Familiar lessons on phrenology : designed for the use of children and youth / by Mrs. L.N. Fowler.

  • Fowler, Lydia F. (Lydia Folger), 1823-1879.
Date:
1884
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Credit: Familiar lessons on phrenology : designed for the use of children and youth / by Mrs. L.N. Fowler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    If men and women had not this organ large, we should not have as many hand¬ some, thickly-settled villages as we now have. People would live alone in the wilderness, or in the thick forest; but now, when a family moves to a new country, where they are compelled to cut down the trees for room to build their house, another family goes, and then another, till what was once a forest of trees becomes in a few years, a large village, with houses, stores, churches, &c. 5. Yes, children, make friends; treat them kindly, and you will be more happy than if you lived alone, with no ties of love and affection. 6. This feeling ol attachment is also seen among animals. They rarely ever live alone. Birds live and fly in companies. One bee never lives alone in the hive, but hundreds swarm together. One beaver never builds his hut alone, but a company of beavers associate, and each performs his particular part. Sheep skip and play together in the open field. This is true of almost all animals, and they, with us, have a little prominence on their skulls, caused by the development of brain which we call Adhesiveness. 7. Dogs have a large organ of Adhesiveness, and they evince the most devoted attachment to their masters. A man had a dog that was his constant companion by day and by night. He went with him when he hunted, and when he fished, and was always at his side. The man was taken sick and died. The dog would not leave his bedside, and after they buried his master, he refused to take any food. In about a week he was missing, and no one could tell w'here he had gone, till some one chanced to pass the grave-yard, and saw the poor dog dying, stretched on the mound where his master had been laid. This was a striking proof of true and sincere affection. Questions.—Give the definition of Adhesiveness. Give its location. 1. How is it manifested ? State what feeling Adhesiveness incites. 2. In what way do little girls exhibit this organ ? In what way do boys exhibit this organ ? State what reason they give for their conduct. State what almost all persons have. 3. State why it is right to exercise this organ. State what the effect would be if there were no Adhesiveness among scholars. 4. What would be the result if men and women had no Adhesiveness ? In what way would people live ? State what takes place now when a family moves to a new country. 5. Then what should all children do ? Is this feeling of friendship confined toman alone? How do the bees show this feeling ? How does the bird show attachment ? The beaver ? Sheep ? State what all these animals have that exhibit this feeling. 7. Delate the anecdote of the dog. State what are particular characteristics. 4. Inhabitiveness. Definition.—Love of home, attachment to one place, and unwillingness to change frequently. Location.—Inhabitiveness is situated between the two organs of Adhesiveness, directly above Philoprogenitiveness. 1. You have all heard, children, the song “Be it ever so lowly, there’s no place like home.” There is a separate and distinct part of the brain which gives this feeling. When it is large, the spot which the person calls his home is to him the dearest spot on earth. 2. It is this feeling that makes the Irishman’s poor and lowly hut, mostly made of mud and logs, pleasant and agreeable to him. The winds may blow around his dwelling; yet he cares not for the storm, if he and his friends are in their home, miserable though it may be. 3. This feeling is sometimes so strong, that persons are not contented unless they are at home. Especially do we love the first home where we sat in our mother’s lap, shared in her endearments, and where our first juvenile sports were enjoyed. We experience emotions that are then impressed on our little tablets never to be forgotten. 4. How many are there—and I suppose the same will be true of you, children, if you live long enough—who leave their father’s dwelling and are absent many years, and live many hundred miles from their parents, yet have a lingering desire to revisit the place of their nativity, and examine every nook and corner? They love to wander by the winding streamlet where they sailed their little boats ; they love to walk the very street where they rolled their hoop, and they forget that they are old. 5. It seems to them that the trees are clad with the same leaves which pleased and sheltered them from the sun when children, the house where first their tiny infant feet pattered along, seems sacred; and as they retrace their steps to the mounds that cover the mortal remains of friends dear to their hearts, with tears of