Memory and intellectual improvement applied to self-education and juvenile instruction / by O.S. Fowler.

  • Fowler, O. S. (Orson Squire), 1809-1887.
Date:
1850
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    PREFACE. This volume is the third and last of the series on the appli- cation of Phrenology to Education and Self Improvement. Volume I. imbodies the importance and means of Improving the Physiology, including directions for preserving and re- gaining the health, and the effects of various physical con- ditions on the mentality. Volume II. shows in what perfec- tion of character consists, and how to attain it—how to im- prove our own characters and those of children. Volume III. completes the series by showing how to educate the in- tellect. It analyzes each of the intellectual faculties, and points out the means of augmenting their efficiency. It of course shows how to cultivate the biemory ; conduct the intellectual education of the young ; and strengthen and expand the intellect. It especially imbodies copious di- rections for educating our own selves. Personal effort is indispensable to intellectual attainments and greatness. All must be self-made or not made at all. Original capa- bilities are indeed conferred by nature, yet however great, produce very little unless assiduously cultivated. Nature confers on us all several fold more talent than we develop by culture—bestows a vast amount of mentality which lies dormant for want of a true system of education—one founded in the nature of mind. That system Phrenology developes u *, by showing the precise function of every faculty, and thereby just what, brought before it, will stimulate it to action, and * These small, elevated figures, called superiors, refer to those head- ings of paragraphs which will be found numbered throughout these vol- umes, so that an idea once advanced, or principle once demonstrated, can be referred to at once. An arrangement thus simple, yet effectual, for securing all the advantages of copious repetition, without any of its disad- vantages, and especially for weaving the whole into one connected whole, and showing the relations existing between subsequent conclusions and ihose previously established, will doubtless be duly appreciated. I*