The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-03-25

III Messrs. A.. =. PuaH' 4 Co., of Hamp
8 shire, received II the ,Columbia Depo
last Tuesday ! large boiler and stear
engine, and carried them to Hacpshirs
for the purpose Of starting 9 large an
II extensive Touring and ginning estah
Z lishment. They have bad two sets O
cotton gins all the time, but they wer
run by horse power. ihoa i ale
Hampshire Is to haves lawyer, II. II
: Nixon, commonly called ''shug."
esssrs at he Athe.aeum.
! ProE 4. n. PATTERSON President O
the Hartsville Female College, has beer
. for some time past visiting the variou,
female institutions Of the land, with 9
81 view Of benedtting by any superiority
, observed in them. Last week he visited
the Atheueun. and inspected its domes-
tic arrangement as closely as its scholas-
tic departments. On Sunday afternoon
he met the Athep@um family in the
Study Hall, and in the course Of his re-
marks said the Atheua UNI was far supe-
rior to any he had seen, in all its APP
pointments. On Monday evening we
were kindly notified that Prof. PATTER-
son would delivers lecture in the Athe-
n@um Hall at o'clock. The pupils,
numbering:about 14gor 15O, made their
appearance in the Hall in manner cal
culated to captivate the spectator. The
little girls came first, and no well drilled
troops could have surpassed them in
keeping time to the music, lin the pre-
cision of their "well dressed' lines, in
the promptitude with which they "closed
in masse", and the skin with which their
voices were tremendously blended in
singing .sHeautiful Bells.'' y
After listening to some splendid music,
We were agreeably entertained about y
of an hour by a discourse upon " Natural
Philosophy, in connection with intellec-
tual." Chronology. Having defined
philosophy as knowledge, he said he
would direct the attention of the young
ladies to that branch of Natural and In
tellectual Philosophy denominated Phre-
nology. After stating that Metaphysics
was one of the most complicated of sci
ences as well as the most inconsistent in
its different theories, that no two philos-
ophers agreed upon the principles ofmen-
tai action, and that this was one of the
most important Of all studies. He said
that most fortunately, or that it was by
divine providence ordained that great
secret should at last be discovered by a
school boy, who noticed that certain |
classmate who had large eyes excelled in |
the study of the languages, and having !
his attention thus enlisted he began the
study which has been developed into a |
science, and DIR. GALL thus founded Phre-
rology and made clear what had hitherto |
been comparatively obscure. He said
that he wished to be distinctly under |
stood that he did not hold that the brain |
and mind were identical, but that the
brain was the organ of the mind, that the
body and soul were by mystic bonds
joined together, how, even the most
learned could not tell, yet it was true
nevertheless. He then gave the outlines
Of Phrenology, explaining wherein it
differed from Metaphysics, viz, that
Metaphysicians hold that the brain is all
one organ, while Phrenologists assert
that there are separate and distinct Or
gans for different purposes, that these
sons, thus accounting for the difference
in the strength as well as in the ca tie of
the minds. Insome the capacity Of learn
ing languages, in others that of music,
while some little girls could dress dolls
better than others, thus displaying
greater mechanical skill. That animals
had this same mechanical capacity, the
bee in forming the honey cell, the bird
in making nests, the beaver in cutting
timber aud constructing dams, etc. He
held tn the soft brain in the Uranium
would make developments OH the sur
face of the skull, and by this means
Phrenology was invented. That if the
skull bone was removed the brain would
be found to be the same shape as the
surface. Consequently, PhrenOloyists
could tell the dispositions of men as well
as those acquainted with their private
character. He then gave the three grand
divisions of Phrenology, viz: Physical,
mental and moral, and referred to exam
pies in h = Dry 10 prove its truth, viz,
CLAY, " .ssTER, LUTHER and others:
and main med that from examining
their it would be seen that
was correct and Metaphysics
one grand mistake. That be was able
to tell the different traits Of the lit
tie boy (whom he had called up previ-
ously to examine his head and expound
his doctrine) as well as any of the teach
ers who were well acquainted with him.
The teachers having called upon him to
rccite them, he remarked that he was
good little boy and if he had any bad
traits he would not tell them (which
does not exactly make out his philosophy
a humbug, but ''wOa hossy,") There ex-
listed in man reason, in contradistinction
to the lower intellectual capacities pos
sessed by beasts but more highly devel-
oped in man, viz, mechanism and the
faculty of retention possessed by most
good business men, THAT of collecting
great experimental knowledge also in
stinctive fear of dangerous objects, the
fear which brutes entertain,,for man, being
simply the predominence OF intellectual
i'm man. The Physical is
in the back of the head, moral
on the top, the mental in front, and semi
Intellectual at the lower part of the front.
That the development Of the head is gen.
orally in proportion to the rest of the DO
dy, and although one head might be
larger than another, that person may
not be brighter or deeper than another.
But the true test was to take the whole
physical developement into considera-
ton. there again ''woa hossy."J He said
he could lecture until sunset and not ex-
haust half of the subject, but had only
given the general outlines and if he had
succeeded in teaching single girl to bet
ter govern herself he would consider the
hour most profitably spent.
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