Matrimony, or, Phrenology and physiology applied to the selection of congenial companions for life : including directions to the married for living affectionately and happily / by O.S. Fowler.

  • Fowler, O. S. (Orson Squire), 1809-1887.
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[between 1800 and 1899?]
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    o ANALYSIS AND ADAPTATION OF PARENTAL LOVE, men than women. It malres mothers love their sons more Jia»i their ilenfrhters, and causes fathers to be more attached to their daughters. h£c.n’s endearing recollections of his mother or wife, form his most oowerful incentives to virtue, study and good deeds, as well as the most powerful restraints upon his vicious inclinations ; and in proportion as a young man is dutiful and affectionate to his mother^ will he be fond of his wife, for this faculty is the parent of both. Those in whom it is large and active, are alive to the personal charms and mental accomplishments of the other sex : ardent admirers of their beautiful forms, graceful movements, elegant manners, soft and winning tones, looks, accents, &c. ; seek and enjoy their society ; easily reci- procate fond looks and feelings with them ; create favourable impres- sions, and kindle in them emotions of friendship, or the passion of love; and with Adhesiveness (or Friendship*) large, are inclined to marry,, and capable of the most devoted connubial love. Tliose in whom it is deficient, are proportionally cold hearted, distant, and ill at ease in the society of the other sex ; and less tender and affec- tionate, less soft and winning in their manners, less susceptible of con- nubial love, less mcliiied to marry, <fec. Its combinations, which so modify its action as actually to change its character from the best of feelings to the worst of passions, wdll be given after the other social faculties have been analyzed. Amativeness is supposed to be sub-divided ; the lower and inner portions manifesting the mere animal passion, or physical love ; the upper and outer portion, next to the ears, giving a disposition to caress accompanied with pure Platonic affection. PHILOPROGENITIVENESS : Parental love : attachment to one’s children : love of children general Man enters the world in a condition truly helpless. Infants requi » great amount of care and nursing. This infantile condition of man iias its counterpart in this faculty. Without its stimulus to provide for and watch over infancy, every infant must inevitably perish, and our race soon become extinct. No other faculty can fill its place, or accomplish its end. Infants cannot be regarded as friends, so that Adhesiveness cannot help them. Though Casuality might devise ways and means for their relief and comfort, yet it would not execute them and though Benevolence might do something, yet it would be far too little for their physical salvation, or for their moral and intellectual cultivation ; for, how many are there who are kind to adults, but unwilling to take care of children. These vexatious and expensive little creatures, are far more likely to array Combativeness, Destructiveness, Acquisitiveness, &c., against them, than to enlist Benevolence, or any other faculty in their behalf. If parents were not endowed with a faculty expressly adapted to the nursing and training of children, their burden would be intolerable. But this faculty not only casts into the shade all the toil, trouble and expense they cause, but even lacerates the parental heart with the keenest pangs when death ^«ars parents and children asunder. It • Phrenology has sufTored somewhat from the attempt of its founders tO' put it on a fooling, and especially in giving names to the organs, instead of plain English names, expressive of the function of the faculties. In order to make himself more fully understood by all, the author will use the term Fri ndship, instead of Adhesiveness ; Parental Love, instead of Philoprogenitiveness; llesistanco, instead of Coinbativenoss; Appetite^ instead of Alimentiveness; Belief, instead of Marvellousnes?; Observation instead of Individuality ; and so with others, the names of which do neV alr^dy express the function performed bv the organ.