Every day, man is constructing something new for the convenience of his neighbors, or to attract attention.

5. The channel into which this faculty is directed, depends greatly on the influence of other organs. The Indian has Constructiveness joined with Combativeness and Destructiveness; hence, his mind is exercised in manufacturing implements of war. Others, who have large Veneration and Marvellousness, think that if God be worshiped, a suitable place should be erected for his people, and they, therefore, construct houses of religious worship. Some, with Constructiveness joined with Ideality are successful portrait-painters, poets, and artists.

6. Benjamin West became celebrated as an artist. He developed his extraordinary talent when only nine years of age.

Those who have large Tune, with Constructiveness, invent different kinds of music and musical instruments. Mozart, Haydn, and others, were good musicians when mere children. There are other persons, having a scientific turn of mind, who invent railroads, steamengines, magnetic telegraphs, telescopes, magic lanterns, etc., etc.

7. The picture represents a person with his tools around him, in the act of making or constructing.

8. Children show this organ by making little boats, wooden houses, all kinds of little images, and in drawing and sketching on slates and paper.

4. What is man doing every day? 5. On what does the mode or channel of the exhibition of this organ depend? Give an example in the Indian. In what way are Constructiveness and Veneration sometimes joined? Constructiveness and Ideality? 6. Who was Benjamin West? In what way are Tune and Constructiveness joined? What are some of the other ways in which this organ is developed? 7. Explain the cut. 8. How do children show Constructiveness?

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9. This is a very profitable way in which you can spend your leisure moments. If you have any inclination to use tools, to paint, draw, or sketch, do not be discouraged if your first attempts be unsuccessful; but exercise your organ of Hope, and try again, and you may, by patience and perseverance, become distinguished as a master workman. The profession of the mechanic, the inventor, and constructor, is as honorable as any other; remember that

"Honor and shame from no condition rise,

Act well your part, there all the honor lies."

10. Little girls show this development in cutting and fitting dresses for their dolls, and in sewing together, very nicely, little bits of cloth in the form of squares and diamonds-I mean " patch-work."

11. All animals that build their houses, have broad heads in the region of this organ. The lion and bear wander among the deserts, and make the forests resound with their roar. They can make their lair-the place where they sleep-wherever they chance to be, on the mountain top or in the valley, but do not build a house. The beaver, on the contrary, cuts down trees with his teeth, and builds his hut in a particular place. The bird collects bits of straw and mud, and constructs her nest; and so of other animals and insects; but if you should look at the heads of these different animals, you would see that every one which has anything to do

9. How can children spend their time very profitably? What is said of the profession of the mechanic? What should children remember? 10. How do little girls show this organ? 11. What is true of all animals which build their houses? What difference is there between the lion and the beaver? What is a custom of birds? What difference is there in the heads of these different animals"

with building, has a broad head in the region of Constructiveness; and the opposite is also true; that those which have no use for this organ, have not the development.

DEFINITION-Refinement; love of improvement, perfection, and the beautiful in nature and art; love of romance, fiction, and poetry. LOCATION-Ideality is situated between Constructiveness and Marvellousness.

1. IDEALITY is that faculty of the mind that makes us pleased with everything that is lovely and beautiful. We cannot help admiring the gentle streamlets and rivulets, the little winding brooks, the trees and the flowers, the little warbling birds and the sportive lambkins, the moon and the stars, a beautiful painting or picture. Even the little child delights to ramble in the woods, and cull the beautiful flowers, that appear to have grown for no other purpose than to please the eye, and delight the mind.

What is the definition of Ideality? What is its location? 1. With what does Ideality make us pleased? What do we admire? What does the child delight to do?

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2. God might have created this world without trees and flowers, but he saw fit to clothe the earth with beauty; he peopled the fragant groves with warbling birds, covered the ground with a velvet carpet, caused purling streams to flow gently through the valleys, and filled the fields and meadows with beautiful flowers, which delight us with their odor; all, all to gladden the heart of man, to subdue his passions, to make him feel His goodness, and to call forth his love and gratitude.

3. The cut represents a man filled with admiration at beholding the works of nature.

4. Ideality has a tendency to elevate the mind; and if it is joined with the moral organs, it makes the character more pure, gentle, and refined. This organ is more developed in civilized than in savage man, and is the cause of one of the great differences in their customs and habits of life.

5. One way by which you can cultivate this organ, is-if it were possible and convenient-to have plots of ground which you could call your own, where you might sow the seeds, and watch the growth of the tiny leaflets and flowers. This would be a most delightful amusement, as well as healthy exercise.

6. Children, I hope that every one of you will study what is called botany, as soon as you are old enough. This will explain to you all about the seeds, the leaves, and flowers, and it will teach you to observe every little part of the smallest flower.

7. Some show this organ by their great imagination.

2. In what way might God have created this world? What did he do? For what purpose ? 3. Explain the cut. 4. What is the tendency of Ideality? Of what is this organ the cause? 5. In what way can it be cultivated? 6 Why would children be pleased with botany?

They not only dream by night, but are in reveries during the day. I have known little girls to give a ame to all the chairs and furniture in the room, and imagine them to be real, living beings.

8. Some persons with large Ideality, write poetry. Young children sometimes write verses, which they could not do if they had no Ideality.

DEFINITION-Sense of the vast, grand, sublime, and romantic in nature and art. LOCATION-Sublimity is situated between Ideality and Cautiousness, just above Acquisitiveness.

1. THE function of Sublimity resembles that of Ideality, yet it is somewhat different. Ideality gives a fondness for the lovely, pure, perfect, elevated, and refined in nature; while Sublimity gives a love of the vast, grand, sublime, and majestic. One with large Sublimity

7. In what other way is this organ shown? What do little girls sometimes do? 8. What is another effect of Ideality? What is the definition of Sublimity? What is its location? 1. How do Ideality and Sublimity differ?