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learn to distinguish the difference between different things. Wherever you go, you must notice everything and use your Individuality.

10. If you should attend the museum, look distinctly at everything before you, and then ask questions about the birds, animals, and images. When you see an ndividual, look at his eyes, his hair, his nose, etc., and try to remember them. When you see a picture or engraving, observe every tree, figure, house, etc. In this way, and in this way only, you will gain much information, which will always be of service to you.

11. Of what use is your Benevolence if you do not discern the difference between true objects of charity and pretended beggars? You might give away all you possess, without benefiting those who needed alms. Of what use is your Constructiveness, if you do not notice the manner in which things are fitted and made? It will profit you nothing. Of what use is Ideality to you, unless you are delighted to observe the beauties and sublimities of nature? The rainbow would pass away before you noticed it. You could not appreciate the works of art, or of nature, merely because you do not see them.

12. In the cut, the gentleman is looking with his telescope at the stars. If he had no Individuality, he would not be able to perceive them, neither would he have any inclination to look at them.

Children, observe, look, take notice, and every day will add to your store of knowledge.

9. What must you do beside look and observe? 10. In what ways can much information be gained? 11. When would Benevolence b useless? Constructiveness? Ideality? 12. Explain the cut. What organ does he use? What general direction is given to children'

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DEFINITION-Idea of shapes, outlines, faces; ability to commit to memory. LOCATION-Form is situated between the eyes, and, when large, gives width there.

1. Ir there were no form or shape to objects, this world would be a state of confusion; but everything we see has a regular form, and a regular shape. By means of Form and Individuality, we learn to distinguish one person from another-one book and one house from another. When we read, we remember different words by their form. We learn to spell by remembering the shape and forms of the letters.

2. Those who have large Form can learn to draw easily, and can make correct outlines and proportions. They can also commit to memory what they read or hear. There are some who can repeat, after they have studied their lesson, every word, just as it is in their book. Some can repeat almost the whole Bible, but it is only those persons whose eyes are wide apart where the organ of Form is located.

3. Such persons can learn to read easily, and can generally remember what they read much better than

What is the definition of Form? What is its location? 1. What would be the result without Form or shape? What do we learn by means of Form and Individuality? 2. What are the advantages of this organ?

those who are narrow between their eyes. This is a fact that universally holds true in every instance. Children, notice your companions, use your Individuality, and see if those in your class who generally recite their lessons the most promptly, have not a wide space between their eyes.

4. Dr. Gall, when a young man, noticed his schoolmates, and found it to be unexceptionably the case. This organ of Form was one of the first that he dis covered, and it was one in which he was very deficient. 5. The cut represents different forms, figures, shapes, and proportions.

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DEFINITION-Ability to judge of the length, breadth, height, proportions, and dis. tances of objects.

LOCATION-Size is situated next to Form, at the commencement of the arch of the

eyebrow.

1. Ir we examine this organ, we shall perceive that it is as important as its neighbor, Form. By Size, we

true? What can all children notice? By what means? 5. Explain the cut. What is its location? 1. What is the

3. What fact is universally 4. Who discovered this organ? What is the definition of Size? difference between Form and Size?

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learn that one object is larger or smaller than another. Form gives us a knowledge of the shape, while Size enables us to tell the difference between their shape.

2. Form would tell us that the apples in the cut are round, while Size would teach us that one was smaller than the other, and that one pillar was larger and taller than the other, although in each case both have the same shape. Some have this organ so large, that they can measure correctly by the eye, while others have very limited ideas of the difference between objects.

3. Children sometimes have wrong views on this subject. They are very apt to imagine that the smallest piece of anything is given to them; while, if they are the givers, they are inclined to imagine that they give away the largest piece, which is frequently not the case. 4. When persons have large organs of Marvellousness and Size, they exaggerate, or greatly misrepresent what they see or hear. 'Why, I saw a horse as big as an alligator," said one. as big as I," said another.

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had nearly fifty bushels of apples"-when in fact he had only five or six-said a little boy to his mother, when she told her son to carry back an apple he had taken from the gentleman without his permission.

5. A mother told me that she once heard her two little boys conversing with each other. Said George, “I have seen a railroad that reached two miles;" little Henry looked into his brother's face, and said, "I saw one which would reach as far as Lowell," which was

2. What does large Size enable some to do? 3. What wrong ideas do some children have in reference to Size? 4. What are the influences of large Size and Marvellousness? Give examples. 5. Relate the conver sation between Henry and George.

five or six miles from the place where they lived. These little boys had no correct ideas of distances, but the distance to the next town appeared very extensive. Little boys and girls frequently exaggerate very much when they speak of the different sizes of things.

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DEFINITION-Powers of balancing, shooting, walking on the ice; perception of LOCATION-Weight is situated on each side, next to Size, in the arch of the eyebrow.

gravity.

1. We can perceive that bodies have different forms, different sizes, and different proportions, but we require a separate organ to ascertain that one body is heavier than another. This organ we have in precisely the best position in which it could be placed, next to Size and Form.

2. When persons have large Form, Size, and Weight, they can, by practice, become good marksmen, can aim

5. Of what had these boys very little idea? To what does this organ lead frequently? What is the definition of Weight? What is its location? 1. What is said of the situation of Weight? Why is Weight necessary? 2. What does large Form, Size, and Weight enable persons to do?

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