The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1855-02-17

! liViIs--lt GOES not pretend 10 say what the
essence Of mind or matter IS That is
knowa only 10 The God who made us.
/ It's held then that as We cannot see with.
out the organ of sight, or hear without the
organ Of hearing, so there is no thinking or
iccirG without Ihcir respective organs in the
| brain The perfection of the mind viii have
relation to the perfection Of the organs and
their proper development, Hence aii stUd-
/ les of the mind which cslhcw from their
/ systoIa the brain, 20 for n0thing-;hov VIZ
believe incorrect and not to be relied up
on. They may be deep metaphysical gtsss1s,
/ that's all, and VIC hold that phronoloey
! presents the first practical mental philosophy
known 20 man.
An organ in the human system never per
forms two functions. The eye docs not hear
or the ear seethe tongue smell or the
lungs digest food. Therefore by analogy sc
hold that every separate faculty Of the mind
'"s N Ibs. .Arajp n q sonrerlss sf
orgsIF' each Ia Itself separate, Yet hlf, ,lttfiig
asa AIple in beautiful harmony that the
/ diHcent parts represent some distinct fanc-
ton Of mind, may be proved aud IL dis,inct-
! ly,. apd, TO a candid inquirinG mind, unds.
/ putcdiy proved by iuducti,e philosophy. It
/ is by 10 mere guess work system that the
advocates Of plrenoiogy have brought the
science TO the point it now is II is by no
/ IFS, aud may-bcs, and perhaps, that this Sci
| cnue stands upon. Ii was by years Of pa.
/ tent study 1t was by observation Of ,hu
closest kind # Was by visiting schools and
uniyers..ic5, villages, cities, and countries -
| by comparing the skull of the murderer
with The benevolent and kind-tho man Of a
| british nature with a man Of an Intellectual
and moral cast--the head Of the natural thief
with the head o! the thoroughly honest the
head Of the Anglo Saxon compared with the
/ head of the lI,nloo OF the Now llolandcr--
the Head Of a man such as Brush, low,
grUyeline, selfish, and uncultyatcd man,
I with the head Of Philip Melantbon-Tu'ks
and Christians, Greeks and barbarians-Ja-
pancse and North American lndians--thc Is
quimnux from Greenland, and the AZ
Africans from the tropics. Tho whole world
has Been ransackcd, aud so far as an
aware, not one single solitary instance has
yet been found to disproye the science Of
phrenology.
If one single instance can be produced Of
n fuh grown human head measuring lSl
inches, having sane mind dwelling in II,
you ON overthrow the science. If you can
bringAn instance Of a hi.hly gifted, inteili-
gent Christian having very small develop.
mcnto Of the moral organs and a large devcl-
opmept Of the pOstcriOr, that will likewise
disproye the science. We court inquiry
| God lp0ws we have no object but our own
improvement and the good Of our fellow man
in stxlying these things, and tomorrow
will sSe ns stop, il we tud a contradiction to
the sjknce. True, mistakes may have been
inadc y the proper name, or proper location
Of s0te Of the organs, and no phrrrologist
says d, science is perfect. What science is?
L. theology perfect? Alas no. True theol.
ogy 10y be, but The Theologans are not
. The ID for the cure ofdisea-es may be very
perf,cs but our physicians may be very IN
perfect
/ Science is perfect, for the author is per.
I feet but the students notions and actions in
regard to it, are often very very imperfect,
: b6Jau Z ne Ts Ir1T TuTfrrt.
Fs1AcsoFy is perfect, we believe. but
/ phrcnologists are very imperfect. If you
throw il overheard because mistakes occur,
then you must throw ministers ana physi.
clans after it, for they, as wcliss We, honest
| ly admit that they are far from being per-
feet. In fine, ifyou are resolved to believe
no science unless the teacher i ucrl;.ct in +,
yon y,ill bayn ,o .,icrc, ~ L,rcy
We hold them a fact which has been de
uo,str,,cd tbat The Lr,ip il the ore,nnt tho
mind.
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,oins rho moral scptincnt. andthe nosterior
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il smaller and therefore weaker tLan AN
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,nin,,,;,o On tho s,,Iic,t NJ ,hr.roIo,v Srr
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