PHRENOLOGY EXAMINED
Presented by D 10 Arthur?

SHOWN TO BE INCONSISTENT

WITH THE

PRINCIPLES OF PHISIOLOGY,

MENTAL AND MORAL SCIENCE,

AND

THE DOCTRINES OF CHRISTIANITY.

ALSO

ΑΝ ΕΧΑΜΙΝΑΤΙΟΝ

OF THE

CLAIMS OF MESMERISM.

BY N. L. RICE, D. D.

PASTOR OF THE CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, CINCINNATI.

ROBERT CARTER & BROTHERS, 285 BROADWAY.
CINCINNATI:-JOHN D. THORPE,

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THE NEW YORK

PUDIC LIBRARY

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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1848, by

JOHN D. THORPE,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Ohio.

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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

Importance of the subject-Influence of different Systems of

Philosophy upon the Doctrines of Christianity-Apostolic

warnings-Eclectic Platonism-Philosophy of Aristotle

-Sensational Philosophy in France-German Philosophy

and Atheism-Claims of Phrenology to give new interpre-

tations to the Scriptures,

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CHAPTER II.

A statement of the principles and physiological argument,. 24

CHAPTER III.

The claims of Phrenology, as a system of Intellectual Phi-

losophy, examined, .

CHAPTER IV.

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Phrenology wholly inconsistent with the fundamental prin-

ciples of Mental and Moral Science-Leads to Materialism

-Inconsistent with Free Agency and Accountability,

Virtue, and Vice,

90

CHAPTER V.

Tendency of Phrenology to Immorality, and to the destruc-

tion of Social and Civil Order,

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