, in
the course of narrating
a series of well-con-
ducted experiments,
which he afterwards,
not without reason,
said he thought4 4 would
ultimately lead to a
distinct and scientific
phrenology,” observed
that:—
“ The frontal part of
the brain was broader and
larger in man than in
the monkey and other animals, which no doubt corresponded to the intellectual de-
velopment.”
On the address which included this passage its learned reader received the
congratulations of Dr. Carpenter, who said that 4 4 science ought to be proud
of” such experiments as those described in it. This other distinguished phy-
siologist added that—
“ He believed, along with Dr. Ferrier, that the intellectual faculties of man were in
the posterior portion of the brain—a theory directly opposed to phi-enology, which placed
the animal functions at the back, and the intellectual faculties at the anterior part of the
brain.”
The Times represents Dr. Carpenter as saying that—
“ He had long since expressed his disbelief in phrenology in an article that had had the
credit of killing the Phrenological Journal, which maintained that the animal faculties
were placed at the back of the head, and the intellectual at the front.”
If Dr. Carpenter killed the Phrenological Journal
with an article, long ago, he also, by anticipation, killed
another bird with the same stone. He killed so much
of Dr. Ferrier’s paper as he contradicted. Of course
he killed it without having shot at it. Apparently
he did not hear it; or, rather, imagined that he had
heard exactly the reverse of it. This is, if correct,
remarkable in connection with the circumstance that:—
44 Dr. George Harley congratulated Professor Ferrier
on the able address he had delivered. He was sure that every
one in the room, whether possessed of scientific knowledge or not,
had perfectly understood the subject.”
So it seems; to judge of everybody by Dr. Carpenter.
Dr. Harley appears to have agreed with Dr. Car-
penter as to Phrenology. He observed that, “along
with science there had always gone a pseudo-science.”
As reported in the Times, however :—
44 Dr. Brunton alluded to the faculty of will and self-restraint
as distinguishing man from the lower animals, and said that
this was probably situated in the anterior part of the brain. It
was noticeable that criminals, who were deficient in that faculty,
possessed only a small portion of brain in the front of the head.”
Behold how diametrically doctors differ about the
functions of the brain. Are the intellectual faculties in
the front and the animal at the back of it, or vice versa ?
That is their little diversity. Along with science, truly,
“there has already gone a pseudo-science;” but on
which side is the pseudo-science in the case of physiolo-
gists who differ from each other, as Big-endians from
Little-endians, or as white from black ?
Of course Dr. Carpenter’s supposition that the in-
tellectual faculties of man are situated in the posterior
portion of the brain cannot have been evolved out of
his own consciousness. Clairvoyants are said sometimes
to see at the back of the head; hut Dr. Carpenter,
though a man of science, if not pseudo-science, does
not appear to he a clairvoyant. It would also seem that
the learned Doctor is very far from being a clairaudient,
unless either he, or Dr. Ferrier, has been mis-
reported.
A physiologist’s opinion respecting the relation in
which the intellect and the animal feelings lie fore and
aft in the brain may perhaps, even if Phrenology is false,
depend on the shape of his own head. As to Phrenology,
however, suppose it false; still every philosopher has
a vigorous faculty, if no organ, of 44 Comparison.” Any
such an one must have been able to appreciate, with
some amusement, the above-collated differences between
doctors.
JOHN BULLS REFLECTIONS BEEOBE THE
ASHANTEE WAIL
King Coepee Calcalli—King Copfee Calcaxli !
No doubt you have earned a sound thrashing :
And, that making a sally, without shilly-shally,
And rasing Coommassie from out of Prah Yalley,
And your red velvet parasols smashing,
Would prove quite a godsend to Fantis, Ahantis,
Nor much source of regret to your subject Ashantees.
But still I can’t feel as much heart as I like
To feel, when I get up my dander to strike ;
And, if I for war must draw trigger,
I cannot but wish the war bigger ;
That I’d not to display so much vigour,
And pay such a very large figure,
For no more than to wollop a nigger !
Thus, King Coppee Calcalli, although I don’t vally
Your opinion a rush, and our notions don’t tally
Of what’s good and what’s had as ’twixt weak folk and
strong.
And what rights over black unto white men belong,
And what duties to whites are due black men among,
I should like to feel surer that, in my own view,
All the rights were with me—all the wrongs were with you.
For even in fighting a nigger,
One sets to the work with more vigour,
If one feels that one’s cutting a figure,
Proof ’gainst faction’s most keen-sighted rigour,
And cavil’s most cynical snigger—
And, in this case, I’ve doubts if the two may not rally
’Gainst John Bull, in support of King Coppee Calcalli !
TEMPLARS AND MALTESE.
It is announced that the Duke of Ratibor has accepted the
Grand Mastership of a separate branch of the Maltese Order of
Knights, established on the basis of their original principles, hut
repudiating extreme opinions. It may be observed that the Maltese
Knights are not only not to he confounded with the Templars, to
whom they were akin, but that they are particularly to be distin-
guished from those later Templars who, comparatively to their pre-
decessors, perhaps, if not to mankind in general, call themselves
44 Good.” The Good Templars appear not to he concerned about
Hltramontane principles, further than these may he involved in
respect of Mountain Dew. They evidently have nothing in common
with the Maltese Knights ; and they differ from them in nothing
more than in being very inimical to malt, considered as an ingre-
dient in beer, which they vilify with the appellation of an 44 intoxi-
cating fluid,” though the epithet they have arrogated appears to
indicate that they think no small beer of themselves.
Gaudeamiis Igitur.
Our friend the Standard begins an article on Spain with the
words, 44 Anybody, that great Conservative Statesman,” and so on.
May we express our humble but heartfelt joy at hearing that any-
body is a great Conservative Statesman ? It is news, hut good news,
in the present state of parties.
an achievement.
Mr. Bellows, according to the Times' Critic, has produced a,
French Dictionary, within pocket compass, so perfect, that there is
no pretext for the cry, “Bellows to mend!” This is an achieve-
ment, which may well take the wind out of any successor ta
Bellows !
133
COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY.
very philosopher, such
as Democritus, in-
cluded among the audi-
ence of a paper 4 4 On
the Localisation of
the Functions of the
I)rain,” read by Dr.
Ferrier, in the Ana-
tomical and Physiolo-
gical Department at
the late meeting of the
British Association,
must have been enter-
tained, if not in-
structed, by some part
at least of what he
heard there. Accord-
ing to the Morning
Post, Dr. Ferrier, in
the course of narrating
a series of well-con-
ducted experiments,
which he afterwards,
not without reason,
said he thought4 4 would
ultimately lead to a
distinct and scientific
phrenology,” observed
that:—
“ The frontal part of
the brain was broader and
larger in man than in
the monkey and other animals, which no doubt corresponded to the intellectual de-
velopment.”
On the address which included this passage its learned reader received the
congratulations of Dr. Carpenter, who said that 4 4 science ought to be proud
of” such experiments as those described in it. This other distinguished phy-
siologist added that—
“ He believed, along with Dr. Ferrier, that the intellectual faculties of man were in
the posterior portion of the brain—a theory directly opposed to phi-enology, which placed
the animal functions at the back, and the intellectual faculties at the anterior part of the
brain.”
The Times represents Dr. Carpenter as saying that—
“ He had long since expressed his disbelief in phrenology in an article that had had the
credit of killing the Phrenological Journal, which maintained that the animal faculties
were placed at the back of the head, and the intellectual at the front.”
If Dr. Carpenter killed the Phrenological Journal
with an article, long ago, he also, by anticipation, killed
another bird with the same stone. He killed so much
of Dr. Ferrier’s paper as he contradicted. Of course
he killed it without having shot at it. Apparently
he did not hear it; or, rather, imagined that he had
heard exactly the reverse of it. This is, if correct,
remarkable in connection with the circumstance that:—
44 Dr. George Harley congratulated Professor Ferrier
on the able address he had delivered. He was sure that every
one in the room, whether possessed of scientific knowledge or not,
had perfectly understood the subject.”
So it seems; to judge of everybody by Dr. Carpenter.
Dr. Harley appears to have agreed with Dr. Car-
penter as to Phrenology. He observed that, “along
with science there had always gone a pseudo-science.”
As reported in the Times, however :—
44 Dr. Brunton alluded to the faculty of will and self-restraint
as distinguishing man from the lower animals, and said that
this was probably situated in the anterior part of the brain. It
was noticeable that criminals, who were deficient in that faculty,
possessed only a small portion of brain in the front of the head.”
Behold how diametrically doctors differ about the
functions of the brain. Are the intellectual faculties in
the front and the animal at the back of it, or vice versa ?
That is their little diversity. Along with science, truly,
“there has already gone a pseudo-science;” but on
which side is the pseudo-science in the case of physiolo-
gists who differ from each other, as Big-endians from
Little-endians, or as white from black ?
Of course Dr. Carpenter’s supposition that the in-
tellectual faculties of man are situated in the posterior
portion of the brain cannot have been evolved out of
his own consciousness. Clairvoyants are said sometimes
to see at the back of the head; hut Dr. Carpenter,
though a man of science, if not pseudo-science, does
not appear to he a clairvoyant. It would also seem that
the learned Doctor is very far from being a clairaudient,
unless either he, or Dr. Ferrier, has been mis-
reported.
A physiologist’s opinion respecting the relation in
which the intellect and the animal feelings lie fore and
aft in the brain may perhaps, even if Phrenology is false,
depend on the shape of his own head. As to Phrenology,
however, suppose it false; still every philosopher has
a vigorous faculty, if no organ, of 44 Comparison.” Any
such an one must have been able to appreciate, with
some amusement, the above-collated differences between
doctors.
JOHN BULLS REFLECTIONS BEEOBE THE
ASHANTEE WAIL
King Coepee Calcalli—King Copfee Calcaxli !
No doubt you have earned a sound thrashing :
And, that making a sally, without shilly-shally,
And rasing Coommassie from out of Prah Yalley,
And your red velvet parasols smashing,
Would prove quite a godsend to Fantis, Ahantis,
Nor much source of regret to your subject Ashantees.
But still I can’t feel as much heart as I like
To feel, when I get up my dander to strike ;
And, if I for war must draw trigger,
I cannot but wish the war bigger ;
That I’d not to display so much vigour,
And pay such a very large figure,
For no more than to wollop a nigger !
Thus, King Coppee Calcalli, although I don’t vally
Your opinion a rush, and our notions don’t tally
Of what’s good and what’s had as ’twixt weak folk and
strong.
And what rights over black unto white men belong,
And what duties to whites are due black men among,
I should like to feel surer that, in my own view,
All the rights were with me—all the wrongs were with you.
For even in fighting a nigger,
One sets to the work with more vigour,
If one feels that one’s cutting a figure,
Proof ’gainst faction’s most keen-sighted rigour,
And cavil’s most cynical snigger—
And, in this case, I’ve doubts if the two may not rally
’Gainst John Bull, in support of King Coppee Calcalli !
TEMPLARS AND MALTESE.
It is announced that the Duke of Ratibor has accepted the
Grand Mastership of a separate branch of the Maltese Order of
Knights, established on the basis of their original principles, hut
repudiating extreme opinions. It may be observed that the Maltese
Knights are not only not to he confounded with the Templars, to
whom they were akin, but that they are particularly to be distin-
guished from those later Templars who, comparatively to their pre-
decessors, perhaps, if not to mankind in general, call themselves
44 Good.” The Good Templars appear not to he concerned about
Hltramontane principles, further than these may he involved in
respect of Mountain Dew. They evidently have nothing in common
with the Maltese Knights ; and they differ from them in nothing
more than in being very inimical to malt, considered as an ingre-
dient in beer, which they vilify with the appellation of an 44 intoxi-
cating fluid,” though the epithet they have arrogated appears to
indicate that they think no small beer of themselves.
Gaudeamiis Igitur.
Our friend the Standard begins an article on Spain with the
words, 44 Anybody, that great Conservative Statesman,” and so on.
May we express our humble but heartfelt joy at hearing that any-
body is a great Conservative Statesman ? It is news, hut good news,
in the present state of parties.
an achievement.
Mr. Bellows, according to the Times' Critic, has produced a,
French Dictionary, within pocket compass, so perfect, that there is
no pretext for the cry, “Bellows to mend!” This is an achieve-
ment, which may well take the wind out of any successor ta
Bellows !