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26 Dec. 2009 04:32pm

Doing work for school and I can't figure out what the hell does "Organ of Benevolence" means (it's for A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens)

Definition, simple explanation, no links to a 18 paragraph web page that will still confuse the hell out of me as to what this it >.>

Please & Thank you ;~;

26 Dec. 2009 04:57pm

pwease? >.>;;

I'll give you a 'cookie'

26 Dec. 2009 05:55pm

how about for some LG e_e

**Ethan** · 26 Dec. 2009 06:01pm

Maybe this will help?

26 Dec. 2009 06:26pm

Originally Posted by Ethan

Maybe this will help?

Nope, no help at all seeing that I already tried that, Read through all that, and still have no fucking clue as to what EXACTLY it is.

**Ethan** · 26 Dec. 2009 06:33pm

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I dunno how to help you LVC.

26 Dec. 2009 06:35pm

Originally Posted by Ethan

> _ >
I dunno how to help you LVC.

; maybe read the same shit I read, and give me your version of it so I can compare mine to yours and see what the majority of LG thinks as well as what we think so I can come up with a semi-correct answer?

**Ethan** · 26 Dec. 2009 06:36pm

I am not much of a reader.

**SN Art** · 26 Dec. 2009 06:38pm

Give me a link to the carol,ill read it -.-

26 Dec. 2009 06:51pm

Originally Posted by SN Art

Give me a link to the carol,ill read it -.-

*stares at you* >.> You..realize.... it's.. a book SN..
and I read through the book already, Not much context clues

Just other than benevolence means disposition to do good. But the organ of benevolence has something to do with the brain... >.>;; eeehhhh. Then I read that info page on it and no one has seemed to heard this phrase before.

But I need to know the phrase.

26 Dec. 2009 06:55pm

I can't seem to find an exact definition but it revolves around Phrenology, theory of the brain.

**SN Art** · 26 Dec. 2009 06:58pm

jUST PUT XMAS SPIRIT.
XD

26 Dec. 2009 06:59pm

I've never previously read A Christmas Carol. Happened across it in an iPhone edition recently, discovered that it's quite short (about 30,000 words—I had always assumed it was hundreds of pages), and started reading it. And I'm struck, as I was years ago when I finally read Oliver Twist, by the moments of charming humor.

I was also struck by a particular phrase when I came across it last night:

Old Fezziwig [...] rubbed his hands; adjusted his capacious waistcoat; laughed all over himself, from his shoes to his organ of benevolence; and called out in a comfortable, oily, rich, fat, jovial voice[....]

"Organ of benevolence" sounded like some kind of a euphemism, so I went and looked it up. Turns out it was one of the organs recognized by phrenology: it was "at the top of the forehead, near where the hair commences" (according to the Graham journal of health and longevity), and the size of one's organ of benevolence determined how benevolent one was (unless overridden by other factors, such as phrenology being meaningless).

My Google search also turned up a use of the phrase in Frederick Marryat's 1836 novel Mr. Midshipman Easy:

"Surely, sir, you would not interfere with the organ of benevolence."

"But indeed I must, Jack. I, myself, am suffering from my organ of benevolence being too large: I must reduce it, and then I shall be capable of greater things, shall not be so terrified by difficulties, shall overlook trifles, and only carry on great schemes for universal equality and the supreme rights of man. I have put myself into that machine every morning for two hours, for these last three months, and I feel now that I am daily losing a great portion."

Turns out Mr. Easy's invention pushes on or sucks on various parts of the skull in order to reshape the phrenological organs therein. I would call that science fiction, of a sort, but it was clearly presented as satire.

26 Dec. 2009 07:01pm

Originally Posted by Defy

I can't seem to find an exact definition but it revolves around Phrenology, theory of the brain.

Ok then..soo...

A theory derived from Phrenology that shows a behavior within the brain dealing with acts intending or showing kindness and good will.

26 Dec. 2009 07:04pm

Originally Posted by La Vie Cruelle

Ok then..soo...

A theory derived from Phrenology that shows a behavior within the brain dealing with acts intending or showing kindness and good will.

My other post describes it more.

26 Dec. 2009 07:07pm

Originally Posted by Defy

My other post describes it more.

I saw, and I need a short description.

Buuut you helped a lot, sending you 1k LG

26 Dec. 2009 07:08pm

Originally Posted by La Vie Cruelle

I saw, and I need a short description.

Buuut you helped a lot, sending you 1k LG

So we are even? ^_^

26 Dec. 2009 07:14pm

Originally Posted by Defy

So we are even? ^_^

I do believe I am still one ahead >D

26 Dec. 2009 07:15pm

Dammmmmmmmmmn .

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