MEMOIR OF SPURZHEIM.

'New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason, but because they are not already common; but Tiuth, like gold, is not the less so for being newly brought out of the mine.'

LOCKE.

The harmony of a science, supporting each part the other, is, and ought to be, the true and brief confutation and suppression of all the smaller sort of objections.' LORD BACON.

'The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it; and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it -are the sovereign good of human nature.

6 Certainly it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.'

LORD BACON.

OF THE

LIFE AND PHILOSOPHY

OF

SPURZHEIM.

BY

ANDREW CARMICHAEL, M. R. I. A.

LATE PRESIDENT OF THE PHRENOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF DUBLIN; AND
PUBLISHED AT THE DESIRE OF THAT SOCIETY.

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION,

WITH NOTES.

'Friend of Man-of God the Servant;
Advocate of truths divine;

Nature's Priest-how pure and fervent

Was thy worship at her shrine !'

Rev. Mr. Pierpont's Ode at the Funeral of
Spurzheim. Nov. 17, 1832.

BOSTON:

published BY MARSH, CAPEN & LYON,

AND LILLY, WAIT & CO.

1833.

Phrenologists are much indebted to Mr. Carmichael for this valuable contribution towards a full biography of Dr. Spurzheim. A fine spirit of devotion to the cause of calumniated merit, and of affection for the man, pervades every page of it; and it is impossible not to love and admire the author, in perusing the glowing and beautiful effusions of lofty feeling with which his work abounds. Edinburgh Phren. Journal.

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