WORKS PUBLISHED BY THE SAME AUTHOR, IN ENGLISH. 1. The ANATOMY of the BRAIN. -- 2.-PHRENOLOGY, or the DOCTRINE of the MENTAL OPERATIONS. 3.-PHILOSOPHICAL PRINCIPLES of PHRENOLOGY. 4.-OUTLINES of PHRENOLOGY. 5.-OBSERVATIONS on INSANITY. 6.-EXAMINATION of the OBJECTIONS made, in Great Britain, against PHRENOLOGY. 7.-PHRENOLOGY, in Connection with the Study of PHYSIOGNOMY. Part I. CHARACTERS, with 34 Plates. 8.-A SKETCH of the NATURAL LAWS of MAN. A VIEW OF THE ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES OF EDUCATION, FOUNDED ON THE STUDY OF THE NATURE OF MAN. BY G. SPURZHEIM, M. D. OF THE UNIVERSITIES OF VIENNA AND PARIS, AND LICENTIATE OF THE SECOND EDITION, IMPROVED AND ENLARGED. LONDON: PUBLISHED BY TREUTTEL, WÜRTZ, AND RICHTER, M.DCCC.XXVIII. BAGSTER AND THOMS, PRINTERS, BARTHOLOMEW CLOSE, LONDON. BOSTON MEDICAL LIBRARY IN THE FRANCIS A. COUNTWAY PREFACE. THE most important point in Anthropology or the study of Man, is to acquire a knowledge of his Nature; and the next, to discover the mode in which his physical and mental constitution may be most advantageously improved. Men of eminent talents have considered the principles of education worthy of their attention; and many works have been already published on this subject. It may therefore be asked, Why should another be presented? Because education is still conducted in a manner very different from that in which it ought to be. Mankind has improved |