Philosophy of health : natural principles of health and cure ; or, health and cure without drugs. Also, the moral bearings of erroneous appetites / by L. B. Coles.

  • Coles, L. B. (Larkin Baker), 1803-1856.
Date:
1853
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    Sometimes those phrenological tendencies are so strong that it requires great firmness and determina- tion to control them. These tendencies are partly congenital, and partly the growth of habit. For the existence of those which are strictly inborn, no one himself is responsible ; but for those tendencies which are the result of habit, every one possessing them is answerable. And as there are no inlx)rn tendencies which cannot be governed, and as no one is responsible for their existence, there is no sin in their abstract being; but the sin lies in allowing them any inor- dinate action. If they are originally extravagant, they can be governed ; and if governed, there will be no increase, but rather a decrease, in the proportion of their action. So that, on the whole, it is not the phrenology which gives habitual character, but habitual character which makes phrenology. A man's phreno- logical character will mainly be the product of his own habits of thinking, feeling, and acting. Hence the importance of every one's knowing his own phrenological tendencies, and essentially modify- ing them, by suppressing what is bad, and cultivating what is right, A knowledge of one's own phrenology helps a man to analyze himself. Hence, too, the importance of mothers' having a practical idea of 'the peculiar phrenological tendencfes of each child;, that they may know how to apply physical and moral discipline to the best possible advantage to the chil- dren under their care; for it is in the power of mothei-s, in a great degree, to give a correct phrenological char-