of interest. Without this or a kindred faculty to bring mankind together into villages, companies, and families, every human being would have wandered up and down in the earth ALONE, alienated from all others, his hand, Ishmael-like, "against every man, and every man's hand against him," without society, without any community of feeling or concert of action, and even without written or verbal language, and consequently destitute of all the pleasures and advantages now derived from conversation, news, papers, sermons, lectures, schools, and the institutions to which they have given rise, and also without one friendly feeling to soften down his austerity and wrath, or draw him toward his fellow-man. Consequently, nothing could have been done more than one could do alone-no companies formed for trade, mechanical, public, or other works; no religious, political, scientific, or other societies would have been formed; and no community of interest, or feeling, and concert of action, as well as direct pleasure in friendship, could have been experienced. And since each faculty in one constitutionally excites the same faculties in others, and thereby all the other faculties, without friendship to bring mankind together so that their faculties may mutually excite each other, half his faculties, having little or nothing to stimulate them, would have lain dormant, and the balance have been but feebly exercised. Without friendship to bring mankind together, ambition, imitation, mirth, kindness, justice, and many of his other faculties, would have had only an exceedingly limited arena for their exercise; concert of action could not have been secured; and green-eyed jealousy, burning animosity, and dire revenge, would have blotted out the pleasant smile of glowing attach ment, palsied the hand of friendship, suppressed the cordial greeting of old associates, and converted into rancorous hate that silent flow of perpetual happiness which springs from the exercise of this faculty.

The cultivation of an element thus beneficial in its influence is, therefore, most important. Men should NOT wrap themselves up in the frigid cloak of selfish isolation, but should open their generous souls to the reception and expression of cordial friendship. We were not created to live alone, nor can we close the door of warm-hearted friendship without shutting out the light and warmth of life, and locking ourselves up in the dark dungeon of exclusiveness. The recluse and the misanthrope violate a fundamental law of their being-this cardinal law of LOVE-and suffer the penalty in that desolation of soul which congeals all the finer and sweeter emotions of life. The aristocrat is not human. He stifles an important element of his nature, and is therefore maimed and halt, destitute of this cardinal virtue. Would that such could see no human soul till their icy fetters broke loose, and they could once more look upon all mankind as brothers, and greet them as friends.

And are these money-made nabobs really so far above their fellow-men? Can standing on a paltry pile of shining dust make them men? Is the possession of wealth indeed so much above that of WORTH? Do not the human VIRTUES constitute NATURE'S noblemen? Who are her aristocracy and crowned heads? Shall THINGS be exalted above men? Shall money, the work of men's hands, be rated above intellectual greatness and moral worth-the highest works of GOD? And so MUCH above, that the holders of the former disdain to exchange the look of recognition? And all in his land consecrated to EQUALITY? Republicans, ha! yet too grand to

speak to brother republicans and even human brothers! Great republicanism, this! Aristocratical distinctions here, on this soil consecrated to freedom and "equal rights!" Out upon such grandiloquent pretenderssuch apes of feudal nobility! If you are indeed so extra noble, produce your TITLE, and then abdicate these shores consecrated not to rank, but to EQUALITY. This is no place for you. Would it not be impertinence-a breach of every principle of decency-for an infidel to thrust his doctrines upon a religious assembly? and is it not more so for you to thrust your aristocracy into the faces of us freemen? This is our soil, not yours. These are FREEDOM's borders, set apart and baptized to LIBERTY, not to caste. Why inflict yourselves upon us? Here you are eyesores. Our fathers fled from just such claims as you set up, and came here that they might sit, unmolested by aristocratical pretensions, "under their own vines and fig-trees" of equality. And yet you indecently and impertinently set yourselves up right here in our very midst as our chiefs, to be looked up to and bowed down to, just because you possess-perhaps wrongfully -a few more DOLLARS than we. If you will be so grand, go to England, or Russia, or Turkey, where caste forms a part of their institutions-not force yourselves upon us FREEMEN. You have no right to stay on our soil unless you will consent to stay as our EQUALS. If you are too good to be our friends, go where men are good enough so that you can deign to speak to and associate with them on friendly terms. Why don't you? Because your aristocratical pretensions would not pass current there. The mushroom, codfish, stockjobbing aristocracy of our nation is utterly contemptible anywhere, but a perfect OUTRAGE in this country. I repeat, away with you. You are usurpers and traitors to our institutions. Go home, go home to the old world and stay there, not inflict your puerile pretensions upon us freemen, and in our own temple of liberty and equality. Come, hurry, and be off. Or else, down with your flag of exclusiveness. Meet us as equals, and we will let you stay and make you welcome. Come, off with you, or else subscribe practically to our constitution of EQUALITY.

And let us all cultivate cordiality and brotherly love toward all mankind. Let travellers, and all who are casually thrown together, whether temporarily or permanently, open the portals of their hearts, and "scrape acquaintance" at once. Let them freely exchange views and feelings, and while away their otherwise tedious hours by social conversation and friendly chit-chat. These modern ceremonies, this requiring formal introductions, and punctiliously waiting for the last call to be returned, or letter to be answered, before friendly intercourse is resumed, are cast completely into the shade by this great requisition for the unrestrained exercise of cordial friendship.

NOTICE. Want of room compels us to throw the balance of the article on Adhesiveness, together with much additional matter, the Big Woods resolutions included, over into our next number.

MISCELLANY.

For the Phrenological Journal

PROPOSED PHRENOLOGICAL CONVENTION.

MR. EDITOR: Having long entertained a desire to see and hear all the phrenological lecturers in the United States, I have hoped to see a movement made for an American Phrenological Convention, to be held in the city of New York. Every subject of public regard must have its convention; temperance, religious sects, common schools, politics, and many other interests, have conventions, to exchange thoughts, compare notes, make suggestions for future usefulness and success, and to "do all other acts and things lawful to be done," for the final triumph of each cause respectively. Now, why can we not have a convention of all the phrenological lecturers, and delegates from the numerous phrenological societies in the United States, to be holden at Clinton Hall, New York, in June next, or at such other time and place as shall be thought best? I have a plan in my mind, how such a convention might be usefully employed for a few days; but I shall reserve it for the present, hoping you will draw a plan of the object and labor of such a convention, and urge an early meeting, through your valuable pages. I want to grasp the hand and see the head of every lover of the true mental philosophy.

Jan., 1847.

Yours, truly,

N. SIZER.

NOTE BY THE EDITOR.-Such a convention is most desirable, and the Journal will gladly do all in its power to promote it. The principle brought forward in the article on Adhesiveness in this number, that co-operation is strength-that the friends of reform have only to UNITE-strongly recommends, and even imperiously DEMANDS, such a convention. For years the editor has desired one, but waited for matters to ripen. The time to appoint one has finally come. June may be too early to mature the plan, and duly to extend the notice, yet it is now high time to agitate this matter. Our next number will present our views more fully on the importance and character of such a convention; meanwhile we solicit the views of any and all interested, in either its appointment or its kind. One thing is certain-a desperate effort is now in vigorous prosecution to arrest the progress of this grand instrument of reform. And these efforts of its enemies must be MET. The contest has been commenced, and now, of all other times, is demanded a grand rally of its friends. In this crisis the Journal will do ALL IT CAN. Who will help?

PHRENOLOGY IN HARTFORD, CT.

HARTFORD, Jan'y 18th, 1847.

In December, 1845, Mr. L. N. Fowler delivered a full course of lectures on Phrenology and Physiology in this place, which were listened to by a large number of our most intelligent citizens. At the urgent solicitation of a number of his auditors, he was induced to deliver a short course of lectures before a class formed for the purpose of receiving instruction upon those subjects. At the close of his teachings, a portion of his pupils organized a society for the far

It has also

ther investigation of these sciences, and from that time to this, the society nas continued its meetings regularly, which have been conducted in the following manner: They have been held two evenings of each week; one evening devoted to the examination of the heads of persons, invited by a committee appointed for that purpose, some one or more faculties of the mind, or some one of the temperaments, being selected for particular consideration each evening; and the other to the discussion of subjects immediately connected with, or influenced by, the teachings of Phrenology and Physiology. Believing, as most phrenologists do, that when the principles of these sciences shall become generally diffused, important changes or modifications will take place in education, in its most extended signification, they have deemed proper to give such discussions a prominent place in their exercises. Recently the society have commenced filling charts of character, which have given general satisfaction. taken the agency of the " Phrenological Journal," and the members exerted themselves to increase its circulation. Mr. Thos. T. Fisher has been appointed to transact the business of the agency, at whose store subscriptions are received. The society has now been in being for more than a year, and during that time has endeavored to give the subject of Phrenology an impartial, and so far as possible, a thorough investigation. The result has been, the complete confirmation of the truth and claims of the science. In every case examined, we have found the character written indelibly upon the organization. Observation and examination have forced upon us a conviction of the truth and practical importance of the science of Phrenology. May the day soon visit us, when a knowledge of this "divine" science shall pervade the world, shedding its benignant blessings alike on all.

A MEMBER.

NOTE.-Will correspondents who notice societies please give the NAMES OF OFFICERS? This society takes over one hundred copies of the Journal.

For the Phrenological Journal.

BR. EDITOR-Having just returned from a professional tour, I thought it would not be uninteresting to your readers to hear of the progress of the science of Phrenology in the country.

I commenced a course of lectures on Christmas night at Honesdale, Pa., where the sum of fifty dollars had been raised for six lectures; and although the weather, and some prejudices on the part of a few influential persons, were much against me, yet the lectures were well sustained, and many books were sold, and examinations made, besides receiving some forty subscribers to the Phrenological Journal. The friends of the science there are determined to sustain it in spite of all opposition. I am sorry to say that there are a few people there who, though they believe in Phrenology, are afraid of its tendencies, and thus refuse to give it their influence-a course entirely unphilosophical, not to say unchristian. Those, however, who attended the lectures considered themselves amply paid for all their trouble and sacrifice, although several of them went through snow, rain, and mud, from six to ten miles on foot and back again each night to hear them.

My next course was delivered the following week at Libertyville, ten miles north of Ithica, New York, where twenty-five of the leading men of the place pledged fifty dollars for the course. This company embraced both believers and skeptics.

They went to eight or ten dollars expense in publishing the lectures; and although the weather was very severe and unpleasant every night of the course, yet the house was crowded, and the majority came from one to four miles, there being no village in the place; and if energy, perseverance, and sacrifice of comfort, in exposures to the cold, and sitting, two hours and a half every night for seven nights in succession, on seats without any backs to them, are

favorable indications of good qualities for a wife, then there are about twenty in Libertyville who stand thus recommended. The interest increased until closed by a free lecture on Sabbath evening, on the moral nature, responsibility, and duty of man, given in a large Methodist church, which was full of listening and delighted hearers. I do not remember of having given a course of lectures so satisfactory to all parties as this. The skeptical were convinced or silenced. The receipts of the course more than paid all expenses, and the surplus, in accordance with the spirit which first actuated them in obtaining the lectures, was spent in Phrenological and Physiological books, which were made free to all the families of the twenty-five subscribers, and subscriptions were opened, so that others might share in the same privileges by paying twenty-five cents, to be appropriated to the purchase of more books. They thus bid fair to have a fine collection of choice and important books for general use. I left them eagerly embracing the opportunity to become members.

My third course was given in Winstead, Conn., where another fifty dollars had been pledged. The lectures here were well sustained, and the interest increased with the advancemeut of the course, and converts began to be multiplied, and some thirty subscribed for the Journal: also about the same number at Norfolk, an adjoining town, where I was invited to give a course, and where some who had been violently opposed to the science were persuaded to attend, and became firm believers. The most interesting lecture of the course in all these places, to men of all religions and creeds, was the one on the moral nature, duties, and responsibilities of man. This lecture appears to be liked equally well by all, regardless of their professions.

But one common result has grown out of these lectures, namely: those who attend the course through are forced to the conclusion, that their sense of moral obligation was increased, and that they had no right to indulge in many habits to which before they yielded without restraint. I refer more particularly to habits connected with the appetite, especially in the way of using tobacco-a most difficult habit to break off, yet many in every place, contrary to very strong power of habit, by appeals made to their moral sense and judgment, not only throw away their tobacco, but strenuously urged others to join them in signing the tobacco pledge which they had drawn up. The fact is, phrenological preaching is more appropriate and effectual than many suppose. L. N. FOWLER.

The following resolutions were passed at the close of L. N. Fowler's lectures in Winstead, Conn.

Inasmuch as the science of Phrenology, when rightly understood, tends to make men better and to improve the condition of mankind,-therefore

Resolved, That as a community, we tender our thanks to Mr. L. N. Fowler for his unremitted exertions in elucidating the principles of Phrenology, and rendering his lectures in this place both instructive and interesting.

Resolved, That in our opinion the SCIENTIFIC SERMON delivered by him on Sabbath evening is calculated to advance the cause of Christianity; to make men place a higher estimate on virtue and a virtuous life; to destroy sectarianism, in order that unanimity and harmony may prevail among the followers of Christ, and leave men to look from nature up to nature's God.

And, as your labors with us have closed, may the reflection that you have advanced the cause of humanity in Winstead be a source of encouragement and satisfaction to you in after life.

The above resolutions were passed in open meeting by a unanimous vote. WHEELOCK THAYER, Chairman of Committee. E. S. WOOLFORD, Clerk.

Winstead, Jan. 25, 1847.

THE ATTACK of the "Ladies' Repository" on Phrenology is on file for ex amination, and, if deserving, for review.