ing the course of his lectures, is calculated to advance the cause of true piety, and incite mankind to place a higher estimate on virtue, and a virtuous life; to destroy sectarianism, and, in a great degree, remove discord and disunion from among men.

RESOLVED, That the delineations of character, as given by Mr. Hatch, were entirely satisfactory to the public, as well as highly creditable to the lecturer, testing the great principles of Phrenology practically.

After the report of the committee and the adoption of the above resolutions, the following resolution was introduced by W. A. Smith, and passed with only one dissenting voice:

RESOLVED, That mutual reconciliation should, under all circumstances, characterize the actions of men, and that in the meeting of last evening, although Mr. Hatch manifested a conciliatory spirit, yet he met with the most bitter and unrelenting opposition from the clergy, who have ever stood out in opposition to truth and science.

On motion, it was moved and carried, that the proceedings of this meeting be signed by the proper officers, and a copy presented to the Rev. Mr. Hatch, and also, that a copy for publication be sent to the Homestead Journal, Salem, Ohio, and the American Phrenological Journal, published by Messrs. Fowlers & Wells, New York. N. L. PRICE, M. D. Pres.

W. A. SMITH, Secretary.

THE VARIOUS STAGES OF THE MESMERIC CONDITION. FIRST, the simple sleep, without phenomena of any description. Secondly, the deep sleep, or coma, in which the sleeper speaks to the Mesmerizer, and exhibits attachment, or sympathy, or attraction, according to the passes, and insensibility to pain. Thirdly, the sleep-waking state, in which the patient converses freely, and often noisily, with the Mesmerizer, and shows community of taste and sensation, etc. It is this peculiar freedom of manner that is exhibited by the sleep-waker in this stage, which is often so perplexing to the stranger and to the incredulous. The skeptic cannot understand it, and will not believe it to be genuine. In short, he deems it the most impudent part of the whole imposture, though, in truth, it is one of the most convincing points as to the reality of Mesmerism. Dr. Forbes, in a paper in the Medical Gazette, on his search for clairvoyance, speaks of a sleeper "waking up in the brisk, pert humor common to the, so-called, somnambulists." This "brisk, përt humor," however, is what I have seen manifested in the sleep-waking state by all classes of patients-by the most ignorant and the most refined-by those whose delicacy of taste would shrink from thus exhibiting themselves, and by those who have never seen or heard of Mesmerism. Mr. Townshend says, "Mesmerized persons speak with a freedom, instances of which being related to them in their waking condition, cause them surprise, and even vexation. I have had patients apologize to me for what I told them they had said or done during their sleep, and evidently were more than half incredulous as to its truth." Dr. Elliottson observes, The generality of this striking effect is one proof of the reality of the Mesmeric state. This happy feeling of equality depends upon the cerebral character and education of the patient. Those whose familiar conversation (when awake) is marked by levity, may, in the Mesmeric state, rattle and be rude-and then, if there is a degree of delirium mixed with it, the conduct begets a suspicion of imposition." Dr. Esdaile describes how the same freedom of manner developed itself among the Hindoos. He mentions a case, where (to use his own words) "those who did not see the somnambulist, may imagine how little the poor fellow knew what he was about, when they are told that he took the longitude' of the Judges of the Supreme Court with the cool impudence and precision of a cabman." But the most striking instance is that recorded by Mr. Eliot Warburton, of what occurred at Damascus, with

a black slave whom he Mesmerized. The sleeper, with a fearful howl, suddenly started to his feet, flung wide his arms, seized a large vase of water, and dashed it into fragments, smashed a lantern into a thousand bits, and rushed about the court-yard. All this was done by a slave in the presence of his master! When awakened, he was quite unconscious of all that he had done, but described his sensations as having been delightful-that of perfect freedom-of a man with all his rights, such as he had never felt before in his life. The fourth stage is that of clairvoyance, and of the ecstatico-prophetic, in which the sleeper appears to acquire new senses, and obtains, with the vulgar, the reputation of miraculous. Clairvoyance has several degrees, and various powers. Mental traveling, thought-reading, prevision, introvision, pure clairvoyance, are the terms most generally employed to describe the highest phenomena. Of these, introvision, by which the clairvoyant is enabled to see the structure of the human frame, and report the condition of a diseased organ, would seem to be the most useful. Clairvoyance is a fatiguing and exhausting condition. The presence of skeptics has a disturbing effect. It is not always the same on all occasions (most especially, it is said, with women); and, if the faculty be overworked, it will fail altogether. Clairvoyants are very vain of what they can perform, and are fond of creating wonder. If the Mesmerizer encourages display, their vanity will increase, and their wonders also. This has been the source of much imposture, and of discredit to Mesmerism.-SANDBY'S MESMERISM AND ITS OPPONENTS.

HYDROPATHY.

PERUVILLE, TOMPKINS CO. N. Y., Nov. 16, 1848.

MESSRS. FOWLERS & WELLS:

I am a regular built M. D..—a graduate of the Berkshire Medical School-a pupil of Professor Willard Parker, of your city, and of the Hon. H. H. Childs, M. D., of Pittsfield, Mass.-educated, of course, according to the straitest sect of Allopathy, and for sixteen years a practitioner of that school. But a change has come over the spirit of my dreams. I have been guilty of independent thought. In my investigations, I have ventured to step out of the circle marked out by high medical authority, and have become a convert to HyDROPATHY. An acquaintance with the treatment pursued at the Glen Haven Water-Cure and its success, with a careful perusal of several works on the Hydropathic treatment of diseases, has done the business for me; and I now have as much zeal in the promotion of the WATER-CURE SYSTEM of practice, as I formerly had in advocating the peculiar merits of phlebotomy, calomel, antimony, and other means of human butchery; and I believe it to be a zeal altogether more in accordance with KNOWLEDGE.

I have not had an opportunity of becoming acquainted with the Water-Cure Journal, but have seen favorable notices of it. Will you send me a few numbers as specimens? If it is what I suppose it to be, I will become a subscriber for the next volume (I suppose the volume commences the first of January), and if you will give me permission, I will endeavor to procure you other subscribers;* as I propose to spend some time during the winter in lecturing on the laws of health and the Hydropathic treatment of disease.

Yours truly,

J. H. STEDMAN, M. D.

* MOST ASSUREDLY, friend Stedman-glad to take you by the hand. We always find, where "INDEPENDENT THOUGHT" prevails, that "KNOWLEDGE" triumphs. This Hydropathic system is destined to become one of the great reformatory measures of the nineteenth century. Your labors cannot fail to be productive of great good to man. Let us hear from you frequently.

HENRY WARD BEECHER AND PHRENOLOGY.

THOSE who affirm that Phrenology is inimical to religion are practically refuted in the person of this distinguished divine. He is THE star of Brooklyn and New York cities. No church in Brooklyn can begin to hold the crowds that flock to hear him, whenever he opens his mouth to speak. No man's sermons are as widely heralded in the papers. No book has out-sold his lectures to young men. And this man is a phrenologist. He studied this science along with the editor when we were college classmates together. No sermon like that epitomized below could have been prepared, except by a phrenologist. He says the PASTORAL aid he derives from Phrenology is greater than from all other sources combined, except the Bible. Such is the unbiassed testimony of one of the very first divines of our age. And many more respond amen, as seen in our list of distinguished men who hail Phrenology as a TRUTH, and a religious helpmate. The following is an epitome of Dr. B.'s discourse before the Alumni of Williamstown College, at its last commencement:

"The subject of Mr. Beecher's discourse was Sympathy, with a special application to an existing system of theological training, and mode of preaching. He commenced by a strict and thorough analysis of sympathy, which he presented as of two kinds-the sympathy from likeness, or direct sympathy, and the sympathy existing between opposite natures, being the sympathy of benevolence, or recuperative sympathy: direct sympathy exists between similar natures, as between holy beings, and between God and the regenerated nature of man. Sympathy of the second kind is that of a holy God for a sinful being, or of a Christian for the unregenerate, manifested in benevolent exertions for the recovery of the sinner.

"Mr. Beecher specially dwelt on the importance of cultivating the latter sympathy in this life. This position he endeavored to establish by arguments drawn from the philosophy of the universe, from the example of Christ, from the teachings of the Bible, and the wants of the world.

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Among the obstacles to the cultivation of this sympathy of benevolence, are the intellectual contemplation of God; a mistaken idea of self-culture; absorbing love of truth as a system, and excessive intellectual culture.

"Under these divisions Mr. Beecher was led to speak of the doctrine of the sinfulness of man as underlaying the whole Bible, as presupposed in the existence of a Bible, as hospitals presuppose disease. The more the doctrine of a sinful nature is disregarded, the less will be the benevolence, since the sympathy of benevolence increases as the difference between the good and bad increases, being in the inverse order that governs DIRECT sympathy, which increases as the difference between two beings DECREASES.

Mr. Beecher was severe upon those who spend their lives in self-culture, for their own good, rather than for the good of others. He was thus led to discuss the fundamental principle of life, namely: For what end shall we live? We think we are safe in saying that Mr. B. considered this end to be the DOING good, rather than the BEING good. Not but that we must BE good to do good, but the ultimate end must be the doing of good. The being good, according to the speaker, follows the doing good, instead of the effecting good necessarily resulting from being good. He was equally severe upon those ministers, who, nursing their minds in abstract contemplation, preach about the attributes of Deity, separated and in the abstract, without presenting God as the sympathizer with and Saviour of mankind. He compared such a one to a chemist, who should offer his guest the elements of a peach, nicely parceled out, instead of the peach itself, with the assurance that in eating all those elements he would have partaken of a peach. For my part,' said Mr. B., 'I would rather eat the vulgar peach, just as it grew on God's trees.'

"He bore hardly upon those who spend their lives in study-in acquiring without distributing; who, unlike the diamond, absorb the light without reflecting it. He compared them to the whale, as they are useful only when they are dead

and cut up, when the oil of truth can be TRIED OUT of the obesity of their acquirements. He styled such as usurers, with books for coin and brains for treasuries. He considered education as a means to an end, and not an end in itself. He deemed the knowledge of human nature to be got by intercourse with men, rather than by the severe study of one's self; that the human heart is to be seen by watching its outward manifestations in life, rather than the inner workings, as seen by the introverted eye of reflection.

Whatever difference of opinion is expressed in regard to the views of Mr. Beecher, all agree in pronouncing the address a most remarkable and masterly production. It was the work of genius, bold in conception, and sparkling with originality. He spoke, indeed, with unsurpassing power and eloquence. His illustrations were most graphic, his sarcasm pointed, and his delivery earnest."

CONCORD PHRENOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

ONLY a year ago, the interest in Phrenology in this capital of New Hampshire, was comparatively trifling. Within that time a few of its warm friends, aided by two courses of lectures by O. S. and L. N. Fowler, which were very fully attended, have succeeded in breaking down a powerful opposition, and not only establishing a strong current of popular belief in its favor, but circulating hundreds of dollars worth of Phrenological works, and forming a flourishing Phrenological Society, from the Constitution of which the following are extracts.

"The objects of this Society shall be the advancement of the sciences of Phrenology and Physiology, and the promotion of intercourse among phrenologists, by meetings for the reading of papers, the exhibition of casts, busts, and other illustrative specimens, and by discussions and investigations; to point out the importance of Phrenology, as the true philosophy of mind, and its several applications in education, self-improvement, jurisprudence, and medicine; to correct misrepresentations respecting the science, and to awaken a more extended and lively interest in its cultivation.

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Any person on being elected, and taking their seats as members of this Society, shall sign the Constitution and By-Laws, and pay to the Treasurer the sum of one dollar for a gentlemen, and fifty cents for a lady, as an admis

sion fee.

"The stated meetings of the Society shall be held on the first and third Monday evenings of every month.

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"It shall be the duty of the President to preside at each meeting, preserve order, regulate the debates, decide all questions of order, and propose questions for discussion, in case no question is before the meeting.

"It shall be the duty of the President, and in case of his absence, the presiding officer, at each stated meeting of the Society, to appoint some member whose duty it shall be, at the next succeeding meeting, to read a paper on PHRENOLOGY, PHYSIOLOGY, or some of the NATURAL SCIENCES. It shall also be the duty of the President, at the expiration of his term of office, to present to the Association a synopsis of the proceedings of the Society during his term of office.

"It shall be the duty of the Board of Trustees, upon order of the Society, to report, from time to time, the character and cost of such books, casts, and busts, and other matters as they may deem of desirable requisition to the Society. It shall also be their duty to provide a room, and have it suitably furnished for the meetings of the Society."

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THE USES AND ABUSES OF AIR.*

THERE are certain physiological truths which have a most important connection with the subject of ventilation, when considered in relation to the functions of the brain.

The first of these truths is, that the brain, though its weight is only one fortieth of that of the whole body, yet it is estimated to receive one fifth of all the blood which flows from the heart. In proportion to its bulk, its arteries are more numerous, and larger, than any other.

The reason for this most extraordinary distinction, is found in the peculiar character of its duties. It is the immediate seat of the mind; it never sleeps; as the organ of thought, it is ever at work: while the organs of digestion, of motion, and others, are in repose, and obtaining a renewal of strength, it is in action, superintending, as it were, the performance of all the others, and has no

rest.

The next fact to be noticed in this connection is, that it is especially in the HOURS OF STUDY, when the brain works hardest, it requires the blood with which it is furnished to be decarbonized to the utmost degree. It was the opinion of the celebrated physiologist Boerhaave, that the blood sent to the brain is more aerated than any other; an opinion probably formed from the fact that it is sent to it sooner and more directly, after passing through the lungs.

In addition to these physiological truths, we have, in proof of the greater necessity of supplying the brain with pure blood, the pathological fact of the greater and more immediate liability of this organ to disease, by the inhalation of impure air. Its effects are FIRST seen upon the mental and other faculties directly dependent on this organ, and then through it upon other functions. Sudden and fatal results are well known to ensue from the respiration of carbonic acid gas in a more concentrated form, but serious pathological effects are scarcely less certain, though they may be less immediate, when this noxious gas is breathed in the more diluted form, in which it is found in long-used and pent-up apartments.

Among the effects produced by remaining in an impure atmosphere, there is an almost immediate one to which the attention of teachers, and all concerned in the care of schools, should be constantly drawn; it is, that condition of listlessness, languor, and irritability, so often observed in both pupils and teachers.

GREAT MEN'S HEADS.-Cist's Advertiser gives the following as the measurement of the heads of a number of great men: Napoleon, 7 1-2 inches; Gen. Washington, 7 1-2 full; Gen. Scott, 7 1-2 do; Gen. Jackson, 7 1-2 do; Henry Clay, 7 1-2; Martin Van Buren, 7 1-2; Daniel Webster, 7 1-2; John C. Calhoun, 7 1-2; John Quincy Adams,.7 3-8.

Evidently an error, as Webster has the largest head in the list, Napoleon's excepted.

A WATER-CURE.-A large glass of water sipped ten drops at a time, in perfect silence, till the whole be taken, is said to be a convenient cure for a person in a passion. This is the last application of the "water-cure."-N. H. OASIS.

GOOD ADVICE.-Never enter a sick room in a state of perspiration, as the moment you become cool your pores absorb. Do not approach contagious diseases with an empty stomach, nor sit between the sick and the fire, because the heat attracts the thin vapor.

* From a work by this title, recently published by J. S. Redfield, New York. For sale by Fowlers & Wells. Price 12 cents-mailable.