This faculty should of course be cultivated in children. In them, this organ is usually large, and faculty active, and hence their fondness for hammers, nails, knives, and tools. This tool-using propensity should be indulged, and they encouraged to make and use kites, wind-mills, milldams, water-wheels, bows and arrows, cross-guns, miniature sleds, boats, railroads, steam-engines, etc. Instead of this, when boys draw pictures on slates, in place of ciphering, they are scolded or chastised. LET DRAWING BE ENCOURAGED. I would give a handsome proportion of all I am worth to be able to draw accurately, so that I could sketch and draw, exactly to suit me, such phrenological heads and illustrations as I often meet in real life; whereas, now, I am compelled to obtain but few, and then to trust to artists who do not understand Phrenology.* Furnish children with tools. Let them have knives, and be encouraged to whittle, carve, make sleds, wagons, etc., and even have a shop of their own, supplied with tools with which to tinker. And this is doubly important to those who are delicate, as a means of strengthening their muscles, drawing the blood and energies from their heads to their muscles, and equalizing their circulation.

Whenever this faculty encroaches unduly on our time or other duties, it should not be indulged. Many have spent their all in fruitless endeavors to invent perpetual motion, and many others rendered themselves wretched by spending time and money on inventions which never amount to any thing. Large Hope combined with large Constructiveness still farther enhances the evil, by promising great success without any solid foundation.

But the most important direction, after all, is never to make any thing not useful. All the Deity makes is beneficial; and all we make should subserve an excellent purpose, else it is not worth making.

ARTICLE VI.

WOMAN: HER CHARACTER, SPHERE, TALEnts, influence, and CONSEQUENT DUTIES, EDUCATION, AND IMPROVEMENT. BY A WOMAN.

Is woman in her true position at the fulcrum of the grand lever of human improvement and destiny? What answer does Phrenology make to this question? Constituted as she is by nature with vivid perceptions of right, and fervent aspirings after good, it is a query well worth consideration, in this new era of our race, whether she is really in her placeneither timidly in the rear, nor boldly prominent-but at the side of man, encouraging him to new investigations, higher attainments, and deeper researches after truth.

Time was, when woman turned her wheel, plied her needle, sung her lullaby, and her task was done; and in the faithful discharge of those

The importance of combining a knowledge of Phrenology with the arts, especially with portrait painting and engraving, is very great, and too apparent to require com ment. In a few years every artist must be a phrenologist.

duties she found her happiness and reward. Time is, when her intellectual powers require to be called forth, and inanity on her part is as fatal to the elevation of the race as to her own advancement. Light breaks in from every quarter, through various media, and while man revels in its beams, shall woman, his heaven-appointed help-mate, grope in darkness, or fritter away her precious moments, her noble powers, in those vain pursuits, whose beginning and end are folly? Surely not. Rather let her effeminate mind so expand, that she may receive from his understanding, reflect his strength, and turn to use all presented truth, so that, in due time, she may be the medium of the same realities, bathed in softer light, and clothed with rarer beauty.

No subject has yet come up before the mind, so wholly absorbing in its nature, as Practical Phrenology, combined with Physiology, as it must ever be, to give a completeness in its adaptation to the wants and best interests of humanity. Wherever woman may be placed-by whatever circumstances she may be surrounded—there is ever in her lot a necessity for support, beyond external influences; and the daily occurrences of life, which cause her keenly to feel her own delinquencies or deformities of character, are but so many incentives to seek the aid this science may afford. Here she may gather for her own daily use new and interesting facts, which shall strengthen her for every duty, and encourage her in every perplexity.

Phrenology is not an arbitrary science, taking from us freedom of thought or action, nor does it limit the boundary of individual improvement. Like all other engines of power, its utility lies in the knowledge of its true direction. So simply and beautifully arranged is its machinery, that woman, when elevated to her highest sphere of moral action, as a mother, may with quiet power set every wheel in motion. No sooner would she see in her little one a disquietude, arising from any peculiarity of organization, than with a tact peculiar to herself, would she call in counteracting developments, and recall the little wanderer. Each undue manifestation she would regard as disease in varied form, requiring only the administration of nature's remedies, and the firm and gentle treatment, of nature's physician. Through this constant watchfulness eventually would come into the busy scene of life, a spirit still unbroken, still free, but so guarded by education and habit, that evils in coming to the surface would drop off, as foreign substances, of themselves.

It is to be deeply lamented, in the present state of society, that in proportion as woman seems to be raised by fortune's favors above the ills of earth, the PLANE of her actual usefulness declines. So embarrassed is she by the fashions and allurements of the day-so constantly is her Approbativeness often morbidly sensitive-fanned and fed by the adulation of her protector, man-that, despite all transient effort to rally her mental powers, she is fitted only for his toy and pastime. Not so with the wo

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man of even ordinary talent, when necessity compels her to act. her faculties brighten and her energies leap to labor for those she loves? There is an enthusiasm, a whole-souledness in her nature, to meet all exigencies, and a clearness of thought and purity of feeling emanating from a mind which has struggled faithfully and long. As the pressed grape yields its juicy sweetness, and the deep-furrowed soil its choicest fruits, so do the germs of truthfulness and beauty unfold mid woman's sufferings, and shed their fragrance on hearts, and win their welcome in homes, where wealth and fashion forbid that they should thrive.

So skilfully are we organized, that the discriminating mind sees wherein lies its strength, and the cravings of the inner man are often the safest guides in directing our paths aright. Intellectual greatness is beneficially felt, just in the degree that its roots are deeply and permanently laid at the basis of moral power; and the beautiful correspondence in the relative position of the respective organs, as manifested with this abiding truth, places Phrenology above all other science. It gives man and woman alike their plane of action; and since, by nature, completeness is ever the result of their true union, as she gathers strength from his masculine mind, his patient investigation, his accumulated knowledge, will he be warmed and quickened to every pursuit, by her appreciation and companionship. Ready to perceive, prompt to feel, ardent to pursue, surely she may claim the support of man's acknowledged wisdom in every good word and work, and unshrinkingly, but discreetly, enter upon any path connected with the true interest of her own sex, or the future elevation of her offspring. As we would urge upon woman the fearless discharge of every known duty, we would guard her from assuming aught incompatible with her feminine character and sphere. Alone, she may not overturn the customs, or counteract the tendencies of erroneous life; yet if her eye is single to the service, and her soul warm to the promotion of general good, she will watch each bow bent by man to shoot at folly, and be ever on the allert to barb the arrow and steady the aim. And though apparently powerless in laying the broad and deep foundation in the human mind for the superstructure of truth, yet when man fails in its advancement, for the want of materials or time, let her thriftiness gather up the fragments, and her ingenuity devise their appropriation, and her zeal carry it onward and upward, till woman shall be as inseparably blended with its dissemination and purity, as she now is with the enduring monument of our country's freedom.

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The Hon. HORACE MANN, of Massachusetts, alluding to the extensive circulation of the American Phrenological Journal, says: "I am rejoiced at the success of your enterprise. I look upon Phrenology as the guide of philosophy, and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor."

ARTICLE VII.

CLAIRVOYANCE: ITS HARMONY WITH THE KNOWN LAWS OF MIND.-NO. I.

THE array of FACTS, incontestible and multifarious, which demonstrate the possibility that one person can, by certain manipulations, put another into an abnormal state-a state which partially or wholly closes the external senses or suspends ordinary sensation, hearing, tasting, and the like, and also produces so close a sympathy between the subject and the operator that the former reciprocates the various conditions of the lattertasting what he tastes, feeling what he feels, etc.-is too absolutely conclusive, and attested by too many reliable observers, to be longer a matter of reasonable doubt by any who have candidly examined it. The editor has made and witnessed so many experiments, and subjected this whole matter to tests so rigid and so various, that he is prepared to say understandingly, not that he believes in animal magnetism, for that is too tame, but that he KNOWS it to be true.

CLAIRVOYANCE.

But very many of those who believe all this, still doubt the truth of This seeing without eyes, and knowing by a kind of instinct, independently of all ordinary means of arriving at truth, they scout as a humbug. They admit that the subject can know by sympathy all that the OPERATOR knows, just as they can taste and feel as he does, but they deny to the subject any INDEPENDENT knowledge, on the ground of its contrariety to all that we know of the laws of mind. The mighty import of this subject renders it worthy of serious investigation. If nature has conferred on us a short and sure road to universal knowl. edge, other than that circuitous and often uncertain one of reasoning; if she has opened to man, by means of a kind of spiritual trance or vision, ranges of truths almost infinitely higher than those discoverable by the senses and reason, let us know it, and avail ourselves of this angelic endowment. But if all these pretended revelations are moonshine, let us detect and expose the forgery.

We should not begin our canvass by assuming, beforehand, that clairvoyance is false because it is NEW. Mankind are making rapid progress in every thing, and MAY make as great strides in the mode of discovering truth as they have in locomotion or the mechanic arts. Why not?

And, surely, the testimony of so MANY respectable witnesses in its favor should not receive the go-by merely because the matter in question is strange; for, be it remembered, that by questioning this testimony, we virtually accuse all those witnesses who say they have made or seen. successful experiments, either of imbecility in not being able to detect

the implied collusion, or else of practical falsehood, in reporting as true what they know to be false. Besides, does the doubter's not having seen or experienced such clairvoyance prove that it is impossible, any more than disbelief in propelling vessels through water by steam was proof of its impossibility? Let us, then, lay aside all bigoted incredulity, and examine this whole matter like men able to discern, and willing to admit, the TRUTH according to the testimony of facts and nature.

One great cause for disbelief is its alleged contrariety to all the known laws of mind. Its opponents claim that in this life the mind can act and manifest itself only by means of its MATERIAL or bodily organs, the senses, brain, etc.; that the body confines the mind to the particular locality of the former, and prevents its knowing any thing which has transpired at times and places remote from the body, except on testimony. Is this view of the nature of mind correct?

It is not. In the immateriality and immortality of the soul, most men religiously believe. They admit that at death the mind becomes a disembodied spirit, capable of ranging the fields of space as on angels' wings, and acquiring more knowledge in an instant than now in a lifetime, and by that very instrumentality which constitutes this alleged clairvoyance, namely, by SPIRITUAL INTUITION. Shall, then, the DISEMBODIED Soul possess this clairvoyance in a measure so exalted, and the embodied NONE ? Is it so strange, so contrary to the laws of mind, that it should possess moiety of that gift here, which all believers in its immortality ascribe to it hereafter? Does death change any of its inherent POWERS or elements? To deny to it, in the body, even a single iota of that spiritual perception of universal truth which we ascribe to it in so exalted a measure hereafter, is manifestly unreasonable; whereas, to admit that it is endowed with a slight degree of clairvoyant capacity in this life, is perfectly philosophical, if not a clearly analogical inference; so that those who believe in the soul's immortality, yet deny clairvoyance, are much more inconsistent than those who admit the former, but doubt the latter. All the ideas of mankind touching a hereafter harmonize with, and go to establish, its possession of clairvoyant powers HERE, as well as hereafter; nor is there a single well-founded reason in opposition.

The possibility of clairvoyance is still farther confirmed by the fact that those who are physically debilitated, and thus brought near to death, and of course to this spiritual state, make the best clairvoyant subjects. The best clairvoyant I have ever seen-Mrs. Woodcock, of Haverhill, Mass., now deceased-was in a consumptive decline; and those views of God, truth, and nature which she unfolded while in a magnetic trance, accorded perfectly with those great truths taught by Phrenology. And the nearer she was to her end, the better her clairvoyant powers.

A discovery, confirmatory of the general principle here involved, has recently been made in Germany. It is to this effect, that exceedingly