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ORDER. - This faculty was localized by Dr. Spurzheim. It lies between color and calculation. When strongly developed it manifests in system, methodical arrangement and tidiness. A business, government or home in which order, "Heaven's first law," is not recognized, soon becomes chaos and confusion twice confounded.
Excess or Perversion. On the other hand, there are those who make their families miserable by a failure to comprehend the fact that an arbitrary rule which refuses to recognize convenience and utility is conducive to a mental state which is absolutely disintegrating to family life. Have you, dear Reader, ever laboriously searched the library for data for speech or essay, carefully marking each book for reference in the brief space of time at your command? How would you feel if you were called away to the telephone, to find on your return, that your desk had been "tidied up," your pile of books whisked back into the shelves and the strips of paper you had used for book marks consigned to the waste basket? No time to do that work over· again, so you go to class or to make your speech, only half prepared, consumed with an exasperation which still further unfits you for the task.
Hyper-order and super-order are two different things: the first cramps and inhibits life and accomplishment: the latter maintains a beautiful system, elastic enough to permit all necessary change and development, but maintaining the integrity of the whole.
Deficiency. - Absence of order is a tragedy for all concerned. Many indeed, must be the virtues and talents to nullify its disastrous influence, felt in loss of time, of equanimity, of respect, both of self and others. Disorder, whether material or intellectual, is a handicap which even a genius can but palatially and with great difficulty, surmount.
Cultivate by doing things at the time when they should be done, and by the best possible method. Consider the time saved by methodical, orderly arrangement; and the nerve-soothing, dainty comfort of well ordered, and cleanly surroundings.
CALCULATION. - This faculty was localized by Dr. Gall. It lies outward from order causing a projection of the orbital arch at that point. Dr. Gall's location of this center has since been reaffirmed by Herr Mobius of Vienna, who, after making investigations in the cases of over three hundred persons, is satisfied that the center for mathematical talent is located in the anterior end or margin of the third frontal convolution. This corresponds exactly with Dr. Gall's location of the faculty. That Mobius locates it on the left side only, may be explained by the fact that the left hemisphere in right-handed persons is the seat of active mental operations.
This faculty gives cognizance of numbers and their relations. Persons in whom it is strong are remarkably apt at figures. If the reasoning powers are also well marked they excel in the higher mathematics.
Dr. Gall found the center for computation very strong in Zerah Colburn, the American mathematical prodigy, v\'ho was exhibited in Paris in 1814, though he had no inkling as to the identity of the boy until after the examination.
Perversion of this faculty results in useless counting of stairs, footsteps, houses and even the number of words in a speech. This necessarily results in the neglect of more important things. The gist of a speech is of more importance than the number of words it contains; and the destination than the number of steps it takes to reach it.
Deficiency.- If deficient, this faculty should be sedulously cultivated; but under no consideration should the general intelligence of the person be measured by lack of power in this respect. Many of the greatest thinkers have been utterly deficient in this faculty, notably George Combe whom Horace Mann considered the greatest man of his century, though he had never been able to master the multiplication table.
Cultivate. - This faculty can be cultivated, as is proved by the fact that William E. Gladstone, though very backward in arithmetic when a boy, developed so remarkably in this respect, that in later years, he was capable of delivering a long speech filled with important statistics, without notes and without errors.
LOCALITY. - This faculty was localized by Dr. Gall and lies between eventuality and time. It gives recollection of places, localities, scenery, associates, people and events and even the page or place on the page where something once read may be found.
Persons with this faculty strongly developed have a passion for travel, and by nature, are cosmopolitan. They rarely get lost and can locate anything once seen, even to parts of machinery and seldom fail to remember where they have laid tools or other articles, no matter how full the mind may be of other affairs. As guides and explorers, they seem to possess almost uncanny instinct for directions.
Excess or Perversion. - The person in whom this attribute is excessive, is seldom satisfied long in one place and should seek a calling which will permit change of environment and travel without jeopardizing the life success.
Deficiency. - When deficient, systematically cultivate by localizing everything, especially places, landmarks and personal belongings-tools, etc. Combined with order, this faculty conduces to "a place for everything and everything in its place."
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