Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-04-28

for sweet, another for sour, third for
bitter, and the like. Again, they found
skulls of persons whose actions and
characters throughout life, were full and
positive contradiction of the chronological
indications of their heads. Thus, some re-
markable skulls, in the chronological muse
UNI of the University of Edinburg, are, on
the principles of the phrenologists them
selves, entirely opposed to their doctrines.
OF these, among many, the skulls of Burke
and Pope, who were the foulest and most
noted murderers known to the annals of
crime, and Haggerty, who was celebrated
thief, may be cited as noted examples-the
two former with destructiveness small, and
the latter with acquisitiveness small.
After all this and the lapse of forty years,
TO see the old manipulation of bumps, like
some old ghost haunting the scenes of it's
owners past labors, again return, and again
perform the same old farcial humbuggery,
naturally excites one to inquire, what change
in nature has occurred that has made the re-
vival of Fowler and phrenology again posi-
sible? Has the thwacks and thumps of the
war raised new bumps of combativeness, on
sore heads and bloody-shirted people, like
Blaine and Butler? Has the "credit Mobi-
lier'' and savings banks and insurance compa-
MES and public and private stealing generally,
so affected and depressed the bumps of &C
quisitiveness that chronological search for
it is now necessary? What has Beecher,
Bob Ingersoll, or the devil, been doing with
the cranial developments of the human moral
faculties, that has opened a new field for
Fowler to investigate?
However interesting and profitable such
inquiries may be, we must forego the pleas
ure, and return to our first proposition, to
point out some of the positive evils of Mr..
Fowler's teachings. That he does influence
the popular mind is evidenced by the large
audiences that attended his lectures, and the
fact that most of those so attending were of
the classes who would the most readily i'm
bibe and act upon or be influenced by his
suggestions. To these people, among good
deal of very proper and wholesome talk,
Mr.. Fowler injected some remarks and sug-
gestions about marriage and the education
of children, that may be regarded as ex-
tremely pernicious.
Thus as to marriage, he tries to inculcate
the idea that there can be and is no genuine
happiness, or desirable object in life, outside
of matrimony. Well, now, if we examine
the court records and mark the number of
divorces, it will appear that however desi-
rable it may be to rush into matrimony, like
flies rushing into candle, great many find
it equally as desirable to rush out again, like
the same flies after their wings are scorched
But, says Fowler, there's the rule; you mar
~ without having key to your intended's
character and peculiarities beforehand; you
must feel of her bumps, and know phre.
nologically all about her, before you take bel
for better, for worse. Well, we would like
to see couple, who are contemplating mat
rimony, deliberately go to clapper clawine
each others heads, to determine whether
they should proceed to an engage
ment. Catch girl, with all he
wealth of false hair and artificial jute
letting the fellow she means to marry feel O
her bumps, as though he suspected tn,
'1ump of sugar. he holds in his arms
to be only sort of sugar coated angel
None of them would allow it, although, afte
matrimony, it is not unusual for the dea
creatures themselves to feel of their hus
bands head with broom stick or rol]in,
pin,
Then as to the education of children
Here Mr.. Fowler sows tares, broadcast, will
a lavish hand. He finds the doting parent
of q little boy with big, chuckle-head an,
broom stick legs, and he at once pronounce
the urchin to be an ''infant prodigy Put
ting on an amazed look of profound admira
ton. he tells the delighted and confidin
parents that they are unconsciously pos
sessed of an intellectual treasure; that stand
ing before them is an embryotic statesman
genius, orator and great leader of his fello,
men! but that in order that all these predit
tons shall be fulfilled, they must never Il
this 'imp of fame see the inside of schoe
house until he is at least sixteen years {
age! Forgetting the attenuated limbs {
Carl Schurz and many other slim statesme,
Fowler tells these foolish folks that their boy
head must not have an A., B or G in it, unit
his legs are made to grow thick enough
steadily bear the weight of his intellect.
Now if the parehts act upon this nonsensi'
al advice, what will be the result? Why tt
parents, by their foolish indulgence Of the
pet, will soon introduce into their family
source of jealousy and hatred as bitter as tn
between Cain and Abel; which, perhaps, Wi
brought about by the devil or some 9TH
phrenologist teaching some such education
doctrine as this of Fowler's. The parent
by their constant harping upon the smar
ness and intellectual expectations of the
infant prodigy, will, also, become themselv
the laughing stock of their neighborhoo
while the boy will become living nuisan'
to all the country around. Long before
arrives at the age of sixteen, MIR. Fowler
; pet period for smart children to begin the
race up the steep hill of science by enteri1
a primary school, our prodigy may have bet
forced into a reform school, and by the tin
! he might have graduated at some college,
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