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EXPLANATION OF THE TABLE.

To render this work practically applicable to individual cases, and also to enable every one to refer to those pages of the work which contain specific directions for enlarging or diminishing those organs which he requires to enlarge or diminish, the author has added the following table; the first 3, and the 12 upper rows of figures, refer to the pages of this work; the balance, to the pages of Fowler's Phrenology. This table is arranged so as to record and present the RELATIVE SIZE of every organ, and also to indicate what organs require improvement and restraint, all at one view. The first column of figures refers to those pages of this work where the organs are analyzed or described; the second, to those pages where the means of increasing them are pointed out; and the third, to the means of restraining them. The columns headed Average, Full, Large, Very Large, Moderate, Small, and Very Small, are designed to indicate the relative size of each organ, in a scale of written figures, ranging from 1 to 7; figure 1 signifying Very Small; 2, Small; 3, Moderate; 4, Average; 5, Full; 6, Large; and 7, Very Large. Thus, if Combativeness be large, figure 6, which signifies large, will be written opposite to Combativeness, in the column headed large, and the 75 in the same square refers to page 75 of Fowler's Phrenology, where will be found a full description of this organ and its combinations, without a knowledge of which no correct estimate of character can be formed. Dots or dashes will sometimes be used, placed in the squares, instead of these written figures. The figures opposite the Temperaments, Size of Brain, and Activity, as far down as the Domestic Propensities, refer exclusively to this work. The sign + plus before a figure, signifies more, or that the organ is a little larger than the figure represents; the sign minus, or less. A dot, dash, &c., placed in the squares opposite any organ in the second column, signify that it is too small, and should be cultivated; the curved dash placed in the squares opposite an organ in the third column, signifies too large, and should be restrained, watched, governed, guarded, or directed. The figures after Individuality, No. 24, refer to the second volume of this work, on the Intellectual Organs, Memory, &c. By using figures for one person, dots for another, a horizontal dash for another, a perpendicular one for another, and other signs for others, the developments of a whole family may be entered upon one work-thus greatly enhancing its value.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

serving it; the heart and lungs ; digestion; bad breath;
souring, or decay of food, in the stomach; disordered
digestion morbidly excites the brain and nerves; func
tions of the skin; colds; their causes and effects;
inhalation; exercise; it promotes circulation, by car-
rying the blood back to the heart; proportionate action
of all the animal functions; much food, little exercise,
&c.; amount of muscular effort required; do. attain-
able; Turkish porters; the Chinese; riding. All great
men were brought up to labor; Adam Clarke, Shak-
speare: Wesley; Clay; Bascom; Scott; Byron ;
Webster; physical education of children; youthful
precocity and backwardness contrasted; early piety;
patting children to trades, school, &c., young; exces-
ive labor; keeping children back; means of preserv

ing this balance of function; improving the lungs ;

how to avoid consumption; improving the muscles;

Romans; Hottentots; circuses; effeminacy; means of

increasing and diminishing mental action; diverting

the circulation; habits of society unfavorable; giving

children strong constitutions first.

SECTION IV.-Influence of the body on the base of the brain,

or the conditions of the body as affecting the propensities.—

Proof; location of the animal organs; the nature of

their function; classes of facts; children cross when

sick; dyspeptics; dying persons; facts; effects of age;

growth of brain from first to last is upward and for-

ward; memory in children, old people, and the sick;

hunger excites anger; the laboring classes the most

Virtuous; explained by this principle; effects of alco-

hole drinks harmonize with it; they excite amative-

ness, combativeness, destructiveness, adhesiveness,

pride, ambition, language, &c., and in a vicious way,

rather than the moral sentiments and intellect; re-

versal of this principle produced by the reaction of

huor; hence inebriates are wanting in love of family,

courage, appetite, economy, reason, ambition, &c.;

inference; reforms must begin with the physiology;

sin often caused by disease.

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CHAPTER II.

PERFECTION OF CHARACTER; ITS CONSTITUENTS, AND HOW TO ATTAIN IT.

SECTION 1.-Balance of power; or the proportionate action

of all the parts. An even head; evils of predominant

propensities; deficient do. ; do. of the other classes of

faculties: evils of predominant or deficient Amative.

ness, Philoprogenitiveness, Combativeness, Aliment-

iveness, Acquisitiveness, Cautiousness, Self-Esteem,

Firmness, Ideality, &c.; Sectarianism, caused, ac-

counted for, and cured by this principle; varieties in

opinion, judgment, &c.; do. language, reasoning or-

gans; application of this principle to various com-

binations of the organs greatly increases its power and

importance.

SECTION II.How to increase the Organs.-Its possibility;

its importance; its proof; growth of the head as a

whole; every physical organ enlarged by exercise;

illustrations; exercise of organs renders the skull

above them thin; facts drawn from skulls; casts taken

at different periods; Rev. John Pierpont, Oldham ;

Durll's cabinet; Hanshell (with a cut); Franklin, (with

a cut); Buonaparte; different occupations; farmers,

mechanics, operatives; inhabitiveness; diminished by

moving; New York ladies; veneration increased and

diminished; two evils; eventuality in Jews; children

of the rich; soldiers; other proofs; Mahon; the facul-

ties capable of improvement; importance of this prin-

ciple, especially to parents; the action of the faculties

the only meens of enlarging them; this promoted by

placing their natural stimulant before them, not by

substitution.

SECTION II. (Another erratum for Section 3.)-Applica-

tion of these principles to self-improvement.)-First ascer-

tain wherein the faculties are defective or excessive;

how to restore balance of temperament; directions to

slim, precocious children; do. to those who are sharp-

featured; do. fleshy; application of this principle to

the mental faculties; self-knowledge; its value, and

how to obtain it; the study of phrenology; phreno-

logical examinations; phrenology tells people their

faults, and how to remedy them; examining the heads

of children; requisition for a distinct profession of

physiologists and phrenologists.

SECTION III.-Ascendancy of the moral sentiments and intel-
lect, and proper direction of all the faculties.-Appetite,
combativeness, acquisitiveness, parental love, friend-
ship, approbativeness, cautiousness, and each of the
propensities, exercised under the dominion of the
higher faculties, give pleasure-not thus controlled,
pain; means of subduing the propensities; cause of
much of man's sinfulness is a disordered body; its
cure; physical health; the use of tea, coffee, tobacco,
&c., stimulate the propensities; directing the faculties.
upon their legitimate objects; the inflammation of the
organs perverts their faculties; harmonious action of
the faculties; the warring of the faculties-as of love

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