Phrenology, and how to use it in analyzing character.

  • Morgan, Nicholas.
Date:
1871
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    r£3±^>- PREFACE. The object of this treatise is to promote the advance- ment of the science of phrenology, and to draw attention to its usefulness in analyzing character. To get to know our own mental and physical consti- tution is a valuable acquisition ; and next to it in import- ance is to acquire a knowledge of the external signs of the mental traits of our fellows,—that is, to be able to read the lines impressed on men's heads by the unerring operation of God's laws, so as to form correct judgments of people's dispositions, talents, and adaptabilities. The testimony of an impartial, intelligent, and correct observer as to the talents and character of any individual with whom he is well acquainted, is valuable ; but the testimony of God, as published in the volume of human nature, is as much more reliable than man's as He is superior to man in wisdom, knowledge, and goodness. Physiognomy is a useful aid to the character analyst; but the phrenological system is pre-eminently the most useful yet discovered. The principles of phrenology, with instructions for their right application in the study of character, are so fully