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{162} Pride, benevolence, hope, combativeness, and amativeness, full; caution, conscientiousness, and veneration, partly defective.

{164} Philoprogenitiveness is singularly full, so is combativeness and firmness.

{165a} He had the most immense organ of destructiveness and firmness I ever saw, and was remarkably defective in the social feelings and sentiments, but he had some benevolence.

{165b} His attendant says, he would have resisted harsh treatment to the very last effort that life would allow him.

{168} His head was an immense smooth round mass, such as is common to Epileptics, and powerful but sluggish minds.

{192} Self-esteem, love of approbation, firmness, and amativeness, are very full; caution, causality, combativeness, are next in order; veneration, rather defective.

{195} For remarks on religious controversy, see Essay on ‘Truth contrasted with Error.’

{198} This I have never used since, now sixteen years ago. It is now, under better management, wholly unnecessary, and worse than useless.

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