the most lovely and unblemished before they encountered these arch seducers. Long may it be before another as foul destroyer of chastity again scourges the earth!

That this extraordinary development of this passion was inherited, is evident from their relationship-uncle and nephew-and by the similarity observable in the form of the lower and back portions of their heads, as seen in the accompanying engravings of both.

In phrenological language, Amativeness was enormously developed in both, and, this science being true, of course the unusual development of their cerebellums, and the consequent power of this passion, was inherited.

In several of the relatives of these notorious sinners, whom the author has known personally, and examined professionally, this organ and its faculty have been excessive, and without doubt, the same is true of other branches of this lecherous family.

The son of a frail woman in New York, at four years old, had this organ enormously developed, and its manifestation

was in proportion. The children in our alms-houses and houses of refuge usually have enormous Amativeness, and generally licentious parents; and I have yet to see the first illegitimate child in which this organ is not excessive.*

A REMARKABLE CASE.

More than a hundred years ago, a man eloped with a woman known to be unusually amorous, when he was NINETY-FIVE YEARS OLD, and had FOUR wives then living! One of his descendants of the fifth generation-a public man of great intellectual capabilities-spends many thousands annually on kept mistresses, though near seventy, and has supported an establishment of lewd women, for his own special gratification, most of his life. Every one of his sisters became mothers

*See an explanation of the cause of this in "Love and Parentage, Section II.

before they became wives, and in every way evinced extreme sexual passion. His niece became a mother before she was fourteen, by her cousin. All the males of this family are excessively sensual, and most of the females. The descendants of the old stock are exceedingly numerous, and their families large.

THE INCESTUOUS PROPENSITY TRANSMITTED.

A father in Portland, Maine, committed this vile crime with his own daughter, and their heir committed this same crime with his own mother! The product of this double incest, when thirteen, was sent to the State prison for tying up a playmate and rendering him a eunuch. This was the boy whose head was examined phrenologically by John Neal, before the jury, mentioned in the papers a few years ago, in which Destructiveness was found to be enormously developed.

Is not this crime prohibited in the Scriptures because it degenerates and depraves its product as well as its participators?

DEFICIENT AMATIVENESS.

This faculty is often found deficient in whole families. All the females of one family declare themselves unable to experience this species of pleasure. Mrs. C. of P——————, N. H., made a miserable wife because of its deficiency, and her sister declared her general disgust toward men. Many like cases might be cited, but those already adduced are amply sufficient, both as proofs and illustrations of our subject. It only remains to draw an important practical inference.

Those who would possess a connubial partner, highly endowed with this essential element of conjugal happiness, may be sure of procuring it, if they choose one from a family endowed with it, and if the object of their choice resemble this amorous family. The converse of this rule will secure one deficient or phlegmatic in this respect.

THE TWIN-BEARING TENDENCY AND HAVING LARGE FAMILIES

Are also propagated. Dr. Kimball, of Sacket's Harbor, after narrating a striking instance of excessive Amativeness in a French woman and her daughter, proceeds as follows:

:

"The sister of a man named Boyer, living in B-ville, had twins twice. One of Boyer's sisters married a Mr. Flagg, and died in her first accouchement, being delivered of one living twin before

she died, the other remaining unborn. A son of Boyer-and this principle descends in both the male and the female line-married a Miss Hughes, who, after having four or five single births, was delivered of three children at one birth. Hughes, a brother of this last Boyer's sister, who, after having three or four single births in as many years, had twins, on account of which Hughes left her, and lived clandestinely with another woman, by whom he soon after had three children at one birth."

Verily, these Hughes and Boyers fulfil the first commandment in the Bible, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth," with a vengeance. Can it be that the marriage of two families, each of which are accustomed to have twins, causes the birth of triplets?

Blundell says that a lady related to one of his pupils, had four children at one birth, and that three of the sisters of this prolific woman, had either twins or triples. Dr. K. also states, that having twins descends in his own family, and mentions some other cases. But facts of this class are too abundant to require specification; for almost or quite all parents who have twins, will be found to inherit this predisposition from their parents, one or both, or else to be related to those that have twins.

Some animals always have twins, and certain sheep and their progeny, generation after generation, bear twins. Even some kinds of fruit-trees have duplicates on one stem; of which the Washington Belmar plum furnishes an example.

Daniel Aiken died in Wexford, Canada West, a few weeks since, aged 120 years. He had during his life contracted seven marriages, and had 570 grandchildren and great-grandchildren-370 boys and 200 girls!

Those who belong to large families-especially femalesgenerally have large families themselves, unless the mother becomes feeble; but where both parents are from small families, they usually have few children. So, too, whole families, in all their branches, will frequently be found to have just about the same number of children. Of this the descendants of the Alden family, already mentioned 319, furnish examples, the following being some of the numbers of the children-13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 15, 7, 7, 7, 9, 8, 8, 9, 19, 9, etc. Several kindred examples are interspersed throughout Longevity 319.

THE SOCIAL AFFECTIONS.

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354. THE OTHER SOCIAL FACULTIES

Are equally hereditary. The author knows a little girl who is passionately fond of cats. To play with them gives

her the greatest delight, and the taking of them from her acute pain. Neither her father nor mother fancy this animal, but her maternal grandmother was extremely fond of them, often took them to bed with her, and was almost cat-crazy. This child takes after her mother, and the mother after her mother, so that the child resembles that grandmother from whom she inherited this feline attachment 321. Thus it appears that children inherit not only the relative energy of particular organs, but also their DIRECTION-not only large Philoprogenitiveness, but also a love for that particular KIND of pet loved by the ancestry.

A sister of this girl also loves cats exceedingly, yet takes her form of head and face from her paternal grandfather Yet she inherits extreme sensitiveness from her mother and mater. nal grandmother, from whom she inherits the love of catsthus taking after both parents.

The Israelites, from shepherds Abraham, Lot, and Laban, through cattle-loving Isaac, Jacob, Esau, David, and all their tribes, inherited a strong propensity to rear "flocks and herds," in which they excelled, and on which they mainly subsisted.

The love of the Swiss, Welch, and Highland Scotch for their native hills and vales, and the home-sickness so common to the former who leave them, is doubtless in part inherited, as is also the strong attachment of some families to the old homestead, or whatever place they reside, marked instances of which everywhere abound.

Some families, as far as they can be traced, evince great affection for one another and unusual love of family, while others care for neither relatives nor friends. Facts in proof of these points are so abundant, wherever observations are made, that isolated illustrations are unnecessary. Our principle that the relative energy of the domestic affections is hereditary, is indubitable—a law of transmission palpable to