good as you all affirm, the way is open to you at once. Give us an invention like the electric telegraph, or the spinning jenny. Give us a solution to some of the great questions of the day-the questions of finance, of an increased agricultural production, of the abolition of poverty and crime. Give us an improved medication, say a cure for small pox, scarlet fever, gout, or even tooth-ache. Do any of these beneficent deeds for us, and then you shall talk sentiment to us, and give us your opinions about cosmogony, and "classification of spheres," ad libitum. Until you consent to this proof of your benevolence, a proof so completely appreciable to us, and therefore so incumbent on you if you would fairly win our regard, be off-tramp-keep moving!"

For my own part, Mr. Greeley, and with deference to your editorial judgment, I suspect that our defunct brethren are by no means so well posted up in useful knowledg ds we ourselves are. I suspect The Tribune is, on the whole, a superior newspaper to any that our late friend," Mr. C." finds on his breakfast tsble of a morning. I say newspaper deliberately, because, as Swedenborg proves very conclusively, the NASURAL sphere is properly the only sphere of new things, being the true sphere of the Divine Power. The interior spheres of creation, the spheres of affection and intellert, are doubtless very interesting and impressive; but the external sphere of Nature, alone unfolds the won oers of Creative Power. I must herefore not allow thesedeparted gents to overcrow us. I have no doubt they experience the most refined emotions, and perceive truths in their own beautiful light. In a word, I have no doubt that their passive existence much transcends ours; bht as to the active, I have no little doubt that we are equally in advance of them. In loving and thinking they excel, simply because they live in a sphere plastic to those powers; but in doingin the capacity of original action-in the whole sphere, in short, of Art-we cangive them any account of odds, and beat them clean out of sight. Yours,

H. J.

THE ANTHROPOLOGIST, a small monthly newspaper of eight pages (fifty cents per annum), published at Milwaukie, Wis., and edited by Dr. A. Pratt, has been received. The following article from the second number gives some interesting facts:

THE TRANSMISSION OF INTELLIGENCE BY SYMPATHY.-Several cases of the sympathetic transmission of intelligence have occurred under my own observation-one of which is as follows:

A lady residing in my family, an invalid, under medical treatment at the time of this occurrence, was seized suddenly with what appeared to be an apoplectic fit, about two o'clock, P. M. The fit continued till the next morning, the patient being perfectly insensible to all surrounding friends and influences; after which she aroused to consciusness, stating that she had received a severe blow upon the forehead in the region of the organ of benevolence, which had deprived her of her senses, that her head now ached severely, that she felt faint, etc. She had no recollection of the time passed in the fit.

Three days after this event, the cause of the fit was explained satisfactorily to my mind, as follows: This lady's "other half" arrived-an invalid-having been struck down about two o'clock, P. M., three days before, by the fall of a tackle block from a mast-head, the blow being on the frontal portion of the head, scalping the forehead and stunning him for nearly twelve hours, and rendering his life extremely doubtful. Case 2d. A lady with whom I conversed last winter, whose husband was an itinerant clergyman informed me that she had repeatedly risen from her bed late at night, and prepared for the reception of her husband, whom she had no reason to expect home at that time only from vague impressions. "For two years," said she, "I have been in the habit of doing this, and I have never once been mistaken in my impressions. My husband would often exclaim, 'Why, Mary, what made you think I was coming?' I could only answer that I thought so."

Case 3d. A gentleman in the State of New York, while plowing in the field, was suddenly shot through the heart-at least this was his impression. His sensations were such that he could not work, and he put out his team, and returned to the house, stating that he believed that his brother, who was then a soldier in the Mexican war, had been shot through the heart or had fallen in battle. Two months after that the news arrived of his broiher's death in battle by a ball through the chest, occuring on the same day and hour of his impression.

From these examples it appears that there is such a phenomenon in the mental constitution as communication between mind and mind, not only among friends present, but even sometimes when absent, however distant."

A GREAT RAILROAD.-As an important step in human progress, the following scheme should not be overlooked. Mr. Whitney, having failed thus far with our government, has gone abroad with the view, it is said, of laying his plans before the British government. The Philadelphia Express says:

"A book of five hundred pages has been published in London, with plates, and a map of North America down to the 40th degree of north latitude, detailing the plan of a railroad across Nova Scotia and the Canadas, from Halifax to the Pacific. The idea is magnificent. The route from Halifax to Quebec is already surveyed. The distance from England to China, by this proposed road, is shown to be fifteen lamared miles shorter than the nearest road across the United States. The cost of the road is estimated at £14,000,000, averaging £5,000 a mile. To build it 20,000 convicts are to be set to work at once; paupers are to be sent over, and Canada is to be raised to great dignity in the united kingdom. Five millions of people can be spared from England, Ireland, and Scotland, to settle along the route, and populate it to the Pacific. The scheme is to relieve Great Britain of her pauper burdens, regenerate the old monarchy, and establish her firmly on the American continent."

WOMEN'S DRESSES.-A lady, writing in the New York Water Cure Journal, expresses herself as follows: "A reform in the modern style of dress is needed. The free use of the arms and respiration of the lungs is certainly prohibited by the tight bodices now worn; and surely what is more inconvenient than the unwieldy shaw's and flowing skirts that ladies BELIEVE they are doomed to wear? But they are not OBLIGED to wear them, if they would but adopt some more tasteful and convenient mode. Isuppose many will say: Why should we change the mode, for our ancestors have worn the same for hundreds of years?' Hundreds of years ago our ancestors traveled on mules, and, in performing a journey of a hundred miles, would stop to rest several days on the way. What would a modern Yankee think of that form of conveyance?

Since there have been such improvements in traveling, as well as in all the various arts and sciences, why should such an important branch as ladies' attire be entirely overlooked? Indeed, as far as utility and health are concerned, female attire is at least a hundred and fifty years behind the age.

Now, ladies, is there not one among us to be found that possesses freedom of spint enough to adopt a style that would come more within the bounds of propriety, both for convenience and health? Perhaps I might be allowed to suggest a style which I adopted myself some time since. You must all know that I am a country girl,' and much prone to rambling in the woods. I always take a walk, rain or shine, before breakfast, over the fields and on the mountains. From such an excursion I have frequently returned home, with my shawl minus a fringe, and at least a double row set around the bottom of my skirt; this, at the end of a season, would bring in a considerable bill of expense. Therefore CONSTRUCTIVENESS, aided by ACQUISITIVENESS, formed the following dress: Stout calf-skin gaiters; white trowsers, made after the Eastern style, loose, and confined at the ankle with a cord; a green kilt, reaching nearly to the knees, gathered at the neck, and tuined back with a collar, confined at the waist with a scarlet sash, tied upon one side, with short sleeves for summer and long sleeves for winter, fastened at the wrist; a green turban made in the Turkish mode. With such a dress I can ride on horseback, row a boat, spring a five-rail fence, climb a tree, or find my way through a green-brierswamp, setting aside the extra feeling of wild, daring freedom, one possesses when thus equipped, and alone in the woods.

Ladies, prepare yourselves with a similar dress, and call for me at daylight, the first fine morning, and I will show you a score of more delighiful scenes than ever was dreamed of in your philosophy.' Besides, I will warrant you shall return home with a brighter glow of health upon your cheeks than you have been accustomed to wear; and so far from regretting that you arose some two or three hours earlier than usual, you will rather feel impatient for the next morning to arrive, so that you can again indulge in this pleasant recreation, of eommuning with nature, and with nature's God; and thus, in learning to love one you will learn to love the other, until it will become the greatest punishment that you can inflict upon yourself, either to stay at home a single morning, or to be obliged to discard your new style of dress."

LITERARY NOTICE.-A paper, entitled "The Progress of the Age," has been received from Lexington, Ky. It is full of good matter, advocates education and improvement, and ardently supports Cassius M. Clay as candidate for Governor.

The most celebrated phrenologists, who follow the Gallian system, necessarily fall into many errors in their descriptions of character. In a great number of cases, the errors of the old system are not sufficiently conspicuous to attract notice; but in other cases, in which the organs which it overlooks, and those which it mislocates, are remarkably large or small, the craniological descriptions are necessarily imperfect and often completely contradictory to the truth. Cranioscopists who encounter these contradictions of their favorite theories, are very often led to indulge their imagination, and imagine the shape of the head slightly different from what it actually is, thus accommodating themselves to the emergencies

of the case.

It is easy, for example, when a man has an established reputation for intellect, to perceive his intellectual organs largely developed, for whenever our attention is riveted upon any object or subject, it is apt to assume an increased magnitude, and nothing is more common than for the cranioscopist to find organs in large development, which he was prepared to expect from a previous knowledge of the character; if, however, his perceptive faculties are too accurate to adm of this form of self-deception, and recognize distinctly the compatibility between the organic development and the est lished character of the individual, he is compelled either to lose onfidence in the accuracy of the doctrine, or to resort to some indirect if not sophistical explanation to escape the dilemma.

When the palpable inconsistencies between the Gallian theory and the actual characters of men, are thus brought home to the practical phrenologist, who is a resolute stickler for the theory, VOL. II.-R.

and not inclined to learn from nature, he generally gets over the dif ficulty by one of two processes. If his reasoning and imaginative organs are large, and his perceptives small, he easily modifies his perceptions and brings himself to see the organs in accordance with the actual character. He may do this with entire sincerity, in consequence of the law that we magnify the importance of any object by giving it our concentrated attention, and diminish the magnitude and importance of other objects by carelessness or oversight. If, on the other hand, his perceptive organs are very large and give accurate reports, while his reflective organs are small, and incapable of very accurate reasoning, he escapes the dilemma with great ease by some sophistical process. He draws illogical inferences from a combination of organs or from the influence of temperament, or draws an extraordinary inference from a single organ, not justified by the principles of the science or by his usual rules of procedure in other cases. Thus, when the cranium of a criminal presented a large development of Cautiousness and Secretiveness, a group of phrenologists inferred therefrom that his crimes would be of a very cautious and secretive character, but when they learned that his crimes instead of being of a cautious and secretive character were remarkable for their boldness, they at once explained the inconsistency by affirming that his intellectual organs were so small that he could not act out his cautiousness-entirely unconscious of the sophistical nature of such an explanation, and its violation of the fundamental principles of the science.

When such phrenologists discover a large organ of Combativeness, they announce that physical courage is a prominent trait of character, but if they find themselves mistaken they are ready to call in almost any other organ to explain their mistake-as, for example, the man has too little Hope, or too little Firmness, or too much Cautiousness, or too much Benevolence, or too much Love of Approbation, or too nervous a temperament, or too much or too little of any thing from which the remotest inference could be drawn to bear upon the organ of Combativeness.

If a gentleman is distinguished for polite and elegant manners, the phrenologist ascribes it at once to a very large development of Approbativeness; but if upon examination he finds Approbativeness small, he brings in numerous explanations from Self-Esteem, Benevolence, Cautiousness, etc., to show why the function which should be missing is still present. Yet when he meets another head possessing large Benevolence, Self-Esteem and Cautiousness, he will probably forget the extemporaneous theory of their func tions which he broached to explain his previous dilemma.

These sophistical and fanciful modes of maintaining a theory at the expense of nature are very detrimental to the progress of science, and well calculated to justify the skepticism of its oppo

nents.

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tion of the form and dimensions of the cranium, the development of the brain as indicated by the exterior of the head, and the true and essential function of each organ; then, with accurate perceptions and accurate reasoning, he may describe character correctly in all cases, without being in the slightest degree influenced by any practical knowledge of the character, or by the fact that it differs materially from what the cranium appears to indicate.

As many of my readers have doubtless observed these craniological errors, and perceived the discrepancies to which I allude, in their attempts to practice the phrenological system, I shall proceed to sketch some of the most obvious and frequent errors which belong to the practice of cranioscopy on the Gallian system. Our practical phrenologists have been accustomed to describe those possessing a large organ of Cautiousness as timid and fearful, and in may cases inclined to melancholy, particularly when the organ of Hope was small. The timid or cowardly tendency was in inverse proportion to Combativeness, and the melancholy in inverse proportion to Hope; yet it often happens that those with a large organ of Cautiousness are distinguished by the very reverse of these traits of character-are firm, bold and cheerful, for the upper central portion of the organ of Cautiousness, as formerly located, tends to produce a prudent character, but not a timid one. The prudence and self-control which belong to this region, co-operate more decidedly with firmness than with timidity; it is therefore extremely common to find a large development of the ridge of the parietal bone, upon which Cautiousness is located, in persons of the greatest intrepidity and self-possession, even although they may not be distinguished by a large development of Combativeness; it is only when the lower portion of the cautious region, running near the ear, is prominent, that the timid characteristics of that organ are manifest. This lower portion is quite below the location of Cautiousness, according to Gall and Spurzheim. Any one who has had extensive opportunities of observing craniological developments and character, can recollect instances of remarkable personal courage connected with large Cautiousness and moderate Combativeness. The melancholy tendency which has been ascribed to Cautiousness, is frequently directly the reverse of the truth; for the organ which gives us the highest degree of cheerfulness (the organ of Playfulness) lies immediately above Cautiousness; hence, a large development of Cautiousness is frequently accompanied by a proportionate development of the organ which makes a gay, cheerful and happy temperament; nor will a small development of Hope, in such a case, insure a predominance of Melancholy. Small Hope may lead to discontent, or may prevent us from enjoying life in a calm and spiritual way, but it will not produce melancholy when the organ of Playfulness is duly developed. It is, therefore, not very uncommon to find a large Cautiousness and moderate Hope with a very sprightly and bouyant