Spurzheim and Cranology by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Spurzheim is a good man, and I like him; but he is dense, and the most / ignorant German I ever knew. If he had been content with stating certain / remarkable coincidences between the moral qualities and the configuration / of the skull, it would have been well; but when he began to map out the / cranium dogmatically, he fell into infinite absurdities. You know that / every intellectual act, however you may distinguish it by name in respect / of the originating faculties, is truly the act of the entire man; the / notion of distinct material organs, therefore, in the brain itself, is / plainly absurd. Pressed by this, Spurzheim has, at length, been guilty of / some sheer quackery; and ventures to say that he has actually discovered a / different material in the different parts or organs of the brain, so that / he can tell a piece of benevolence from a bit of destructiveness, and so / forth. Observe, also, that it is constantly found, that so far from there / being a concavity in the interior surface of the cranium answering to the / convexity apparent on the exterior -- the interior is convex too. Dr. Baillie / thought there was something in the system, because the notion of the brain / being an extendible net helped to explain those cases where the intellect / remained after the solid substance of the brain was dissolved in water.[1]

That a greater or less development of the forepart of the head is generally / coincidedent with more or less of reasoning power, is certain. The line / across the forehead, also, denoting musical power, is very common.