selves useful; and were I a single man, I should have some maps printed, and with these and lectures teach the science.

If you deem my table worth notice, you may make any corrections you deem advisable, and give it a place in the Journal. Nothing would create a greater demand for phrenological works and lectures than this, or some other plan of teaching the THOUSANDS to locate the organs. Every mind thus far advanced will wish to know more of the science that should be understood by all. For why should the geography of the mind be less interesting than that of a globe? It is not. Let our youth have an opportunity to acquire a knowledge of Phrenology, and they will take hold of it. These suggestions, and the plan of teaching, are forwarded to you in hopes that they may afford some material for your use in building a system of teaching the science in common schools and lecture

rooms.

Those articles on "Progression" are certainly fine emanations from a cultivated and expansive mind, I have never read any metaphysical treatise which pleases me as well, and I must know more of a mind that can thus illustrate the mysteries of human nature.

O. S. FOWLER, New York.

MINERAL POINT, WIS. TER., Dec. 1, 1846.

Dear Friend: Having been a reader of your most excellent Journal this year past, and been benefited much by it, and thinking it is the best calculated of anything I have ever seen, except the sacred volume, to raise mankind to that elevated position which Infinite Wisdom has formed them, yet there is one query which the Journal never unfolded to my mind, nor have I ever seen any one who could give me satisfaction; which, if once done, would confer a great favor as well on me as on a great number of its readers. That is, How the mind acts on the body to give it motion? I understand the MIND to be a spirit, an immaterial substance, and know of no law by which the immaterial can act on a material to cause it to obey. Yours, respectfully,

J. L. VANCE.

A full knowledge of animal magnetism and electricity will probably solve this question in due time.-ED.

EDUCATIONAL MOVEMENT IN CINCINNATI.-The great West is to become a theatre for the enactment of the most stirring scenes which have ever transpired. What these events are to be, depends on how their YOUTH are educated. Various accounts of the "Cincinnati High School" have given the editor more real pleasure than any similar movement which he has ever heard, because it comes nearer to his ideas of the true system of education. We shall give our readers some idea of this movement hereafter. Suffice it now to say, it is of the right kind, and in the right place. Its mainspring is MORAL IMPROVEMENT, not money. Phrenology constitutes one of the leading studies.

PHRENOLOGY in Baltimore, MD.-Mr. L. N. Fowler has recently received an invitation from a large number of the most influential and distinguished citizens of this city to deliver a course of lectures on Phrenology, which has been accepted by him, and will probably be commenced during the present month.

MESSRS. FOWLERS & WELLS :

ALEXANDRIA, ALA., January, 1847.

Inclosed I send you $15, with a list of thirty subscribers to the Journal. In the name of this club I hail you as the friends of humanity, the grand teachers of human science, which is destined to reform the WORLD, and hasten on that state of millenial happiness which is the hope of the Christian, by bringing man into harmony with nature and nature's God. Long may be the life, and successful the efforts, of those whose aim is the PHYSICAL, MENTAL, and MORAL improvement of MAN! In the hands of such men PHRENOLOGY will accomplish this desirable end.

Respectfully yours.

JAMES M. LITTEN.

P. S. Mr. J. M. Litten wrote the above letter, and as he was not author ized in your publications to act as agent, has handed it to me to forward. R. A. McMILLAN, P. M.

Mr. Litten is hereby authorized to act as agent for this Journal.

The article on PATRICK HENRY will be concluded in our next number.

EDUCATION, FOUNDED ON THE NATURE OF MAN: by J. G. Spurzheim. The republication of this philosophical yet eminently practical work, by the joint discoverer of Phrenology, will be hailed with joy by all who love the science that it teaches--the "NATURE OF MAN," which it most ably presents. To say that this is probably the best work of that master mind, and profound student of man, is but to reiterate the unanimous testimony of all who have read it. Much as Phrenology has been opposed, no one, Christian or infidel, has ever said aught against this good book. Yet it is not tame. It is TRUE, it is GOOD, and therefore commends itself to every human mind. It discusses, among other subjects, "the perfectability of man; his improvements in arts and sciences; in religion and morality; causes of the want of success in education; singleness of the human species; THE LAWS OF HEREDITARY DESCENT; the laws of the vegetative and physical functions; duration of life; temperature, food, air, light, cleanliness, and sleep; bodily exercise; childhood; dietetic rules; direction of the faculties; importance of morality; motives to action; difference of natural endowment; education of the sexes; on public and private education; education of nations; the condition of woman; the correction and reform of malefactors; means of preventing crime; illegal action without guilt; illegal actions of idiots and madmen; on illegal actions which admit of exterminating motives." etc. etc, To which is added an appendix, containing a description of the temperaments, illustrated by engravings, and the analysis of the phrenological organs, which are also illustrated; illustrated views of the brain; and a brief description of the head and character of Dr. Gall. Considered as a whole, it will be found invaluable, not only as a directory to parents in conducting the education and moral treatment of their children, but also for the philosophy of human nature it embodies, and the AIDS it gives to all for improving their own intellects and characters.

The following is from the New York Tribune of a recent date :

"EDUCATION, founded on the nature of Man; by J. G. Spurzheim, M. D., with a likeness of the author, and an appendix by S. R. WELLS, containing a description of the temperaments and a brief analysis of the Phrenological faculties. Sixth American, improved by the author, from the third London edition: Fowlers & Wells, 131 Nassau-street. Not a word is necessary to commend to general notice a work emanating from the profoundly philosophical mind of Spurzheim. Even those who hesitate to receive the doctrines of Phrenology, or who reject them altogether, will find in it much that will command their highest admiration."

It is beautifully bound in a mailable form, rendering it accessible to all; 12mo. 335 pages. Price 50 Cents.

Asahel Clapp has already obtained two hundred subscribers for the present volume of the Journal. He is fully imbued with the spirit of Phrenology, and will doubtless exert an influence by which he will long be remembered.

We are glad to see Phrenology introduced throughout the Queen's dominions. The inhabitants of the Canadas are manifesting an unusual degree of interest toward this science.

ARTICLE XIII.

REPUBLICANISM THE TRUE FORM OF GOVERNMENT: ITS DESTINED INFLUENCE. NO. IV.

(Continued from p. 46.)

BUT all these temporal blessings conferred by republicanism, incalcu. lably great as they are, are but drops in the bucket of its riches. What are physical blessings, compared with mental? As inferior as earth compared with heaven. What is wealth of purse, compared with wealth of mind? Our last number showed how immeasurably republicanism contributes to the increase of property, temporal comforts, national prosperity, and, especially, to the temporal enjoyment of the many. Yet all these are the least of its blessings. That immortal declaration of governmental liberty was not content to knock off those civil fetters which bound us to our "mother" tyrant. It enfranchised MIND. It sundered those feudal fetters which had bound SOUL down to the dogmas of antiquity from time immemorial. Before, men took for granted whatever was delivered unto them, from the pulpit and the press, as well as the throne. The authority of the church ruled the opinions of men, even more than the crown their persons. They swallowed whole, without daring to examine for themselves, whatever priest taught; and obeyed religious rulers even more servilely than political. But that same act which broke the dominion of the latter, gradually unloosed the bonds of the former. Before, men had not dared to think, much less to speak, boldly and freely, on any subject; now, they dare think on all, and utter those thoughts. In short, republicanism has set the intellects of men free, as well as their bodies; and herein consists its great salvation-a salvation the half-stifled workings of which our own eyes see ;-but the end is not yet. What a mighty revolution is now going on before our eyes, and even in our own souls! The very elements of society are breaking up all around us. We are in a transition state, big with the issues of mental and moral life. What the final results will be, time alone can disclose; but one thing is certain-whoever lives to see 1900, will behold a new order of things, and a new race of beings. Most existing landmarks will be swept away, and society completely remodeled. A new and greatly improved edition of society, with numerous enlargements and embellishments of humanity, will take the place of those evils and abuses under which we now groan, and human virtue and happiness be immeasurably promoted. Though we shall have no new principles of religion, for these principles are as immutable as the throne of God, yet we shall have a new interpretation and practice of them. Its perversions will be obviated, and its intrinsic

beauties, now cloaked under sectarian deformities and monstrosities, be developed, and beautify, instead of deteriorating mankind. It will not then, as now, interdict progression, but be its mighty lever. It will not then, as now, consist in nominal professions, but in the habitual PRACTICE of goodness. It will not then, as now, assume a proud, touch-me-not, aristocratic air, so utterly hostile to every precept, every practice, of the meek and lowly Jesus. It will not then, as now, be pompous and gaudy— will not say in action, "Come thou not near, for I am holier than thou," -but will seek out the poor and degraded, and educate their intellects, while it calls forth their souls in holy aspirations. In short, those religious abuses under which mankind now groan, it is destined to rectify.

Nor will its incalculable blessings be confined to our own country merely. They will only begin here; their boundaries will be the world, and their duration eternal. Man is not always to remain that poor, ignorant, degraded, diseased, and every way pitiable object of humanity he now is. That gross moral darkness-darkness which may be felt-which now overshadows and benights our world, is to be dissipated. Cast the eye of philanthropy and intelligence over the whole earth, and what do you behold? A world lying in sin and wickedness. The nations of the east, and the places of the poets, orators, and statesmen of antiquity, tied down to mythological dogmas, and buried in heathen superstitions. Crowned heads, and still more despotic priests, both eating up all their substance, and hanging like the incubus of death upon society, palsying every effort, interdicting all reform, keeping everything as it was in the beginning, and compelling a stagnation worse in the moral and intellectual world, than the Dead Sea is in the physical; and thus breeding moral pestilence and death! O how I abominate this conservatism which interdicts progress! Its iron tyranny has ground mankind down into the dust ever since the building of Babel; and many, most of the evils, civil, political, and religious, under which we now groan, and which we are now struggling to throw off, are its pampered progeny.

But, O glorious star of promise, this stagnation of humanity has begun to be broken up! Upon one part of this dead sea the wind of reform has begun to blow, and raised those incipient waves of progression, which are destined to roll, and foam, and dash against abuses of every description, till all existing evils, however huge their magnitude, however multifarious, however interwoven with the very framework and texture of all human institutions, shall be dashed to atoms, and superseded by an exaltation and a glory of which we are too imperfect, and our powers too limited, to form the least conception. O humanity, how low art thou sunken! But how heaven-high it is thy destiny to rise! Man! thy capacities are angelic! thy nature is divine-made even in the image of GOD! And thou art yet to become his worthy children-to be LIKE HIM. Already the night of ignorance and bigotry, and consequent misery, is passing away! Already