wondrous profound, when 'tis merely shallow, dark, and empty.”
The single point on which I am inclined to modify my assertions is the structure and office of the corpus callosum, respecting which, some new views have been opened to me by very recent dissection-they do not, however, in any respect interfere with the notions I have expressed as to the nature of the mind; and as the candidates for the college prize of the current year* will probably throw considerable light on this obscure subject, I do not, on the present occasion, put forth my own as yet crude and imperfect opinions.
I will only add, in anticipation and deprecation of critical censure, that a man cannot well be accused of precipitation or presumption who waits till his sixtieth year to promulgate opinions he has held during half his life with daily increasing conviction; which he believes to be of the greatest importance in medicine, morals, and jurisprudence-in the management of the insane-in the treatment of criminals-the education of youth-and, above all, in the discipline of imperfect, defective, and distorted minds.
The distribution of the cerebral fibres.