THE AMERICAN PHRENOLOGICAL JOURNAL AND MISCELLANY. VOL. X. O. S. FOWLER, EDITOR. NEW YORK: FOWLERS AND WELLS, PUBLISHERS. PHRENOLOGICAL CABINET, 131 NASSAU STREET. AND BY BOOKSELLERS GENERALLY. 1818. FEB 24 1928 LIBRARY 23349.10 "I LOOK UPON PIRENOLOGY AS THE GUIDE OF PHILOSOPHY, AND THE HANDMAID OF CHRISTIANITY. WHOEVER DISSEMINATES TRUE PHRENOLOGY, IS A PUBLIC BENEFACTOR." HORACE MANN. FED 241028 PHRENOLOGICAL PRESS OF FOWLERS AND WELLS. STERROTYPED BY BANER AND PALMER, 203 William st. cor. Frankfort. 388 Morse, Professor S. B. F., Character of Mann, Hon. Horace 84 Marriage 201 Murdoch, James E., Character of 286 Maternity 296 Matrimonial Society Mesmerism Triumphant 39 Methodists, Phrenology and Mesmerism 40 Methodist Episcopal Church 133 Maternal and Filial Love 158 Magnetism, A Science 198 Mind, the Power of 225 Maxims and Morals for Merchants 356 Big Thunder and Me Che Ke Le A Tah 105 Amativeness, Large and Small 303 115 An Infant 304 122 Dr. Edson 313 137 I. T. Reed 314 153 Edgar and John 321 156 Washington Allston, Front view 329 Side view 331 338 361 Vitellius Zadok Pratt Octagon Diagram Cautiousness, Large John Banvard Indian Skull, Front and Side view 178 Four Temperaments Gosse and Gottfried, Side view 179 William Blake, Front view John Haggerty. FEB 24 1928 LIBRARY AMERICAN PHRENOLOGICAL JOURNAL. ARTICLE I. AMUSEMENTS. THE HOLYDAYS, AND THE NEW YEAR. MAN requires AMUSEMENT as much as he requires food or breath; because the former is as imperiously demanded by a primitive faculty and law of his being as the latter. Nor can any thing be made to contribute more to his intellectual and moral improvement, and especially to his social enjoyments, than such amusements as MIGHT be devised and executed. They could and should be made a most powerful instrumentality for binding all the members of every community inseparably together, in bonds of the most friendly affinity; and thus substitute the most cordial good feeling for those strifes and animosities which now mar and deprave all our communities. See how our thanksgivings bind together families and neighborhoods. Nor will any thing recruit the body and nerve the intellect for powerful exertions more effectually than the best forms of recreation can be made to do. Nor is any thing more promotive of all the vital functions-digestion, circulation, respiration, perspiration, muscular action, etc.-than the hearty laugh; and certainly nothing more effectually rouses all the dormant energies of our being. Nor do I believe any medicines could be employed which would as soon or as effectually make the patient forget his pains, or invigorate the system to expel maladies. And certainly nothing is more promotive of longevity. Nor are many things as injurious to health, talents, morals, or long life, as long-faced Stoicism, or melancholy sobriety. Let us, then, have amusements-purified, laughter-moving, inspiring, and instructive public AMUSEMENTS-and of course times and seasons set apart for this purpose. Such seasons are furnished us in the "holydays," and also in our thanksgivings, independence, etc. They also become admirable chronometers, and measure. the lapse of time on a great scale. Yet such public days are by no means sufficiently frequent. We should, therefore, make the utmost of what we have, and of course render the "holydays" as merry and delightful as possible. VOL. X. NO. 1.-2 |