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xxi INTRODUCTION.
-this time, Phrenology will be so applied in the United
States. This idea is participated in by those who,
from their acquaintance with Phrenology, and experience
of mankind, are best qualified to judge, and
for them this portion of the work is composed.
I may remark, that the Americans in reading a work
on the United States written by a foreigner, judge
of it, almost uniformly, as a book composed not only
about, but exclusivelyfor themselves. If it contain
statements and descriptions which lie on the surface
of their country and social habits, they regard it as
twaddle and gossip; but this book is written for the
readers of the English language on this side of the
Atlantic; and the Americans, with all deference to
their superior knowledge of their own affairs, are not
better judges than we are, concerning what will interest
our own people. I have read the tours of
Americans in Great Britain, and in proportion to the
faithfulness of their representations, did they appear
to me to be trite and commonplace; but this was an
unfair criterion of their merits. This very fidelity,
which deprived them of interest to a Briton, invested
them with it to the American who had never visited
the British shores. May I not hope that the candid
among my American readers will allow me the benefit
of the same rule of judging?
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Combe, George, 1788-1858. Notes of the United States of North America, During a Phrenological Visit in 1898-9-40: Volume 1, book, 1841; Edinburgh, Scotland. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1028/m1/26/?q=%221838%3F%22&rotate=180: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.