Category Archives: PHRENOLOGY
11.3.6. GROUP 5: SEMI-INTELLECTUAL FACULTIES
11.3.6. GROUP 5: SEMI-INTELLECTUAL FACULTIES
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Sometimes termed the perfect faculties, these are variously grouped, but are located in the region of the temples and are evidenced in toto with heads that are well developed in that area.
22. Constructiveness: Frequently classified as a mere propensity, this is the mark of mechanical ability which may be largely an instinctive trait. When developed, however it may show inventive genius and skills in design and engineering. Excessive development shows a trend toward the impractical, a love of gadgetry for its own sake. Deficiency is sometimes accompanied by a total lack of mechanical ability.
23. Ideality: Developed, this indicates the artistic sense, a love of beauty and perfection. It also symbolizes the truly poetic. Excessive development shows an over-aesthetic nature, with a dislike for practical things. Deficiency is the mark of vulgarity and poor taste.
24. Sublimity: Developed a love of nature’s grandeur and the great creations of human art. Excessive development shows an extravagant nature given to exaggeration. Deficiency, an indifference to anything of a highly inspiring sort.
11.3.5. GROUP 4: THE MORAL SENTIMENTS
11.3.5. GROUP 4: THE MORAL SENTIMENTS
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These are found in the coronal region and are regarded as dominating faculties in high, fully rounds heads.
17. Conscientiousness: Developed, an ability to recognize right from wrong, with a high sense of integrity, coupled by adherence to convictions. Excessive development results in criticism of others, which can lead to self-condemnation. Deficiency shows a lack of principle and a self-justification of one’s own faults.
When first noticed, partly through its deficiency, conscientiousness was placed where firmness now stands and vice versa. Often, the two may be treated as one but the more modern treatment is to set conscientiousness more toward the sides, with firmness centralised.
18. Hope: Once regarded simply as the concomitant of other faculties, hope was eventually assigned to this area, forward of conscientiousness. Developed, it marks an optimistic nature, confident of eventual happiness. Excessive development is the sign of the constant dreamer, whose extravagant expectations never are fulfilled. Deficiency denotes the pessimist, given to deep gloom.
