Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-05-09
THE AMERICAN PHRENOLOGICA1

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4 JOURNAL.-Vol. XVII, for 1853. de.
voted to Science, Literature, and General
Intelligence. Published by FowLERs &
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or 142 Washington street, Boston.
PHRENOLoGY, the science of MIND. in.
cludes in its wide domain knowledge of
all the faculties, passion and powers of the
human soul; all the bodily organism over
which the soul presides, with its structures
and functions; and all the realm of nature
to which man is related, and with which be
should live in harmony. 1t includes a
knowledge of man and his relation to God
and to the universe. 1t is thus a central
and comprehensive science, beginning with
the constitution of man, and ending with
all his possible relations, spiritual and ma
terial. 1t is thus that self knowledge is the
basis of all knowledge.
The Physiological Journal, therefore, has
a sphere that is universal All Philosophy.
all science, all art, all the details of pract,
cal life, are legitimate subjects of discussion
in its columns. The experience of twenty
years has not been lost to us nor, amid
the progress of this wonderful age, have We
idly Jagged behind. The Journal will ell
deavor to still be little in advance of tie
age, and of It's own former efforts.
Phrenology, the science which unfolds to
man the laws of his own Physical, Moral
and Intellectual Being, will still command
our first attention; all other subjects being,
in fact. but applications and illustrations Of
the principles of this science We shall
| illustrate the varieties of cerebral devotion
M nd
| striking specimens Of Human Nature. in
It's highest and lowest, its harmonious and
| discordant, lis symmetrical and grotesuue
developments.
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may know in what pursuit he would be
most likely to succeed.
The Mechanic, the Farmer. the Profes-
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