NED KELLY’S CHART.
The following delineation of the character of Ned Kelly was given by a phrenologist named Nimshi, who visited Wangaratta six years ago;—“The head of this man is non-intellectual. The base of the skull, with the whole bassiller section of the brain, is a massive development of the lower animal proclivities, and which, being vastly in excess of the moral sectional measurement, inclines him to the perpetration of sensual animal vices, and which with an adverse facial angle prompts him to the commission of vicious, brutal acts of outrage and aggressiveness. Ho has large organs of self-esteem and love of approbation, which gives self-conceit and vanity. If one be wounded or the other mortified, his animal nature would know no bounds. He wovdd be likely, under sudden surprise, to commit the grossest outrages; and, being uncontrolled by any moral sentiment, his character is necessarily wolfish and 'ravenous, his notions or moral right giving him a dangerous range of action.”
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2287, 16 July 1880, Page 3
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161NED KELLY’S CHART. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2287, 16 July 1880, Page 3
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