[The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.]@TWC D-Link bookThe Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION 256/419
Messrs.
Bumpus and Crane examine him and find a good-sized organ of Acquisitiveness.
Positive fact for Phrenology. Casts and drawings of A.are multiplied, and the bump does not lose in the act of copying .-- I did not say it gained .-- What do you look so for? (to the boarders.) Presently B.turns up, a bigger thief than A.
But B.has no bump at all over Acquisitiveness.
Negative fact; goes against Phrenology .-- Not a bit of it.
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