Utility of phrenology : a lecture / by L.N. Fowler.

  • Lorenzo N. Fowler
Date:
Between 1873 and 1879?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Utility of phrenology : a lecture / by L.N. Fowler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    quite probable that the boy inherited tlie father’s skill and ingenuity, and would have followed in-his footsteps with much credit, but it is doubtful whether he will equally adorn the pulpit. Hard labour without good plans fails to produce satisfactory results. Many men work very hard, but they have no settled purpose in life, only to drudge on from day to day in a kind of routine, without interest in what they do or accomplish. They hardly know why they toil, but work as necessity presses upon them. Some can f form schemes or lay plans for others to carry out; they can sit in ' their office, and with brain-labour furnish employment for 300 men. They have the natural organization to do this, and are much better qualified for such a position than to go into the fields to labour, or into the quarries to dig stone. Should they attempt either of the latter employments, they would fail in their efforts. Some can succeed in business simply because they can manage to invest what they make profitably. Others may toil as hard and even more diligently, but they expend as fast as they make, and sometimes their expenses are beyond their incomes. Some live faster than they can generate vitality, and the consequence is that they early break down in health and strength. Some will overwork in one day, and exhaust their vital forces, so that they cannot do anything on the suc¬ ceeding day. None need be surprised at the ultimate failure of such persons to accomplish much in life. Some know how to take advantage of circumstances,, and to adapt themselves to the occasion required. There is a fitness for all things, but our time is not always God's time. Moses thought that he was ready for his work when he slew the Egyptian, but it was necessary for him to spend forty years in the wilderness before he was prepared for his mission. When the Scotch regiment was at Balaclava, everything was prepared for the combat, and “ every bullet emptied a saddle.” Man is the noblest work of God ; was made by design, and for a specific purpose. All his various powers are adapted to certain rela¬ tions of life and conditions of things, and education is only complete when every faculty of the mind and function of the body are actively developed and devoted to a good end. Many men have been persecuted, imprisoned, and burned at the stake for advocating views that are now popular, so that no one need be discouraged if their own peculiar views are disbelieved by the mass, for if they are founded in nature, they will ultimately prevail. Perfection depends upon a full development, legitimate use, and right direction of the whole mind, the superior part taking the lead. Let us not forget that whatever may be our circumstances, it is “ the mind that makes the man.” It should be the aim of us all to arrive as near perfection as possible, for the more disciplined and developed we are in this life, the better shall we be prepared for our eternal existence. 22500883648 London: W. TWEEDIE, 337, Strand. ►'ll - a
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