One custom is associated with Christmas and New Years, which deserves special commendation, and more general adoption-that of making PRESENTS. They are friendly tokens of perpetual remembrance, and thus serve powerfully to fan the fires of good feeling, and obviate dissension between all, givers and receivers, and through them, between their mutual friends. How much they could be made to cement every community in the bonds of conjugal, filial, parental, fraternal, and general affection, is limited only by the extent to which they are interchanged. Let them, then, be reciprocated a thousand-fold. And now we wish you, one and all, a HAPPY NEW YEAR;" and suiting the action to the word, we shall do our very best to render our wish effectual. We not only say, "BE ye warmed and filled," but shall also put forth our utmost endeavors to show you How to render this the happiest year of your whole lives, and to make every coming year more and still more happy, as life progresses.

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ARTICLE II.

THE TENTH VOLUME OF THE JOURNAL.

KNOWLEDGE is power-power to ACCOMPLISH and enjoy-and these are the sole ends of human existence. How incomparably have recent discoveries in science and the arts promoted success in every department of business, and enhanced the enjoyments of all classes, and in ways innumerable! Take the lucifer match, as a home example, among thousands far more promotive of comfort on a large scale, than this is on a small one. Estimated by their intrinsic worth, or the happiness imparted by their mere possession, or by the innumerable multiplication of every conceivable means of enjoyment to which they are capable of being applied, how vain, how valueless, the gold of Ophir, the honors and powers of kings, and all earthly possessions united, compared with a knowledge of NATURE and her laws; because, since all happiness consists in obeying these laws, and since a knowledge of them promotes their obedience, therefore such knowledge, in the exact ratio in which it is possessed, puts in our hands the only means of enjoying nature and ourselves, by pointing out the indispensable conditions of such enjoyment.

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Especially is a knowledge of OURSELVES power to enjoy and accomplish." To know beforehand just what we can do, and what not, would save us all that immense time and energy now wasted in attempting what we are inadequate to prosecute with success; and this would of course forestall that chagrin, disappointment, mortification, ill-temper, poverty, and premature death, now so often consequent on "bad luck," and failure in all departments of business. How happy are we rendered by the

full tide of prosperity, and how miserable by adversity! Now, a knowledge of ourselves and of nature would enable us to secure the former and avoid the latter, in the exact ratio of such knowledge. Why do the strong-minded and well-informed succeed so much better in life than fools and ignoramuses, but because the former KNOW the most? And the admitted fact that talents contribute so much and so universally to success, is only another application of that great law, KNOWLEDGE IS POWER."

How incalculably would a complete knowledge of physiology, or the conditions of health and causes of disease, contribute to personal and general enjoyment-negatively, by informing us just how to avoid the causes of diseases and premature death, those two greatest occasions of human wretchedness and agony, and of course all sickness and physical pain and positively, by showing us not only how to secure perfect health, and protract life to a "green old age," but also how to redouble every power of body and mind we possess, and of course all our capacities of enjoyment, from the cradle to the grave.! All this, besides that world of delight consequent on the study of the structure of the human body, its bones, muscles, nerves, organs, and functions, and the perfect adaptation of each to all, and of all to that most wonderful and sublime of all terrestrial manifestations-LIFE!

But, most of all, will a knowledge of the MIND promote our happiness. To know its respective faculties, and what exercise of them all harmonizes with their primitive constitution, and what departs therefrom, is to know good from evil, as well as what constitutes virtue and vice in all possible respects and circumstances, and of course furnishes a perfect rule for regulating all our feelings, actions, and intercourse with God and man. All this, in addition to that thrilling delight experienced by the mind in STUDYING ITSELF, its wonderful powers, its laws of action, and its relations to the body, the external world, and, above all, to its GOD. Verily, the value of knowledge is infinite!

But such knowledge must be ACQUIRED before it can be enjoyed, or its advantages secured. And such acquisition requires PERSONAL EFFORT of mind. Yet such effort is not a drudgery. On the contrary, nature has implanted in every living, intelligent being, hungerings and thirstings after knowledge, proportionate to the mentality of each individual subject. Say, reader, do you not feel within you an insatiable hankering after universal knowledge, and especially after SELF-knowledge? How often, while pursuing your various avocations, have you involuntarily exclaimed, "Oh, how I wish I only KNEW more! How I wish I had, while young, enjoyed the advantages for learning possessed by such and such, or those now proffered to children and youth, or even improved all I did possess. Would to God I could be young again; how studiously would I IMPROVE MY MIND.' Young man, young woman, testify, does not the

feeling pervade, and almost haunt you-"I OUGHT TO GO TO SCHOOL; I MUST study and read more?"

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Now, WHY these mental cravings, so intense, so universal? are implanted for precisely the same reason that hunger is. quires food as much as body, and these resistless hankerings after knowledge are implanted in every human being, in order to COMPEL that very acquisition of knowledge, as well as general exercise of mind, just shown to be every way so promotive of happiness; and their intensity bears an exact proportion, in each individual, to the native energy of his mind. MIND embodies the ultimate end for which every human being is created, and these insatiable mental cravings are incorporated into every mind, to secure that same FEEDING of the intellect which hunger secures to the body. And it is thus imperious, so as to render such feeding absolutely CERTAIN. And as bodily starvation prostrates body, so does the nongratification of this appetite for study enfeeble the mind. Reader, hast thou felt none of this appetite? Has it become weakened by age or business? Then thou hast proportionally starved and debilitated thy immortal, thy God-like principle. But feed it, and it will again revive; and oh, the increased enjoyment it will pour into every department of thy

nature.

"Hereafter I WILL study," I hear one and all exclaim. "My business MUST bend to my intellect; my mind SHALL take precedence over my body. What shall I study?"

NATURE, especially HUMAN nature, as taught by PHRENOLOGY, PHYSIOLOGY, and MAGNETISM -nature, as a WHOLE, not in isolated parts. Though composed of infinite ranges of celestial orbs, with all their appendages, together with our massive earth, and all its countless number and variety of individual things, yet they collectively constitute one stupendous whole, each grand department and every individual creature and thing forming so many connected links in this infinite chain of being, and each bearing the most intimate relation to all. Nor can any separate department, or species, or individual, be fully understood, unless studied in connection with these reciprocal relations, and a knowledge of any one part greatly facilitates the study of all the others.

A knowledge of nature consists solely in understanding her FACTS and LAWS, both of which possess a property of UNIVERSALITY, or infinitude. Thus, gravity governs the earth, and all within and upon it, animate and inanimate, as well as all the suns and worlds of infinite space, together with all their contents-governs universal matter. Those same general principles employed in the human structure, also obtain, slightly modified, to be sure, according to the habits of different species of animals, yet embodying a like general structure and principle of action, throughout every department of the animal kingdom; so that a knowledge of the Anatomy of man, or of any animal, greatly facilitates the acquisition of

that of all others. Nor does this correspondence end here. It equally pervades the vegetable kingdom, the leaves of which correspond with the lungs of animals, and have a like capillary structure, and the roots of which bear the same relation to plant and tree which blood-vessels do to animals, and are moreover endowed with the same capillary principle, in their fibrous structure. So, too, the laws of generation govern all seeds, all animals, all that propagates; so that any ascertained law of either may be safely predicated of all the others. In like manner, the study of chemistry borders closely both on agriculture and physiology. Nor can the former be successfully prosecuted, except in connection with both the others; nor either of these without all the others. The intimate relation borne by geology to agriculture, by chemistry to geol. ogy, by botany to both geology and chemistry, by mathematics to both. mechanics and all the other sciences, by anatomy to mechanics, by physiology to anatomy, and, in short, by every science, that is, by every department of nature, to all the others, individually and collectively, is thrust upon all who take any thing but a most restricted view of some one of them. Every conceivable law of nature is thus governed by this law of universality. Should they not, then, all be studied COLLECTIVELY? That is, instead of studying them, as now, apart from each other, should we not study them all together, as one great WHOLE, and that whole as nature? This principle, so eminently promotive of the acquisition of all knowledge, will be employed in conducting our Journal.

But, most of all, it will expound MAN, not in detached parts, but as a UNITY, and as he stands related to nature. The anatomist is content to demonstrate his corporeal organs, and there leaves him. Physiologists simply treat of the FUNCTIONS of these organs, and say as little as they well can of his anatomy, or mentality, or any thing else but his physiology. Neither pretend to give more than a mere glance at the mind, or especially at those laws of inter-relation with the anatomy and physiology, which alone can convert them to any decidedly practical use. And writers on mind, following this same isolating suit, say nothing whatever of anatomy, or physiology, or of those conditions of the body which so immensely increase or deaden, vitiate or purify, the mind. Yet in no way whatever can mind be studied, except in and by means of its ORGANIC relations; because in no other way is it manifested, or can we know any thing of it, or do any thing with it. Hence the barrenness and futility of their labors thus far. If we would investigate the human mind, we must study it in CONNECTION WITH, and as governed by, its physiological and anatomical laws. If mind and body were strangers to each other, we might understand them separately; but since the reciprocal relations between them are so PERFECT, we must study them correlatively. This UNITARIAN study of man-this study of his anatomy and physiology, as mutually dependent upon and governing each other, and of both as they

reciprocally affect the mind, as well as of the WHOLE man, in all his relations-will form the grand text of every number, the theme of every article, and the subject-matter of every sentiment of this volume. Hence the association of Phrenology, Physiology-one department of which embraces Physiognomy-and Magnetism, in our title-page. Phrenology, as expounding the faculties, phenomena, and laws of the human mind; Physiology, in connection with anatomy, as explaining the functions of the body, and teaching the laws and conditions of their healthy action; and Magnetism, as embodying the motive power of both body and mind, together with the phenomena and laws of the vital principle-which doubtless constitutes the grand agent or instrumentality of universal life— all must be studied COLLECTIVELY, if we would form any connected view of man as a whole, and this the Journal will endeavor to expound.

The analysis of the respective powers of our nature will, of course, furnish us with many important and wholesome moral suggestions and inferences, of all kinds, and relating to all sorts of subjects, which we shall make free to put forth. This exposition of the elements of humanity will lead us, and even require us, to censure all departures therefrom, and of course to reform whatever wrongs exist among men. Especially shall we apply all this vast range of subjects to human REFORM and PROGRESSION. Our heart's desire and prayer to God is, that man may be elevated from his present degraded and miserable condition to that exalted and most happy throne, which he was created to occupy, and which he is now putting forth such giant throes to attain. The Journal has already been harnessed into this progressive car, now just moving forward, and labor with might and main to carry it ONWARD and upward, and hence take full liberty to incorporate into it any and every thing in society, government, politics, general science, agriculture, mechanics, the arts, and the whole range of knowledge, capable of being applied to human weal. Its alpha and omega will be to show its readers HOW TO RENDER THEMSELVES AND OTHERS HAPPY by OBEYING NATURE'S LAWS.

In doing this, it of course will build on the foundations laid in former volumes, and carry out subjects there commenced. Each number will analyze the phrenological and physiological organization of one or more persons distinguished for something, and point out those organic conditions which cause their mental powers or peculiarities. This will TEACH THE SCIENCE in the most effectual manner possible. It will be exactly what amateurs require, and show them how to EXAMINE HEADS-the great teacher of Phrenology, after all. It will especially treat what has never before been more than incidentally mentioned in this Journal-the influence on character of the various COMBINATIONS of the faculties-this most difficult, yet most important department of phrenological science. The reader will also find, in subsequent articles on other subjects, practical illustrations both of the range of subjects it proposes to treat, and its manner of presenting them.