CHAPTER II.

THE SOCIAL AND DOMESTIC CLASS.

THE smaller brain, the cerebellum, contains the first organ in the social group, Amativeness.

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DEFINITION-Love and kindness between the sexes; a desire to marry, and preference for the society of the opposite sex.

LOCATION-This organ is located at the back of the head, behind the ears, and gives a fulness to the neck.

1. EVERY faculty of our minds, or function of our bodies, is given to us for a special purpose, which must be fulfilled to carry out the design of our Creator.

2. The organ of Amativeness gives all those kind feelings of love that man shows to woman. Little boys under its influences, love their mothers and sisters

What is the subject of chapter second? Which brain contains the first organ? What is its name? What is the definition of Amativeness? What is its location? 1. What is said of every faculty of the mind and func tion of the body? 2. What feelings does Amativeness give?

dearly; will try very much to please them; will like to wait on them and do them a great many little services; and as soon as they are old enough will be inclined to marry, that they may have some one whom they may love, and who will love them.

3. If girls have this organ large they will be very attentive to their fathers and brothers; will speak kindly, and be polite and amiable to them. This is an important organ, and should be cultivated. I have heard brothers speak harshly to their sisters; but it was only those who had not the feeling of love, which they would have had if this organ had been large.

4. A little girl once asked her brother to take hold of her hand, one morning when she was going to school, it being very slippery; but he said he could not stop, for he wished to go and play with the other boys. This little boy would not have spoken thus if he had loved his sister as he ought.

5. It is this organ which causes husbands and wives to love each other as long as they live. Old men and women seem to be more closely attached the longer they live together.

6. If this organ be perverted, or used improperly, it is the means of making men and women very unhappy, and very wicked. When you are older you will understand more about it, and will pay more attention to the right cultivation of it. It is represented in the cut by the little blind boy Cupid, with a bow and arrow.

2. How is this organ shown by little boys? 3. In what way do little girls exhibit this organ? What feelings does it create between brothers and sisters? 4. Relate the story of the little girl. 5. What feelings does it create between husbands and wives? 6. What are the effects of the perversion of this organ? How is this organ represented in the cut?

DEFINITION-Love of children, animals, pets, and horses.

LOCATION-Philoprogenitiveness is the second social organ, and is situated directly above Amativeness, in the back part of the head, and is number two in the Symbolical Head.

1. CHILDREN, when given to their parents, are very small babies. If there were no love for them, they would be neglected, and would suffer for want of proper care and attention. They are very helpless, and could easily be injured or killed, and require a great deal of time, care, and anxiety, to keep them alive and in health.

2. But the mother, if she has this organ largely developed in her head, loves her little child, and would not part with it, though she were required to devote all her time and attention to its care. She watches its

What is the second organ of the social group? What is its definition? What is its location? 1. What is the size of children when given to parents? What would be the consequence if parents had no love for them? Why do they require much care? 2. What is the influence of Philoprogenitiveness on the mother?

growth, physically and intellectually, with intense interest, and notices every little motion of its body, or emotion of its mind.

3. Think, children, how much your mothers and fathers are doing for you every day. The only anxiety or question that presents itself to their minds, is, what can I do for these little ones, that they be fed, clothed, and educated. They often sacrifice their own pleasures and enjoyments for the sake of their children.

4. Hence, for this reason, if for no other, you should requite the care and attention of your parents with love, obedience, and gratitude, and do all in your power to add to their comfort and happiness.

5. The mother, generally, has this organ larger than the father. This is a wise provision of nature, because she has more care of her little ones when they are not able to do anything for themselves.

6. There are some mothers—although I rejoice to say that the number is small-who feel it to be a burden to take care of and educate their children; but it is only those who have not this organ large in their heads.

7. Children show this organ in a great degree. The little girl loves and dotes on her doll-baby, enters into all its feelings—as she imagines-sympathizes with it, dresses it, places it in bed, and takes the same care of it that mothers do of their real babies. I have known

2. What does she watch with interest? 3. What should children remember? What is the greatest anxiety of parents? What do parents often do for their children? 4. How should children requite the love and attention of parents? 5. In which parent is this organ the largest? Why is this fact a wise provision of nature? 6. Are there ever mothers destitute of this organ? What does it incline them to do? 7. Who beside mothers show this organ? In what way does the little girl show this on her dolls?

PETS-ANIMALS

CHILDREN.

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little girls who had large families of dolls, and who gave each a different name. Sometimes, when they have no doll, they caress the little dog or kitten.

8. Boys show the action of this organ by their fondness for a horse; their desire to manage and to drive one; or they desire to play with rabbits, dogs, or something of the kind, to gratify their strong love of the young and tender. If a boy has this organ large, he is generally kind to his horse and other animals. Some little boys cry piteously when an animal which they have petted, and on which they have bestowed their affection, has died, or is lost.

9. A man in Schenectady, who was extravagantly fond of pets and children, had a very large bunch where this organ is situated; he very frequently went about the city with two little dogs in his overcoat pockets, and one in each hand; and was always surrounded by children.

10. Generally, you can very readily tell who has a love for little ones, by their conduct; and if you have a Sabbath-school teacher or day-school teacher who particularly loves you, he or she most certainly has a prominence in the back part of his or her head.

11. This organ is represented in the cut by a mother and father who are fondling and caressing their chil dren; also by a cat who is playing with her kitten in

one corner.

7. Whom do they caress if they have no dolls? 8. In what way do boys show this organ? With what feelings do boys regard animals when they have this organ large? What effect does the loss of a petted animal have on them? 9. In what way did the man in Schenectady show this organ? 10. What can we generally tell by the conduct? What have all those teachers who love their pupils? 11. In what way is this organ represented in the cut?