Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-12-30
THE INTELLIGENCER
PROF. row LER5s I.ECTITl37Is
e.- TUESDAY pyrS1SG
raspOrted ior the wheeling Daily Iutelligepeerl

tasported Tor the Wheeling Daily Iutelllgeneer.l
Mk FowLEs's lecture Tuesday evening was
we'll attended, though not as.weil as that Of the
previous evening. But the audience was more
select If not SO numerous, consisting ofthose
who went, not for mere curiosity, but instruc-
ion. The refinement andintelIigence of Wheel.
ing were well represented at Washington Hall
Tuesday night.
The lecturer began BY ysremarking, that admit.
ting Phrenology o.be true; admitting that the
workings and powers Of the mind can be deter.
mined by the cranium, and that all the differ.
ent faculties of the mind have their 'narticuIar
spheres of action, there must be avery great
variety OF character. Ii must not be supposed
that the Creator, in making man, necessarily in.
tended 10 make n blacksmith out of one man nr
a painter OF another, or a poet of another. But
when We l1lly understand the powers of the hu-
Ihan tnlnd, Win all its varieties, when we un-
aerSlana all the relations of the different facu
ties OF the mind; when we understand all The
duties that man is called upon to discharge and
all the places he should fill then we NAV mn
derstand our Creators design in making man.
But man is not perfect, consequently all men
cannot do all things equally well. We arc but
partially developed; there are no perfect speci-
mems. There is no perfect harmony In the
mental and physical machinery of man. Man
Is struggling into manhood just as the earth is
4, crude and Imperfect object compared with
what 1t Will be when perfectly deyeloped.-
When we have an older world when the time
ceases that there shall be eruptions and volca.
noes, and excesses of various kinds when ali the
elements produce a perfect food for man, then
we snail look fora perfection of physical devel-
OpmeRt RI
We need to begin away back in presenting
thIs subject, We need TO begin with parents in
parenting, feeding, and educating their children
We should begin TO have correct systems OF edu-
Gallon SO as TO nurture all the elements OF our
nature. will speak ofthe education of chill
dren. Many persons are anxious merely with
reference 10 their children. They want their
children properly educated, but they do not
know how TO doit They send them 10 school.
and pay the schooling, and the child in getting
a schooling docs itself just as much harm as
good. Many young man has gone to school
and got2n education that he cannot do anything
with. We ought not 10 have systems of edu.
cation that require the constitutions Of our
children to get them. We ought not to have
schools that take from one part and give to an
other. a young lady or young man can 20
home with bloom and health, and should 90 home
WIN The same father comes 10 me with
little boy and says, "Can you tell me how can
get my boy TO study faster?" Said "He studies
loo last already.'' Said he, 'sThere is another
boy In the school where he goes, thatis about
as smart as heis, and do not wish 10 haye5mv
BOY behind him in The school," This is the
story OF thousands Of parents They are urging
their children to keep at the head of tile school.
In doing SO they are ruinng the health and con-
stitntionS OF those children Each child needs
10 be educated according TO his capacities. Birds
oil the largest wings fly easiest.
The lecturer then proceeded to exhibit, nv
way OF illustration, various skulls, remarIins
as le passed, uRon the variety Of capacities and
dispositions indicated and The different treat
uent required TO effect the same object.
Some parents do not know why their children
die. Once in a school in Boston, lie asked to
see the Smartcst boys in the school. The pre-.
cePtTeSS regretted exceedingly that the three
ulost promising hadcf short time before
Not long before two of those three died of brain
fever, and the other of scarlet fever. WHY did
they die? Because they studied so hard. Some
people have an idea that God wants all good
children in Heaven. No he does not; he wants
them in this world It's not good idea TO
think thatit.is religious thought to want to
die andgo TO glory. True religion isito want to
live just as longiaS God will let US live
Inc lecturer exhibited great many portraits,
some OF distinguished persons, to illustrate fully
the idea Of adiver,ity of talents, aud the effects
OF that diversity upon the expression of face
and the form of the head, aud the peculihrilies
oil treatment demanded by tine peculiaTities of
human nature. In the course of these remarks
he Said:,
There is no full development of the mind
without development of the body. There is
no great vigor of the mind without a. vigorous
action of tho body. You never saw a great
man, who continued 10. sustain himself but he
was man who labored bodily The idea Of
sending children.to school to use The brain all
the time and the body none, is suicide
The young man going 10 school to study
without taking physical exercise is disqualify-
ing more than he is qualifying himself for his
profession. Many men and women scarcely
work at ALL Some, are above working-wodld
think themselves disgraced if they worked
There are probably two or three in the entire
Southern States Laughter. They would not
soil their hands for anything. Tiny dressf so
nice, and they cannot work with such dress
on. Besides they hire girls to work, while they
are 'lndios." What does such lady amount
to? She amounts to adresc& up. tAiagI She
cannot do anything; shcsCannot make her mark
in the world. IL Thought | was hitting any.
body I7would not say anything. CLaughter, and
some blushing among the ladies St Paul
worked and st Paul preached. He created a
sensation all the country over; he uihde noise;
he stirred up the people. DE wrought with his
hnnds and made tents; he was also a carpenter.
Did not our Saviour learn trade? He was not
above work Ifyon want TO be anything you
must work. Keep the blood in exercise: Esep