5. It will teach us the origin and the remedy of the evils and abuses of society. By teaching the nature of man it shows what violates that nature; and by unfolding the laws of the human constitution, it shows what customs and institutions violate those laws. But a want of room prevents enlargement. Suffice it to say, that no other discovery, ancient or modern, compares with this either in the number or extent of the benefits it is capable of conferring, both on its individual students or the

race.

Let any of its disciples say-let even its amateurs, though they have scarcely begun to reap its advantages, say what would induce them to allow an obliteration of its precious truths from their minds. All who know anything of it, love it, as they love their own souls. It constitutes their mental meat and drink. See how they labor for its advancement. See how they LOVE its divine teachings-I say divine, because all truth is of God. WHY this enthusiastic love but because of the BENEFITS it confers on them? Pen utterly fails to portray a tithe of the blessings this science of human nature is capable of conferring on man. Reader, fruit like this is within your reach. All you have to do is to reach forth the hand of investigation and pluck it. May you know by experience the practical utility of this divine science!

It remains to give a short definition of its Faculties, or of the functions they respectively subserve in the mental economy.

1. AMATIVENESS.-Connubial love; the attachment of the sexes to each other. Adapted to the means employed for the continuance of the

race.

2. PHILOPROGENITIVENESS.-Parental love; the attachment of parents for their own children, and the young and helpless generally. Adapted to the infantile condition in which man is ordained to enter the world. 3. ADHESIVENESS.-Friendship; desire to be with others; love of company; disposition to ASSOCIATE. Adapted to man's requisition for society and concert of action.

4. INHABITIVENESS.-Love of home and country; attachment to the domicile of childhood and youth-to the trees, stones, scenery, and locali ties where we have lived. Adapted to the necessity of a home and its promotion of comfort.

5. CONTINUITY.-Disposition to dwell on any matter in hand till it is finished up; prolixity. Adapted to the need of completeness and continuation.

A. VITATIVENESS.-Love and tenacity of life. Adapted to its preservation.

6. COMBATIVENESS.-Resistance; defence; resolution; courage; efficiency; I can and I will; determination; resentment; anger. Adapted to man's constitutional demand for self-defence, and overcoming opposition and obstacles.

7. DESTRUCTIVENESS.-Executiveness; severity; harshness; disposition to exterminate and destroy what is in the way. Adapted to the need of removing or demolishing nuisances, causes of unhappiness, etc.

8. ALIMENTIVENESS.-Appetite; love of food and drink; and a hearty relish for them; hunger. Adapted to man's constitutional demand for nutrition.

9. ACQUSITIVENESS.-Economy; the husbanding instinet; disposition to save and store up for future use what may be wanted hereafter; desire to traffic, acquire, possess, amass wealth, and the like. Adapted to man's need of supplies of food, clothing, tools, and the comforts of life always at command.

10. SECRETIVENESS.-Disposition to "lay low and keep dark;" reserve; policy; management; cunning; etc. Adapted to the occasional utility of keeping things to ourselves.

11. CAUTIOUSNESS.-Prudence; solicitude; carefulness; provision against danger and a rainy day; fleeing from foreseen evils; fear; irresolution; procrastination. Adapted to man's demand for guarding against prospective evils and providing for coming wants.

12. APPROBATIVENESS.-Sense of character; love of commendation; desire for a good name, or the esteem of others; regard for popularity and the sayings of people; ambition. Adapted to the fact that some things are constitutionally reputable and others disgraceful.

13. SELF-ESTEEM.-Self-respect and reliance; nobleness; self-valuation; aspiration after something great and worthy. Adapted to the exalted powers and divine attributes of the human soul.

14. FIRMNESS.-Stability; perseverance; decision; fixedness of purpose; unwillingness to change. Adapted to the fact that changeableness prevents and perseverance promo.es success.

15. CONSCIENTIOUSNESS.-Sense of right; regard for justice; feeling of moral obligation; sentiment of incumbency and duty. Adapted to the moral or the right and wrong of feelings and conduct.

16. HOPE.-Expectation; anticipation; disposition to look forward and upward; contemplating the future with bright hopes of success. Adapted to the fact that sanguine anticipations promote both enterprise and effort, and these success.

17. SPIRITUALITY.-Prescience; spirit of prophecy; intuitive perception of truth and of future events-what course is best, and what will result in evil, etc. Adapted to man's need of superhuman guidance, or some inner sense or instinct to conduct him where reason and experience fail..

18. VENERATION.-Worship of God; adoration of a Supreme Being; reverence for religion and things sacred; spirit of prayer. Adapted to the being of a God, and the utility of communing with and thereby becoming like him.

19. BENEVOLENCE.-Kindness; fellow-feeling; desire to do good; disposition to oblige and accommodate; sympathy; philanthropy. Adapted to the promotion of human happiness by reciprocal kindness and goodwill; as well as to the relief of distress.

20 CONSTRUCTIVENESS.-Ingenuity; manual dexterity; sleight of hand in using tools and turning off work; the tool-using propensity and capability. Adapted to man's need of tools, machinery, clothing, houses, and things made.

21. IDEALITY.-Description and love of the beautiful and perfect; refinement; sense of propriety, taste, style, elegance, finish and perfection; love of poetry and eloquence. Adapted to the inimitable beauties and perfections of nature, and to self-improvement.

B. SUBLIMITY.-Love of the grand, sublime, vast, and picturesque; of mountain scenery and the wild and romantic in nature, to which it is adapted.

22. IMITATION.-Ability and disposition to imitate, copy, take pattern, do what we see done, mimic, etc. Adapted to man's requisition of copying the improvements of his fellow-men, talking and doing as others do, etc.

MIRTHFULNESS.--Perception of the absurd and ridiculous; disposition to laugh, joke, frolic, make fun, seek amusement, etc. Adapted to man's requisition for recreation and merriment as a means of health, happiness, and longevity.

24. INDIVIDUALITY.-Observation; cognizance of the identity, individuality, and personality of bodies; power and desire to inspect individual things as isolated existences; curiosity to see and examine things as things. Adapted to the fact that everything in nature has a personal existence of its own of which man must take cognizance before he can examine any of its other qualities.

25. FORM.-Cognizance and recollection of shape; memory of countenances, and the looks of persons and things seen; perception of family likenesses and resemblances generally. Adapted to configuration, and its utility in enabling us to identify persons and things by their looks.

26. SIZE. Cognizance and judgment of bulk, dimension, magnitude, quantity, proportion, weight by bulk, and the like; ability to judge of size, length, breadth, height, depth, distance, and the weight of bodies by their size; capability of measuring angles, perpendiculars, etc. Adapted to the arrangement in nature of big and little, and our ability to discern things by their size.

27. WEIGHT.-Intuitive perception and application of gravity; ability to preserve and regain the balance, to keep from falling, ride a fractious horse, skate, carry a steady hand, throw a stone or ball straight, shoot well, climb and walk aloft, etc. Adapted to the attraction of matter, and man's almost perpetual requisition for its practical application.

28. COLOR.-Perception, recollection, application, judgment, and love of colors; ability to discern and compare their tints and shades, match them by the eye; paint; etc.

29. ORDER.-Method; system; arrangement, having a place for every thing, and all things in their places. Adapted to "heaven's first law," and man's requsition for method in business; the systematic arrangement of ideas, and the like.

30. CALCULATION.-Cognizance and memory of numbers; ability to reckon figures in the head; numerical computation; mental arithmetic; intuitive perception of the relations of numbers; ability to add, subtract, divide, multiply, cast accounts, and reckon figures mentally. Adapted to the numerical relations of things, and man's requisition for computing them.

31. LOCALITY.-Cognizance of position; recollection of the looks and appearances of roads, scenery, places, and positions generally, or the whereabouts of things seen, and ability to find them; the geographical faculty, and desire to travel. Adapted to the fact that everything must be somewhere, and to man's need of some faculty which shall enable him to find it.

32. EVENTUALITY.-Cognizance and memory of action; love and recollection of facts; desire to witness and institute experiments; find out what is; ascertain what has been; and see what will be; love of anecdotes; recollection of circumstances, news, occurrences, historical and other events, past and passing items of information, and general know. ledge of what we have done, said, seen, heard, and once known, etc. Adapted to action, motion, and change, and man's need of recalling the past.

33. TIME.-Cognizance and recollection of when things occured-of duration, succession, the lapse of time, of dates, and the length of time between one event and another; disposition and ability to keep the beat in music and dancing, and the step in walking; to tell when things occurred, and carry the time of day in the head. Adapted to nature's arrangement of periodicity, and man's requisition of having set times and seasons in which to do particular things.

34. TUNE.-Ability to learn and remember tunes by rote; the musical feeling and faculty; perception of musical concord and discord; love of melody and musical harmony; desire and ability to sing, and to play on musical instruments. Adapted to concord and melody, and the pleasure and profit to be derived from music.

35. LANGUAGE. The communicating faculty and instinct; power of expressing ideas by written and spoken words; ability to call to mind just such words as will convey the meaning intended; memory of words; freedom, copiousness, and power of language; volubility; versatility of expression; ability to learn spoken languages. Adapted to the requisition and pleasures of a communication of knowledge and ideas.

36. CAUSALITY.-See Art. III.

37. COMPARISON.-Inductive reasoning; ability and disposition to classify, and to reason from parallel cases and a collection of scientific facts, up to the laws which govern them; discovering the unknown from its resemblance to the known; detecting error from its incongruity to truth, or opposition to facts; ability to apply analogy to the discernment of first principles; to generalize, compare, discriminate, illustrate, explain, expound, criticise, expose, employ similes and metaphors, put this and that together, and draw inferences. Adapted to that principle of classification and similarity which pervades all nature; for a full description of which see the last number of the preceding volume.

C. HUMAN NATURE.-Discernment of character; perception of motives; intuitive physiognomy; reading men instinctively from their looks, conversation, manners, walk, and other kindred signs of character. Adapted to natures institution of signs of character, and man's need of knowing the characters of his fellow-men.

D. AGREEABLENESS-Blandness and persuasiveness of manner, expression, and address; pleasantness; insinuation; the faculty of saying even disagreeable things pleasantly. Adapted to the power it gives of influencing mind and making our way through life.

Thus much of its definition of the powers of the mind. The world looks in vain for anything like as complete an exposition of that wonderful entity, the mentality. But our present purpose being to show WHAT PHRENOLOGY IS, rather than to eulogise its merits, we drop this subject, simply adding, that, the mental philosophy of the combinations of these faculties is inimitably beautiful and perfect, as future numbers will show.

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