DEFINITION OF THE FACULTIES

ACCORDING TO THEIR NUMBERS.

DOMESTIC PROPENSITIES.

1. AMATIVENESS.-Connubial love; the attachment of the sexes to each other, adapted to the continuance of the race Abuse: Licentiousness and obscenity. Deficiency: Want of affection toward the opposite sex.

2. PHILOPROGENITIVENESS.—Parental love; fondness for pets, and the young and helpless generally, adapted to the infantile condition. Abuse: Excessive indulgence; idolizing and spoiling children by caresses. Deficiency: Neglect of the

young.

3. ADHESIVENESS.-Friendship; love of company; disposition to ASSOCIATE. Adapted to man's requisition for society and concert of action. Abuse: Excessive fondness for company. Deficiency: Neglect of friends and society; the hermit disposition.

4. INHABITIVENESS.-Love of home; desire to live permanently in one place; adapted to the necessity of a home. Abuse: Prejudice against other countries. Deficiency: Continually roaming from place to place.

A. UNION FOR LIFE.-Desire to pair; to unite for life; and to remain constantly with the loved one. Abuse: Transferring our affections from one to another. Deficiency: Want of congenial affection.

5. CONTINUITY.-Ability to chain the thoughts and feelings, and dwell continually on one subject until it is completed. Abuse Prolixity; tediously dwelling on a subject. Deficiency. Excessive fondness for variety; "has several irons in the fire

at once;" seldom finishes what has been commenced; very transitive.

SELFISH PROPENSITIES.

E. VITATIVENESS.-Love of life; youthful vigor even in advanced age. Abuse: Extreme tenacity to life; fear of death. Deficiency: Recklessness, and unnecessary exposure of life and health.

6. COMBATIVENESS.-Self-defence; resistance; the energetic go-a-head disposition. Abuse: A quick, fiery, excitable, faultfinding, contentious disposition. Deficiency: Cowardice; want of courage.

7. DESTRUCTIVENESS.-Executiveness; propelling power; the exterminating feeling. Abuse: The malicious, retaliating, revengeful, and murderous disposition. Deficiency: Extreme tameness; inefficiency.

8. AlimentiveNESS.-Appetite; desire for nutrition ; enjoyment of food and drink. Abuse: Gluttony; gormandizing; drunkenness. Deficiency: Want of appetite; abstemiousness.

9. ACQUISITIVENESS.-Economy; disposition to save and accumulate property. Abuse: Avarice; theft; extreme selfishness. Deficiency: Prodigality; inability to appreciate the true value of property; lavish and wasteful.

10. SECRETIVENESS.-Policy; management. Abuse: Cunning; foxy; to lay low; keep dark; disguise. Deficiency: Want of tact; bluntness of expression.

11. CAUTIOUSNESS.-Prudence; carefulness; watchfulness; reasonable solicitude. Abuse: Fear; timidity; procrastination. Deficiency: Careless; heedless; reckless.

12. APPROBATIVENNSS.—Affability; ambition; desire to be elevated and promoted. Abuse: Vanity; self-praise; and extreme sensitiveness. Deficiency: Indifference to public opinion; and disregard for personal appearance.

13. SELF ESTEEM.-Dignity; manliness; love of liberty; nobleness; an aspiring disposition. Abuse: Extreme pride; arrogance; an aristocratic, domineering, repulsive spirit. Deficiency: Lack of self respect and appreciation.

14. FIRMNESS.-Decision; stability; perseverance; unwillingness to yield; fortitude. Abuse: Obstinacy; wilfulness; mulishness, (see cut fig. 14). Deficiency: Fickle-minded. No dependence can be placed on such a development, as there is no stability of character.

MORAL SENTIMENTS.

15. CONSCIENTIOUSNESS.-Justice; integrity; sense of duty, and of moral obligation. Abuse: Scrupulousness; self-condemnation; remorse; unjust censure. Deficiency: No penitence for sin, or compunction for having done wrong.

16. HOPE.-Expectation; anticipation; looking into the future with confidence of success. Abuse: Extravagant promises; and anticipation of impossible success. Deficiency: Despondency; gloom; melancholy.

17. SPIRITUALITY.-Intuition; perception of the spiritual; wonder. Abuse: Belief in ghosts, witchcraft, and many of the unreasonable isms. Deficiency: Lack of faith; extreme incredulity; skepticism.

18. VENERATION.-Reverence; worship; adoration; respect for antiquity. Abuse: Idolatry; superstition; worship of wooden gods. Deficiency: Disregard for the feelings of others, or for things sacred.

19. BENEVOLENCE.-Kindness; desire to do good; sympathy; philanthropy; disinterestedness. Abuse: Giving alms to the undeserving; too easily overcome by scenes of suffering. Deficiency: Extreme selfishness; no regard for the distresses of others.

SEMI-INTELLECTUAL SENTIMENTS.

20. CONSTRUCTIVENESS.-Mechanical ingenuity; ability to use tools; construct and invent. Abuse: A loss of time and money in trying to invent perpetual motion. Deficiency: Inability to use tools or understand machinery; lack of skill.

21. IDEALITY.-Love of the perfect and beautiful; refinement; ecstasy; poetry. Abuse: A disgust even for the com