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INFORMATION. 
 
 Copyrighted February 10, 1885, by A L. 
 Ferry, 
 
 All rights reserved. 
 
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 iegard to cast of perfect head. 
 
 This cast will be of great aid to Phrenologi- 
 cal students, as lack of symmetry and balance 
 in beads will be readily detected after the eye 
 lias become acquainted with the proper pro- 
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 .Marking of chart, 50 cents. 
 
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 For further information address the author, 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
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"Make his form and forces square; 
 For the labors lie must dare." 
 
 (Diameter, eight inches.) 
 
 THE COMING MAN. 
 
 " There growing slowly old at ease. 
 No faster thau his planted trees. 
 
He may, by reason of his age, 
 
 In schemes of broader scope engage ;. 
 
 (Circumference, twenty-five inches.) 
 
 THE COMING MAN. 
 
 " Then shall we have a man of the sphere, 
 Fit to grace the solar year." 
 
 — Emerson 
 
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 PAN. 
 
 u He is the essence that enquires ;, 
 He is the axis of the star ; 
 He is the sparkle of the spar ; 
 He is the heart of every creature ; 
 He is the meaning of each feature.' * 
 
 CREATION. 
 
 HEALTH. 
 "With one drop sheds form and feature/* 
 
 BEAUTY. 
 "With the next a special nature," 
 
 SELF. 
 "The third adds heat's indulgent spark/' 
 
 LOVE. 
 u The fourth gives light which eats the dark/* 
 
 WISDOM. 
 ** Into the fifth Himself he flings/' 
 
 PURITY. 
 And conscious Lav/ is king of kings/ * 
 PERFECTION. 
 
 ''Nature centers into balls, 
 And her proud ephemeralsv 
 Fast to surface and outside, 
 Scan the profile of the sphere, 
 Knew they what that signified — 
 A new genesis were here." 
 
 — Emetsan. 
 
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 NEW CHART. 
 (See Astrology.) 
 
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 " I saw men go up and down, 
 
 In the country and the town, 
 
 With this tablet on their neck— 
 4 Judgment and a judge we seek.* 
 
 Not to mcnarchs they repair, 
 
 Nor to learned jurist's chair ; 
 
 But they hurry to their peers, 
 
 To their kinsfolk and their dears ; 
 
 Louder than with speech they pray—* 
 'What am I? companion, say/ 
 
 And the friend not hesitates 
 
 To assign just place and mates ; 
 
 Answers not in word or letter, 
 
 Yet is understood the better ; 
 
 Each to each a looking-glass, 
 
 Reflects his figure that doth pass. 
 
 Every wayfarer he meets 
 
 What himself declared repeats, 
 
 What himself confessed records, 
 
 Sentences him in his words ; 
 
 The form is his own corporeal form, 
 
 And his thought the penal worm." 
 
 — Emerson. 
 
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 CHART OF 
 
 MARKED BY 
 
 AGE, DATE, 
 
 This chart is marked according to a scale of 
 sizes ranging from tweny to twenty-live inches 
 for adults, and from fifteen to twenty inches 
 for children, gaged by the circumference of 
 the head on a line parallel with the lower part 
 of the " Frontal Sinus." 
 
 If any of the points in an adult head fall be- 
 low the standard of the scale they will be 
 marked " ~" ; and any points above the stand- 
 ard in children's heads marked " x ". 
 
 Key. — 1, Small; 2, Medium; 3, Average;. 
 4 ; Excellent ; 5, Perfect, 
 
POINTS. 
 
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 (5) Force 
 
 
 
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 FACTS 
 
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 (3) Balance ..... ... 
 
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 MEMORY 
 
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 (2) Places 
 
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 (8) Time 
 
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 (4) Tune 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 (•")) Language 
 
 
 
 
 
 SYSTEM 
 
 
 
 
 
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POINTS. 
 
 REASON . 
 
 (1) Analogy ......... 
 
 (2) Causality ........... 
 
 (3) Construction 
 
 (4) Calculation 
 
 (5) Order 
 
 HARMONY. . 
 
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 PRUDENCE 
 
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 EXPLANATION. 
 
 Longevity — Long life. Breadth of head 
 between the ears. 
 
 The perfect head will measure eight inches 
 in diameter at this point. 
 
 Longevity depends on the full development 
 of the five following faculties : 
 
 Food ( Aliinentivencss) — Love of food. 
 
 Bite ( Destructiveness) — Power to destroy 
 or execute. 
 
 Bark ( Combat iven ess) — Desire to drive. 
 
 Life (Vitativeness) — Love of life. 
 
 Force ( Amativeness) — Love of physical ex- 
 ercise. 
 
 Health is necessary to longevity, and the 
 five points of the star designate the five physi- 
 ognomical signs of health. 
 
 Lungs — Breathing .entirety through the nose 
 is necessarj 7 to protect the lungs. Such mode 
 of breathing broadens the nostrils. 
 
 Blood — The rosy color of the lips and skin 
 and clearness of complexion denote purity of 
 blood. 
 
 Stomach — Full cheeks result from the secre- 
 tion of saliva. The :r/ixture of such saliva with 
 food is necessary to secure proper digestion. 
 
 Thorax — High and broad cheek-bones ac- 
 company a full deep chest. 
 
 Beauty is a result of the perfect develop- 
 ment of these five points of health, and 
 proper exercise is necessary to attain this end. 
 
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 Facts gives the perception and memory of 
 facts, of which Form, Size, Balance, Color, 
 and Eelation, together with the remainder of 
 the impressions received through the five 
 senses — viz: feeling, tastings smelling, hear- 
 ing, seeing — are attributes. 
 
 Memory retains impressions received through 
 the senses in an associated form, as of Events, 
 Places, Time, Tune, and Language. 
 
 System— Deduction from facts is the only 
 method of arriving at correct conclusions, and 
 this is done by Order, Calculation, and Con- 
 struction, with the aid of Causality and Com- 
 parison. 
 
 Wisdom results from a perfect development 
 of all the intellectual faculties. 
 
 Harmony results from a perfect development 
 of all the points necessary to longevity, health, 
 perception, memory, system, and wisdom. 
 
 Love depends on the full development of — * 
 
 Mate (Conjugality) — Love of opposite sex ; 
 
 Pets (Philoprogenitiveness) — Love of chil- 
 dren and pets ; 
 
 Home (Tnhabitiveness) — Love of home ; 
 
 Friends (Adhesiveness) — Love of special 
 . friends ; and 
 
 Society — Love of society. 
 
 Strength — The compact texture of the limbs 
 with good development of the points of health 
 denotes strength and activity of the body and 
 brain, as there is harmony through the entire 
 system. The exercise necessary to produce 
 
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 strength and activity of body produces strength 
 and activity of mind. 
 
 Prudence — Discretion or caution. 
 
 Temperance denotes the harmonious work- 
 ing together of the Love and Self faculties. 
 
 Application is necessary to achieve any ex- 
 cellence, which achievement is necessary to 
 cultivate the faculties which give self - apprecia- 
 tion and self-reliance: 
 
 Virtue — Morality. 
 
 Ego — Belief in self. 
 
 Law — -Appreciation of justice; 
 
 Will — Determination. 
 
 Self — The full development of the last five 
 faculties is necessary to give the requisite man- 
 liness of character which allows of no imposi- 
 tion. These must be balanced by the- group of 
 faculties which produces purity, sympathy, and 
 charity. 
 
 Purity results from the harmonious develop- 
 ment of all the other faculties. 
 
 Faith is a step of the intellect toward 
 Divine conception. 
 
 Man — Appreciation of Nature's crowning 
 work. 
 
 Charity — Knowledge of the true motive 
 underlying all human action turns contempt 
 to pity, and causes charity. 
 
 Hope springs eternal in the human brenst. 
 
 Eternal Pan — Conception of Pan, the God 
 of the shepherds who perceived the Star of 
 Bethlehem and received the talisman: u On 
 
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 Earth Peace, Good Will Toward Men." 
 
 PERFECTION— The perfect head measures 
 twenty-five inches in circumference, and i~ a 
 perfect sphere, being full enough in the health 
 points to make perfect beauty and harmony. 
 
 The only way to restrain faculties is to culti- 
 vate others, and entire attention must be paid 
 to each organ or group of organs to develop 
 them. Every defective point causes discord, 
 from which results more or less misery, 
 
 The most important development must be 
 attended to first, or, in other words, there can 
 only he upward growtn by commencing at the 
 root or underlying principle. 
 
 ^Nature loves balance, and excessive develop- 
 ments are necessary for protection against exist- 
 ing evils. Remove the cause and .Nature will 
 right herself. " Water seeks its level," no 
 higher, no lower. 
 
 Health is the first and absolutely necessary 
 condition for improvement, and as that is 
 greater or less, so will there be more or less 
 harmony. 
 
 Food contains the elements which are nec- 
 essary to health and activity, and it can only 
 be digested and appropriated by the body 
 when it is in certain conditions. 
 
 Diamonds, charcoal, sugar, butter, white- 
 wheat flour, molasses; lard, fats, rice, and the 
 principal ingredients of cakes and pastries are 
 almost eytiiely composed of carbon or heating 
 material. Of these articles, diamonds and 
 
charcoal are incapable of digestion ; fats, &c., 
 are very hard to digest, while sugar is digested 
 rapidly. None of these carbonaceous foods 
 will sustain active life- The slightest action 
 causes waste of muscular tissue and nerve- 
 force, the elements for supplying which are not 
 contained in the above-named articles except 
 in insufficient proportions. The proper articles 
 of food are those which are easily digested and 
 contain just enough of each of the elements to 
 supply all wastes, thus keeping the body in 
 good repair and health. 
 
 The wheat grain (Graham flour) has been 
 adopted by scientists as a standard of proper 
 proportions, for which it is valuable, as it con- 
 tains m itself all the elements necessary to 
 isustain an average degree of mental and physi- 
 cal activity ; but the proportions sought for in 
 food must depend entirely on the expenditures 
 of force, whether physical or mental, or both. 
 
 By reference to the accompanying table, 
 and the adoption of the wheat-grain as a 
 standard, a properly proportioned meal may 
 probably be selected from the average private 
 or boarding-house bill of fare. 
 
 This table was selected after the author had 
 carefully consulted the works of Liebig. Fos- 
 ter, Draper, Bellows, and others, and repre- 
 sents food in its natural or raw state, the pro- 
 portions of which are frequently changed by 
 cooking or mode of preparing. 
 
 Chemical analysis of the brine in which fish 
 
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 or meat has been prepared show that it con- 
 tains the soluble phosphates necessary for sup- 
 ply of nerve or brain force, which have been 
 dissolved and extracted'by the chemical action 
 of the brine. 
 
 Soaking articles in water often deprives 
 them of their soluble properties, which makes 
 them almost worthless as articles of food. 
 
 Grain grown in different climates often con- 
 tains different proportions of nutritious ele- 
 ments, which fact explains the slight variance 
 in the tables of proportions arranged by differ- 
 ent chemists. 
 
 Meats are shown by the table to contain the 
 life-sustaining elements in fair proportion, but 
 its carbonaceous elements are in the form ot 
 oil, which partially resists the action of the 
 saliva, which % necessarily impedes digestion, 
 causing the food to pass through the stomach 
 until it reaches a position where it can be acted 
 upon by the pancreatic juices of the second 
 stomach before it is thoroughly digested. 
 
 The stomach can contain but a limited quan- 
 tity of water, and soups, according to their 
 watery consistency, fail to supply the amounnt 
 of nutrition necessary to an active life, and 
 their rapid passage is apt to deprive them of 
 the benefit of the saliya 
 
 Oat-meal and milk, mush and milk, bread 
 and milk, and, indeed, all soft foods, should be 
 classed with soups, and should not be eaten 
 except with some solid food, as bread, which 
 
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 requires action of the jaws, necessary to induce 
 a, proper flow of saliva. When the saliva is 
 not used it ceases to he secreted. Teeth decay 
 for want of proper exercise and attention. 
 
 The effects of alcohol, opium, tobacco, tea, 
 and coffee are injurious to the system, and 
 perfect development demands their absolute 
 disuse. 
 
 There is an essential difference in the pro- 
 portion of the elements of the meat of stall-fed 
 animals and those which have their liberty. 
 
 All fruits in common use are nicely propor- 
 tioned in their raw condition Some and most 
 of the present methods of preserving impair 
 their value. The carbonaceous elements of 
 fruits are already in the form of sugar, into 
 which starch and oil are turned in the process 
 of digestion. 
 
 Raw fruits have rare medicinal value. Busi- 
 ness disasters, death of friends, and other sor- 
 row-producing causes, are almost immediately 
 followed by loss of appetite and derangement 
 of the system through sympathetic action- 
 Fruit, being rapidly digested and assimulated, 
 and the most solid fruits being entirely capa- 
 ble of sustaining life, and abounding with 
 waste material, so necessary to open the sys-* 
 tern and keep it clean and active, will be found, 
 with proper nursing and rest, to produce bet- 
 ter results than any disorganized elements 
 which may be taken as medicine. 
 
 r ihe effects of cold, from which arise yio&t 
 
Nutritious elements of 
 
 Wheat 
 
 Oats 
 
 %e 
 
 Northern corn . . 
 Southern corn. . 
 Buckwheat. . . . 
 
 Beans 
 
 Peas 
 
 Rice 
 
 Beef 
 
 Mutton 
 
 Chicken 
 
 Fish (average) 
 Oys ers ..„<>... 
 Ei^ffs 
 
 Butter 
 
 Cheese 
 
 Cow-milk . . . 
 Human-milk. 
 Potatoes 
 
 Sweet-potatoes. 
 Cauliflower. . . . 
 
 Turnips 
 
 Cabbage 
 
 Apples. ....... 
 
 Parsnips 
 
 
 
 i Bono 
 
 Carbon. 
 
 Muscle 
 
 i and 
 
 69.8 
 
 01.5 . 
 
 66,4 
 
 17.0 
 
 03.0 
 
 71.5 
 
 13.8 
 
 01.7 
 
 73.0 
 
 12.0 
 
 01.0 
 
 45.0 
 
 35.0 
 
 04.0 
 
 75.4 
 
 08.6 
 
 01.8 
 
 57.7 
 
 24.0 
 
 03.5 
 
 60.0 
 
 23.4 
 
 02.5 
 
 79.5 
 
 06.5 
 
 00.5 
 
 30.0 
 
 15.0 
 
 05.0 
 
 40.0 
 
 12.5 
 
 03.5 , 
 
 35.0 
 
 20.0 
 
 04.0 , 
 
 00.5 
 
 17.0 
 
 05.0 
 
 00.0 
 
 10.0 
 
 02.0 
 
 29.0 
 
 33.0 
 
 10.0 
 
 100.0 
 
 00.0 
 
 00.0 
 
 19.0 
 
 65.0 
 
 07.0 
 
 08 
 
 05.0 
 
 01.0 
 
 07.0 
 
 03.0 
 
 00.5 - 
 
 26.5 
 
 01.5 
 
 02.9 
 
 22.5 
 
 14.0 
 
 00.9 
 
 03.6 
 
 06.4 
 
 01.0 
 
 04.6 
 
 01.1 
 
 00.5 , 
 
 05.0 
 
 04.0 
 
 01.0 ' 
 
 10.0 
 
 05.0 
 
 01.0 
 
 07.0 
 
 01.2 
 
 01.0 
 
 Notes. — This table was culled from the more extensive 
 table in A. J. Bellows' " Philosophy of Eating/' 
 
 There are two ways of proving the qualities of food — 
 one by chemical analysis, ami the other and most reliable, 
 by individual experimenting. I have tried the latter and 
 found that it agrees with the former. 
 
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 of the chronic diseases, are the result of indi- 
 gestion, and living on raw fruit from the time 
 the first symptoms are discovered, will effect m 
 speedy cure 
 
 Physicians give in disorganized condition 
 what should be sought in organized forms in 
 food. Organized food is Nature's method, and 
 that to which the system is adapted, and a de- 
 viation from that method is attended with 
 more or less risk, which should be avoided. 
 
 A. J. Bellows "Philosophy of Eating" is the 
 most thorough and comprehensive digest of the 
 food question the author has yet seen, and 
 which he recommends to those who wish to 
 know more of this most important of all sub- 
 jects. 
 
 Chemistry is yet in its infancy, and we shall 
 have to wait for future discovery to teach us 
 the best food for " The Coming Man, "probably 
 u Monadnoc's " gift, prophesied by Emerson : 
 
 M There's fruit upon my barren soil 
 Costlier far than wine or oil. 
 There's a berry blue and gold — 
 Autumn-ripe, its juices hold 
 Sparta' b stoutness, Bethlehem's heart, 
 Asia's rancor, Athens' art, 
 Blowsurc Britain's secular might, 
 And the German's inward sight. 
 I will give my son* to eat 
 Best of Pan's immortal meat, 
 Bread to eat and juice to drain ; 
 So the coinage of his brain 
 Shall not be forms of stars, but stars, 
 Nor pictures pale, but Jove and Mars," 
 
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 Food regulates the supply of life-force. 
 
 When unbroken health has been secured by 
 obedience to laws, and the physical man devel- 
 oped by systematic exercise, then will be time 
 enough to seek mental culture. The most im- 
 portant truth science has to teach will have 
 been learned in such pursuit, namely, the 
 speedy and inevitable punishment of either a 
 wilful or ignorant violation of law, or, in other 
 words, the universal prevalence of unchangea- 
 ble laws, which are no respector of person or 
 thing, but sway man and universe alike, happi- 
 ness awarding obedience, and misery violation. 
 
 Study and obey laws, not National or Bibli- 
 cal laws, but Nature's laws, for the former are 
 all absorbed in the latter. 
 
 Wherever there is advancement there is pos- 
 sibility of perfection. 
 
 Human progress means human perfection. 
 
 Everything has a limit, human knowledge is 
 no exception. 
 
 The appearance of continued and unbroken 
 happiness will announce its approach. 
 
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 ASTROLOGY. 
 
 The leading features of this new system are : 
 
 First, The adoption of a standard perfect 
 head ; 
 
 Second, The reduction of Phrenology to a 
 mathematical science ; 
 
 Third, A new chart ; 
 
 Fourth} The rearranging of the faculties in 
 groups of live ; and 
 
 Fifth, Substituting for the word ct Phrenol- 
 ogy " the word u Astrology," as more appropri- 
 ate for the " star-system. " 
 , These changes, with a general reduction of 
 the truths taught in Phrenology to first princi- 
 ples, showing the relation of the faculties to 
 harmonious development, has necessitated the 
 changing of names, which gave the opportunity 
 of dispensing with long technicalities. 
 
 There can only be but one reason why a sci- 
 ence, so important to the welfare of each indi- 
 vidual as Phrenology is, should be s:>. generally 
 misunderstood as it has been, and that reason 
 is that it lacked simplicity. 
 
 Dr. Gall was the founder of Phrenology, and 
 located and named a number of the faculties. 
 Since that time his followers have made addi- 
 tions and changes ; but a trustworthy standard, 
 as a gage of perfection by which all heads 
 might be studied and charts marked, has never 
 before been produced. 
 
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 The chief differences or iinprovemenients 
 made by the author in this new system of 
 mental science, are : 
 
 I. The association of Individuality, Form, 
 Size, Weight, and Color, with the added fac- 
 ulty, Relation, under the head u Facts." 
 
 The definition of Individuality is knowledge 
 and memory of things ; of Form, forms ; Size, 
 sizes ; Weight, relation to the perpendicular ; 
 and Color, colors. 
 
 The four latter merely deal with some of the 
 qualities or components of the former, the 
 rest of the qualities of a thing being detected 
 by the senses of feeling, tasting, smelling, and 
 hearing, which need the perception of their 
 relation to a thing. The function of Relation 
 is also to perceive the relation of each to all. 
 A nice development of this faculty can be seen 
 in the pictures of Emerson and Goethe. 
 
 A harmonious development of all these points 
 is necessary for a quick and correct perception 
 and memory of facts. 
 
 II. The association of the faculties known as 
 Eventuality, Locality, Time, Tune, and Lan- 
 guage, under the head " Memory," which em- 
 braces only memoiy of ideas, idea meaning, a a 
 general notion or conception formed by gen- 
 eralization." 
 
 A little thought will show that the memory 
 of events and localities is made up of the mem- 
 ory of a number of associated i repressions re- 
 ceived through the eyes or other senses. 
 
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 The regular heart-beat is the human time- 
 keeper, and its impressions, with the other 
 means of determining duration, associated with 
 figures, lettem, words, objects, sounds, &c, are 
 probably the basis of time and tune. 
 
 Sound means nothing until associated with 
 words, time, objects, &c, and then it mean 
 tune or language. 
 
 We remember verbal language from forms 
 of letters, their association into words, and the 
 association of words into sentences, as well as 
 by the sound made in pronouncing and the 
 length of time taken in utterance. 
 
 All impressions being received through the 
 senses, and meaning different things according 
 to their associations, it is very difficult to ana- 
 lyze the sources of these memories. 
 
 Every faculty of the mind probably remem- 
 bers the ideas relating to its special growth, 
 although not remembering from whence came 
 the first impressions, which are remembered 
 by the vaiious faculties which first received or 
 sprung from the impressions, 
 
 A full development of " Facts" is most ea 
 scntial to an excellent memory, as the separate 
 memories of qualities are so many aids. 
 
 A memory of associated ideas, without mem- 
 ory of the facts which are the primal and only 
 source of growth, can be attained from books 
 and teachers, but is of little value for progres- 
 sive harmonious growth. Those who have an 
 abnormal growth based on second-baud infor. 
 
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 tnation may be theorists and ornaments of so- 
 ciety, but the positive people who make society 
 and lead the other class from stage to stage 
 have a knowledge of facts, do not know much 
 but know what to do with what they know, 
 giving their facts with their theories, without 
 which, theories are useless. 
 
 The value of knowledge is not in attainment 
 but in application. 
 
 The teaching of associated ideas without the 
 facts is one of the principle errors made in the 
 present method of instruction in schools, col- 
 leges, seminaries, &c, which error certain work- 
 ers arc now trying to correct by their " kinder- 
 garten " system for children. 
 
 III. The association of the faculties known 
 as Comparison, Causality, Construct! veness, 
 Calculation, and Order, under the head " Rea- 
 son." These faculties are employed m deduc- 
 ing from Facts and Memory the material for 
 the growth and gratification of the other facuL 
 ties. 
 
 Comparison is reasoning by comparison or 
 analog)-. Judgment is based on comparison. 
 Our laws are the standard decided upon as to 
 what man should do. What man docs is com- 
 pared with this standard, and when the two 
 conflict he is condemned. We draw our stand- 
 ard of human nature from some of our acquain- 
 tances or from a conception deduced f:\>m ac- 
 quaintances. If the standard is a poor one we 
 will be poor judges of human nature ; if a true' 
 
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 one, we will read character accurately at a 
 glance, for every feature and expression has a 
 meaning, which feature or expression becomes 
 embodied in a standard of excellence or de- 
 pravity. The comparison is afterwards made 
 instinctively, and impressions received at first 
 sight. 
 
 Causality, Constructiveness, Calculation, and 
 Order, make the laws. Order deals with ar- 
 rangement of simple forms or facts. These are 
 multiplied by Calculation, while Constructive- 
 ness deals with facts, forms, sizes, colors, and 
 relations, in simple, complex, and compound 
 association, arrangement, and rearrangement, 
 while causality deduces or prophesies results 
 from the material thus constructed. 
 
 These five faculties form the • mill which 
 grinds the grain to provide for the necessities 
 of harmonious life, and a single wheel in this 
 mill being at fault, puts the whole system of 
 machinery out of gear, creating discord. 
 
 Constructiveness is the center of this group, 
 and is, essentially, the mathematical faculty ; 
 and the harmonious working together of these 
 intellectual faculties develops system, which 
 joins them with cxecutiveness, while Harmony 
 represents the harmonious working together of 
 all the groups of faculties. 
 
 IV. The association of the faculties dealing 
 with perception, memory, reasoning, or deduc- 
 ing under the head " Wisdom." 
 
 V. The association of the faculties known as 
 
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 Alimentiveness, Destructiveness,, Combative- 
 ness, Yitativeness, under the head a Longev- 
 ity," and changing their names to Food, Bite, 
 Bark, Life, and Force 
 
 Alimentiveness means love of food ; De- 
 structiveness, the ability to execute or biting 
 tendency ; Combativeness, the energetic, driv- 
 ing or barking tendency. 
 
 Combativeness was thus named by Phrenolo- 
 gists, who found a peculiar development in peo- 
 ple who wasted a good deal of strength without 
 accomplishing great results. The deficiency of 
 the forward part of Destructiveness, working 
 with System, which gives the calculated accu- 
 racy which makes the bite, is necessarily the 
 cause of this peculiar development , Combat ive- 
 ness being the back part of Destructiveness. 
 
 Vitativeness means love of life. There could 
 be no life without love of life, and there could 
 be no progression without the u love of the 
 best " in life eternally working at the center 
 of all being. . 
 
 Amativeness has been associated with love 
 of sex ; but experiments by Dalton and other 
 scientists proved the relation of that part of the 
 brain with physical strength or control of 
 physical action, and the love of sex is merely 
 p conjugal tic, which is the function of Mate. 
 
 VI. The addition of two of the five infalli- 
 ble physiognomical signs of health. 
 
 VIL The association of the social faculties 
 under the head *• Love," and the changing of 
 
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 their names from long to short technicalities, 
 namely , Conjugalit} 7 , or union for life, to Mate; 
 Philoprogenitix eness, or love of children and 
 pets, to Pets ; Inhabitiveness, or love of home, 
 to Home ; Adhesiveness, or love of particular 
 friends, to Friends, and the addition of Society. 
 
 Each of these names, as well as those of the 
 following groups of faculties, needs the prefix 
 of the words " love of," or a appreciation of,'" 
 which must be understood. 
 
 VIII The association under the head of 
 " Self" and changing the names of the facul- 
 ties known as Continuity, Caution, Secretive- 
 ness, Approbativeness, Self-esteem, Conscien^ 
 tiousness, and Firmness, to Application, Pru- 
 dence, Virtue, Ego, Law, and Will, as more 
 simple and appropriate. 
 
 Application is necessary to all excellence, and 
 working with Prudence and joining the Self 
 to the Love or Social faculties produces tem- 
 perance of action or careful action. 
 
 Virtue is the result of the working together 
 of the faculties known as Caution and Con-* 
 Scientiousness. 
 
 Love of praise or Approbativeness is a func-- 
 tion of Society. 
 
 Praise is only an expression of appreciation,- 
 and is especially relished by those who lack ap- 
 preciation of self ; but the better we appreci- 
 ate self the less we care for the approval of 
 other, and especially of those whom we have 
 reason to believe are not acquainted with or 
 
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 cannot appreciate our merits. A friend's sin- 
 cere expression of appreciation is relished by all. 
 
 Secretiveness, so-called, is lack of calculated 
 accuracy. People who are weak or are contin- 
 ually making mistakes necessarily become siy 
 and timid, it being their only means for de- 
 fence, and will disappear when the cause is 
 removed by the adoption of a sk>w r , sure, posi- 
 tive rule of action. 
 
 Ego gives the appreciation of individual 
 rights, and Law, of eternal justice, while Will 
 gives determination to stand and tight for 
 what we think is right, which may be justice 
 or injustice, according to our accurate knowl- 
 edge of universal laws, without which knowl- 
 edge we can not be just to self or others 
 
 IX. The association under the head u Pur- 
 ity " and changing the names of the faculties 
 known as Sublimity, Ideality, Suavity, Human 
 Nature, Imitation, Spirituality, Hope, Benevo- 
 lence, and Veneration, to Faith, Man, Hope, 
 Charity, and Eternal Pan. 
 
 Appreciation of human nature or Man in tho 
 front part of the head balances the apprecia- 
 tion of self or Ego in the back part of the head. 
 The former has to do with human nature in 
 general, the latter with human nature in self. 
 The growth of Ego can only come from per- 
 gonal success or excellence, and that of the 
 other from the discovery of laws or underlying 
 principles governing all human action. 
 
 The separate development of Ego is tyranny ; 
 
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 ba lanced by Human Nature it leaves self-re- 
 spect. Each man is his own teacher, and can 
 see no higher than his own head or character* 
 PtiHty makes the true and only aristocracy. 
 
 This faculty of appreciation of man embraces 
 Suavity, or agreeableness, and Imitation, which 
 constitute the dramatic arid artistic talent. 
 
 The secret of dramatic success has been re- 
 duced to the one principle, " Be natural." You 
 cannot act what you cannot feeL A clown 
 cannot act the saint unless they have feelings 
 ill common, and vice versa. 
 
 Fools can fool only fools. 
 
 Agreeableness is only acting and imitation^ 
 and those who are in harmony with Nature- 
 and the universe have an expression and per- 
 ception that cannot be imitated or deceived. 
 Sugar coating may be nice for pills • but it is 
 the truth which hits the mark, whether adorned 
 or unadorned, and it cuts only those who are 
 in error for their good. When simple truth 
 cannot be spoken, let man hold eternal silence. 
 
 Art consits in imitating or cultivating Na- 
 ture. It has ^opied it now must cultivate. It 
 lias wrcncbed itself in its endeavors to pad> 
 double, and patch up coverings for embossing 
 of rhe human form to make it approach some 
 fashion-maker's model, the origin of which few 
 ; eem to know or care about, and the author 
 iuis Hot been able to decide whether it is the 
 w.uli of resurrection or contortion— it cer- 
 ta'.nlv is not human. 
 
31 
 
 A perfect form needs only a simple cover- 
 ing — an ostentatious one it makes ridiculous. 
 
 Freedom of limbs, absolutely necessary to 
 perfect health and muscular development, de- 
 mands the adoption of simple and loose cloth- 
 ing by males and females. 
 
 The modeling of the human form b}^ exer- 
 cise surpasses all. sculptures' art. How can 
 art even approximate iiiwStone the rapid and 
 nameless changing of expression and movement 
 of muscle and form of the childish beauty, 
 which melts to music the hardest heart. The 
 most precious of all knowledge is that which 
 will prolong those charms through old age. 
 
 Paintings may transfer colors ; but not the 
 perfumes, the sunshine, the zephyrs, and the 
 ever changing shades of light and shadow, and 
 varying colors of the dancing green leaves and 
 grass-blades, or the melodious concord of bird 
 and insect voices, which make up the perfect 
 whole— Nature. 
 
 Faith embraces Ideality, Sublimity, AJirth- 
 f ulness. and Spirituality. It is a step of the 
 intellect toward divine conception. 
 
 Ideality or imagination is but higher deduc- 
 tion, and a result of the harmonious working 
 of all of the facujtles, which produces an ap- 
 preciation of and faith in coming excellence. 
 Man cannot conceive of any thing beyond com- 
 plete harmony, which is what we love in Na- 
 ture, it being the grand and sublime. 
 
 Music is harmony ; 
 
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 Poetry is harmony ; 
 
 Beauty is harmony ; 
 
 Love is harmony ; 
 
 Happiness is harmony ; 
 
 And the breath of the Eternal Pan, working" 
 at the center of all life, is love of happiness or 
 Harmony. 
 
 Mirthfulness is but an expression of harmony, 
 and its keenest sensation does not always pro- 
 voke laughter. Laughter is as often satirical 
 as it is expressive of pleasure or harmony. 
 
 The intellect detects incongruities, which 
 may provoke laughter, but, with a love of the 
 human race, a comparison of man's present con- 
 dition with what might and should be produces 
 sorrow, of which laughter is sometimes as. ex- 
 pressive as tears. Wit is satire. There is noth- 
 ing ridiculous but ignorance. 
 
 Ilope springs eternal in the human breast, 
 and the greater our harmony, the clearer can 
 we see the dawn of eternal day — on earth se- 
 cured, in heaven perpetuated. 
 
 When harmony approaches, envy, vanity, 
 jealousy, and littleness slink out of sight. 
 
 These but aiise from man's ignorance of the 
 true means of satisfying his everlasting wants, 
 or rather, necessities. Man is only greedy 
 when lie is hungry or sick. Not even beasts 
 rob or murder for the sake of creating; misery. 
 The cat plays with a mouse the same as -with 
 its tail or a ball of yarn — for the sake of amuse- 
 ment — and the fortitude which enables it to 
 
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 sit and watch a hole in the floor for hours, 
 allows it to put off its repast awhile for the 
 sake of a " little fun." Keep the animals well- 
 fed and they won't eat each other, and if man 
 seems different from the other animals in this 
 respect it is because he has more wants without 
 knowing how to gratify them all. 
 
 Hope and Faith may be inherited, but they 
 cannot be developed except by the harmonious 
 action of all the live groups of faculties, which 
 is their primary and only source of growth, and 
 is necessary for progression. 
 
 Every man has his own conception of God, 
 ever has had, and ever shall have, and the true 
 conception of Eternal Pan, the God of Nature, 
 will probably not be reached except b} T the 
 perfect man, the beauty and harmony of whose 
 life will undoubtedly surpass the richest dream 
 of the present race. Before man understands 
 the laws which control man and planet, he may 
 suppose a great God interposes in his insignifi- 
 cant personal affairs ; but afterwards he knows 
 him as a God of grand, incomprehensible and 
 unchangeable laws, and that he must obey 
 those laws to deserve or receive blessing. 
 
 Man's only source of knowledge or concep- 
 tion are the feelings or impressions received 
 through his senses, from which reason makes 
 all deductions. 
 
 Prophecy is the result of such conception, 
 and the wise prophet is but a mathematician 
 who deals with the problems of existence — 
 
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 what is and what has been being the factors, 
 what shall be, the result. 
 
 Law, Philosophy, Theology, Medicine, Chem- 
 istry, Astronomy, Mechanics — all sciences, 
 trades, and professions — are but different 
 branches of mathematics, and a knowledge of 
 their basis of facts, principles of deduction, and 
 results, in their relation to happiness and 
 utility, is all that is worth knowing. 
 
 It is a common and indisputable assertion 
 that " figures won't lie," and figures merely 
 represent facts. If there are any doubts or 
 falsities in doctrines or theories, they come 
 from incorrect deductions, and there must be 
 a reduction to first principles or facts to dis- 
 cover the cause of all differences. There are 
 many systems, but only one true and underly- 
 ing principle. No rule has an exception. It 
 ceases to be a rule when an exception is found. 
 
 X. The disuse of the word " Acquisitive- 
 ness," the definition of which is " love of 
 money." 
 
 Money is only a means, and but a toy to 
 supply the wants of the u love of the best." 
 
 What is wealth to man money cannot pur- 
 chase — namely, health, wisdom, and purity 
 
 The fact that a certain portion of the head 
 was exceptionally well filled out in capitalists 
 and wealthy men gave rise to this name ; but 
 men who have achieved success in any great 
 undei taking are persons having vitality and 
 syseni, which cause such development. Sys- 
 
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 tern results in economy. Ask any honest suc- 
 cessful merchant to what he owes his success 
 and he will inform you that it was to the 
 employment of system — namely, the adoption 
 of a few simple, reliable principles by which to 
 conduct business. 
 
 The proprietors of lotteries take no chances, 
 all the chances are taken by their poor victims. 
 Successful insurance agents and monopolists 
 are those who calculate con ectly. If producers 
 would live by system, they would bring capi- 
 talists and monopolists down to share their 
 labors, and all would be happier. 
 
 Standard. — Symmetry, balance, length, 
 height, and breadth of head, with health and 
 strength, are the measure of power and excel- 
 lence. Love and perception produce length ; 
 purity and self-appreciation produce height ; 
 and vitality produces breadth. 
 
 The active faculties are transferred to off- 
 spring, and this fact accounts for the malfor- 
 mation of many heads. Force may be inher- 
 ited without wisdom, which becomes a curse. 
 Hope and Faith may be inherited without the 
 faculties necessary for their growth, which is 
 also a curse, and amounts to insanity. These 
 abnormal developments can be easily detected, 
 as the fullest development of head in theorists 
 and visionary people is around the top forehead. 
 
 Insanity and Imbecility are either the result 
 of inheritance or weakness, and is a lack of har- 
 mony iii the entire character or make-up. 
 
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 The brain need not be abnormal or atrophied 
 when a nicely-shaped head does poor work, but 
 is either biased by false teachings or hindered 
 for want of the supplies necessary to give 
 activity to all its faculties. 
 
 Bad habits are tenacious, and so are good 
 ones. Good and bad are governed by the same 
 law, and result from harmony or deficiency in 
 development. . Instinct is the result of habits 
 either individually cultivated or inherited. 
 
 The longest line of development should be 
 that from the lowest part of the frontal sinus 
 (see chart and perfect head) to a point exactly 
 opposite in the back head. 
 
 All heads should measure a trifle over eight 
 inches, by caliper measurement at this point. 
 
 For symmetry and balance it is necessary 
 that the head should have its fullest develop- 
 ments on the lines extending from these points 
 over the top head, where the two brain hemis- 
 pheres meet, and around the center of the side 
 head, all parts balancing each other on an axis 
 directly above the center between the openings 
 of the ears. The head must symmetrical ty 
 curve from the lowest point of the frontal sinus 
 to a parallel point just above the opening of the 
 ears, and from that to the center of the back- 
 head, the whole top head curving symmetri- 
 cally upward from that line to the center point, 
 which should be highest directly above the 
 center of a line between the two ear openings. 
 
 Lon;;th ? balance, and symmetry, will give ex« 
 
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 cellenee, but breadth of head is necessary to 
 long; life and great muscular strength and force. 
 
 The author adopts the gage of twenty-five 
 inches, (that being exclusive of the thickness 
 of the skull and frontal sinus, the examiner to 
 make allowance for that by conclusions drawn 
 from general build or temperament) for the 
 circumference of a standard perfect head, which 
 must resemble a perfect sphere in symmetry 
 and balance, because he has never seen or heard 
 of a head of that description, and the propor* 
 tions for harmony agree with the conclusions 
 resultant from live years of continuous study 
 and observations in endeavors to solve the 
 problem of the ages — u What is the matter 
 with man-kind, and what will be the propor- 
 tions of a perfect man " I have taken two 
 courses of instruction in the American Insti- 
 tute of Phrenology in New York city, which ig 
 under the management of Fowler, Wells & Co.^ 
 and pursued my observations in tbat city, Bos- 
 ton, Philadelphia, and Washington, having had 
 a chance to study the heads of the leading men 
 in the country. 
 
 There is a gentleman in this city whose head 
 measures twenty-eight inches and a half in 
 circumference and twenty-one inches over the 
 top, from ear opening to ear opening, by tape 
 measurement, and ten and one-half inches in 
 length and eight and one-half inches in breadth 
 by caliper measurement. His weight is one 
 hundred and forty pounds, and he states that 
 
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 his head increased in size most rapidly the first 
 three }^ears of his life. 
 
 To compare with this remarkable develop- 
 ment we have the following description of the 
 head of Ealph Waldo Emerson, for which we 
 are indebted to a biography of Emerson by 
 0. W. Holmes: " He wore a hat measuring 
 six and seven-eights, which is equivalent to 
 tw T enty-one inches and a quarter in circumfer- 
 ence. The average size is from seven to seven 
 and an eighth. so that his head was quite small 
 in that dimension. It was long and narrow, 
 but lofty, almost symmetrical, and of more 
 nearly equal breadth in its anterior and pos- 
 terior region than many or most heads." 
 
 This agrees with Emerson's life and writings. 
 If his head was of that circumference where 
 the hat rests, and was long and narrow, lofty, 
 and symmetrical, it probably touched, or very 
 closely approximated, the front, back, and top 
 line of the circle necessary for a head twenty- 
 five inches in circumference, lacking only the 
 side development which gives longevity and 
 great muscular strength and endurance, which 
 deficiency Emerson realized, and deplored in 
 the following lines in " Terminus." 
 " Curse, if thou wilt, thy sires, 
 Bad husbands of their tires, 
 Who, when they gave thee breath, 
 Failed to bequeath 
 The needful sinew stark as once, 
 The baresark marrow to thy bones, 
 But left a legacy of ebbing veins, 
 Inconstant heat and nerveless reins." 
 
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 Mr. Holmes' biography of Emerson is well 
 "worth perusing, but the author of it made some 
 bad errors, as is always the case when an in- 
 consistent writer tries to criticise a consistent 
 one. He accuses Emerson ofa lack of accuracy, 
 which is Emerson's chief charm, and the one 
 that places him above the heads of almost all 
 other writers, and especially his biographer. 
 His idealism is accurate deduction from facts. 
 u Truth is stranger than fiction," always. 
 
 Mr Holmes states- 
 
 " He once corrected me in giving Flora Temple's time 
 at Kalamazoo. I made a mistake of a quarter of a sec- 
 ond, and he set me right. He was not always so exact in 
 his memory, as I have shown in several instances." 
 
 One of which instances is worth mentioning, 
 as it speaks for itself. 
 
 He found the following two lines merely 
 quoted by Emerson without any credit : 
 
 *■ The pulses of her iron heart 
 Go beating through the storm," 
 
 and with considerable presumption states that 
 they must be an incorrect quotation of two 
 lines of some of his own verses, which he quotes 
 as follows : 
 
 *' The beating of her restless neart 
 Still sounding through the storm." 
 
 But he is excusable, as, after caviling about 
 the supposed change, he gives us the key to his 
 own weakness in these words : u . But extreme 
 accuracy was not one of Emerson's special gifts, 
 and vanity whispers to the misrepresented 
 
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 i versifier." Vanity whispers instead of wisdom. 
 The author has not seen Mr Holmes' head, but 
 he knows that it lacks symmetry, for heads ancf 
 writings agree. Such a wise counsel as that 
 which he quotes as Emerson's advice to a stu- 
 dent who threatened to write an essay on 
 Plato is not to be disregarded, namely, u When 
 you strike at a king^ you must kill him." He 
 might follow more of Emerson's advise and be 
 benefitted : 
 
 "Life is too short to waste 
 In critic peep or cynic bark," 
 
 "Up! mind thine own aim, and 
 God speed the mark ( " 
 
 The one great trouble tvith almost everybody 
 is lack of system, and how well that deficiency 
 corresponds to the shape of heads can be seen 
 everywhere by everybody. Fowler, Wells & 
 vb.'s ideal head lacks system, and resembles 
 the average' head, as well as the head of its de- 
 signer.- 
 
 A lack of development of any of the facul- 
 ties arises from one or more of the following 
 causes : False teachings or ignorance ; lack of 
 health and vitality necessary for harmonious 
 growth ; or absorbtion of entire time and at- 
 tention in business pursuits. 
 
 The first can only be remedied by the reduc- 
 tion of all knowledge to first principles ; the 
 second, hy eating proper food and systemati- 
 cally exercising ; and the latter can only be 
 obviated by making wages correspond to wants 
 
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 or bringing wants down to correspond with 
 wages, until every man and woman is master 
 of their own time, and not slaves to task-mas- 
 ters, be they individuals or customers. Each 
 person must be able to act according to their 
 own wisdom if they desire harmonious devel- 
 opment. These rights can only be secured by 
 association and co-operation, and this is impos- 
 sible while people lack system. Every person 
 must do a part of the producing, and the pro- 
 ducts of one person's labor must be equivalent 
 to another person's labor before there is equal- 
 ity, and certificates of labor instead of gold be 
 the currency. As much as is necessary to pro- 
 vide for a well-endowed person is necessary to 
 provide for a weak person's wants, who is de- 
 prived by ignorance or inheritance of the great- 
 est boon man can enjoy. Who does not work, 
 (unless invalid.) should not be allowed to eat 9 
 no matter what their ancesters did. Our Na- 
 tional Constitution gives us equal rights to life, 
 liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, which 
 isbeiied Iry our laws, which allow one man to 
 live without work, and leaves another a beg- 
 gar from birth, not even daring to appropriate 
 enough land on which to raise food to sustain 
 life. The principles of the Constitution must 
 be stood by or the lies erased, whatever be- 
 comes of the laws. Land, as well as air and 
 water, are man's birthright— each to have as 
 much as is necessary to secure independence, 
 the rest common property, neither to be bought 
 
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 or sold any more than the air we breathe. 
 It may be impossible to secure this by laws or 
 legislatures, but by co-operation everything is 
 possible, and when people have a religion of 
 facts, think facts, eat facts, sleep facts, and die 
 for facts, facts and nothing but facts, taking 
 no chances and making no mistakes, one step 
 at a time and that a sure one, then, and not 
 before, will men be freemen and live true to 
 their highest nature. 
 
 System is natural and blundering abnormal. 
 
 Faculties cultivated by parents become 
 instinct in children. 
 
 A comparison of the magnificent horses seen 
 on Fifth Avenue, New York city, with their 
 haggard, careworn, avaricious, yellow -complex- 
 ioned owners, shows that the horses are the 
 noblest animals of the two. The beautiful 
 horses show the result of scientific feeding and 
 attention, the owners show the result of igno- 
 rance and debauchery. They employed system 
 in their business but not in their living The 
 event of reducing such men to physical labor 
 would bless them as well as mankind. 
 
 Man is not a slave to man, but to his own 
 appetites and passions. When he controls 
 them he will be his own master. Plain clothes, 
 plain food, and few physical wants will leave 
 him free, with time and means for the cultiva- 
 tion and enjoyment of his higher faculties. 
 
 A chart of the head will prove a valuable 
 guide to aid improvement, because it is marked 
 
48 
 
 -according to actual measurements, and u fig- 
 ures won't lie/' 
 
 The fact that the world must be round and 
 that one hemisphere most be balanced hj an- 
 other hemisphere, or, in other words, that bal- 
 ance and symmetry is the infallible law of the 
 universe, drew Columbus across the water, and 
 proves that the perfect head will be a perfect 
 sphere. 
 
 Our lingers and toes are in groups of five.; 
 we have five senses ; five arms from the body ; 
 the faculties group themselves into fives ; and 
 the star, ever man's brightest symbol and great- 
 est mystery appears to us with five points, and 
 five times five, or twenty-five inches, will an- 
 swer for the circumference of the standard 
 perfect head till it is proved true or a better 
 Standard discovered. A standard bushel is 
 necessary in measuring grain, and a standard 
 head is necessary for any accurate study of 
 Phrenology. 
 
 The perfect man will probably live hundreds 
 of years, or as long as the Biblical records teil 
 that he once lived. 
 
 The average head measures from twenty-two 
 to twenty-three inches in circumference, but 
 it is oblong and lacks symmetry, and the ma- 
 jority of the human race are invalids. 
 
 Any careful observer, by adopting the sym- 
 metrical head as a standard, and carefully 
 studying the chart in this boo!;, will soon per- 
 £ei\p that every shape of head has its accom- 
 
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 panning peculiarity of personal action, and wrtfj 
 
 practice be able to read character from the 
 shape of the head and signs of health in the 
 face as from an open book. 
 
 The head is the only reliable indicator of 
 character. Brain is developed by exercise, and 
 man's inmost thoughts mold the shape of his 
 skull. The acids carried by the blood dissolve 
 and build up the bony material of the skull 
 as rapidly as the character changes The hard 
 in Nature always succombs to the soft; 
 
 Faces express character, for there is harmony 
 throughout Nature's works, and she ever speaks 
 to man. in symbols 7 the key of which she places 
 in her lover's brain. 
 
 Trees, flowers, zephyrs, perfumes speak plaiu 
 without a tongne. 
 
 Animals tell their secret history to the 
 naturalist. 
 
 Strata and stones speak to the geologist. 
 
 The God that created the universe inventedf 
 this language and wrote these books. All that 
 man knows they taught him. 
 
 " The word unto the prophet spoken 
 Was writ on tables yet unbroken j 
 The word by seers or sibyls told. • 
 In groves of oak, or fanes of gold, 
 Still floats upon the morning wind, 
 Still whispers to the willing mind. 
 One accent of the Holy Ghost 
 The heedless world has never lost/' 
 
 Facts and mafomatical deductions from facts 
 are the secret. 
 
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 They were the founders of all religions. 
 
 The stars shine now as in olden times. 
 
 If man deduced religions truths from facts 
 then he can now. 
 
 Saint, poet, philosopher, scientist continually 
 shake hands. 
 
 Inspiration comes hack to reason, for it is 
 reason's offspring. 
 
 They held slaves, and supposed that special 
 men and races were blessed and divine — we 
 advocate man y s equality before his Creator, no 
 special man, sect, or race, but all men, sects, 
 and races are blessed and divine. 
 
 From a divine Creator, nothing but divinity 
 can flow. 
 
 They believed woman was an inferior crea- 
 tion — we are just learning to appreciate her 
 equality. 
 
 They wrote, " Man was created male and 
 female " — we have pretended to endorse it, but 
 the true meaning of that writing it but dawn- 
 ing upon us. 
 
 There can be but one perfect head. 
 
 Boys and girls inherit equally from both 
 parents ; but ignorance seeks to restrain the 
 growth ► f the one and encourage the growth 
 <>f I lie i*1 her, which has ever been a check to 
 human progress, for all must advance together. 
 
 They had Christ and Buddha — we have Em- 
 erson, who has not supplanted, but absorbed 
 all others. 
 
 Through him speaks the Creator. 
 
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 REVELATION, 
 
 "SOl^G OF NATURE." 
 
 ''Time and thought were my surveyors, 
 They laid their courses well, 
 They boiled the sea, and piled the layers 
 Of granite, marl, and shell. 
 
 But he, the man-child rrlorious,-^- 
 Where tarries he the while ? 
 The rainbow shines his harbinger, 
 The sunset gleams his smile. 
 
 My boreal lights ieap upward, 
 Forthright my planets roll, 
 And still the mamchild is not born, 
 The summit of the whole," 
 
 ft Yet whirl the glowing wheels once more, 
 And mix the bowl again ; 
 Seethe, Fate ! the aneient elements, 
 Heat, cold, wet, dry, and peace, and pain, 
 
 Let war and trade and creeds and song 
 Blend, ripen race on race, 
 The sunburnt world a man shall breed 
 Of all the zones and countless days." 
 
 A perfect man has never been born. 
 
 It comes from the mouth of a prophet, a 
 greater than whom has never lived. 
 
 Buddha taught harmony ; Christ taught di* 
 vine man and love ; Emerson added divine 
 men and wisdom— had they lived in the same 
 era they would have been co-working Gods. 
 
 Christ discovered his own divinity ; but not 
 ts universality, 
 
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 Emerson discovered that life was divinity 
 working upward through all forms : 
 
 " Yet spake yon purple mountain, 
 Yet said yor ancient wood, 
 That ni/rht or day, that love or crime, 
 Leads all souls to the good." 
 
 " The soul's pilgrimage and flight, 
 In city or in solitude, 
 Step by step lifts bad to good, 
 Without halting, without rest, 
 Lifting better up to best, 
 Planting seeds of knowledge pure, 
 Through earth to ripen, through heaven endure.'* 
 
 " The fiend that man harries 
 Is love of the Best ; 
 Yawns the pit of the Dragon, 
 Lit by rays from the Blest." 
 
 Neglect libraries, sciences, professions, trades; 
 but study Emerson. His poems contain his 
 prophecies, his other works the explanation or 
 line of deduction from facts. 
 
 A student of all sciences, reader of histories 
 and biographies, studying flowers, stars, man 
 and God— abreast of the rising tide of the 
 Nineteenth century discoveries or revelations, 
 and leading a life of purity not surpassed by 
 that of Christ, his eyes pierced the infinite. 
 
 He wanted to know only what Man needs. 
 
 Christ died for man, Emerson lived for man 
 — which was the grander ? 
 
 Emerson had a Christ to study, Christ had 
 no Emerson ; but, after all, it is only another 
 blossom of the perfect fruit which is yet to 
 ripen 
 
48 
 
 Unite Bethlehem's great heart to Emerson's 
 infinite perception, and add the God of eter- 
 nal justice, who makes Self and universe sub- 
 ject to the same law, and the heavens draw 
 down.. 
 
 The scientists have decided that all forms of 
 life are hut " Arrested and Progressive devel- 
 opment." Of what ? There is but one an- 
 swer ! " Of the various forms through which 
 soul works upward toward perfection." 
 
 Clothe soul witli the most beautiful dreams 
 of human conception and they fade to ghastly 
 paleness, for what are dreams but single vibra- 
 tions of the perfect tune which puny man knows 
 not yet how to prolong. 
 
 The God of Nature is our Father, let us seek 
 to be Gods by studying all of God's works. 
 
 " Too long shut in strait and few, 
 Thinly dieted on dew, 
 I will use the world and sift it, 
 To a thousand humors shift it, 
 As you spin a cherry. 
 O dolemi ghosts, and goblins merry 1 
 O all you virtues, methods, mights, 
 Means, appliances, delights, 
 Reputed wrongs and braggart rights, 
 Smug routine,, and things allowed, 
 Minorities, things under cloud ! 
 Hither ! take me, use me, fdl me, 
 Vein and artery, though ye kill iuq!" 
 
 Thus Emerson writes his own biography. 
 He was the greatest of all mathematicians. 
 Figures symbolize facts for bookworms; but 
 not for this higher form, who lived — 
 
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 u Pondering shadows, colors, clouds, 
 Grass-buds, and caterpillar shrouds, 
 Boughs on which the wild bees settle", 
 Tints that spot the violet's petal, 
 Why Nature loves the number five, 
 And why the star-form she repeats : 
 Lover of all things alive, 
 Wonderer at all he meets, 
 Wonderer chiefly at himself, 
 Who can tell him what he is ? 
 Or how meet in human elf 
 Coming and past eternities ? 
 
 Ever diving, sifting, gleaning, propounding 
 the riddle he was solving — he ever remained a 
 riddle, and ever will, to the cowardly and im- 
 pure. Led by and never fearing God, his only 
 care was not to make a false step. 
 
 Truth is not complex, but simple, and babes 
 can understand it. He put his verses to a 
 a Test." 
 
 " I hung my verses in the wind, 
 Time and tide their faults may find. 
 All were winnowed through and through, 
 Five lines lasted sound and true ; 
 Five were smelted in a pot 
 Than the South more fierce and hot ; 
 These the siroc could not melt, 
 Fire their fiercer flaming felt, 
 And the meaning Avas more white 
 Than July's meridian light. 
 Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, 
 Nor time unmake what poets know. 
 Have you eyes to find the five 
 Which five hundred did survive ?" 
 
 the five lines describe God in creatures. 
 
 " He is the essence that inquires ; 
 He is the axis of the star ; 
 
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 He is the sparkle of the spar ; 
 He is the heart of every creature ; 
 He is the meaning of each feature." 
 
 Man is bat a tool in the hands of God. 
 
 ** The "World-soul knows his own affair, 
 Forelooking, when he would prepare 
 For the next ages, men of mould 
 Well embodied, well ensoulej, 
 He cools the present's fiery glow, 
 Sets the life-pulse strong but slow : 
 Bitter winds and fasts austere 
 His quarantines and grottoes, where 
 He slowly cures decrepid flesh, 
 And brings it infantile and iresh. 
 Toil and tempest are the toys 
 And games to breathe his stalwart boys : 
 They bide their time, and well can prove , 
 If need were, their line from Jove ; 
 Of the same stuff, and so allayed, 
 As that whereof the sun is made, 
 And of the fibre, quick and strong, 
 Whose throbs are love, whose thrills are song.' 
 
 ** And the sons of intellect, 
 And the souls of ample fate, 
 Whom the future's gates unbar 
 Minions of the morning star, 
 In his prowess he exults, 
 And the multitude insults." 
 
 " Through all time, in light, in gloom, 
 Well I hear the approaching feet 
 On the flinty pathway beat 
 Of him that cometh and shall come." 
 
 " The wild-eyed boy, who in the woods 
 Chants his hymn to hill and floods, 
 Whom the city's poisoning spleen 
 Made not pale, or fat, or lean ; 
 Whom the rain and the wind purgetli, 
 
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 Whom the dawn and the day-star urgeth, 
 
 In whose cheek the rose-leaf blusheth, 
 
 In whose feet the lion rusheth, 
 
 Iron arms, and iron mould. 
 
 That know not fear, fatigue, or cold/' 
 
 One man may be better or worse than an- 
 other man. but the same causes governed the 
 growth of both, namely, wisdom and circum- 
 stances. Knowledge of laws and appreciation 
 of their universality, and of the blessings which 
 follow obedience, and of the misery following 
 disobedience to laws constitute wisdom. Lack 
 of such knowledge is ignorance. Freedom to 
 act according to such wisdom and vitality 
 enough to supply necessary tii e and strength 
 to reach the goal is controlled by circumstances. 
 
 Wisdom may be attained by personal effort, 
 and our strength increased by care and atten- 
 tion ; but probably at birth our limits to per- 
 fectibility are set. 
 
 True reform must be commenced before gen- 
 eration, and whoever fails to study and obey 
 the physical laws governing generation will be 
 deservedly blamed or cursed by the child of 
 ignorance in the coming generation. Simple, 
 accurate, and reliable information has lately 
 been published in •* The Science of a Xew 
 Life," by John Cowan, Cincinnati, in regard to 
 this subject, which should be studied by every 
 man, woman. and child. Mr. Cowan lacks Em- 
 erson's conception of a perfect man, but he sci- 
 entifically proves m his chapter on u Conti- 
 nence " the truth emphasized by Emerson : 
 
IS — 
 
 "' Warning to the blind and deaf, 
 "Ka written on the iron ]eaf , 
 Who drinks of C lipid's nectar cup, 
 Loveth downward, and not tip/' 
 
 " Yet shine forever virgin minds, 
 Loved by stars and purest winds, 
 Which o'er passion throned sedate, 
 Have not hazarded their state." 
 
 Emerson describes love. 
 
 " Not with scarfs or perfumed gloves 
 Do these celebrate their loves." 
 
 " Their cords of love so public are, 
 They intertwine the farthest star ; 
 The throbbing- sea, the quaking earth, 
 Yield sympathy and signs of mirth : 
 Is none so high, so mean is none, 
 But feels and seals this union ; 
 Even the fell Furies are appeased, 
 The good applaud, the lost are eased. 
 Love's hearts are faithful but not fond, 
 Bound for the just, but not beyond ; 
 Not glad, as the low-loving herd, 
 Of self in other still preferred, 
 But they have heartily designed 
 The benefit of broad mankind. 
 And they serve men austerely, 
 After their own genius clear ly ; 
 Without a false humility ; 
 For this is love's nobility, — 
 Not to scatter bread and gold, 
 Goods and raiment bought and sold ; 
 But to hold fast his simple sense, 
 And .speak the speech of innocence, 
 And with hand and body and blood, 
 To 'make his bosom-counsel good. 
 He that feeds men serve! h few ; 
 He serves all who dares be true." 
 
 - " On him the light of star and moon 
 
 Shall fall wiili purer radiance 4<>wn, . 
 
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 All constellations of the sky 
 Shed their virtue through his eye. 
 Him Nature givcth for defcice 
 His formidable innocence ; 
 The mounting sap, the she 's, the sea, 
 All spheres, all stones, his helpers be ; 
 He shall meet the speeding year, 
 Without wailing, without fear ; 
 He shall be happy in his love, 
 Like to like shall joyful prove." 
 
 Is it any wonder tha* such a pure soul dares 
 to stand alone. 
 
 " For what need I of book or priest, 
 Or siby] from the mummied East, 
 When every star is Bethlehem's star." 
 
 Human nature is the same, and seeks the 
 same, whether it is the reckless profligate, sac- 
 rificing future in the present, the pius saint, 
 trying to purchase the future by sacrificing the 
 present, or the keen-witted philosopher, trying 
 to get into harmony with his surroundings, or. 
 trying to bring surroundings into harmony with 
 him, realizing that the flower that blooms into 
 the greatest beauty and fragrance in the pres- 
 ent life will bloom through eternity. 
 
 *' He follows joy and only joy, 
 There is no mask but he will wear, 
 He invented oaths to swear. 
 He paints, he carves, he chants, he prays, 
 And holds all stars in his embrace." 
 
 il Line in Nature is not found, 
 Unit and universe are round, 
 In vain produced, all rays return, 
 Evil will bices; and ice will burn.' 
 
 " For the world was built in order, 
 And the atoms march in tune ; 
 
Rhyme the pipe, and time the warder, 
 The sun obeys them and the moon. 
 Orb and atom forth they prance, 
 When they hear from far the rune ; 
 None so backward in the troop, 
 When the music and the dance 
 Reach his place and circumstance, 
 But knows the sun-creating sound, 
 And, though a pyramid, will bound. " 
 
 Why should the author say more? He has 
 tried to weave the underlying principles of 
 life in these pages, drawing to a focus around 
 man what the ages have been preparing, as his 
 small work in the grand movement, and he will 
 gladly hail the final book of tables of principles 
 which will contain all that is in this book, in 
 A. J. Bellows' " Philosophy of Eating," in John 
 Cowan's " Science of a New Life," and Ralph 
 Waldo Emerson's "Complete Works," 'with 
 what new truths science may yet add, arranged 
 according to their relation to man's happiness. 
 by knowledge of and obedience to which prin- 
 ciples the perfect man will yet be generated. 
 
 The following quotations, which close this 
 book, express the author's sentiment, and what 
 has been once beautifully expressed, needs only 
 repetition. 
 
 " But if I could, in severe or cordial mood, 
 Lead. you rightly to my altar, 
 Where the wisest muses falter. 
 And worship that world -warming spark, 
 Which dazzles me in midnight dark, 
 Equalizing small an \ large, 
 While the soul it do.h surcharge, 
 Till the poor is wealthy grown, 
 
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 And the hermit never alone — 
 The traveler and the road seem one, 
 With the errand to be done — 
 That were a man's and lover's part, 
 That were freedom's whitest chart." 
 
 Let man serve law for man, 
 Live for friendship, live for love, 
 For truth's and harmony's behoof, 
 The State may follow as it can, 
 As Olympus follows Jove." 
 
 To-day unbind the captive, 
 So only are ye unbound, 
 Lift up a people from the dust, 
 Trump of their rescue sound." 
 
 0,-what a load 
 
 Of care and toil, 
 
 By lying use bestowed, 
 
 From his shoulders falls, who sees 
 
 The true astronomy — 
 
 The period of peace." 
 
 The sun sets, but sets not his hope, 
 Stars rose, his faith was earlier up, 
 Fixed on the enormous galaxy, 
 Deeper and older seemed his eye, 
 And matched his sufferance sublime, 
 The taciturnity of time." 
 
 The debt is paid, 
 
 The verdict said, 
 
 The furies laid, 
 
 The plague is stayed, 
 
 All fortunes made. 
 
 Turn the key and bolt the door, 
 
 Sweet is death forevermore. 
 
 Nor haughty hope, nor swart chagrin, 
 
 murdering' hate can enter in. 
 All is now secure and fast, 
 
 the Gods can shake the past. 
 Flies to the adamantine door, 
 Bolted down forevermore. 
 
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 None can re-enter there, 
 
 No thief so politic, 
 
 No Satan with a royal trick, 
 
 Steal in by window, chink, or hole, 
 
 To bind or unbind, add what lacked, 
 
 Insert a leaf, or forge a name, 
 
 New -face or finish what is packed, 
 
 Alter or mend eternal FACT." 
 
 u I have an arrow that will find i}s mark, 
 A mastiff that will bite without a bark." 
 

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