The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-01-28
MORE Oh PHRENoLooY.
1t Can Mover Re Made simple Enough Fol
school study.

FRIENDS OF TIE II. L. C.-"Mark," as
YOU have possibly noticed. replied to my
question In regard TO the advisability OF
teaching phrenology in the schooi-room
IN a courteous. argumentative and be-
Bitching manner.
He, must say, almost forced me to ac-
cept the theory by his conclusive reason
ing; by his seemingly justified argument
In reducing his science to simplicity; and
rs a climax, by using his intellectual
iGculties-the requisites OF which are in
tellect, activity and vital expenditure-in
frescoipg, as it were. bis theory of phren-
illogical observations or science. "NIark,"
truly You know how to talk. You have
the necessary bumps required in COM
bativeness and argumenIatiyeness.
When man who is finite In his power,
so lar as the comprehension Of infinite is
concerned, attempts 70 investigate false
hypothesis he will arrive at questioned
conclusion; but when he starts out with a
true supposition he arrives at true con-
clusiOn, unless he makes an uni ust com
parlson. To show how this may be done,
I viii give an Illustration:
A man is an animal. 4 horse is an ami
NAL Therefore a man is horse. which
Is an incorrect sylogism. The same Is true
OF any problem or hypothesis. This state
Inent, / think, cannot be denied and
taking this for granted, I will proceed to
investigate the science OF phreDOlOgy, or
the human faculties as displayed by
means OF bumps upOh the human Uranium
When God, in His infinite wisdom, ere
ated this earth with its myriads of sub
lime and hidden mysteries, among these
He created man, Adam, as the image of
Himself He made him out OF the clay
that composed mother earth-a statute, If
you Dease-and breathed into his nos
triis the breath of lie. Life The result
of Reorganization. This may sound very
peculiar, but MOlschOot says that life Is
the result of disOrganization, because an
atom that is organized has performed every
function for which it was created; is per
feet and can never reach higher point OF
perfection until II becomes dIsOrganized to
mingle with other atoms and by cateieplic
action change their forms without itself
changing.
The lie that God breatbed into Adam
was, as We hold, the human soul, the I'M
dying part OF man, the spirit, the mind.
Do mean TO use these terms-sOul, spirit,
mind-synOnymOus y? Yes, a. here
spoken Of, but not in all cases. There is a
distinction between them, but il is SO
slight that l make no difference, as used
above. Now, this lie, soul, spirit or mind
Is, as we know, a something that is out
side the realms OF our power to cOmpre-
bend Is beyond the research of philoso-
ply. And we try to comprehend what
mind is, we 90 beyond our capabilities
into mere cOnjectures. But still, through
the nature OF mind we are able to Judge OF
It's cOncOmitant essentialities: the rela-
ton that 1t sustains to the outward world
and Its principal characteristics.
We do not know what mind is, but we
know OF its nature and of some OF the pc
cuIiarities of its existence. Men have
tried long and hard TO find out if possible
an exact and complete exposition of mind.
They have begun with the small particle
pr0t0plGSn and studied its rudinentary
structure to try and find out the life-prin-
ciple OF its existence; they have gone
through the whole chain of life's recipro
Gals and watched the natural order of de-
velODment Of both the psychical and
physical conditions of each kingdom and
ordcr in or,ier to obtain some idea as to
the chief essentially of the soul, or in
stinct as termed IL beasts; and they have
tried experiment after experiment upon
the nervous system of both man and
beast and as yet. they are left in dire
Oblivion If ever they knew.
Men have inves igated with all the
power they could summon, the planetary
system they have thought over the ne
bule hypothesis; and they have scanned
with doleful eve the future possibilities
but have never learned the nature of God
They have OOked into the vegetable king.
dom and found Him not, so far as Hi:
nature ID concerned.
Flower of the orannied wall,
Iluek you out OF the erannIes;
Hold you mere. ard all in my hand
Littie dOEer if 4 could but understand,
what you e, root aud all and ali in Al,
should know what God and man is"
You have all heard of the watch argu-
ment, which aIav be briefly stated:
traveller finds watch, and on examina
ton Of its mechanism, notes abundance
evidence OF design which induce him tC
believe that the watch did not come BY
chance, but had a designer and maker
Next, the anatomist and physiO ogist ex.
anime the body of the matchmaker, and
on careful inspection. find it to be more
wonderful than the watch, wherefore,
they find il must have been designed and
manufactured, so to speak, by an artificel
possessed of superhuman knowledge and
power The theolOgian now takes up the
clue, and finds that this Great Designer
lives somewhere behind nature; but this
Is as far as we can trace and account fol
His existence.
In the foregoing remarks | have tried
tOshow you that God, with all His crea-
ton, is a growing complexity that be
comes more so as we ascend the scale
that reaches his likeness. Now, phren
olOgy has 10 do with the mind of man
and as man is the imsge OF God, he is
complex. Hence. we bod that phrenolo
gy can never be simplided so that the
common-school boy or girl can ever de
rive any practical benefit from study
thereof So lar as its being compared
with physiology, We think it is hardly /: