Lectures on phrenology : delivered before the Young Men's Association for Mutual Improvement of the City of Albany / by Amos Dean.

  • Dean, Amos, 1803-1868.
Date:
1834
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    ascertained; their functions, modes of activity, and wants, fully understood. How necessary that in each individual instance the extent of organ and power of faculty, should be known for the purpose of strengthening the weak and remedying the de- fective. Another kind of knowledge becomes im- portant—the knowledge of the influence which the faculties possess over each other, arising from their functions and ascertained relations. It is through that influence that all the faculties may be rendered accessible, and a due degree of cultivation bestowed upon each. Is Love of Approbation, for instance., largely developed in a head in which Conscien- tiousness and Benevolence are defective? The sentiments of justice and goodness may be improv- ed, and cultivated, and strengthened, by awarding the smile of approbation to those acts which are the outward expression of those sentiments. This- influence of the faculties has been long known and in part acted upon. Man, in his infancy and youth, maturity and decline, has been sufficiently long at- tempted to be governed solely by appealing to his hopes and fears; his faculties of Hope and Cau- tiousness. It is time he recognized in himself other faculties worthy of being appealed to, and of setting to his acts the seal of their sanction. What is the object and end of all jurisprudence, ci- vil and criminal? It is the collection of general prin- ciples and their application to human acts, so far as those acts affect the rights or privileges of others; or in other words, it is the ascertaining and embodying