raw Class _o Book d Copyright :N?_ COPYRIGHT DEPOSU& ^POSSIBILITIES:- The Author Cut, Showing The Location Of The Various Organs According To Phrenological Science. POSSIBILITIES. r»m?=^ DESIGNED, WRITTEN AND USED EXCLU- SIVELY BY THE AUTHOR IN PRO- FESSIONAL DELINEATION OF CHARACTER, BASED UPON THE SCIENCE OF HUMAN NATURE, AS READ BY "Phrenology, "Physiognomy, "Physiology, "Psychology ?||g "Psychometry. Y S By Jeduthun McLaughlin &*^ AUTHOR OF- (/£^^/^r*t -^ "Persons We Meet,'' "The Enquirer,'- "Basement Tenants," "Upper Stqries," "The House We Live In," Etc. "Know then thyself, presume not God to scan. The proper, study of mankind is man. See him from nature rising slow to art, To copy instinct then was reason's partP Pope. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1896. By Jeduthun McLaughlin, In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D. C. PREFACE. So very few facts authentic and absolute, enter into the impenetrable mystery between our birth, and death, CALLED LIFE— that much of the happiness of the pres- ent is sacrificed in vain remembrances of the past, and equally hopeless imaginations of the future. We are here without any will or dictation on our part for our appearence, and with no knowledge as to the time of our departure. Metaphysicians and philosophers who have devoted their entire lifetime to scientific investigation, from the Archaean, down to the Quaternary ages, have demon- strated that earth-building has been one continuation of an ascending series. That this solid terra firma, is but the remains of what has been animate; the grave-yard of all past creation. Palseontological researches, and fos- siliferous deposits, present characters of gnomes, pixies, afrites, fairies, genii; and upon these hypotheses, they af- firm, that our descent has been a gradation from the low- est polyp. Happily, however, few persons are abnormally develop- ed in the faculty ot tracing genealogy. It is well to pay due deference to the masters; but to the great mass of us who represent the utilitarian, work-a-day world, this knowledge affords little alleviation and is of secondary importance to the materialist's requirements of three meals for to-day. Theology, represented by the brainiest men the world has ever known, has submitted voluminous matter per- taining to the life to come. Without "that light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world," and in- tuitive knowledge, nothing has been adduced more com- forting and satisfactory to the craving soul than doctrines analogous to the homly faith which inspired the aborig- ines in the belief of the existence of the "Great Spirit" and "Happy Hunting Grounds." PREFACE, These pages are dedicated to those persons who realize that we are but passengers from time, to eternity— that all oi the bodily functions and mental faculties are for our normal gratification, here, and now, and that by bring- ing into subjection the subordinate ones, the superior qualities will become a prolific source of enjoyment dur- ing our journey. And to those who appreciate the par- amount importance of securing positions best adapted to their various tastes and talents, the execution of which will develop harmonious relations in life, enabling them thereby to adjudicate the intricate details connected with our existence, in the light of reason and intelligent ap- plication, this effort is submitted. Especially to those who realize a consciousness of having adopted an avoca- tion in life for which they have no natural aptitude. To the young, who have not as yet decided upon a specific course in the fulfillment of nature's laws and human char- acter. To parents, who feel the responsibility of placing their children in fields of usefulness. To the candid, honest heart contemplating the most momentous ques- tion entering into human experience — marriage. To every sincere soul earnestly endeavoring not to fall short of the glory for which they were created; and to every per- son who feels a solicititude for the welfare of the race, who would welcome the reign of "peace on earth and good will to men," we commend an honest, impartial, critical examination, based on Science of Human Nature, the only means extant to qualify the children ol men, for the pos- sibilities attainable by strict compliance with one's partic- ular endowments, and perchance to awaken some uncon- scious latent powers, that have been lying dormant and without such professional delineation, might forever re- main in total oblivion. This is an age of specialties. The coming man will prefer to be a professional master in one art, to being a wayfarer among the fellow-crafts of a dozen trades. PREFACE. Conditions and environments with which we are sur- rounded are continually molding influences as iar reach- ing as the infinite shores ol eternity. Jars and discords in domestic life, crime and causal- ity, and embarassment and failures in business, exist largely by reason of assumed responsibilities for which there is no natural adaptability. Nature provides space, filling all immensity, from which phenomena her children are enabled to draw ma- terial out of which is created a fact— a truth. From the same source, and in exactly the same manner will in- spiration be vouchsafed to natural endowments applied in life. The line of demarkation between the capitalist and borrower is the same. Personal effort wrongly ap- plied is subject to royalty by paying tribute to some su- perior by following. Personal effort rightly applied is com- petency equivalent to compound interest of sub-ordinate followers. And now, that our relations as delineator, and delineated, will be the means of applying the science of Human Nature in the discharge of our life duties, thereby augmenting our own happiness as well as to lighten the burden of others; that, as the shadows length- en toward the closing day we may enjoy the satisfaction consequent upon a life spent in the discharge of duties tor which we were best adapted, and at last, we may with a full cargo of loving deeds, glide into harbor on a calm sea, with sails unfurled and all hands on board shouting victory, is the sincere desire of The Author. ^- — t=»=4« — ^ CONTENTS. MAN Page 10 ... •v 14 EDUCATION 18 UPATION ... 25 POSSESSIONS ... 32 HOME ... ... 37 UBILITIES .. . 41 EXPLANATION 40 PHYSK A L ORGANIZA TION ... 47 TEMPERAMENTS 49 MPERAMENTAL SELECTIONS ... 52 CEREBRAL OR CANS. No Page No Page 1 Amativeness 53 23 Constructiveness 86 J Conjugality 55 21+ Ideality 88 S Parental Lore 57 25 Sublimity 90 4 Friendship 58 26 Imitation 91 5 Inhabit ice ness 60 27 Mirthfulness 93 a Continuity 61 28 Individuality 95 7 I itativeness 63 29 Form 97 8 Combativeness 64 30 Size 99 9 Destruct iveness 66 31 Weight 101 10 Aliment iveness 67 32 Color . 108 11 Bibativeness 69 33 Order 105 12 Acquisitiveness 70 34 Calculation 107 /-; Se&retiveness 72 85 Locality 109 14 Cautiousness 73 36 Eventuality 111 J 5 Approbativeness 75 87 Time 113 16 Self Kdeem 76 38 Tune 115 17 Firmness 77 39 Language 117 18 Conscientiousness 79 40 Causality 119 19 Hope 80 41 Comparison 121 20 Spirituality 82 42 Human Nature 124 21 Veneration 83 43 Agreeableness 126 22 Benevolence 85 44 Conclusion 130 CHAPTER I. MAN. — ^Ngb^t^e j^i>-^> — ^p^phat is. man? Who can tell? Whence he com- Wl eth? Whither he goeth? "Who is able for these things?" Who will give a diagnosis of this u iear- fully and wonderfully made animal? Who will render a prognosis of the dissoluble material, and spirit? What is the inspiration that enters into our organic elements that gives us an intuitive knowledge of Immortality? Who possess credentials or have a theses signifying the phenomena of Humanity? How far from the truth is this assertion: we know more about every thing else than we know about ourselves? The crowning act of the Architect of the Universe was creating man. Genesis, tells us that "God created man in his own image." We are then, a part of God, Immor- tal, "Because He lives we shall live also." Is this Incent- ive, Intuition, Consciousness, the soul; the medium through which the brain receives and transmits its func- tions of reason above the brute creation? Who will ex- plain? This same natural element has been manifest in every tribe and province since the morning of the first sunrise. The old Norseman, Mahomet, Odin, Luther, Sweed- enborg, Seers, in all ages, have left this Godhood, inex- plicable Human Existence — in silent eloquence. Must we all pass along this highway, without awaken- ing our sensibilities to the laws of the Universe? Its immensity? Will we ever be able to comprehend the Infinite in our structure? To realize the fearful fact of our existence? Of our reality? In every brave soul we 11 POSSIBILITIES, can read the unwritten law of his being — sincerity, hon- , ol purpose, earnestness, faith; this mysterious* in- describable intuition that brings the creature^n com- munion with the Creator. No language is adequate to express this sacred relationship. We live by believeing, by heroic action. The road is crowded with insincere, palsied, atrophied souls who squander the time in argu- ing and contending for material proofs. Any one could do that Occasionally, some one, inspired by the eloquence of silence, steps out of the beaten path; blazes a road through the primeval forest and comes out by a near cut, years and cycles ahead of the crowd he left upon the dusty highway. At the time, he is called "fanatic;" in these "latter days'' we use the term "crank," but centuries af- terwards, the world recognizes their worth and lavishly erects monuments to their memories, and truly attributes to them "Genius," "Hero" and "Patriot." Every age produces its requirements. The benificient provisions of an all wise Creator are beautifully exem- plified in the arrangement by which discoveries, inventions and sciences, have been bestowed upon the race at pro- pitious periods. Practices and customs prevail at one period successfully, and are superseded by radical, and often adverse meth- ods, yet in their day they met the approbation of those in need. Simply a "gradation" — another of nature's organ- ic laws, compeling us to learn — To continually invest- igate. Action! We never "graduate;" the school of experience continues with no vacation. The classic Greeks bestowed upon iEsculapius and Hygiea divine honors, "God, and Godess" of Medicine. Their remedial agencies were prepared and satisfactory to the requirements of the human system, centuries be- fore the circulation of the blood, oxygen and hydrogyn were discovered, yet contemplating what the revelations MAN. 12 of science may adduce in the years to come, we would not at our stage of the drama, dare assert that their the- ories were empirical. Many active practitioners to day, well remember the advent of anatomical text books advocating fibrous struc- ture and significant convolutions of the brain; prior to this time the brain had been termed u a membraneous substance of little consequence.'' This same class can vividly recall the clinical practice of admitting no drink in fevers except hot teas. Prior to this epoch .but one step, "bleeding," was the panacea for all ills that flesh inherited, or acquired. How absurd the following prac- tice, as copied from a standard history on the fatal ill- ness of Gen. Washington, would be to day. "On Fri- day, the 12 of December, 1799, Gen. Washington rode over his farms on a tour of inspection through a driv- ing sleet storm. He became wet and chilled. As a con- sequence he took a severe cold, but no alarming symp- toms developed till Sunday morning the 14th, when he was so choked up that he could hardly speak, and ex- perienced great difficulty in breathing. His family be- came alarmed and sent for his medical advisers. During the interval, a pint of blood was taken from him by an attendant. About three hours afterward, Dr. Craik ar- rived, and continued the bleeding and also applied a Spanish blister to his throat. Two hours afterward Dr. Craik took another pint of blood without affording the patient any relief. At this crisis Dr. Dick, and soon after Dr. Brown, both of whom had previously been sent for, arrived. A consultation was held, and resulted in bleeding the patient again. This time the blood ran slowly, and did not produce any symptoms of improvement, and despite the physicians' heroic efforts, Gen. Washington passed peacefully away." Equally menacing to our sense of humanitarian in- 13 POSSIBILITIES. stincta has been legislative, statutory enactments. The shadow ol the pillory and gibbet have Scarcely faded from the memory of persons now living, [ncrecbilotis as it sounds to our ears to-day, persons have been fexecuted for witchcraft in the new world, that points with pride to the Immortal document which declares: 'That all men have the inalienable right of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." So it has been in the past. So it is at present. So it will bo in time to come. The insatiate desire of this living soul is investigation. The trophies won in form- er conquests will not assuage the gnawing hunger for coining one new fact. For discovering one new truth. The archives of science may contain prototypes of all requirements necessary for generations that are gone; but the pulsations of life, inspiration, intuition, are the ever present, inherent vibrations for the unrealized. This mysterious analogy between this God— man, and the laws by which nature maintains her affinities, vouch- safes to us the miraculous experience of living. In- trinsically one being: God, man, nature. Tradition, history, experience, eternity— all the same. Truth, earnestness, sincerity, will never die; weaving them in- to our life fabric we assimilate all that they imply— and transcend Earth's limitations for the Divine Sig- nificance of Eternity. What is man? Let the author explain the inspira- tion which frames his words into sentences that grow brighter as the years go by: the orator; the depths of eloquence which arouses all our emotions and dormant faculties, and we realize the unseen beauties of one com- mon brotherhood. Who can comprehend the musician's sacred melodies, as the enchanted vespers reach our be- reaved hearts in tender sympathy? Ah, man! Finite mind has no exegesis for these great souls who live in the Infinite realm of communion with this, the everlasting silence. AMBITION. 14 Where will we go but back to that Source from which cometh all our Light: "For thou hast made him a lit- tle lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honor. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet." CHAPTER II. AMBITION. c s <> ^ t^ jXi)0 - jllie rudimental elements of our being depend upon action. Each victory acquired implies additional con- quest; the whole structure of human existence is one of continued strife. From the embryo struggle for respira- tory life, to the acme of intelligence, nature's organic laws have made no provisions for our maintenance without effort on our part. Ambition, is the chief corner stone in the founda- tion upon which the whole superstructure of our ultimate success and happiness must be built. The incentive to such ambition has much to do with results, wheth- er we shall build on the "rock" and remain as impen- etrable as time, or on the "sands of the sea," and be washed away. Climatic influences, have, perhaps, more to do with this development than any other one factor in our organ- ization. The Bushman, in South American jungles, would hardly be supposed to exhibit moral and intel- lectual attainments— he has no need of them; clothing, dwellings and provisions are spontaneously provided to meet his requirements, peculiarities characteristic of the nation to which he belongs. Hence we find people in- digenous to those climates unrestrained, effeminate and sensual; little above the brute creation in instinct, and Ifi POSSIBILITIES. wholly given up to the proclivities of rapine and mur- der. Ambition under such circumstances and conditions would only be a synonym of lust and animal propensi- ties both natural and inherent. The human structure is so suseptible to such abnormal development, natural and acquired, perverted customs and inherited mental peculiarities, that we can only proceed upon an hypothesis of a well balanced temper- ament, an active brain, normal in all its faculties, and an inheritance of "blood" through many generations. Ambition is the direct constituent of Acquisitiveness, with modified relations to a few other organs,and de- pends on the "ruling groups in the cerebral confor- mation whether it will be a "savor of life unto life, or of death unto death." With Conscientiousness large, Approbativeness and Secretiveness medium, or small, and the moral faculties well in the ascendency — coupled with a Vital— Mental temperament; the "dan-, ger signals 1 ' may all be taken in, with the assurance of the "right of way" and of the safe arrival in the "Union Depot" on schedule time. Ambition with abnormal development of Secretive- ness, Acquisitiveness, Amativeness and Approbativeness, in connection with medium, or deficient moral facul- ties produces the morbid, vicious, perpetrators of crime. So we see that ambition, the most potent emotion combined in the organization of human mind is sus- septible of Sublimest inspiration, or, perverted, prolific of all that is low and groveling; consequently we are admonished of the necessity of proper motives, and cor- rect understanding in applying diligence in the propa- gation of our life work. Ambition to succeed is an inherent quality of our organization. It is never a fortuity. It has no com- bination with luck. It is never found. It is the last link in a long chain; each preceding link has been AMBITION. 16 welded by the brawn and muscle of the apprentice at long hours, and full days of hard, persistent work. A born genius is not an equivalent of greatness. The eminently successful pre-requisite possessed by those who fill history, has been work. Our business here is to be developed. The "Doors of Fate" have always been swinging on the same hinges. Those who have secur- ed admittance, have learned the same trade. They have used the same tools. They have paid the same price for their seats. There is plenty of room for those who can put down the equivalent. Along this great thoroughfare of life, are "tramps" who have perverted this law of usefulness — trying to "dead-head" their way through. They think it looks "shrewd" to get something for nothing. They raise is- sues with corporations, (compeditors) and fight monop- olies (positions.) Making themselves useful to their constituents never entered their minds. Being useless to themselves, they are consequently useless to every- body else. In this Telegraphip, Telephonic, Lightning- Express age, they are, with the motley crowd left be- hind. Because they have rendered no service they are entitled to no pay. To no position. Ambition is the legitimate title to true nobility. Manhood is the birthright of every soul. Manhood, means character. It is an effect. It comes of itself. When the conditions are fulfilled, fruition is the result, in trustful obedience to the law of service. It comes by waiting. It is the vibration of the soul itself. A struggle from the beginning. The frail drop out. On- ly the strong remain. On the higher plains it becomes a hand to hand contest of veterans; of heroes; scarred survivors of many battles; a conflict of giants, wearing the trophies of a thousand victories. No greater delusion exists among the ambitious and aspiring youths, than that positions of honor and trust 17 POSSIBILITIES. are t ho direct result of "wire-lMaMing^ and intercession of friends, bringing to bear influences in their .behalf; and that when secured, are enviable, easy places to fill. To those whose knowledge takes them into the reality of the volunm of responsibilities, connected with any signal advancement or promotion on the line of duty, it not only signifies an additional execution of, the newly acquired obligations, but an advanced re- sponsibility is implied in all the sub-ordiriate lines, down to the very beginning. The most commendable however, of all kinds of ambition, considered in its many sided forms, is, per- haps that in which the principal has never mani- fested any consciousness of any existing ambition out- side of a conscientious discharge of the duties and ob- ligations of life. Where the efforts have been the re- sult of the spontaneous outgrowth of the soul — being lost to self and any motive other than the sublime ren- dition of service. From such exalted minds, we oft- en see exhibited the most humble and sympathetic na- tures. Their benignity proverbial, their humanity is of the broad and liberal type, and their charity mag- nanimous. Should there then exist other ambition than the faithful performance of daily duties? That which is a result: the reward of faithful stewardship. The in- signia of nature's noblemen. The acme of human at- tainments. The question overlying all others is correct appli- cation, natural adjustment of conditions and environ- ments and cranial endowments to the complicated machinery with which we, in our probationary state, may be called upon to adjudicate. CHAPTER III. EDUCATION. J|he term education, might be readily defined by a "High School" pupil, and a "Freshman" in answering would not manifest much hesitancy; but, like the whooping-cough and measles, this phase chief- ly belongs to youth and infantile age. In generic terms of course we mean knowledge; much of which, however, we are frequently unable to reduce to practical ser- vice, and under such circumstances, it signifies not only a loss of time and money, but an incumbrance upon the system both enervating and useless. Not deprecating scholastic accomplishments, but rath- er estimating our institutions of learning in the light or requirements of the advanced age in which we live, which, naturally conducted, are worthy of our emulation. But the general trend of our schools — from the pri- mary management up, is one which engenders a weak, vacillating, physical structure — mental dyspepsia and nerve prostration; wholly incapacitating the human structure for the stern realities necessary in discharg- ing the duties of life. Blood, bone, muscle and tem- perament are of more intrinsic value to us individually, or as a nation, than all the classics, and when sacri- ficed for the sake of keeping in the mad race for cus- tom, the result can be nothing else than an inferior race of people. This "Higher Education" hobby may be effectual for the greatest good in cases where the elementary char- acteristics manifest capability of distinction, indicating 19 POSSIBILITIES. Bpecific endowments; then, combined with an evenly balanced physical organization of the requirements ne- cessary one can complete the course, with perhaps an assurance of a place; but even then, the surplus among "professions" is so great, competition so close, and the practical necessity for such service so uncertain, that the chances are old age would overtake him before a competency could be secured. There are however, three qualifications which if well developed will greatly augment the probabilities of suc- cessful education. The peculiar conformation of brain development, will with unerring certainity indicate the natural ability for life's duties, and in what direction to look for cultivation. Strange as this may sound, en- vironments and associations may so influence, that the natural endowments are never realized — adverse cir- cumstances will be the consequent result. The first ru- diment natural talent having been neglected, that there can be no individual education, is evident. Having inherited the first principle some cardinal point must be. in view, the one most promising. Merely going to New-York— without an end in view, {simply to go there,) is analogous to a collegiate educa- tion without a determination upon a specific avocation. It is a species of "boarding-house" knowledge, but it is no home. A large number of writers seem to infer an analogy between "splitting rails/' "the tailor bench 1 ' and the "tow path," to the Presidency — and avoiding the real attribute in the case: the compliance with the great law of practical service and a faithful performance of the duties that lie nearest the hand to reach them. Abraham Lincoln's early education, allied to the removal of the primeval forest and the subjugation of the wild unbroken wastes into fruitful fields for the habitations of man instilled into his very being the embodiment EDUCATION. 20 of greatness— faithfulness in that which is "least." Maturing under the same vicissitudes which unfold the petals of the tiniest flower, and reverberates the echos of Time's requiem among the majestic branches of the towering oak; educated in sympathy, experi- enced in humble circumstances, and an equivalent ren- dered by his own hands; graduated in Nature's labor- atory. The correlation could embrace nothing more magnanimous than a name perpetuated by honor and distinctions unsurpassed by any man, living or dead? Specific cases could be adduced from all ages. The past has produced no dignataries who have evaded the relation of use, and the faculty of imparting this indispensable qualification of education to their fellow men, which lies in the experience of possessing more than metaphysical theory. The great mass of our young people at our insti- tutions of learning by virtue of inherited means, or aspiration of wealthy parentage, realize after life's bat- tles have begun — that ambition for athletic distinc- tions, rowing and football are incomparable to muscle acquired by another class whose applied means of in- dustry necessary to maintain their educational career was earned by personal effort in earnest toil. Sawing wood is better education than college gymnastics. Teaching, mechanics, manual labor— work of any kind and the necessity of earning their own way at inter- vals, after a common school education, is a condition most promising of ultimate success; in fact the great exception is to find one above the common crowd, who has not relied upon his own hands for present at- tainments, and holds his diploma as an emblem of work rather than a vesture of distinction. Possessing a college diploma and selling Sewing Ma- chines, or some such nominal employment signifies an appalling mistake. A thousand times better be a dili- 21 POSSIBILITIES. gent laborer or ordinary mechanic, than an educated man without understanding. Much of this superfluous encroachment upon life's most propitious period could be wholly avoided, if, in the outset, we were fully a- ware of our own natural endowments) even only one n dura! gift cultivated, would assure the discharge of assumed duties, pleasant, natural, and a continual source of inspiration. Such a condition engenders content- ment with the conditions of life. Such a person might be lacking even in the elementary principles of scho- lastic knowledge, yet he would have an education far superior to the classics in all the affinities which na- ture has alloted for his particular use — utilizing every item as an individual acquirement, and entering in- to all of the intricate details of life as a part of him- self; entirely dispensing with the clashing vexations which present unsurmountable difficulties to undertak- ings without a native pre-disposition toward a given pursuit. This may be considered as a far-fetched idea — or an antiquated foible, yet we have to admit that Nature keeps a one-priced counter. There are no special bargains at re- duced prices. Her bar admits of no change of venue. No appeals. No demur. Her decrees are never revers- ed. Her executions are never stayed. Habeas Corpus proceedings are never recognized; and whoever substi- tutes an artificial education for natural requirements, will pay the penalty to the "uttermost farthing." Precocious children, inspired by undue measurers of our modern school system to rush through mental work at a rate so much greater than the maturing of 1 bone, muscle, and the physical functions can attain nothing more than intellectual mediocrity — producing a generation of vapid affectation, and one which will never advance beyond the limit of school graduation. A generation which will be supplanted by the vigorous EDUCATION. 22 country products that have never been considered "smart" children, but who have the hardihood to endure con- tinued and complex studies, and practice them until advanced age. The anomaly between the two is discernable by prac- tical methods: the fictitious prides himself in dis- playing credentials, adopting an ^novation in his family name by styling himself "J. Franklin Jones," covetous of, and often resorting to questionable measures to secure "degrees" and "titles," and with these equip- ments he sallies forth hunting for business. This interpre- tated by his own demonstration signifies: "I have grad- uated; my diploma entitles me to practice, school has been dismissed, there is no necessity of continued exer- tion for accomplishments, I shall take my ease:" He is satisfied. These, are tenants, not landlords. The clerks, not proprietors. Followers, not leaders. The "stock in trade" of the educated is altogether an- other article. The face portrays education, culture, a- bility as infallible as the plate mirror reflects what is before it. The educated man's presence is an in- spiration to a crowd of perfect strangers, and is recog- nized as such without an introduction. His passport can be neither assumed nor affected. His educational "commencements" are a glimmer of light among the shadows; the paths of sacrifice and suffering are all , familiar to his step, crossing the "Rubicon" has been his supremest lesson. The midnight hour has found him in solitude alone with his thoughts: thoughts, sublime, giant-like, God-like, to be subdued and breath- ed into our human passions for successive generations, speaking enchanting words of Immortality; arousing our slumbering capabilities into thought — unconscious of any endowments, with a humble, childlike inno- cence inquiring into the unfathomable depths between the shores of here, and hereafter. 23 POSSIBILITIES. There is much difficulty in the short space allotted for this subject to make it plain and to be fully un- derstood, and lest the import of this chapter be con- strued as being antagonistic to the higher education and college curriculum, it will be well to recapitulate the theory advanced is: The brain is a struc- ture; its functions act in the same degree of completeness as an organization, on exactly the same principles as do the physical organs consummating a perfect entirety. To become the "perfect man" as deduced by An- thropology it is just as necessary to conform to a specific regimen for the mental structure, as it is to observe hygiene in the practical uses of life. The crudest novice would revolt against a practice of not allowing organic functions time to assimilate, digest and eliminate nourishment provided by nature for the maintenance of the bodily stueture; yet this is precisly the situation, deplorable as it really is, as generally practiced in modern pedagogy; resulting in broken down brain cells, by not allowing blood, res- piration and muscle time to recuperate this wonder- ful combination of individualized organs and faculties. The result is emphatic and conclusive— demonstrat- ed by investigating the early history of all persons oc- cupying stations above the average: their early life has been among the hills and health of farm life, or, they have been compelled by their own exertion to labor and develop, and furnish physical material out of which this mental architect has constructed the wonderful complement, and marvel of all ages — man. Not long since, a newspaper article credited to the pen of one of the most estimable millionaires of our day, Henry Clews, relative to this subject was filed away, and in closing this chapter it will be repro- duced. EDUCATION. 24 "In order to become rich, the young man just start- ing in life should choose that occupation or avocation for which he has the most decided preference. Many a man has his nose to the grindstone, so to speak, throughout life simply because he has chosen, or his relatives and friends have chosen for him, some bus- iness or profession for which he is not adapted, and which he finds is not congenial to him, while in a career for which nature and education had fitted him he might not only be happy and successful, but make his mark as a star of the first magnitude. The Good Book tells us that whatever our hands find to do we should do it with our might, but a young man is not inclined to do in that way things that he does not like. But whatever young men do voluntarily from choice they, as a rule, do well. It is therefore very important for a young man just starting in life to be sure that the calling in which he engages is thoroughly congenial to him, and one in which he can put forth his best efforts with the greatest enthusi- asm and delight. The utility of a collegiate education for success in business is now being largely debated. As the college curriculum and training stand at present, the ordinary course is not in general calculated to make a good business man. It is erroneously estimated by some people as a kind of substitute for business training in the earlier years of the young man's life. There can be no greater mistake in the beginning of a business career. It is in many instances not only a hindrance, but absolutely fatal to success." 25 POSSIBILITIES. CHAPTER IV. OCCUPATION. Bince nature* has ordained that we shall work, it becomes a question of much import to us, what is best adapted to our capabilities. The methods upon which we determine a life call- ing are so rarely based on scientific principles that error and disappointment are looked upon as the com- mon destiny of mankind. No greater delusion exists than to imagine that by the same culture, we may step up and occupy the places of the "seers." No amount of training can create within us other than inherent qualities. The sooner we realize that this big world is peo- pled with just common persons, and, for a moment only we have a being in this strange human existence, and then are a part of the mystic beyond the sooner we will appreciate the necessity of applying diligence in the direction best suited to our natural conditions. The relation of the mental faculties to the or- ganic functions is so intimate, that employment not in harmony with the intellectual endowments result in a derangement of the entire structure, and life becomes a languid, spiritless existence. The most casual observer would know better than to select a Clydesdale horse for the race track: a point- er to hunt bear: a jersey cow for beef: a Lion for a household pet: Bass-wood for an ax handle: Syca- more for shingles: Gum-wood for rails, or Pine for car OCCUPATION. 26 wheels. The relation to use is beautifully exempli- fied in our soils; heavy clay for grass, black loam for corn, alluvial soil for wheat, gravelly land for fruit and all kinds for timber, which may be considered as a synonym of man. The selection of business or occupation, adverse to our mental faculties would cause a discrepency as in- congruous as any referred to. In comparison,the tem- perament determines the character of the wood, and the kind of soil, in the selection to use, it can be made an affinity, or the source of the bitterest antipathy. Men who have amassed colossal fortunes by their own effort, or, those eminently successful in any av- ocation, will invariably be found to have an abnor- mal cranial development in the locality of the ruling group of mental organs. It is generally conceded that this abnormal faculty, be it in any group predomi- nant, will modify and control all of the restrain- ing emotions and propensities, rendering them imper- vious to its influence — the sequence being a develop- ment distinguished for only one specific outline of execution. Under these conditions it would be an in- voluntary act to comply with natural inclinations, be- cause the immoderate activity of this one leading fac- ulty, so influences all others that they become sub- servient to the promptings of this General in tac- tics, and manifest no disposition to investigate or propagate other measures. Persons so constituted rare- ly make a mistake in their life calling— simply because there is one faculty abnormaly developed, all others coincide not daring to enter a protest, or even claim a possession by birth-right. A brain so organized and constructed, could hardly realize an existence outside of this particular element, and would defy all at- tempts of education or application to foreign subjects. 27 POSSIBILITIES. These prodigies too, are not only always weak, but often entirely deficient in other faculties — so-much so that frequently they are unable to carry"" on an in- telligent conversation upon general topics. But the human family as a class, are more har- moniously developed; and while there are very few brain structures that practical Mental Science would not change, to produce a perfect adjustment of all the faculties, those capable of the best culture are so often influenced by antagonistic tendencies of emo- tive elements, that life is often spent in a vain en- deavor to ascertain a true and harmonious relation to its use. Under such a mental development, it is an utter impossibility to choose by simple instinct, what would be the best occupation for life's service. How much more so, then, would be the experi- ment in various channels, fritting away time in hope- less misunderstandings and intolerable conditions for something never attainable, and, never applicable even if secured. Deplorable as this state may appear, it is nevertheless true: that the majority, the large ma- jority of mankind experiment with this awful reality, existence — and realize when the time of probation is far spent, that they have missed the "heights and depths, the lengths ancj breadths" in the pyramid of character, accomplishment and usefulness. Nature's works are all specialties. No soil or climate produces all of the cereals. Adaptation is the law of the Universe. The rich river bottoms in Ohio and Ill- inois have produced bountiful crops of corn for forty or fifty years in succession, the sediment left by the annual overflow creates a perpetual fertilizer, and there is no diminution in the yield. Whole counties in Georgia are devoted to watermelon culture. The pro- ducts of vast sections in Mississippi and Alabama is only cotton. Rice fields of Louisiana afford but one OCCUPATION. 28 specific crop. The valleys and the glades of Califor- nia are phenomenal for prolific crops of fruit. No one would be so presumptious as to attempt to re- verse this order of natural adabtability, and plant corn in the swamps of Louisiana, cotton in Michigan, or potatoes in Florida sand. Apropos to this incongru- ity is the occupation of man —mechanics who ought 'to be merchants, merchants who ought to practice medicine, doctors who ought to be preachers, preach- ers who ought to be rail- road men, farmers who ought to study Theology — and occasionally one wear- ing gospel habiliments who should be in the Pen- itentiary. Mere animal instinct is blind to rea- son and not capable of learning by experience; neither is it susceptible of improvement by practice; hence these very common failures arise by not hav- ing a correct understanding of the relation of the reasoning faculties and intellectual endowments to the spinal cord and nerve rootlets, which pervade the entire body, acting automatically with the dev- elopment of the bodily functions. The brain, which presides over these nerve centers and simultaneously blends the bodily structure into perfect unison, has a cerebral conformation indicative of peculiar traits of character, which, when analyzed should enable even a novice to select the right man for the right place. Especially should every person know his own status by a critical delineation of his brain structure based upon Mental Science; knowing this, and conforming to its teachings constitute the elements which assure the normal, legitimate grati- fication of all the members of our being. Knowing ourselves, we are then prepared to meet our fellow- man on a higher plane — to adjust his irregularities with the same degree of confidence as would be used in the selection of soils and climate for specific crops, 29 POSSIBILITIES. and with equal certainty be apprised of bis ability to untold the supreme issues of life. No occupation or profession is held in* higher es- teem, or worthy of mo?*e Commendation than the christian ministry. Parochial duties bring out the brightest, broadest, sublimest pathos of a human soul: inspiring, ennobling, culturing. Inexperienced aspi- ration influenced by personal contact with such a, spirit, would incline toward the same dignified and exalted position. Without a natural endowment, the preparation might be made, and the required quali- fication secured; but the heights would never be sealed, the inspiration of the voiceless valley of si- lence would never be felt, the hallowed lingering fragrance of Infinite Love, where common experience and ordinary sympathy fail would never reach the trysting- place of a bereaved soul; there would be no ''communion of saints." The inevitable result would be the oft' repeated sentence, "he is a very good man, but no preacher ." This means much — not only to the individual, but for the generations that are, and those that are to come. The pulsations of this influence will live for ages. How necessary then, that this na- ture should combine all of the faculties required in this high and holy calling. With little less favor is the legal profession consid- ered. With what assiduous diligence does the young man apply himself to fathom the rules and regula- tions of the code of statutory enactments. . The natural faculties soon demonstrate, that lack of the essential group of cerebral organs admits features in practical use, entirely foreign to the case and which are taken advantage of by opposing coucil. The time has elaps- ed before motion is made for appeal. Demur is overruled because of error. Motion for appeal is too late for Docket entry. Habeas Corpus proceedings are OCCUPATION. 30 filed where there is no jurisdiction. The bill of ex- ceptions go by default. Issues are alwa} r s taken to the courts ruling, and so on until the practical sys- tem of jurisprudence has been to him a dismal failure. The salient features that his profession required were lacking in his cerebral organization. Emotional aspi- ration, without a knowledge of inherent qualities, led him into an experiment much too expensive for life's brief span and one easily avoided had he have known himself. We often hear the assertion: "the country could not have got along without such and such a man, say: Clay, Webster or Lincoln; and yet, perhaps in the same town where such leaders lived, there may have been half a dozen men, who only needed an equal opportunity to develop, on the same line-, to equal ability," No situation could be more deplorable, or cause more chagrin and humiliation than advancement to a po- sition where inability renders one paralyzed and im-< potent. Favorable circumstances and proxy, may oc- casionally place tools in the hands of over-zealous aspirants, but history writes them down as ignomin- ious failures in the use of them. Great opportunities are Nature's automatic doors — and, as a rule, merit adjudicates the entrance. The acme of human aggrandizement is to be an ex- pert in our chosen occupation. The sequence of the battle of life depends upon the loyalty of the pri- vates. Millions of us are required in the ranks: very few, at the head of the column as officers; advance- ment will be, by an outward recognition of some in herent quality. To know in the start, our natural endowments is of paramount importance. This knowledge is incompar- able to all other attainments. ;U POSSIBILITIES. Character will differ from character in the eternal years, according to the foundation upon which we build. No character can develop into harmonious at- tainments, unless then? be perfect unison between the brain structure and bodily functions and there can be no such unity unless we comply with Nature's law by employing her gifts in their invincible channels. To miss this natural aptitude, and go through life, encountering difficulties, burdens and evil forbodings, is a thralldom worse than abject slavery. Hence it behooves every person in the very outset, to sat- isfy himself beyond a reasonable doubt as to the nat- ural traits of character. Even though much of life has been spent, to be conscious of a perfect entirety with the combined characteristics of our being, is worth all the etfoit that will be required to adjust our meth- ods to the rhythm of Nature's music, and is the only absolute guarantee to that enviable experience: "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." POSSESSIONS. 32 CHAPTER V. POSSESSIONS. Jvs generally inferred, possession relates to finan- ^ cial values of property, inherited from ancestral heirship, or acquired by the laws of commerce. The term as applied here will be used only sig- nifying those inherent qualities bestowed by natural inheritance — natural traits of character and physio- logical possessions, without a consideration of any money value whatever. This living body, elemental force, vitalizing power and coalition of mind and material, is a problem over which metaphysicians and philosophers have stumbled in all ages and left unexplained. That the intellectual faculties are, by some im- penetrable process inseparably blended with the cor- poreal being is an undisputed fact, but the Infinite mystery of their spontaneous consciousness, belongs to the realms of Divine Volition. Temperament means physiological quality. A man may be of full stature, and possess a brain of nat- ural, or even abnormal size, and yet be lacking in the respiratory organs, nerve tissues, blood corpus- cles, or low in inherited organic constitution. A thou- sand and one things can preclude his advance in the race where the rule: u a sound mind in a sound body" results in phenomenal success. The variations in character result from cerebral or- gans, manifesting their inclinations and involuntari- ly controlling the whole bodily structure. 38 POSSIBILITIES, The sublime melodies which incite us to joy, or Booth US in sorrow are all produced from but eight notes and their variations. We have in our language over eighty thousand words; these, employed in the multiplicity of uses, represent our literature in History, Science, Classics and commerce; resulting in a voluminous magnitude almost inconceivable to the mind of man. These books of wide diffusion of subject matter; classic sen- tences, theology, ethics, scientific explorations and comedies and tragedies of human experience are all adduced from words constructed by the use of the twenty-six letters of our alphabet. In like manner the distribution of the variously diversified conditions of mankind are the direct attribute of forty three distinct and classified organs of the brain. • This is a natural heritage, the birth-right of every human being. The only equal possession vouchsafed to all classes. Thes% organs are as susceptible of reduc- tion to practical uses, as the scale in music, or the alphabet to words and sentences. The first rudiment of education belongs to the knowledge of our relation to our Creator, whose im- age we bear. Character should be read as we read books; and applied on business principles. The traits of character crop out in every thing we do — walk- ing, shaking hands, wearing the hat, crossing the street, buying goods, paying our debts, attitude, every peculiar move and gesture is a tell-tale of the hid- den workings of the brain force, and can be distin- guished as readily as discord in the harmony of mu- sic, and with certainity as absolute as the mathema- tician computes three times six. Then there is an infallible method of judging character by the work we do; weak and vacillating, strong and courageous, honor or cowardice, are all stamped with the seal of POSSESSIONS. 34 our execution. Millions of books are on the shelves which create a wonder how the publisher ever paid the printer? Full of words of course, but meaningless. Others may be bright and entertaining with the pronoun "I," the star of the arena. Some with titles long enough to comprise the selection of an entire libra- ry. Then there is the abstract volumn: what dif- ference would it make if all of its suppositions were verified? Mere conjecture. Presently we pick up a volumn of modest title that deals directly with the every-day conditions of men — read it through, cap- tivated; re-read it, and lay it down with regret that it closed so soon. Possession of books, not only de- monstrate the brain possessions of the author, but in our selection we bring out our own intellectual char- acter, assimilation and affinities. "Uncle Tom's Cabin," the most popular book pub- lished within the memory of any man living, reach- es all classes, by virtue of truthful application of fac- ulties fully developed in sympathy, human-nature, veneration, conscientiousness, constructiveness, and har- monious, domestic traits in the writer — forming with the reader, an indissoluble compact with like organs, and irresistibly captivating the most sublime concep- tions of the emotions. The author of Hamlet, like the bubbling mountain spring gushes forth in crystal sprays and in our eag- erness to quench our thirst we take great prolonged draughts, without a thought of its source, complete- ly hidden. Charles Dickens plays upon the fancy, and pro- duces an aroma likening unto savory from palatable viands; but in four pages of Thomas Carlyle's "Hero Worship," is contained more real soul food than in all of his writings. POSSIBILITIES. Darwin's, "Descent of Man, 1 ' "Origin of the Spe- ci^s/' etc, are models in scientific research^ but would have second choice, by ordinary intellects, placed in a library side by side with "Ben Hur." Canon Farrar's "Early days of Christianity," and "Life of Christ," require greater incentives to study than do John Wesley's writings on kindred subjects. Goethe revolutionized Germany; his "Faust" was an unquestioned model of literary genius, yet it for years remained dormant, outside of his own province. Luther's writings established active, progressive light of the world, without any pretense toward literary attainments. Few men there are, who have set down and read the chapters in "Josephus," consecutively until fin- ished, and yet Josephus should be found in every library. So it will ever be; the same intellectual endow- ments that create the inspiration to write millions of books, lesser developed, will create a following in reading. This, like all other organic faculties is only valuable as it is related to use; this criterion however, is safe to follow: leading traits manifested in writing, or those subjects perused with animation and delight, are the leading qualities pertaining to the mind — brain possessions. Out of this brain struc- ture flow the inclinations or aversions to the innu- merable avenues of human ability. Not less marked are the impressions of mind, by personal contact; the "silent monitor," intuitive knowledge, resulting in in- stantaneous impressions on first meeting strangers, is also one of the properties of brain power. The in- voluntary judgment formed, or impressions thus made will invariably be right. Subsequent modifications of the first impression, will, in the light of continued acquaintance prove erroneous without an exception. POSSESSIONS. 36 This inexplicable faculty of mind power may be greatly diversified. A person having little ability to appreciate the sublime may pass through life hardly realizing any intuitive presentments. This deficiency however, will not preclude a successful delineation of. human nature upon practical measures; indeed it should be more of a stimulus to acquire what science has placed at our disposal, thus substituting as far as pos- sible, acquired knowledge in the place of more fully developed natural endowments. Very few exceptions will be found among average intellects that are not aware of the presence and prerogatives of this unfathomable mystery, enumer- ated among the brains possessions. The only attempt at solution would be an attribute of the Infinite in man: "But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal." The inestimable value of being able to classify people as we, meet them — in an absolute degree of certainity, as regards their true character and natural proclivities can not be computed; and the possession of this one faculty, well developed, is a competency of itself, capable of practical application every day of our lives, with every person we meet, carrying us further into the vast and boundless mysteries of hu- manity, and forming a closer relationship with the great Architect of the Universe. The fundamental principle involved is, however, that we each one have full and complete knowledge of our own natural traits and propensities, and be thus provided with a shield to protect the weak, augment the useful, and completely control the whole organization of mental possessions. This knowledge reduced to practice, would obviate the large part of listless, lifeless effort now so prominent in all the trades and professions. Out of the forty three, which ,;: POSSIBILITIES. of the group are the oites to cultivate? Which of the ones, properly cultivated will unfold^ knd ful- fil] the reality of my being? Which are the ones capable of bearing "much fruit" — the ones that will make life complete? To know the ones to restrain, to prevent a fungus growth? These, and many other questions enter into this momentous problem, and should receive our careful deliberations. No more beautiful admonition could be written in this con- nection than, that old analogy upon the members of one body: "But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way." CHAPTER VI. HOME. |B|pome, and its influences not only mould the char- s3=ai acter of individuals, but the power and prosperity of nations depend upon the sanctity of home. It is a common instinct — shared alike by all animate creation, and also an attribute of the highest intel- lectual organization. A necessity for the perpetuation of the species, and the source of greatest happiness, or cause of darkest despair. No where else will man develop into true man- hood. Under no other conditions will woman unfold the beauties of womanhood, wifehood, motherhood. As pure and holy as sacred incense will be the love and virtue instilled into the child heart under the gracious endearments engendered by the true home life. Temptations and evil associations may allure unsophisticated innocence into indigencies deleterious HOME. 38 to both mental qualities and moral attitude, but the "still small voice" in moments of silent meditations will admonish conscientiousness of impending dan- ger; and the remembrance of a pure home life, will carry the heart back to the simple child teachings of perfect obedience. The Divine Decree "It is not good for man to be be alone," places the home, and monogamous mar- riage among the provisions for our happiness here, and forms associations which bind us inseparably to the spiritual hereafter. Sad and deplorable as the fact appears in all its bearings, this institution, with all its holy inspira- tion, bears across its threshhold the shadows of dis- appointment and despair. Perverted instinct and mod- ern culture, can rob it of all its prestige, beauty and loveliness. The barren plains and desert waste of per- verted, blighted, domestic relations has no compari- son among the things of Earth — nor Hell. The modern idea of some, childless homes, is as desti- tute of the true spirit of our being, as pernicious, and as vicious as lawless habits are to our moral integrity. The infelicities of domestic relations has become a menace to our civilazition, and imported ideas of foreign libertines has developed a surprising support among our fashionable circles. This structure can, to a certain degree, withstand any thing except deception. Truth and honor gain- sayed, and confidence betrayed, leaves the heart dead and pulseless, and the situation nauseating and ut- terly damnable; beyond a hope of recovery. The tri- bunal leading up to Pilate's judgment seat, is the only analogy we have, to the excruciating pain of a confiding soul when the light first dawns upon it, that it has been deceived by duplicity in the holy rites of matrimony. 39 POSSIBILITIES, Different and adverse traits of character, manifest by temperament, may be borne, but should be avoid- ed. The greatest good and supremest happiness that will grow "brighter and brighter unto the perfect day/' is vouchsafed only to those who comply with the natural laws of our organic being. The cerebral formations differ as much as the phy- siognomy of the face. A perfect union can be con- summated only upon such a basis as a complement, one, with the other. The abnormal, or excessively developed organs of character should be balanced by a union with an opposite brain conformation. The weak ones would thus be strengthened, and the pro- pensities belonging to the animal instinct be restrain- ed. Strict conformity to this rule for three genera- tions would result in a new, and improved race of people. To abandon the law of reason, and be led by mere emotive impulse, into this sacred relationship, whose influence is to rule the generations that are to be is not always a volitive act, without mis-givings. The limited relations of a large majority of our young people are so circumscribed, that a more lib- eral privilige of choice is an impossibility; hence, they, as the only alternative, make the best of sur- rounding circumstances with a consciousness in the very onset, that the companionship of the love un- written in the heart, has no companionable affinity in the life partner, who should understand the lan- guage of expression before a word was uttered. Such unions form a great part of the inhabitants of our home§; and where the moral faculties pre- dominate over animal propensities, may result in ex- periences closely allied to human happiness, but such affiliations can never bring out the best there is in a being. HOME. 40 Matrimonial /'Journals" as conducted, are question- able schemes for adventurers— as they might be con- ducted, would be prolific benefactors. The only methodical practice applicable to the question at issue is knowledge upon a scientific ba- sis, easily attained, and a guarantee of personal Baity and future happiness. In connection with this phase of the subject we might quote a verse from Frere's works': " With kine and horses, Kurnsf we proceed By reasonable rules, and choose a breed For profit and increase, at any price; Of a sound stock, without defect or vice. But, in the daily matches that we make, The price is every thing: for money's sake, Men marry: women are in marriage given The churl or ruffian, that in wealth has thriven, May match his offspring with the proudest race: Thus every thing is mitfd, noble and base! If then in outward manner, form, and mind, You find us a degraded, motley kind, Wonder no more, my friend! the cause is plain, And to lament the consequence is vain ." A ship may be perfect in all its construction except a rudder, which would render it useless; so, marriage, the home relation, is so correlated to all the other organic requirements that its consummation should em- ploy our earnest solicitude. The first question which enters into this momentous transaction is our own endowments; knowing then, the traits of character that need strengthening, and the propensities to re- strain, we are enabled to select the character, which, combined, will form the nearest ally to an entirety. This, being generally understood, would ; result in a mutual recognition ot this immutible law by both sexes, the sequence of which would be happy homes, •11 POSSIBILITIES. bright children, and an equable adjustment of the discrepancies of human nature. ^ Home! The rippling laughter of innocent childhood, sympathy in sorrow, consolation in bereavement, the tremulous blessing from the Grand Sire's lips, the prayer at the Mother's knee, all bring up memories of sacred reverence, that will never be supplanted until Heaven's welkin shall ring out with sublime melodies, transporting the redeemed soul to the home where the "many mansions be." CHAPTER VII. POSSIBILITIES. ISndowed with normal mental faculties, by persis- *==!l tent effort it is possible, to become proficient in any theoretical science; but without a specific brain structure, adapted to its required adjustment to practical uses, it would be an utter impossibility to become eminently successful. The world is full of half-won races: half-ploughed fields: half-fought battles: half-directed effort: half- applied talent. Writers frequently attempt an explanation of the invisible power that holds an audience spell-bound in the hearing of a Webster, Clay, Beecher, Talmadge or Moody and attribute this inspiration to super- natural magnetism, These men, like all others who fill the pages of history, controlling the popular hosts by leadership, or enrolling themselves as public ben- efactors, have demonstrated nothing but an awful earnestness in their work. POSSIBILITIES. 42 Not one person in ten millions, does his very best under all circumstances, and, as a sequence he fails to bring out the hidden recesses of thought or executive abil- ity. The crystal spring at the mountain side, by con- tinual dipping out, becomes clearer, purer and more invigorating in exhaustless quantities; so, these broken down brain cells of thought should be eliminated from the system as excrementitious matter by replace- ment of new, and advanced effort. Informal and com- mon place affairs of life, afford no excuse for yield- ing to passive means. The spring could be filled up and become useless, but the source would remain the same and supply other outlets; so the mental struc- ture may, by disuse become atrophied, and nature's provision for sublime reason be perverted into mere animal propensity. Since the days of Hippocrates mankind has been the recipient of remedial agencies for the alleviation of pain and disease, until the modern Materia Med- ica employ in its practice Alteratives, Alkalies, Acids, Anodynes, Anthelmintics, Antiperiodics, Antispasmod- ics, Astringents, Carminatives, Cathartics, Caustics, Counter-irritants, Diaphoretics, Diuretics, Emitics, Ex- pectorants, Nervines, Sedatives, Tonics and a thous- and other classified specifics. Now it is possible for the inclination and will power to master the theory of all this science; to understand the administration of remedies in clinical practice, and withal, make a signal failure in applying a diagnosis or prognosis, of the practical issues necessary in a physician's daily life. It is not an infrequent occurance to see more nervousness and excitability exhibited by the surgeon, than ; is shown by the subject under the operator's knife. The incentives of life under such conditions, will not be worthy of the best effort. Nature requires a whole man, perfect in all parts, 18 POSSIBILITIES. owe in which every move, decision and execution is a part of himself; the natural surgeon will step up and saw a man's leg off, with no more*" visible ag- itation than he would manifest in feeling the pulse, not by reason of a deficiency of sympathetic organs, hut because the executive, reasoning faculties would impress him with the imperative duty of immediate action as a means of permanent relief, The brain of the highly developed Mental Tem- perament would be very susceptible to the scholastic requisites of the medical profession; perhaps distin- guishing himself with class honors; but the every day contact with the vagaries of the morbid, quer- ulous delusions of patients in actual practice, would become exasperating to the last degree, and instead of being a source of animation and cheerfulness to the sick room, his presence would cast a shadow of gloom both depressing and viciating to the sensitive patient, precluding even a hope of recovery; and in common surgery his sufferings would be more acute than those endured by the subject. As efficacious as these various remedies may be in alleviating pain or curing disease, not even a novice would be so presumptuous as not to recognize a vast diffusion in their application, and be control- ed by the law of cause and effect. Administering a sedative where a stimulant is required would be apropos to working at the carpenter trade with a set of blacksmith tools, or stone cutting on a silver- smith's bench. Equally as marked are the divergencies of brain application, and just as impossible to overcome if co- erced out of, or retarded in their natural channel. There must be a perfect symmetry of all forces com- bined. Nothing is more unreasonable than to expect to surmount the obstacles incident to a busy life, POSSIBILITIES' 44 and acquit ourselves with any degree of credit, with the consciousness of being handicapped or circum- scribed by the galling fetters of conditions antagon- istic to our finer sensibilities; or realize that there are hidden, latent powers, lying dormant in the ar- chives of our possibilities, capable of realizing the revelations combined in the greatest temple in the Universe, Human Intelligence, and not be able to apply this nature in communion and fellowship with the invisible, immeasurable, nature of all things which surround us. Human possibilities are unlimit- able, if the source is from the living spring of nat- ural adaptation. The natural course in the start, may like a mountain brook, wind around among the meadows, dancing over pebbly bottom, or in quiet pools or shady nooks, where the "kine may come to drink;" then its powers are controlled, and applied, resulting in the motive element of a hundred mills, operated by a thousand hands, manufacturing commodities for whole nations; utilized to the fullest capacity, but not diminished in any conceivable manner. On it flows, broader and wider until great ships are floating on its bossom, bearing the commerce of the world; then the solemn depths at even tide chant among the murmuring waves a quiet requiem and it is burried in the Ocean's immensity. Where the river ceases and ocean begins, no man can tell. What a wonderful analogy to man. Obstructions may materially change his course; but the same force will follow all of his meandering ways; trees may overhang the banks, but he will pass these shady places during the sunny part of the day; dams may be built across to impede his way; resulting in greater depth and a proclamation of unconquerable power voiced in the cataract below — effort may be applied taxing the abilit}' to the fullest extent; clear- 45 POSSIBILITIES. er, purer and more forceful will be the realm of thought in its reeuperatory ministrations. The extension of sympathy, benignity, usefulness to our fellow-man returns with augmented powers equaled only by the amount imparted. Life under such circumstances and conditions could develop into nothing but a sublime blending of the inexplicable influences which speak out of the eternal silence, great lessons of commendation to the passive soul. Filled with this inspiration, the spirit would float on in majestic grandeur; the coffin, charnel house and mausoleum (like the dam, with the water at the mill) would change its course—from human to Divine; but the reality of life, reaching away out on tJhe billows of the great deep of Immortality, would never be conscious of the change from time to a vast and boundless Eternity. MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 46 DELINEATION OF THE NATURAL TRAITS OF CHARACTER OF Examined and given by Jeduthun McLaughlin, On the day of 189. EXPLANATION. Phrenological charts are usually graded in numbers from 1 to 7, in a ratio as compared with the strength of the organ under consideration. We have abandon- ed numbers in our practice altogether, as they in- variably lead to confusion and misunderstandings. In this treatise the strength of character under examination will be designated by a pencil line in the margin at the left of each page, beginning the line at the top, at a point in the description com- pared to its greatest strength, and ending the pencil mark at the bottom of the page at the lowest point estimated in the cerebral formation. Every person is competent to judge then, the expediency of cultiva- ting or restraining any faculty. 47 POSSIBILITIES. PHYSIOLOGICAL ORGANIZATION.: [MOTIVE.] You have a rugged enduring .constitution, capable of hard work and endurance, en- joy action; a large surplus of viral energies are al- ways held in reserve, if emergencies required, could accomplish twice the ordinary amount of work. Will power is the predominant faculty in your or- ganization. The volitive faculties impart their tena- cious qualities to every fibre of the body. Disease, and even death are often overcome by indomitable will. Loss of sleep or missing a meal will not ma- terially affect this structure. Your mental faculties are capable of maintaining normal conditions under almost any circumstances; your organization is one indicative of volitive innervation and great personal strength of character pertaining to doing. Scholastic attainments would not afford activity for the breadth or copiousness necessary for the development of your practical executive ability. Hurry and excitement are not a part of your being; but you exercise a laud- able aspiration to be near the front ranks. (VITAL.) Your constitutional indications point toward a state of healthy blood circula- tion. Heart, Lungs, Liver and Stomach afford am- ple power to keep digestion, respiration and circula- tion up to their fullest capacity. The muscles, tis- sues and fibres are of that quality best adapted to fulfill an even uneventful life; can enjoy to the full- est extent the easy places. Not capable of endurance, fatigue and exposure. Well contented with time and place, and have no particular ambition to exchange this world for any other. The "mental organs are MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 48 always subordinate to the physical functions. Bodily ease, comfort and enjoyment are the prevailing traits of character. The greatest delight of your life is the fact of living. So strong are these qualities, unless guarded by a vigilent moral group of faculties, the nature could easily be perverted into one of the most beastly and sensual, but by proper culture this quality of organization developes into one of the most useful, enjoyable and distinguished powers among men. (MENTAL.) The very finest elements of nature en- ter into your organic constitution. The aspirations, tastes and talents are far superior to those found in the ordinary walks of life. The in- tuitive and emotive faculties are the leading traits of character; a disposition of intense sensitiveness, sub- ject to the keenest suffering by uncongenial associa- tions, susceptible of exquisite joy in silent medita- tion; soars away out into the realms of sublime imagination and esthetic conception, apt to be mis- understood by the common elements constituting a work-a-day world. The natural tendency is to over exertion. Heavy muscular work should never be at- tempted. Keep the feet warm and dry, sleep eight- hours out of the twenty-four, abstain from all stim- ulants and narcotics. Never assume great responsi- bilities; hold a tight rein on the mental faculties, give the physical functions unlimited sway, recon- cile yourself to things as they are, adjudicating them to what they should be, leave to some one else. [NEUTRAL.] You are very unfortunate in your in- herited structure. Neither mental or phy- sical endowments are capable of the best results, life 4W POSSIBILITIES. with you will be a warfare with the elements, your will power is not sufficient to protect ""you from evil; your vitality is subject to sudden collapse, you should never under any circumstances assume martial rela- tions, you should be well satisfied if your journey is made through the world without becoming a charge, and avoid bestowing upon earth a posterity that would be a .menace to society and a curse to them- selves. You should place yourself in a position sub- ject to dictation of a moral upright person, and then be obedient to the very letter. Association with religious influences will do much toward restraining your natural proclivities. Evil companions should be .shunned as a pestilence and poison: low company, drinking or dissipation would, in a very short time place you in a felon's cell. TEMPERAMENTS. MOTIVE, or muscular temperament would be the one in which to properly classifiy your organization. It is markei by a tall angular body, heavy bone, large joints, large hands and feet, prominent > cheek bones, large jaw, long square face, deep set eyes, heavy brows, course fea- tures, stern earnest expression, and as a rule, a .dark complexion. You are well adapted to any position requiring energy, or active heavy muscular work, are capable of great endurance and not easily discouraged, your mental qualities would sustain great burdens without impairment; your will power is the ruling sentiment of your being, and set in any direction would be firm and steadfast, always reliable. You will be more liable to contagious diseases and blood dis orders than to other complaints, and can get very sick within a short period Warm stimulating blood I MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 50 producing remedies should be used to the exclusion of all others. Dissolution comes more suddenly to this temperament than to any other. Never delay in meeting dangerous symptoms. TEMPERAMENT. VITAL: This temperament denotes good digestive organs, capable of vigerous se- cretion, and ability to convert large quantities of food into blood, bone and muscle, and manifests a dis- position to appropriate the good things of life to use. The blood is rich and full, circulation and respira- tion active; strong impulses, intense sensibility, great imagination and quick temper. Short stature, round head, plump body, broad shoulders, full chest and abdomen, and, as a rule, light hair and eyes. The mental qualities consist of versatility, good na- ture and a genial, lively, fun-loving disposition, fond of artificial display, and content with surface accom- plishments. This temperament will be subject to a- cute disease as inflammation, fevers, rheumatism, con- gestion, and pulmonary affections and heart trouble. TEMPERAMENT. MENTAL: You have a very delicate brain structure, liable to over study and should be guarded with a jealous eye; vivid imagi- nation, discrimination, and have a proneness to wan- der off into the sublime mysteries of Spiritual mo- nitions. The peculiar characteristics of this tempera- ment are: delicate .bodily structure, prominence of a full broad forehead, pyraform face, high coronoid de- velopment, fine cut features, clear expressive eyes, [| fair complexion and a well poised bearing. The ex- 51 POSSIBILITIES. cessive brain endowment lias devitalized the blood, absorbing the nerve tissues at the expense of bodily functions. You should assiduously apply your ener- gies to physical exercise. You have a predisposition to cutaneous diseases; exhaustion, prostration, scrofulous disorders of the blood and consumption. Your regi- men should consist of muscular exercise, inflation of the lungs by long deep breathing, and great moderation in all intellectual employments. TEMPERAMENT. MOTIVE VITAL: You have a motive vital temperament, signifying that the motive is in the ascendency, with the vital devel- oped in a less degree, and compared as these two temperaments have been described, only in a mod- ified, improved, and more harmonious condition. TEMPERAMENT. VITAL MOTIVE: You have a vital motive temperament, signifyng that the vital is in the ascendency, with the motive devel- oped in a less degree, and compared as these two temperaments have been described, only in a mod- ified, improved and more harmonious condition. TEMPERAMENT. MOTIVE MENTAL: You have a mo- tive mental temperament, signifying that the motive is in the ascendency, with the mental developed in a less degree, and compared as these temperaments have been described, only in a mod- ified, improved and more harmonious condition. MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 52 TEMPERAMENT. MENTAL MOTIVE: You have a men- tal motive temperament, signifying that the mental is in the ascendency, with the motive developed in a less degree, and compared as these temperaments have been described, only in a modi- fied, improved and more harmonious condition. TEMPERAMENT. VITAL MENTAL: You have a vital mental temperament, signifying that the vital is in the ascendency, with the mental devel- oped in a less degree, and compared as these two temperaments have been described, only in a modi- fied, improved and more harmonious condition. TEMPERAMENT. MENTAL VITAL: You have the men- tal vital temperament, signifying that the mental is in the ascendency, with the vital devel- oped in a less degree, and compared as these two temperaments have been described, only in a modi- fied, improved and more harmonious condition. TEMPERAMENTAL SELECTIONS. Your selection in marriage should be with a person of the: MOTIVE TEMPERAMENT VITAL TEMPERAMENT MENTAL TEMPERAMENT MOTIVE VITAL TEMPERAMENT POSSIBILITIES. VITAL MOTIVE TEMPERAMENT .... MOTIVE MENTAL TEMPERAMENT.?.. ME\T. I L MOTIVE TEMPERAMENT.... VITAL MENTAL TEMPERAMENT .... MENTu 1 L I MTAL TEMPERAMENT .... Bodily structure should be Complexion should be Hair should be Eyes should be Weight should be , You would succeed the best as a Your next choice should be You would be fairly successful as a AMATIVENESS. — c^^ j — The organ of Amativeness is the very foundation of our being. Depending on this alone is the per- petuation of the species; without this element all an- imate life would cease. The command of the Divine Law-giver himself is: "To be fruitful and mulitply.' , The normal legitimate development of this element MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 54 of our being is the natural harmonizer of society. The fulfillment of our very being depends upon our relation to generation, reproduction and maintenance of our race. Obedience to its mandates insures the greatest blessings, and creates ties that bind in an in- separable compact the most hallowed relation. It creates an amiable, benignant disposition, outflowing into one spontaneous influence which pervades the entire fabric of humanity. The lewd and sensual may traduce this ' organ into a synonym of lust, and perverted, will produce more derangement, both mental and physical, than all other organs in the human body. AMATIVENESS. LARGE: You have a nature, warm, ardent and passionately fond of the op- posite sex. Your affections are capable of supreme happiness, and if thwarted, cause intense suffering. You appreciate a demonstration of devo- tion, and intuitively return the same caresses; are habitually found in the company of the adored, fond of beauty, and charmed by personal excellence. You have implicit confidence in the emotions and are apt to be deceived by designing persons. The best moral and religious people should be your associates. AMATIVENESS. FULL: You exact other consideration than emotive inclinations. A life of ce- libacy would fall far short of being a happy life for you. Social enjoyment is the ele- ment upon which your success or failure depends. Under ordinary circumstances you would keep this passion under control. Temptation avoided, is how- ever, the only absolute safeguard. POSSIBILITIES. A MAT I YEN ESS. MODERATE: Life with you* could be made happy in the marriage relation, and also without it. It would make little difference in your surroundings, you would be gov- erned by duty rather than by emotion. Indifference to the social world is a marked characteristic of your being. In your case if you ever marry it will be apt to be through the instrumentality of friends, or by reason of circumstances, rather than by your own effort. AMATIVENESS. SMALL: You have a natural born an- tipathy against the opposite sex, and the most miserable existence to you would be a married life. You would look upon the marriage rite as a galling fetter, servitude, little bet- ter than abject slavery. Your social qualities are confined to those of your own sex. It would be impossible for you to win the love of any one- zcarcely your own. You may have a faint concep- tion of respect, but love is entirely foreign to your organization; to you a dead language. CONJUGALITY. LARGE: Your attachment is largely for one only. Being absent or out of sight is a matter of earnest solicitude. The very presence of your mate is a source of agreeable satisfaction, and to be compelled to go through life without a genial ♦companion would be povert} r and starvation of all the domestic faculties, resulting in failure in any avenue in which the conditions of life might place you; equally as poignant would be the loss, to realize that your love and devotion were not reciprocated. Upon your perfect adaptation MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 56 to your chosen consort will depend your success and welfare. It would be impossible to replace your affinity; once broken, the heart would pine away in despair, and like Rachel: "refuse to be com- forted; 7 CONJUGALITY. FULL: Your affections are placed on one only, devotion to that one would be as sacred as Holy Incense. Infidel- ity and deception would be the only earthly cause of separation, then it would cause more acute suf- fering than death itself. You might, after a length of time, reconcile yourself to a second choice, but never with the same degree of affection, if the first choice was made upon a basis of temperamental a- daptation. The second choice would be more from a philosophical standpoint than a matter of love. Circumstances and situations would be more apt to induce a second marriage as a duty for the sake of others. CONJUGALITY. MODERATE: You are satisfied with the love of one as long as that one is pres- ent, can readily change your affections from one to an other, would not grieve unconsol- ably if bereft of your companion. One marriage would have no precedent over another, you would enjoy the same pleasure in the second, third, or fourth choice, as the first. Under favorable circum- stances for it, you would be a "flirt" and "co- quet." It would be possible for you to be led astray and be unfaithful to the marriage relation. CONJUGALITY. SMALL: You have little desire for the marriage relation, and no conception of 57 POSSIBILITIES. the exquisite enjpypaent of consort companionship. K would be impossible for yon to wield any mag- netic influence over the opposite sex. You consider any demonstration relative to this [acuity as: "nat- ural weakness," "childish" and "foolishness!" A dis- position like yours would be to a devoted heart, a friirid zone, chilling to deatli the tender emotions o( a warm domestic nature. PARENTAL LOVE. LARGE: You are passionately fond of children, and they are by some inex- plicable power, as sure as the magnet to the pole, drawn to you. If you were in a crowded car or thronged street and heard a child cry, it Avould cause you intense suffering; you would aban- don your business instantly to relieve the child. You could hardly endure to have your own child out of your sight, your heart would go out to it in earnest solicitude, and you would suffer "home- sickness" until it returned. Your sympathy will often allow indulgences not the best for the child. The grief at the death of your child could never be assuaged, you would keep intact some little toy, garment or picture, and find relief in fondling and caressing "baby's things." Reference as to dates would be computed from the time "when baby died." PARENTAL LOVE. FULL: You have a good developme nt of child love, and are capable of re- straining them into moral discipline. Y r ou take great pleasure in teaching them, and it gives you rapturous delight to see them unfold into ma- ture Hfe. The young are fond of your company and seek your council. They consider you more in the light of a companion than a senior. Y r our own children would share little more consideration in MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 58 deportment than your neighbors. The law of your government would be justice. PARENTAL LOVE. MODERATE: Your own children will receive much more consideration at your hands than your neighbors. Teaching children would not be pleasent' to you, or profit- able to them. The young always talk and act in reserve in your presence. The boys would never elect you marshal of the day for a picnic outing. If they wanted some advice regarding matters above their years, you would be unanimously chosen. Children, as children, you are fond of; but they, as well as yourself, intuitively realize that tfiere is a vast difference between the two planes. PARENTAL LOVE. SMALL: The parental instinct is very lightly developed in your make-up. You generally refer to children as u kids," "brats" or nuisences." They instinctively shun your presence, and you are happy to rid yourself of their company. The laugh of a child would awaken no more sensation in your breast than the whistle of a steam saw-mill; and a baby's cry, would, alike be "just noise." You are stoical to both their joys or sorrows, neither exerting yourself to create the one, or to prevent the other. FRIENDSHIP. LARGE: The social qualities are large- ly manifested in your daily life. Devo- tion to friends is one of your leading traits. You are not satisfied with a few, but want every body to be your friend. This genial open- heartedness is often taken advantage of by your un- scrupulous neighbors, to your detriment. You would 59 POSSIBILITIES, make almost any sacrifice and discommode yourself to accomodate others; you like to keep open house and entertain your friends. Nothing is too good to dispense in your hospitable provision for social en- joyment, consequently you have a great following of popular friends. FRIENDSHIP. FULL: Your intercourse with your fel- low-man will be open, frank and cor- dial. Your attachments will be limit- ed to those of like natures, and will be permanent and lasting. If betrayed or deceived, the resent- ment will also be perpetual. You will be cautious in expression and rarely make enemies; will be like- ly to suffer by misplaced confidence, and overesti- mate the qualities of your associates. It would be an easy matter to persuade you into enterprises sup- ported by your friends, that your own better judg- ment would repudiate in its quiet moments. FRIENDSHIP. MODERATE: Your friendship is based largely upon policy. You, however, have a very few intimate, bosom friends; but to people in general you will be considered cool, deliberate and calculating. You can conceal emotion and in trade or traffic it would be impossible to de- tect by your deportment any manifestation of success or loss. Very few persons would be apprised of your condition. If failure should attend your effort you would not appeal to your friends for sympathy, nei- ther would they be called in to share your joy in prosperity, FRIENDSHIP, SMALL: You have no appreciation of friendship. All courtesies and friendships are looked upon as schemes for merce- MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 60 nary motives. You could live a mountain hermit a thousand miles from civilization, and experience no inconvenience socially. Your theory would be: "never borrow nor lend," not even the affections. If a per- fect stranger should meet and talk with you on the public highway, even in the most common place man- ner, you would surmise his object. Your manner of Jife will create no friends, and you want none. INHABITIVENESS. LARGE. Your attachment for home is very great. The place of your nativity is an evergreen spot in your being. Time and conditions may place you far away and in superior circumstances, but the heart in its devo- tional moods will wander back to the familiar scenes of childhood. The fields, the hills, the trees, will all have a peculiar fascination which age will not ef- face. To you the sun shines brighter, the fields look greener, the birds sing sweeter, and the associations dearer, at the "old home," than any place on earth. The "old oaken bucket" is a synonym of enchanted memories. INHABITIVENESS. FULL: You like to live in one place and when compelled to move do so with reluctance. Are very slow to consider changes, and it must be of absolute necessity if you do so. You delight in improving your home, and will expend money more freely for home comforts than for ,any thing else. Should change be necessary you will at once set about to duplicate the old home improvements; and will refer to them as: "the way things were at the old home." Above every other aspiration in life is that to own a home of your own. INHABITIVENESS. < lv>\v fehe regular price, ami in selling, use extortion*. You would ex- act the last penny in an agreement, and would charge* one of your own children for hoard, after attaining its majority. In like manner you would insist upon returning cash equivalents for favors received. Ev- ery thing, even your religion, is based upon a basi& of exact economy. You covet the distinction of be- ing rich. In marriage, you would be greatly influenc- ed by money considerations. Your children's selec- tions in marriage would be agreeable, or objectiona- ble, owing to the financial qualifications. ACQUISITIVENESS. MODERATE: Your idea of acquiring property, or for that matter any thing else, is with an eye to its practical uses. You get one hundred cents out of every dollar you spend, if not in money value, in? real enjoyment. If pressed by debts or other incumbrance, you would economize until you could adjust the claim. You would pay all of your debts, and then spend your last dollar with the freedom of a millionaire. You will be inclined to live up to about your income. To a nature like yours, debts and obligations are as; a rudder to the ship, the only means of absolute safety. ACQUISITIVENESS. SMALL: You are always "hard up" and would be "straped" at the end of each month, no matter what your wages would be. You contract obligations far in advance of your ability to meet them. If you should inherit a leg- acy you would spend the entire amount without a thought of discharging your debts already contracted. You always pay big price for what you buy. Your MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 72 manner of work is extravagant, wasteful and reck- less. You could not "buy and sell, and get gain." SECRETIVENESS, LARGE: You are reserved, discreet, cun- ning and shrewd. Can conceal your feel- ings and deceive your best friend. No one can tell your bearings. You practice strateg}' and delight in mysterious transactions. Your closest friend is never aware of your intentions. You can be on the eve of bankruptcy, and by your deport- ment the world w r ould suppose you were doing a lucrative business. Your tactics would be to employ agencies through confederates, and they would never surmise that you were using them as tools to accom- plish your ends. If you were ever so desirous of purchasing property you would so arrange that the other party would be the aggressor. SECRETIVENESS. FULL: You have the endowments nec- essary for a good politician. You could carry both issues without abrupt rup- ture. When pressed, you could be hypocritical* and in emergencies, betray your friends. As a rule you love truth, but do not always practice it. Your meth- od is largely after policy. Your friends are never cer- tain just where you will "turn up." In a trade you would never say that your horse had a ring-bone. You never divulge your plans and intentions. You would, however, be more likely to evade the truth in actions, rather than words. You would make peo- ple infer by your actions, more than by declarations by mouth, and yet the impression which you seek to make is not the exact truth. SECRETIVENESS. MODERATE: You are open, fraak and outspoken. People know what you mean POSSIBILITIES, when you say no. You would never make a pop- ular politician. What you think you say at amy time* and in any place. Von could keep a secret in perfect confidence and no earthly power could induce yoiv to betray your friend. You never try to assume af- fectation or palliate your faults. Your neighbors would trust you with implicit confidence. No one would ever accuse you of being tricky, or taking advantage by misrepresentation. You can not conceal your feel- ings. SECRETIVENESS. SMALL: You often suffer by being in- discrete, and disclosing your own business. Y T ou fail to maintain confidence among vour associates, by telling all you know, and your neighbors have a faculty also,of finding out, prying into, and overhearing matters pertaining to your bus- iness, because you make it a general topic of con- versation, among all people and at any place or time. CAUTIOUSNESS. • LARGE: Your apprehensions are active. Fear, caution and anxiety continually at- tend your ways. You are always on the lookout for something to happen; expecting some great calamity. Traveling, you would fear accident. In bus- iness, you would expect disaster. In sickness, be a- fraid of death. You are suspicious of every thiBg that comes along, You would hesitate to adopt new meas- ures and doubt practical demonstrations before your very eyes. This continual, unnatural fear, circum- scribes your usefulness in life, and precludes a pos- sibility of eminent success. CAUTIOUSNESS. FULL: You are very strongly endowed in this organ. The pleasures of life are MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 74 in mist and cloud, because of this evil forboding. You would see the thorn instead of the rose. You would suffer more by a knowledge of the necessity of an amputation of a limb, than you would by the operation itself. Money would be a source of actual torment for fear of being robbed. You are adverse to meeting strangers, and shrink from forming new acquaintances. You will lose precious opportunities by hesitating. This faculty is the greatest obstacle you have to contend with. CAUTIOUSNESS. MODERATE: You venture upon untried fields after due deliberation, and march right up to appearing dangers, which, as a rule, vanish before you. Impulse may occasionally overcome your better judgment, but due considera- tions, are apt to be the "rule and guide of your faith and practice through life. 1 ' You are never in a great rush and hurry to begin an enterprise; neither will you defer action after a course has been determined upon. Prudence and carefulness, but not timidity, is your nature. CAUTIOUSNESS. SMALL. Great risks are rashly assumed and you rarely stop to count the cost, trusting to your "luck" to take you through. You venture into schemes and undertak- ings that would be apalling to most persons. You are liable to get hurt, be in frequent accidents, and as it is termed, be "unlucky." You will be subject to loss of property, if you should inherit any, by making reckless investments. You could be induced to attempt what the world calls "fool hardy" feats. You could not be intimidated by threats of violence, or benefited by admonitions of danger. 75 POSSIBILITIES, approbattveness: LARGE. You are affable, g'uagive, ahd fond of flattery. The great ambition of your life is to meet public favor and rec- ognition; to be popular, stylish and well thought of, foiid of a great display, ostentatious and proud. The question you would ask first, is not: Is it right? but: What will people say? You will spend money to gain applause sooner than for the necessa- ries of life, Censure would be very humiliating and derision, unbearable. You are a votary of, and bow at the shrine of "Mrs. Grundy." APPROBATIVENESS. FULL: You are more interested in gain- ing the good will of your neighbors than to maintain a character free from im- moral practices. In business transactions you would be polite, courteous, and often violate the equities of life to please your fastideous customers, and save your- self from blame or censure. In teaching, your mode would be, to inspire by public opinion, to gain obe- dience, through fear of shame and disgrace. As a parent, you would admonish with: "what others will think and say." You will exhibit a govern- ment controlled by bribery. APPROBATIVENESS. MODERATE: Your first question in any matter would be from a moral stand- point of justice. You would not be ad- verse to praise, but it must be accompanied by a consciousness of duty discharged, and entirely void of flattery. You would be considered by many, as brusque in manners, but will bear acquaintance. You are rather plain and common place in appear- ances, but desire to be presentable. A garment a lit- MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 7G tie out of "style," could be worn by you, with grace and dignity. APPROBATIVENESS. SMALL: No amount of praise would in- fluence you; or blame cause you any sensitiveness. What people say or think about you, is a matter of no consideration on your part. You are careless and slovenly about your dress, abrupt in your manners, and a general repulsive de- meanor is manifest in all business transactions. You have no conception of style or fashion, and are in- sensible to the finer feelings of the human heart. SELF ESTEEM. LARGE: You have an exalted opinion of yourself; your ability to do, and an aspiration to lead. You regard yourself as master of ceremonies and will not be dictated to by subordinates; neither will you ask or accept ad- vice. You are naturally tyrranical, and egotistical, in relating circumstances you would say: "I would have done so, and so." You have too much dignity and pride to stoop to a low, mean, unworthy act. Peo- ple will consider you proud, haughty and unap- proachable. You will occupy a front seat, ride in the best car, demand, and secure recognition among all classess. SELF ESTEEM. FULL: You have the natural qualities of a leader. Your friends will realize in your presence a superior. You will not stop at the ground floor or lower story; and will exhibit a self-reliant ability to give command, even to those who march at the head of the procession. You assume responsibilities intuitively, and it gives you great satisfaction to realize the dependence of others 77 POSSIBILITIES, upon your ability to lead, undismayed, under any con- ditions, on to victory. *K\A< ESTEEM. * MODERATE: You,aecept responsible po- sitions if pressed to do so, but never seek them; and you discharge the du- ties imposed upon you with credit to yourself. You feel a diffidence in placing a real value upon your abilities, hut have a correct estimate of their worth. You would be able to correct and instruct many per- sons who would succeed in procuring places where sinister motives and personal pride, by selfish, politic schemes were obtained. You never seek self aggrand- izement. Very few of your associates, and hardly yourself, are aware of your real worth and ability. SELF ESTEEM. SMALL: It is impossible for you to ap- pear dignified, commanding and self-re- lient. You depend upon the advice of others, and are inclined to mingle with those below you in the scale of intellectual ability. You are not willing to assume responsibilities. You are not capa- ble of leading, but very susceptible of being dictated to. Your whole bearing is one of deference, submis- sion and humility. Your life will be apt to be one of servitude and humble degree. FIRMNESS. LARGE: You can not be influenced or persuaded. You have a mind of your own and persue a course after your own way. You would not acknowledge being mistaken, and if defeated, you would not attribute the cause to yourself. You accomplish your measures by tena- cious perseverence and unyielding effort. The more opposition you meet the stronger will be your pur- MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 78 pose. You never change your opinions. You often fail to accomplish your ends by being, too* obstinate and arbitrary. FIRMNESS. FULL: You are capable of ruling every thing that comes in your way except your own will. You would suffer mar- tyrdom at the stake before you would yield against your opinion. You will be radical on every point, and be looked upon as a fanatic. You will resort to extreme measures. People will look upon you as egotistical and contrary, stubborn, and uncontrolla- ble. People never repeat a request if your first an- swer is no. You never humiliate yourself by asking forgiveness, or making an apology. FIRMNESS. MODERATE: You are persistent, dili- gent and firm in purpose, but reason upon all measures, and when convinced of wrong, will cheerfully acknowledge it, and change your opinion. You never can be coerced, or driven, but reasonable persuasion will find careful and con- siderate lodgment in your heart, and be conscien- tiously acted upon. When a measure is adopted, and you are sincere in its belief, it will require positive proof of error before you will renounce the old, and adopt the new. You are considerate, firm, reliable and approachable. FIRMNESS. SMALL: You are a tenant in will pow- er; that is, you have none of your own, and what you may act under will sim- ply be in subordination to some one's else will. As the popular pulse beats, so you decide. You are pas- sive upon all measures, and willing to float with the 79 POSSIBILITIES. current. You will In 4 considered tickle, impulsive and ''unstable in all your ways/' You are a creature of conditions and circumstances, generally unfavorable at that, because you are not considered reliable and trustworthy. CONSCIENTIOUSNESS. LARGE: Your ideal of justice and equi- ty is of very high order; and the most painful sensitiveness is experienced when you deviate from the ridged discipline of exact prin- ciple, based upon a theory of scrupulous honesty. You never tolerate any equivocation from the path of rectitude, and your judgment would be severe and swiftly retributive for violation. You could palliate any other weakness in a companion, better than a disposition to be dishonest and deceitful. You ex- hibit very little charity or sympathy for those who yield to temptation. CONSCIENTIOUSNESS. FULL: "Honesty is the best policy," is your motto. Is it right? must be an- swered, and approved, before you adopt any method of procedure. To do violence to your conscience would cause you remorse, chagrin, and might cause you irretrievable calamity. You would sur- render all ties of friendship, endure any privation, or loss, "for conscience' sake." You have an inherent element which enters into and controls the lives of benefactors, missionaries and philanthropists, and sac- rifices all else for duty. Every thing must conform to the dictates of conscience. CONSCIENTIOUSNESS. MODERATE: The path of rectitude is the one you are naturally inclined to follow, but allurements and seductive ap- MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 80 pearances may influence you out of the "straight and narrow way;" but repentance and reform would speed- ily follow and you would not attempt to justify your- self in the least, but open-heartedly and frankly con- fess your sin and seek forgiveness in tears. You would have much charity for those convicted of wrong, and sympathetic with them in their shortcomings. Your neighbors will have implicit confidence in your honesty and veracity. CONSCIENTIOUSNESS. SMALL: Expediency, policy and profit, is the foundation on which your con- science (if you have any) rests. Should you be clearly convicted, you would palliate your sin by comparing it with greater ones committed by some other person. "Sorrow for sin," is something un- known in your vocabulary. Your enjoyment is har- assed by the realization that your associates are cog- nizant of your wrong doing, and also the greater sin, your stubborn refusal to acknowledge your error, by penitent reconciliation with those you have wronged. HOPE. LARGE: The very air, in your presence is filled with fragrance from flowers that are to bloom in the future. You have un- shaken confidence in the immortality of the soul, and of future happiness. Earth's sorrows and disappoint- ments are mittigated by the expectation of everlast- ing joy. Amid' all of the vicissitudes of life, your faith sustains and buoys you up. Disappointments may be gr^at, and you may come far short of your expectations, yet your "Light will not grow less, or disappear." "You will see a rain-bow through your tears." 81 possibilities. HOPE. PULL: If you should meet with dis- aster you would rise again'. You never consider the past, but live in vivid an- ticipation of the future. In business, you will mate rash ventures, and follow delusive ideas. You will make extravagant investments, and speculate in un- dertakings that are riot feasible. Doubts, fears, and possible failures, never enter your mind. Y r ou are sanguine, hopeful, expectant, cheerful and happy. You never despair. You never give up. HOPE. MODERATE: Y T ou generally realize your expectations, and base all of your hopes upon a basis of reasonable results. You are not morose or despondent, but sober, codsiderate , and satisfied with matter and material as they are. Y"ou believe in utilizing the present opportunity, and enjoying the present blessings. You, at times become discouraged, but expect, and make provision for some clouds, and believe that "Into each life some rain must fall." You neither worry about, or have an insatiate desire to realize what the future has in store for you. , HOPE. SMALL: You look upon life as a "vale of tears," and look for the dark side of every object. The "Lion's down the road" you keep in vivid imagination. You look upon war, epidemics, pestilence and every conceivable agency of destruction, as inevitable visitations belonging to the near future. Your riligious manifestations would at- tempt to gain solace out of abstract statements, as "Man that ite born of woman is of few days and full of trouble." MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 82 SPIRITUALITY. LARGE: Your religious faculties are clear, forceful and positive. You have wonderful intuitive perceptions of the unseen. Invisible influences continually pervade your mind, and you are governed by spiritual monitions. You have bright conceptions of immortality, and a positive knowledge of the existence and attributes of a Divine Being. Y r ou are habitually found in silent meditation on the glorious revelations experienced in secret communion with your Maker. Blending of spirits so enraptures your being, that even your as- sociates experience a halo of peaceful, restful, ec- static happiness in your presence. This experience is beyond all power of reason to explain, yet it is so, and you know it is so. SPIRITUALITY. FULL: Your mind is actively employ,- ed in contemplating the supernatural. Monitions, monitors, impressions, are very forcible agencies in your experience. In undertaking any new departure you will be controlled by the sensation of intuitive influence. Y r ou could very easily become infatuated with spiritualism, clairvoy- ance, fortune-telling, mind-reading, dream-interpreta- tion and hypnotic influences. You could become a medium, and would be an expert in hypnotism. Your conceptions are not always clear, and as it is impossible to explain this impressive phenomena, you might become very superstitious. SPIRITUALITY. MODERATE: You would follow from your own involuntary will, a correct mode of ethics. Frequently you experi- ence impressions, but you can not connect them in 83 POSSIBILITIES; your mind with any thing beyond animal instinct. You would laugh to scorn any avowed belief in ghosts or witchcraft. Matters which seem unfath- omable you consider as inventions of deception. Your life in relation to duty, will be discharged upon the basis of reason, rather than by impressions. You will follow after matters that can be demon- strated. Sometimes you honestly try to believe in spiritual guidance, but are prone to doubt. SPIRITUALITY. SMALL: You believe in nothing that you can not see; you must have the material substance, to w T eigh, measure, or estimate. You doubt even the only thing of value about yourself, your mind. The greatest joys of life are sacrificed by your inability to rise above mere brute instinct. You have no conception of a future beyond the grave yard. You exhibit contempt and ridicule for faith in an immortal life, or existence of a Supreme Being. The Bible and generation of the human family, are by you considered as myths, and legends, only applicable to children and those of weak minds. VENERATION. LARGE: You always refer to God and spiritual things with reverence, are a de- vout worshiper, and manifest a life of devotion, piety and christian endeavor. You also exhibit great deference to the aged, distinguished, and those whom you consider your superiors. You have respect amounting to almost reverence for old customs and established usages. Any innovations in conducting ceremonies, or administering the rites of church fellowship, would cause you anguish untold; you would feel that it was sacrilege and mockery. MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 84 VENERATION, FULL: The church and its interests, are to you an ever present theme of con- versation. You are devoted, sincere and earnest; exhibit great fervency in the discharge of re- ligious duties. It grieves you beyond expression to hear profane language, and sacred institutions lightly spoken of. Your deportment is that of humility, submission and love. You reverence old and estab- lished customs, relics of antiquity and family heir- looms are held in sacred memory of the old associ- ations connected with their history. You can almost cause past experiences to materialize by your adhe- sive devotion to the friends of "The long ago." VENERATION. MODERATE: You are inclined to be a business christian. Your veneration is from a sense and obligation of duty, rather than an inborn spirit of devotion and rever- ence. Your emotions will be governed largely by sur- rounding conditions. You often experience "Fight- ings without and fears within." Adoration is a sub- servient quality of your organization. You are con- siderate and deferential to the rites and usages of sacred ceremonies, but pay little regard for those of men. Influence of training and early education will do much toward establishing your creed. VENERATION. SMALL: You manifest little regard for religion, creed, or belief, and never enter into worship in any manner. You doubt the existence of a Supreme Being and are irrever- ant, profane, and a scoffer. You delight to ridicule, and if it were possible, to distress those who support the church and religious institutions. You consider POSSUM LIT IKS. all devotion as fanaticism; and never experience awe and reverence in the presence oi any one, or under any circumstances. You would make derision of the aged and deerept, and torment an innocent, helpless, crippled child. BENEVOLENCE. LARGE: Every body, knows you as a genial, benignant, generous, sympathetic, tender-hearted soul. You are melted to tears by harsh words or beholding ill treatment of helpless childhood, or suffering of any description. You can endure rough treatment yourself much better than to see others abused. You would give away your last dollar to alleviate the wants of a perfect stranger. You are easily imposed upon, for no beg- gar, tramp or vagabond would appeal to you and go away empty-handed. The needy and destitute in your own neighborhood are conscious of your magnani- mous charity. You give lavishly, and with no motive except the inexpressible delight of giving. Children are intuitively drawn toward you and are free to con- fide their troubles in your ear. BENEVOLENCE. ' FULL: You delight to give, and your charity is never limited to policy. You would not only bestow your goods and possessions, but in any measure necessary, would give yourself unreservedly to philanthropic and benevo- lent enterprises. Yours would be a broad charity, for all, general in its purposes. You would be capa- ble of extensive operations, and generally keep clear of designing persons. Your benefactions are from a spontaneous emotion, and you never experience any misgivings by reason of bequests to unworthy sub- jects. You never "let thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth." MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 80 BENEVOLENCE. MEDIUM: You give to the poor and needy when satisfied that they are wor- thy, and are really destitute. You would probably provide a way for them to pay for your beneficence by work, and if satisfied that they were willing to pay by honest effort, would make a dona- tion cheerfully and discharge the requirements of ser- vice. It would be difficult to impose upon you in this direction. You choose the best places and retain the best things for your own use. Charity is always considered upon business principles. In case of acci- dent or disaster, you would look after your own in- terests first; then help your neighbor, then the strang- er; but each in his turn. BENEVOLENCE. SMALL: If you ever gave to a benev- olent cause it was in hope of recovering two to one in subsequent transactions. Pity, and sympathy for poor unfortunates never en- tered your heart.. You consider contributions for char- ity "money thrown away;" words of sympathy, "lost effort," and gifts to the poor, "encouraging laziness." You would build very plain alms houses, and pro- vide scanty means of support for the improvident, and want to bury paupers all in one grave, Your heirs will never hear eulogies about any subject with which you were ever connected, unless it be, that you died. CONSTRUCTIVENESS. LARGE: You have a natural taste for tools and are a genius in ingenuity. You can make any thing you ever saw, and are much inclined toward invention. It makes little difference what branch of mechanics you adopt, W POSSIBILITIES; you would become proficient in it, and also at the same time cncorporate into it branches belonging to other trades, [f you were not satisfied with the tools you have to work with, you would make others a- dapted to your requirements; you would make a lit- tle improvement over the original copy in every thing you manufacture. You would forget appointments and even the dinner hour, so intense would become your interest in mechanical employment. Perpetual motion would be very likely to receive attention and might derange this faculty into a useless inheritance. CONSTRUCTIVENESS. FULL: Your whole being is enthused with constructing, inventing and apply- ing mechanical arts and improvements. Y T ou are always on the alert to detect defects, and invent and successfully apply remedies. In scholas- tic attainments you would manifest fine discernment of thought, polished rhetoric, and depend upon orig- inal productions. You would be loyal to established ethics, but would intuitively adopt innovations. In business, you would adopt new methods, try original schemes of advertising, and probably become envia- ble prosperous by reason of radical departure from the beaten paths, which departure will bring you reputa- tion and affluence. CONSTRUCTIVENESS. MODERATE: You could learn to use tools by diligent service under a master, but never would be able to apply any means only those belonging Jbo the original method of servitude. You would show very little aptitude in any other branch of mechanics than the one in which you engage. You would be obliged to have a copy, and produce by duplicate whatever you undertook to manufacture. You never contemplate on improvement MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 88 by producing something better than the original. You have no real dexterity in working with tools of any kind, or manipulating machinery, and Would get more satisfaction out of life in other channels than as a a mechanic or manufacturer. CONSTRUCTIVENESS. SMALL: You lack mechanism of all kinds. Sawing a board in two, and driv- ing a nail would tax your ability to the fullest capacity. You never attempt to repair or mend. You are awkward, clumsy and make wretched work in attempting to operate even the simplest ma- chine or contrivance. The complications of a saw- buck are about all you should attempt to keep in order in the line of tool using or manufacturing, building, or construction of any kind. IDEALITY. LARGE: You are strongly inclined toward a3sthetics, poesy, and exquisite refinement. You reach out into the ideal world, and transcend all of Earth's realities for the halo and de- light in imagery, dwell in the highest degree of viv- id imagination of the delicate, beautiful, and lovely. You are graceful, polished and fastidious, and see the reflection of symetry and beauty in all of your sur- roundings. You live in a realm of flowers, fancy and poetic exurberance. You love the delicate hues of sun-set gold, the tint of autumn leaves, and the moon's resplendant glory. You live fathoms above the ordinary affairs of earth. IDEALITY. FULL: You have a high ideal of life, are defined in taste, and have an ac- complished manner of expression; love poetry, art and finery. Your imagination often carries POSSIBILITIES, you away into fields of sentimental, fanciful aspira- tions, and you sit enchanted with the elegance and splendor o( the "Fields arrayed in living green/' You exhibit culture, taste and refinement in your language, deportment, dress and expression. Nothing would mortify you more than rude, uncouth display oi words, or dress. You are fond of adornment, dis- play and ornaments, but require them to be first class. You would not endure cheap, shoddy, tvvaddy, or tarnished dress, furniture, or architecture. IDEALITY. MODERATE: You have a good sense of propriety, and can appreciate the finest arts, either in poetry, sculpture, or the discernable beautiful, but never wander off into im- aginary worlds of "Exquisite delight" in the fanciful. Your value of the beautiful is, to a great extent, based upon the utility and practical adaptation to present use and enjoyment. You would connect sub- stantial excellency with your fairest pictures, and the highest award you would give to that which com- bines beauty and pleasure to the corporeal being. You would not select the fanciful skies for an a- biding place. IDEALITY. SMALL: You appreciate only here, a^id now, and are incapable of emotion under any circumstances. You are unimagina- tive, prosaic, and painfully plain. You can see no beauty in pictures, experience no sensation by read- ing the most pathetic poem, and wander around here on earth, guided, influenced, and controlled by mere animal instinct. Dress,, ornaments and culture, you deem as "Wicked pride," and demonstrate your an- tipathy against them by a slovenly dress, abrupt MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 90 manners and vulgar associations. Barbarous tribes of people and atrocious criminals have also, little of this faculty manifest in the conformation of brain struc- ture, SUBLIMITY. LARGE: You are often found ad- miring in silent wonder, the unfathom- able, illimitable works of God, the stary heavens, His handiwork and handwriting in these majestic lights of glory which look down upon us from well nigh infinite depths of space. You would stand for hours enchanted, viewing the boundless blue of the ocean's crest. The primeval forest, in the dark, silent presence of the great kings of the wood. The mountain peaks and invisible depths of yawning canyons, the tempestuous rush of surging waters, are alike to you, objects of sublime exper- ience. You are prone to wander in your imagina- tion out into space— and enjoy the inspiration of Eternity, Infinity, and thoughts of the grand, the beautiful, and the great SUBLIMITY, FULL: You have a keen appreciation of the unusual, great and magnificent; a storm at sea, a prairie fire, a roaring cataract, the movements of the constellations, the lightning flash, the thunder clap, the cyclone's furry, would be the objects of most intense enjoyment. You love to meditate upon the vastness and unfath- omable works of Nature. In furnishings you would select those articles representing subline thought. Your literature would be concerned in astronomy, war, art, history and geology, rather than comedies. Your pictures would consist of rough mountain scen- ery, cataracts, fires, floods, and an y thing represent- ing stupendous grandeur. You are inclined to use vu POSSIBILITIES, bombast and high sounding expressions. SUBLIMITY. MODERATE: You enjoy seeing any thing great, grand, and beautiful, and have a fair conception of surrounding phenom- ena. You think of them as beyond your understand- ing, and are not apt to devote much time to the pleasure of beholding their charms, or contemplating the laws which govern, or the hand that creates and controles them. Y T ou never realize any greater sense of delight in beholding the impenetrable, mysterious greatness, than you do in viewing some ordinary common — place affair. You never have a home-sick- ness to get away beyond the every day duties of life, and revel in the forest's depths, or climb to the mountain's summit. Beauty, is to you, something fair and pleasing to the eye, regardless of what im- port is manifest, SUBLIMITY. SMALL: The trees to you, are trees; and you are totally oblivious to any sensation of awe, wonder, or contempla- tion. The granduer of the "Everlasting hills," is, to you speechless. Y r ou draw no sweet inference from the rain bow's tints, or the sun set's gold. The mount- ain gorges, and dark ravines, are hideous malforma- tions of Nature's extravagance, as you compute them. Eternity, and immortality, are the source of no de- lightful thought, are not food upon which you can concentrate the mind in reverie, and comprehend a spiritual power as the source of their existence. IMITATION. LARGE: Y r ou have well developed or- gans of imitation and mimicry. You can assume and impersonify any character MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 92 you choose, and so well that your intimate friends would not detect the original. The voice, tone and gestures, and to a great extent, facial expression, would be a complete duplicate of the real to the very let- ter. Manners, language and customs are objects of intuitive adoption. You would adapt yourself to all classes of society and make a presentable appearence in a foreign port, within a very short period, mere- ly by observing the maneuvers of those around you. So prominent and natural is this trait, that it would require years of association to establish a standard of personal character that your friends would desig- nate as your own. IMITATION. FULL: You are rather inclined to fun- making and mimicry. You follow what you see and hear. You would acquit yourself with a good degree of credit in a company of persons much your superiors in intellectual attain- ments, by a conformity to their customs, and the imitation of their manners and speech. If me- chanically inclined, you would be able to manufac- ture any thing you ever saw that interested you, and would follow new designs, patterns and customs. You would adopt at once the customs and usages of of any new community into which you would take 1 up your abode. You would be a failure as a leader, where it required an original, independent mode of operation. You must have some one to follow, to copy from, and then you could never surpass the pattern, though you might frequently come up to it. IMITATION. MODERATE: You can copy in every thing except personalities. The customs and rules of others you consider from a standpoint of reason, and if convinced of their prac- 93 POSSIBILITIES. tibility you would easily conform to them. In ser- vice or manufacturing, you would not only come up to your pattern, but add to it improvement and usefulness. You never reason, ^because others do so" but manage the affairs of life from your own stand point. If brought up in New England, and learned to say "keow," you would pronounce it the same way should yon settle in Texas; but the amity of life depending upon a cordial exchange of neighbor- hood hospitalities would be respected with concilia- tion and regard to the prevailing usages with which you were surrounded. IMITATION. SMALL: Yon have an aversion to im- itate any thing or any body; have a way of your own and follow it witb tenacious persistency. You would carry to your grave habits and customs formed iri childhood; even should your residence be for many years among those who are governed by altogether different modes and hab- its and usages, and you would never realize the lu- dicrus predicaments such conformity to obsolete cus- toms would place you, in the estimation of your associates. Your voice, manner, and gestures, would never be mistaken for another. It would be impos- sible for you to avoid detection. Every thing about you proclaims: here I am! M1RTHFULNESS. LARGE: You have a very keen appre- ciation of the ludicrus, comical, incon- gruous conditions of life. Good humor and a laughing, jolly disposition are your personal characteristics. You can get ah original joke and a great amount of fun out of the ordinary routine of daily life. You are quick and apt at repartee, and are able to turn your wit into ridicule and the most MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 94 scathing sarcasm. You are the life of a company, and your facetious sallies of wit keep them convul- sed with hearty, and uncontrollable laughter. You never laugh at your own efforts, but are highly elated over, and appreciate the efforts of others. Your mirthfulness is of a high order, the very best; any thing, course, low or vulgar, would not be tolerated for a moment. MIRTHFULNESS. FULL: You are merry, light-hearted and live on the sunny side. You get your fun out of what you have heard, and never forget a funny story, or good joke, but have them all stored up as money, on deposit in the bank, ready upon call. You are also fond of playing tricks for fun, and succeed in them to such an extent that your associates are cautious about accepting your state- ments, or asking you leading questions. You do not manifest much sport when caught in your own trap, but never show contempt or anger. You would not be one to cause pain or suffering in any manner, but as long as it was harmless, there would be no limit to your joking proclivities. MIRTHFULNESS. MODERATE: You like to laugh, and enjoy humorous company, but are not capable of making fun yourself, or per- petrating a joke. You are too matter-of-fact to think of any thing ludicrous, unless surrounded with a jo- vial company, then, for the time being, you manifest the highest enjoyment. In relating a funny occur- ance you would be so convulsed with laughter that it would be impossible to get a correct understanding of the subject. You would not show the most ami- able appreciation of being caught by the joke your- self. By yourself, and unless led by others, no one POSSIBILITIES. woul^d suppose that you could be influenced to Ijoin with B party oi merriment and witticism. You are too slow for satirical repartee, but woufld "lay it up" for a subsequent occasion. MIRTHPULNESS. SMALL: You have no conception of fun, ludicrus happenings, or comical express- ions, and consider laughing ribaldry as belonging strictly to child's play. Joking, and humer- on s witticisms are looked upon as trifling, and a reck- less squandering of time. You are slow to see and realize the real meaning conveyed in the good natur- ed tact in dressing the realities of life up into fa- cetious figures, in order to lighten the cares and bur- dens of life, by jollity and mirth. Your motto is sobriety, reverence and continual steadfastness. INDIVIDUALITY. LARGE: Your faculties of observation are largely developed. You see every thing . that is going on, and notice many things to which ordinary persons never pay any attention. You are very inquisitive, and may at times be con- sidered obtrusive in your eagerness to satisfy your curiosity. You always take minute observation of any thing new, or strange, and could give a detailed de- scription of any thing that came under your notice. Neighborhood transactions, trades, propositions, sales^ investments, marriages, births and deaths, all seem to spring up spontaneously in your knowledge. You know what is going on in the community, and are conversant with the business relations and social at- mosphere in the entire circle of your acquaintance. In case of a new neighbor, you would know more about his antecedents in three days, than most per- sons would in as manv vears. . MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 96 INDIVIDUALITY. FULL: In traveling, you would see all the trees, fields, rivers, mountains, houses, barns, grass, crops, and men at work in the fields. You would notice what they were doing and how they were doing it. You would be able to tell at what station such a lady came into the car, and at what place she got oft, the color of her hair, eyes, and the kind of hat she wore, color of her dress, how it was made, color of trimings, describe her jew- elry, umbrella and traveling bag. At the hotel, you would notice the furniture, carpets, curtains, electric buttons, and want to know how to operate them. INDIVIDUALITY, MODERATE: You are conservative in your interrogations, but if not able to satisfy your curiosity without, will ask questions. You want to understand what things are for, how they are made, and'how to put them to practical use. If by close observation you can deter- mine these questions, you will rarely exhibit any interest to an outside spectator, but if not able to comprehend them in the manner of use, you would go to any inconvenience to find out. You could give a very fair description of things you see, in general, but would fail in a minute, specific of each partic- ular case. Many things not of special interest to you, would be passed without any interest as objects of attention demanding scrutiny or observation. What- ever are the controlling organs in your cranial de- velopment, jvouid likely lead in the style and class of yoar general notice, and would be more particular- ly observed. INDIVIDUALITY. SMALL: You are not able to individ- ualize objects coming under your obser- 07 POSSIBILITIES. nation, or to give a description of what you have seen. You have a vague, dreamy consciousness of hav- ing passed numerous things, but to classify them in- to the diversified conditions to which they belong, would be a task utterly impossible. In traveling, you would perhaps remember having seen tields of growing vegetation, but could not say whether it was grass, corn, oats, potatoes or barley growing in them. You might remember passing through forests, but could not tell whether the trees were evergreen, or deciduous. You fail to appreciate the use and value of your eyes individually. FORM. LARGE: Y r ou have wonderful ability to remember faces and forms. Seeing a person once, you would instantly recog- nize him, years afterward. You could become very proficient in writing, drawing, and portrait painting; could learn to read and write foreign languages very easily, and also be an expert in architecture. You notice all of the corners, reliefs and shapes of buildings, and you could reproduce a duplicate of exact sym- etry; years afterwards, you could build something just like the one you had seen. You could describe to an exact particular, any thing you have ever obser- ved. You may not always be able to locate the place, or time, that certain objects came under your notice, but you could take a pencil and paper and draw a profile of the locality, or a pattern of the building in question. FORM. FULL: You rarely forget a face ot coun- tenance, and the way things look. In describing a horse, you w T ould probably say: large head, lop-eared, wide between the eyes, a ring-bone on the off-fore foot, crooked legs and an MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 98 awkward traveler, and entirely omit the color. You would designate medicine by the square, or round bottle; strangers, by their size and build, the style of hat, the way the garments were made, style of shoes, rather than by the color, kind or quality of the suits they wore, in the country, you would notice the fields, as being long or square. In the city, compare the buildings, as high or low, manner of architect- ure and any peculiar shape of any thing connected with them. FORM. MODERATE: You have a faculty of selecting equal, and symmetrical configur- ations. You could pick out animals from a flock that were well formed, perfect in build, and those that were nearest perfect in structure; but would not be able to construct patterns for any me- chanical work, or be likely to call up in remem- brance any peculiar style or order you have at some prior period taken a fancy. You often feel morti- fied by persons calling you by name, and by friend- ly greetings, and at the same time being unable to call them by name. It would be impossible for you to sit down and draw a diagram of a boat, baloon, or circus tent, until you were thouroughly familiar with such things. It requires attention and diligence for you to apply this faculty mechanically, and prac- tical knowledge, before you can give a correct ex- planation of it by demonstration. FORM. SMALL. It is a very difficult matter for you to remember how things looked. The acquaintance formed at the break- fast table, you would not recognize at dinner time. In a menagerie or zoological park, some one would have to tell you when you had completed the circle. POSSIBILITIES. A man could engage you in an hour's conversation on the street, and two hours afterward, in court, you would hesitate to swear to his identity, ©r that you ever saw him before. It is hard work for you to re- member the form of letters, words, or to adopt the use of new ones. You could detect no difference in the form of heads or faces of your acquaintances, and in writing, you have to often stop and consider the formation of letters, before writing them. Your communications would probably be very original in construction, as you would not be able to discrimi- nate between the style of customary correspondence, and the form of your own production. SIZE. LARGE: You can aproximate distances, heights, lengths and breadths, to almost an exact certainty by your eye, and are considered a a good guesser" on magnitudes of any description. You are continually judging on top- ics of this kind, and have a well balanced eye for proportions in any way imaginable. You could tell the size of a barn, its height, how far it is from you, and how much larger it is than the one a- cross the road; how many acres there is in a field, how high the corn stood; how many feet to the first limb of a tree, how much it would measure in cir- cumference, and bow many cords of wood it would make, cut down and prepared for market. In traveling, you would be very near exactness in your estimate of distance, from given points. SIZE. FULL: In mechanical work you make a wonderfully accurate estimate of the a- rnount of material it would take for a specific job. You could saw boards the same length without measuring; cut off just so much meat, or MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 100 so many yards of calico, make two, four, or a hun- dred horse -shoes exactly alike; tell how many yards of carpet it would take for a certain room, how many rolls of paper for the walls, how many shingles for the roof oi a house, and such like calculations, with- out any measurment except the eye, and without any hesitation of mind in computing the amounts. You would detect in an instant, any deviation from the proper dimensions or correctness, and manifest im- patience and annoyance by such inappropriate propor- tions. SIZE. MODERATE: There would be great risk in accepting your eye estimates upon the size of objects, except by comparison; for instance: you would more than likely fail in match- ing two horses, unless they were compared together. You could make a close estimate on the distance to an object, by walking over the ground, but fail on an estimate without it. All of your 1 ability in this line lies in the actual practice of considering meas- urments and estimates upon the basis of practical ex- perience, and what you decide upon, is after thought and consideration. If you wanted a parlor mirror as large as your neighbor's, you would first notice by your own height, and compare that with the mirror, then decide on the difference in measurement, and be thus guided in selecting the size wanted. You are obliged to have some tangible method on which to base a foundation for conclusive decision. SIZE. SMALL: There is but one way you could be sure of any thing relating to size? that is: by careful, precise measurement. You never estimate or guess at any thing of this nature. You are very slow and reserved in making 101 POSSIBILITIES. estimates, even after you have careful measurements You could distinguish no difference in the size of your dining room and library by looking at them, and after being familiar with them for years, when there might be a difference of one third. You could not tell whether you went one block, or five squares to market, unless you would take time to count. You would fail to make a success as a dressmaker, milliner, artist, carpenter or machinist, on account of your deficiency in this organ of size. WEIGHT, LARGE: You are an expert in judging weight, would become proficient in me- chanics of any kind; in masonry, you could lay a wall perfectly straight and true, without level, line or plumet, and would instantly notice any thing not true, or at right angles with the compass. You would require every thing to be East and West, or North and South. You could work at dangerous heights without experiencing any thing like sea-sick- ness, or dizziness. You could become a '"Star" in the line of acrobats, bare-back riding, hurdle races, ma- gician, or such performences. Your ability in this faculty would enable you to assume attitudes nat- ural and graceful, in any feats that require nerve, skill, and balancing perception to execute them. WEIGHT.* FULL: You have a graceful carriage, walk with ease, and without any sen- sation of danger over narrow ledges, near precipices, or cataracts, where most people would avoid to go, and shudder to think about them; never stum- ble, maintain your equilibrium under circumstances, and have perfect control in adjusting your attitude to* the laws of gravity. You could be an expert eques- trian, marksman, base-ball pitcher, surveyor, or en- MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 102 gineer. You would excell in dancing, climbing, row- ing, skating, rope-walking or in any gymnastic per- formance. You could make a kite that would fly; and would delight in balloon ascensions. In connec- tion with a favorable group of organs, this one of weight would be of invaluable service in the prac- tise of medicine, and pharmaceutical dispensation. You could prepare in exact proportion, the most particu- lar prescription of various ingredients, and do it with vour eye, to perfection. WEIGHT, MEDIUM: You are a good judge of weight by comparison with other objects, and bringing in its use other perceptive organs. You are able to form accurate estimates, and conform to ordinary adjustments. You would want to do your work by demonstrating through established laws as a rule, and avoid all risky chances; you would need a good hand-hold in climbing, and would be adverse to running unnecessary risks. In esti- mating the weight of stock, you would want to weigh one, and then, by bringing into use the organs of size, form and comparison.. You are liable to get "light-headed" if up high, riding backwards, in a boat, or looking out a car window while traveling. WEIGHT. SMALL: You appear to be ill at ease, even in attempting to stand still, and in walking, exhibit a clumsy, shambling gait, as if afraid the earth were liable to make ajar, and you fall off. You could not ride a sturdy plow horse, or work on a scaffold ten feet from the ground, nor adjust or keep in repair the simplest kind of machinery. You would be deficient as a cook, or in baking, your inability to judge of estimates would ruin every dish connected with culinary affairs, by 108 POSSIBILITIES. the inappropriate seasonings; there would invariably be a little too much, or not quite enough.. You would push a door hard enough to slam jit, or else not quite hard enough to close it. Your work will be accomplished with much irritating complication, and will be very inefectual. There would be no uni- formity of action, or symmetry of purpose in your management. COLOR. LARGE: You have a very delicate per- ception of hues, tints and the blending of colors. As a milliner, your trimmings would be very tastily arranged, without any studied effort on your part, and would become very popu- lar for this special branch of the work. You would also be an adebt in landscape-gardening; the foliage, trees, flowers, and various shaddings, would be one of symmetry and beauty. You would instantly notice any divergency in exact adaptation, and it would be a source of annoyance and chagrin, for you to see ar- tistic taste demoralized by admixture of adverse col- ors, or in an inappropriate order. You would select fine comparisons of colors in paintings of any de- scription, and be able to define the various shades in blending, to an exact line. You would succeed as a producer of original patterns or designs for prints, car- pets, or wall-paper. COLOR. FULL: In pictures, you would notice the colors more than you would the ob- jects. In giving a description of a horse you would do so by giving its color; the color of trimmings, color of window-blinds, carpets, tapestry, and pictures belonging to a home: of a person; color of the eyes, hair, hat and suit. You would succeed admirably in any thing which belongs to the realm MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 104 of decoration in art, dress, or construction. Floral decorations or the growing of blooming plants and flowers would also afford you exquisite enjoyment. You would delight to arrange the pots and beds in distinct lines of variation, and the result of your ef- fort would be charming in the extreme. COLOR. MODERATE: You are rather matter-of- fact in regard to color; you notice any thing particularly if represented by bril- liant colors, but ten minutes afterwards, you could not tell what the colors were, if out of sight. You would make poor selections for painting a house by picking out colors at the market, but would do fairly well if in comparison with some other building. In trim- ming a hat you would be as likely to use scarlet or vermillion for the light blond girl, as you would to select proper tints, unless guided by a pattern of some similarity; and the finer blending would always puz- zle you to determine the shades, to produce pleas- ing effects. So little interest is manifest in your dis- position to care for this faculty, that a selection of life work should be made that would not require large responsibility in this particular line of thought. COLOR. SMALL: Your ideas of beautiful colors are like the aboriginies, very marked, and consist of flaming hues, and are of dis- tinct, pronounced variations, if any at all are in- dulged in, but are more likely to not notice them in any form of ordinary presentment. It would be very difficult for you to tell one from another, and re- member nothing about the pictures, landscapes, foli- age, flowers, or appreciate the meaning or expression of beauty. The tints of sun-set, or early dawn, are sources of no more inspiration, or conception of har- 105 POSSIBILITIES. monious Mendings, or any difference in hues and col- ors, than the midnight darkness. Persons of your ability in this organ, are considered and designated as being color-blind. ORDER, LARGE: System, method and order are your characteristics. All of your busi- ness is done upon a basis of military precision. Every thing has a time of attention; a place, and every thing in its place. Your dress, de- portment, bearing, all indicate the embodiment of ex- act execution. Your obligations are always met or provided for at the appointed time; no one ever has to wait for you to come, after the time designated. You would not tolerate confusion, and disorder in employes. You notice any thing out of place, or unsystematic effort, and it causes uneasiness, and dissatisfaction. You are without variation in your man- ner of doing things; always hang your hat on the same hook, your coat in the same place, and never hunt for your shoes and stockings in the morning. You always arrange for first duties, and allow the next to follow in subsequent order; never become confused as to which should be done first. By this means, you are capable of administering, in a large degree with despatch and certainty, any undertaking. ORDER. FULL: You never become confused and bewildered regarding manners of accom- plishing your ends. Generally speaking, you are considered, particular, or fastidious. Every one of your plans move off like clock work Things would always be in their place, and you could de- tect any molestation in your absence, though it may have been with care, and with a view of fooling you. MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 106 Your habits are precise, the hour for retiring, for ris- ing, breakfast, dinner and supper would not vary two minutes in the whole year, on account of your man- agement. Your table, dresser, chairs and bric-a-brac, would never exchange places. Your entire house and furnishings would be one of symmetry and perfect order. You could get up at any time of the night and go to your library and get a specific volumn, in the dark; you would know where its place was, and put your hand on it at the first effort. ORDER. MODERATE: Order with you would be regulated as related to practical, profita- ble use. You have an eye for neatness and taste, but for temporary purposes you would shift along almost any way, and not worry over the ship-shod appearances. You value other duties higher, and estimate time spent on them, more es- sential, than to be forever dusting, polishing, and putting in place this ever lasting disorder. You are not able to command in the capacity of master of ceremonies in bodies of much magnitude, where it would be necessary to rely on tactics, to return for- mal and precise system. Your theory of order and symmetry are much in advance of your practical dem- onstration. You would be careful about your .own appearance and not mortify your friends by a course considered shiftless, or slovenly. You appreciate in others, order, system, and careful arrangements, more than you are willing to take upon yourself. ORDER. SMALL: You are inclined to be care- less and untidy; not only in manners and dress, but your surroundings clear- ly demonstrate the lack of order or system in your arrangements. You loose much of your time hunting 107 POSSIBILITIES. for articles that have no place for storage. You never know where to find any thing you want. You for- get to meet business engagements, consequently, you have much annoyance in adjusting transactions. You manifest confusion in your address and a lack of ability to keep up with the times; yo ( u are consid- ered slow pay, unlucky, unfortunate, a child of fate, and exhibit a gnarled, disjointed, shambling man- ner of existence. You fail to recognize your destitu- tion in this faculty, and it would be impossible for you to amend until you could realize the conditions and apply a rigid discipline toward reform. CALCULATION. LARGE: You take great delight in com- puting mental problems, and have a wonderful ability for remembering sta- tistical matters, dates and numbers. In connection with other favorable perceptive organs, you- would be- come very proficient in arithmetical calculations and book-keeping. You are able to compute correctly by mental process, the most complicated sums in com- pound figures. You can tell how many doors there are in your house, how many windows, how many steps in the stairs; and all such matters are held in your memory. Every thing you do is by mathe- matical calculation; you would apply rules and meas- urements to the most ordinary, common-place affairs of life. You often find yourself counting objects, an d you can give no reason why. CALCULATION. FULL: You have a very prominent fac- ulty for counting and computing num- bers in your mind, and have great a- bility to see through, and understand the most com- plex relations of numbers to each other. In travel- ing, you would count the herds and flocks, and how MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 108 many there were in each; eount the passenger? as they entered the car, and know the number that left at each station, and remember how many were in the car when you left. You would remember the number of your companions at dinner; in a party, the number present; the number of carriages in a pro- cession; number in the choir, and number of wed- ding guests present. And any transaction where the art of accountant is applicable, you would take cog- nizance of it, and be able to recall the exact num- ber in each transaction. CALCULATION. MODERATE: You are generally sure in your arithmetical calculations, but never depend on your mental computation. You are rather slow and deliberate in all of your reckonings, and have very vague remembrances of past transactions, or amounts involved in them. You have no particular liking for figures or statistics in any way, and would find it hard work, accompanied by many failures to accomplish satisfactory results in book-keepers' or auditors' work. It would be impossi- ble for you to gain prominence in higher mathemat- ics, or algebra; and geometrical problems would be to you, a conglomeration of unrecognizable hieroglyphics, without any appreciation of their relation to use. CALCULATION. SMALL: You have very little if any appreciation of numbers in any way. It would be difficult for you to understand the difference between addition, subtraction or mul- tiplication. It would puzzle you to remember the mul- tiplication table. Going to market, you would not remember the teams you passed, or whether they had one or two horses. You would forget the number of the street to which you were directed, unless you wrote 109 POSSIBILITIES. it clown. Matters pertainning to statistical reports and numerals of any kind, could not be presented in a manner to interest you, or be pleasing to your fancy. To abandon all effort, toward mastering this science, is the thing to do. Some of our most profound thinkers, and learned men have been destitute of the faculty of calculation. LOCALITY. LARGE: You are well developed in the region of locality. You take great de- light in travel, and histories of various localities. Geography, would be a pleasing study, you would feel at home in any place, and never ex- perience the sensation of being "turned around". The points of the compass would be always right and you would readily find your way, either in a strange, crowd- ed city, or, in the unbroken forest. Out on the bound- less ocean, or, treeless prairie, without an object in sight, you would intuitively turn the right direction and get home without asking a question about the course to pursue. You have a vivid remembrance of places and localities, could designate on a "bee line" from where you stand the exact direction of a spe- cific spot, or locality. You could be placed in a strange place, at the hour of midnight, and without a star to guide you, you could pick out the exact place the sun would make its first appearance in the morning. LOCALITY. FULL: You like to travel and inves- tigate new localities and conditions; are likely to allow this propensity to pre- vent you from ever becomming permanently attached to any one place, and unless guarded against, might result disasterously with your financial ability to comply with its promptings. You never forget a place once visited, and can describe the surround- MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 110 ings in minute particulars. You can explain the nat- ural conditions, lay of the land, the timber, 'mount- ains, streams, rocks, lakes and general phenomena. Had you participated in the strife at Lookout, Get- tysburg, Bull Run or any other of the historic fields, you would have an insatiate desire to visit them, and years afterward, you would be able to put your foot down on the identical spot, where your comrade at your side fell, mortally wounded. You would delight to form colonies, and emigrate to new countries; form new affiliations for the sake of new experiences in original surroundings and new localities. LOCALITY. MODERATE; You have no particular desire for traveling merely for the sake of going, but when necessary, enjoy new scenes and strange latitudes. You rely upon the sun in day, and sky phenomena at night, to determine the points of the compass; even then, you very oft- en feel confused by the sun appearing to rise in the North; or by being "turned around". You would not realize any familiarity with a country by driv- ing along a road, after a short interval since your former visit, unless connected with some special ob- ject by which you were unusually interested. In the lorest, you would be compelled to record some mark or demonstration of your own origin, to convince you that you had ever been there before. You would depend more upon the numbers to lead you in the city, than by the appearance of the buildings, even after being acquainted in the place. LOCALITY. SMALL: You have no taste or incli- nation to explore or investigate strange lands. You realize a sense of your in- ability to find your way in strange places. You have Ill POSSIBILITIES. no taste for geography, or literature pertaining to discoveries, explorations and travels. You would not leave home unless absolute necessity demanded it, and then would scarcely notice roads, boats, cars, or directions. You would not notice whether you were going East, West, North or South; and could form no idea oi' the direction to your home. You never are confused by cardinal points, because your con- ception of places and localities is so vague, that it is impossible for you to retain an established center upon whidh to base imaginary lines. You sim- ply manifest a sense of destitution in this faculty, which leaves you at the mercy of others for direction and upon whose knowledge you must depend in all matters relating to the functions of this organ. You have no migratory inclination, and will likely live, and die, in the land of your nativity. EVENTUALITY, LARGE: You are naturally inclined toward scholastic attainments, and seem to assimilate knowledge as you do the air you breath; study it in every thing which comes under your notice. You get it from every tree, flower, and plant. You have a hungering for facts contained in books, remember what you read, and can relate it, give the date, author, and quotation. You admire history, especially that which partakes of war, explor- ation, or discovery, and you could call up any event, give the participants, time, and results, almost equal to the statement in the history itself. You could give a vivid description of battles, epidemics and acci- dents, in all of the minute details. You could call up any date referred to in historical biography, in- cluding time, place and circumstances. You will be well posted on the events of the day, and take much interest in news paper and current literature. MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 112 EVENTUALITY. FULL: You have a good memory of dates, events and of things pertaining to the past, but in your own personal experience, every transaction is indelibly imprinted on your mind, and is ready as reference upon all oc- casions. Your particular taste would, in history, lead you into fields of action, rather than science or art. Any thing relating to war, the Reformation, discoveries or invention, would enlist your intense earnestness; and upon such subjects you will be well informed. A person making mistakes in quotation, either # in name, time, or place of occurance, you would in- stantly notice. You will keep well up with the news of the day, and be considered authority on all disputed questions. You can go into details of any transaction with which you have been a party, and unfold the whole panorama into life-like experience without any hesitation, or deviation from the exact facts in the case. EVENTUALITY. MODERATE: You are, on all general subjects, well posted, but in reciting the past, or in referring to matters of his- tory, you fail to remember the exact date, or the particular details relating to the facts in question. You are not disposed to remember incidents that have happened in the past, .outside of the part in which you have personally figured; and have no special taste for history of any kind. You would not value a library of historical or biographical works, beyond the actual cash price they would bring under the hammer at forced sale. Current and popular litera- ture, you would appreciate to the extent of tima you tel't that you could devote to it; and also, as relating to the bearing it would have upon practical 113 POSSIBILITIES. uses. You would not likely be enthusiastic over studies outside ot the particular branch, bearing upon your special avocation or calling. EVENTUALITY. ' SMALL: You have a very treacherous memory, and with great difficulty recall the happenings of a few days ago. The past is enshrouded in a dreamy mist, and you can not connect the details into an intelligent rehearsal. Circumstances, and happenings drop down and out of your memory as the sun sets at night, and the Blind is oblivious to all the past. The events of the present, engross the mind and cause a pleasing inter- est, but memory has no power to weave them into realistic similitudes, and store them up as deposits from which to draw in seasons of dirth and want, consequently, you have no taste for history or met- aphysical studies, and fail to attach any value to their pursuit. TIME. LARGE: You have an excessive devel- opment of time, and are a wonder, if not quite a prodigy in this respect. You never miss a train, boat, or appointment, are always there, and ready. You have excellent ability for a professional nurse in this respect, you could be- come habituated to waking up within ten minutes of medicine time during the entire night, and dur- ing the balance of the night enjoy sound slum- ber. You are able to "guess'' the time of day, to almost exact precision, and are always prompt and ready at the time set for any deliberation. Y T ou have a faculty of creating rhythm in all of your movements. You involuntarially keep time in your movements with conditions with which you are surrounded, the ticking of the clock, the splashing of the waves, the MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 114 tremor of machinery in motion, or rustling of the leaves. . % TIME. PULL: You are very accurate in com- puting time of occurances, and having correct recollection of dates, the time of marriages, deaths, births, ages, and matters of that kind. You are precise in walking, observe uniform steps, regular gait and perfect symmetry of motion. You would walk for squares and never break step with your companion; have uniform relation with time in all of your arrangements. In music, your time would be the most perfect part. In speaking, you observe systematic time in forming your words, and pronouncing your sentences. You would inva- riably begin ceremonies at the precise time, and be ready to close promptly. People would at once notice your deportment in this matter and govern them- selves accordingly. TIME. MODERATE: You are not an adebt in time, or in keeping appointments; in fact you are often inclined to forget impor- tant engagements, and are not noted for your pre- cision in business channels, when the time question is being considered. In music, you would make a du- plicate to "The New Church Organ"; "They too fast or I too slow, to mansions in the skies." You would forget the date of your marriage, or birth, death, and marriage of a child, without referring to the family record. You have no conception of the passing of time, or the time of day, without some sun mark, or time regulator. You have no taste or faculty for any thing to maintain even a normal function ol this faculty, the cognizance of the duration of time, or dates. ♦ 115 POSSIBILITIES. TIME. SMALL: You can not recall the time of occurences in which you have play- ed a prominent part; and are forgetful of the duties requiring punctual attention in your daily life. In music, you could not distinguish the most inharmonious cords or variations. In walking, it would be difficult to kefcp step with you on ac- count of your shambling, irregular motions. You never do your work in a systematic, orderly, method. You would wait until the dinner hour before mak- ing preparations for the meal. You invariably get to the depot, or ferry, just in time — to see the train pull out; and to the bank, just after closing hours. You are proverbial for getting "left." You are never ready at an appointed time, and in every thing per- taining to your business transactions, you would re- quire an extension of time; in short, plain language, you are always behind. TUNE. LARGE: Music fills your soul with ec- static delight; melody, harmony, sym- phony, are the sources of an inspiration which transports you far beyond all of the discords belonging to earthly conditions. You could become very proficient in music, and able to sing or play a selection correctly by ear, after hearing it. You would exhibit wonderful skill with musical instru- ments of any kind, and would produce melody that would give pathos and reach the emotive impulses with enchanted delight. You would detect the least discord, or mistake in rendition of musical perform- ance. Your taste is for the sublime, elevating, in- spiring, and your appreciation of this harmony which thrills every nerve and' fibre, expresses this rapture MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 116 which beams in a countenance of perfect happiness and exquisite delight. TUNE. FULL: You have a very fine taste for music "and can detect any discordant rhythm in instrumental or vocal music; so keen is your perception in this respect, that you recognize your acquaintances by hearing their steps; your horses, by the sound of their travel; your car- riage, by its rumble; your sewing machine, your ca- nary, your cat, your dog, and your clock, by the noises they make. In operating machinery, you would hear the very first indication of a dry bearing, or any out-of-order condition, no matter how small, and you could locate the peculiar variations in the regular clanking of the machinery and would adjust it with- out delay. You can control your voice to harmoni- ous modulations. Harshness, under any condition, is very repulsive to you. In public speaking, you would probably devote more attention to your tone, culture and melody of voice harmony, than you would to the subject matter. The most scholarly, profound thought, would have little responsive appreciation with you unless delivered in equally as cultivated, grace- ful harmony of voice and gesture. TUNE. MODERATE: You would never become enthusiastic over musical accomplishments, neither would you become frantic by hearing discord, or inharmonious productions. You could, by patience and diligence become proficient in song, or instrumental music, but it would require bard work, and continual practice. What you do in this direction, will be purely mechanical, it would produce no soul inspiration within you; and reach 117 POSSIBILITIES. no responsive cord or soothing influence in the heart of your hearers. Music is far from being the great ambition of your life, and you could not under any circumstances, even the most favorable, acquit your- self in any place as a musician, with satisfaction to your hearers, or pleasure and ease to yourself. TUNE. SMALL; Your faculty of tune is wholly deficient, and you can distinguish no more melody in classic music, than in a clashing gong; it is all noise to you— just noise. You can distinguish no difference in tunes or airs; Yankee Doodle, and Auld Lang Syne, are, to you, alike. The deepest pathos in song, would not touch a re- sponsive recognition in your heart. You are careless about language, and can discern no difference in the tone of speech Or emphasis of expression. No one ever heard you whistle, and it would cause a sen- sation for you to attempt to sing. A musical in- strument would be the last piece of furniture you would buy, then it would be under protest. LANGUAGE. LARGE: You manifest no hesitancy in expressing your thoughts, and are never at a loss to know what to say; have ex- cellent memory of words, and their relations; are very choice in word expression, and use good lan- guage. You can pronounce words of foreign tongues by hearing them spoken, and would become a fluent linguist. You can remember and recite correctly any kind of literary or historical production, with but yery little study. You have a natural vocabulary at your tongue's end, and use it easily, freely, and often indulge in verbosity of expression. As a rule, you are inclined to extravagance in speaking, and redun- dancies in correspondence; also manifest a disposition MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 118 to be tedious and copious in the use of words in relating the most common place occurrences. Your conversation, or words and sentences constructed for oratorical purposes, would consist largely in quota- tions and fancy word-paintings, rather than solid sentiment, producing food for thought. LANGUAGE. FULL: You enjoy great freedom of speech, and have the faculty of express- ing yourself, clearly, forcibly and to the point. You are always understood, and can remem- ber what you have ever learned, or heard spoken, and can repeat verbatim. You can explain any thing you know, make it clear, and are a better student in hearing things, than you are in laborious study. You could make a success in any profession where extemporaneous speaking would be required, but might be considered prolix and tedious. You are fond of talking and will indulge in the practice by improv- ing every opportunity of conversation, even with a child, your horse, dog, cat or canary, in the ab- sence of other company. LANGUAGE. MODERATE: You use correct language as a rule, in speaking, but frequently have to think for the word you wish to use, and sometimes it may drop entirely out of your memory and } r ou are compelled to substitute some other, or hesitate until you can recall it. This dif- ficulty would mittigate against you becoming a suc- cess as a public speaker, but in your correspondence you* would realize very little inconvenience in this respect, as the process would give you ample time for meditation at such points, without the embar- rassment of an expectant audience before you. You also exhibit some deficiency in remembering quota- U9 POSSIBILITIES. tions, ami invariably make the mistake of a, wrong repetition which looses the effect and borders on the redioulous. LANGUAGE. SMALL: You should be glad, that his- tory records one of the world's greatest men as having been "Slow of speech and stammering tongue," that you can point with pride toward your illustrious example of the same endow- ment. You are taciturn, and it is with great dif- ficulty that you express yourself understandingly, on account of this disability. You hesitate for words, and in conversation use as few as possible. You would make a signal failure as a speaker, and prob- ably not do much better in writing. Language is one of the permanent barriers which will forever preclude the possibility of your taking an active part in any of the important deliberations which come up for ad- justment through the channels of debate and argu- ment. CAUSALITY. LARGE: You are disposed to inquire into the reason of things, and take com- prehensive, logical views of every thing, pertaining to cause and effect. You are great in o- riginal theory, and take the lead by common concent, among your companions. You are recognized as a per- son of superior judgment, and philosophical turn of mind. You never take anything for granted, or ac- cept any theory or creed, until you have investigated the beliefs and doctrines, and established the reason- ableness of their claims. You believe nothing that you can not give a reason for your grounds for caus- ation. You devote much of your time, and do much hard thinking on entirely new, and original theories, MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 120 those that you plan out, and investigate beyond any principle accepted upon a hypothesis. You want to know the why and wherefore, and are not satisfied with conjecture, but want to know for certain. There is great danger of your theoretical ideas carrying you beyond reasonable, practical bounds. CAUSALITY. FULL: Your mind is active in reason- ing ability. You investigate first cause, and follow it up until you find your- self out in the infinite realms of space, adducing prin- ciples to explain the phenomena of existance, crea- tion, and metaphysics. Your mind is one peculiarly adapted to the study of a naturalist. You have a consciousness of inherent relation with nature's laws, and possess rare qualifications to apply this knowledge to every day use. You will be a leader in thought, and manifest clear and definite conceptions of reason- ing power relative to conditions, causes, effects and logical theories. You will be in advance of the com- mon crowd, in your doctrine and belief; but so well balanced are your other reflective faculties, that time will award you the verdict of advocating only rela- tions established upon philosophical foundations. CAUSALITY. MODERATE: You reason every thing • down to absolute certainties, to just what you can see and understand, and if you reach a point beyond this, where you have to draw on inferences, you abandon the whole thing, and set it down among the impossibilities. The various stra- ta in the earth's formation, found by geological sur- veys, and formed by ages of natural deposit, are be- yond your comprehension, to conceive the cause. You never reason out new plans or methods, and adopt m POSSIBILITIES. those measures inquiring the least mental exertion to secure results. You would signally fail in any posi- tion dependent upon original plans to adjust the in- tricate details of lite. You may be able to * follow de- vised work on plans by a superior intellect, but your thinking ability is of the surface, superficial quality. You are conscious of the changes of the seasons, but would feel greatly embarrassed if called upon to ex- plain, why it is colder in winter than it is in sum- mer. You are of the same belief as the author you are reading. You adhere to the same theory advo- cated by your speaker, and adopt the same reasons advanced in conversation by your neighbors. CAUSALITY. SMALL: You see men walking, and the trees growing, but you never ask your- self why the trees leaf out in the spring, why the bark is on the outside of the tree, why some are deciduous and some evergreen, why there is more moss on the north side of the roots than there is on the south side, why they always lean over the water when growing on the bank of a stream, why the heart of the tree is nearer the surface on the side from which it leans, or a thousand other questions relating to the phenomena which surround our daily lives. You have no definite reason for your theories or beliefs, only because you think so, with no argu- ment either for, or against. Planning, contriving, med- itating, reflecting, thinking, reasoning, philosophizing, are all beyond your capability of comprehension. COMPARISON. LARGE: You are well endowed with the faculty to compare, analyze, and to notice the analogy of conditions, one with the other. In argument or discourse, you would draw out comparisons, illustrate by similies, and draw MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 122 your inferences from other parallel lines. You would take comfort in any misfortune which might befall you, by remembering some greater calamity through which others have passed. You notice the dif- ferences existing among men; their various freaks of eccentricities, and always consider such metaphors by comparing other resemblences. to other cases within your knowledge. You would, as a writer, be pro- fuse in the use of parables, and entertaining as a spfeaker by the use of inductive reasoning. You would hold an audience in attentive attitude by your facul- ty of treating subjects in broad and manifold com- parisons, and illustrations. Your argument would be based upon the "Eternal fitness of things/' and you would be exacting in the extreme, in opposing in- congruous and unreasonable affiliations, or agencies not in harmony with the time and place. COMPARISON. FULL: You reason largely by compar- ison, and draw largely on inferences. It is natural for you to remember very many transactions and circumstances which have entered into your past experience, and you invaria- bly refer to them in deducing the present adjustment of conditions. You appreciate instantaneous action, and prompt decision. No hesitancy or doubts ever enter into your action in conclusions. You would become an expert in pharmaceutical science, or in any avocation where results depend upon quick, prac- tical judgment. In law, you would have an exhaust- less supply of cases, similarities and court rulings, from which to produce overwhelming argument by applying these various phases to particular bearings in your case under consideration. In gospel, your strong point would be, "The parables." You would be popular, and have large following by reason of your 123 POSSIBILITIES, ability to harmonize those sublime truths, and reduce them to practical demonstration, and enable your par- ishners to realize kk the reasonableness, and justness," of conforming to right principles. COMPARISON. MODERATE: You are not capable of demonstrating points by comparison, and have little faculty to illustrate by anec- dote, or draw inferences from past history or expe- rience. Having two articles in close proximity, you might discern differences, or admire similarities, but you could not apply any thing of the kind in way of reasoning to carry a point in logical argument. You would not be apt to understand and explain complex questions and enigmatical conditions. You are not apt to criticize, or even notice errors in state- ments or assertions made in your presence. You do not always exhibit the best taste in selection of cir- cumstances and conditions, for instance: you would not realize the incongruousness of singing "Dixie," or giving three cheers for the "Fallen heros" on dec- oration day. The great number of analogies and com- parisons in Bible history, are not incidents which in - terest, or contribute to your reasoning faculties a source of comfort and delight in practical application. COMPARISON. SMALL: You have very little conception or appreciation of examples taught by parables or comparison; indeed such dis- criminations are entirely beyond your ability of thought or reason. You would make a dismal failure in any life occupation depending upon analytical considera- tion. You would realize no similarities or resemblances of transaction, or appearance; you look upon things just as they are, without thinking from whence they MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 124 came, or considering their formation, or relation of dependence upon something else. You lack in reason- ing ability, adapting means to ends, and are not ca- pable of contriving, thinking and providing for the necessary comforts of life, by reason of the deficien- cy of the faculty to discern what is, and what is not applicable in classifying the duties which devolve upon you for equalization and proportionment. HUMAN NATURE. LARGE: You have wonderful ability to read character, and are an excellent judge of human nature. You can give a cor- rect synopsis of the general traits of character when you first meet a stranger; this is done instantly, be- fore you have time to reason or form opinions by any analogy, simply by intuitive knowledge. You know that yoa are able to do this, but are not able to ex- plain how you do it; and you are always right in your first impression or delineation. By reason of circumstances, conditions, or influences, should you change, and modify your first decision, the light of subsequent demonstration will prove the latter to be wrong. You are not liable to be deceived, or mis- led. You seem to read the thoughts, and discern the motives of designing persons, and to be inspired with supernatural ability to understand the spiritual dis- position and aspiration of an enquiring soul-a single glance at a person will be more convincing of moral rectitude and practical worth, than voluminious let- ters of introduction from popular dignataries. HUMAN NATURE. FULL; You are happily constituted in this faculty, for successful management of any enterprise having to deal with many persons. You could, intuitively adjust your at- 135 POSSIBILITIES. titude to agreeable relation with* perfect strangers. You would know just how to "take" each one, and in dealing with a thousand perfect strangers in* a single day, you would not make a mistake in approaching them. You could adapt yourself to any peculiar re- quirements relating to eccentric, biased, or designing motives, and never be suspected of having knowledge of their existence. You would, in this respect, be preeminently fitted for a prosecuting attorney, police judge or detective. This faculty is, also, one of the very strongest, in all eminently successful ministers, lawyers, teachers and public benefactors, — readers of men. HUMAN NATURE. MODERATE: You are frequently mis- taken in your estimate in character, and rarely form an opinion only upon long and tried acquaintance. Your credulity is often taken advantage of by unscrupulous persons. Your nature would be a prolific field for the "gold brick," "soap and jewelry," "lightning rod" or "three card monte" schemes so often perpetrated by professional swindlers. Pitiful stories by tramps and indigent persons arouse your sympathy and you would be unable to discrim- inate between the deserving ones, and those who were the most consummate frauds. You also doubt your own ability in this matter, and realize your weak- ness and likelyhood to be deceived and hoodwinked, and generally console yourself with the acknowledg- ment, that it was "just what you expected anyway." You are apt to be biased, and prejudiced by sur- rounding conditions, in forming opinions of personal character, if you would abandon all antecedents and trust entirely to your own opinion, without waver- ing from the very first instinctive impression, you would gradually gain strength in this faculty, but MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 126 never be able to adduce correct estimates of personal character or moral worth. HUMAN NATURE. SMALL: You never realize any sensa- tion on meeting strangers, and never feel any inclination to judge of the charac- ter, ability, or natural proclivities. You hardly feel the presence of any intuition or faculty to take cog- nizance of character, tone, voice, or general deport- ment. You estimate the whole creation by your own mental caliber, and are powerless to go beyond your own experience in considering, or in delineating of any one's capacity or mental endowments. You would exhibit no sagacity, skill, or tact, in approaching per- sons in various stations, or plains of life; and, out- side of plain English words, you would not recognize whether it would be acceptable and appreciated, or indignantly rejected. Demeanor, expression by ac- tions, would be to you totally oblivious. So light are your endowments in this organ that you will be continually harassed by a misunderstanding of the relations existing between the "just and unjust," fools and philosophers, saints and hypocrites. AGREEABLENESS LARGE: You are remarkably endowed with the faculty of making yourself a- greeable, and suiting yourself to condi- tions and environments. You always say the right thing at the right time, and by your conciliatory dis- position, you are able to win the good will and af- fections of all your associates. You will be the center of every circle, and without flattery or bom- bast, win the applause and support of a very large - constituency. Your manner of speech and deportment is so foreign to any selfish or mercenary motives, 127 POSSIBILITIES. that even those of adverse opinion, would be con- strained to yield to your persuasive, fascinating man- ner. You will ingratiate yourself into the graces of every one, and even in open opposition, your words would be so smooth and bland, that the most fas- tidious could not help rendering you gracious con- sideration. AGREEABLENESS. FULL: You are pleasing, agreeable and a favorite in social circles, because of your amiable disposition and polite man- ners; are not easily affronted, and bear with provok- ing experiences without manifesting any resentment or ill will. Your manner is to adjust all of the intricate bearings of life without friction or harsh, grating bearings. You would be able to smooth out all of the ruffles of excited passion, and by your suavity would win the pleasant, agreeable cooperation of those around you, in the promotion of delightful courtecies and personal considerations extended in the daily duties of life. As a teacher, your discipline would be so applied that each pupil would esteem it a privilege to obey, and there would probably exist a spirit of rivalry in rendering you service. Y r our spirit would create a sun-shiny, happy at- mosphere which would be assimilated by your asso- ciates, and a spirit of kindness, deference and charm- ing politeness would permeate the very being of every participant. AGREEABLENESS. MODERATE: You can by effort, be pleasant and agreeable, but it is not the spontaneous outgrowth of a natural gift. Following after inherent qualities, you would be MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 128 gruff, crude and harsh, in your intercourse with your fellow man. Your friends offer frequent apol- ogies for your brusque manners, by the declaration that it is just your "way." You would not be a pop- ular leader in society, church, or politics, and yet, you are perfectly honest in all of your expressions. You consider any affable condescension as flattery, and only applicable "to weak, vacillating minds. You look upon the pleasant, pliable suavity of persons as as- sumed acquirements for the sole purpose of policy's sake. You are inclined to be awkward and clannish in movement and address, and realize your inability to exhibit grace, culture, or a pleasant bearing. AGREEABLENESS. SMALL: You have no conception of the harmonious relations of address in the associations which continually present themselves in our daily lives; and are very apt to say and do just what ought not to be said and done, at that particular time. You have no taste or abili- ty to paliate or pass by unnoticed, even small par- ticulars that should not occupy a moment's thought. You are continually in "hot water," and are repulsed and shunned by all who know your disposition to apply sharp, blunt expressions to even the best, and most liberal enterprise. Wherever a pessimist would live, and grow, and be happy, would be your realm. There is no place among the habitations of men, where you would be received as a welcome guest. Humanity would however, accord you one popular reception,— in the cemetary, and select the only applicable epi- taph, "Blessed are the dead," for a monumental thank offering, that Nature had decreed to you relief, from the sharp corners which inadvertently sprang up along your path, during your earthly pilgrimage. NOTE. — A trite saying among all Phrenologist's is, that "size, other things being equal, is the measure of power." However, in the cranial development and cerebral conformation we find frequent, and as great discrepancy, as there is in any other natural phe- nomena. As a 'rule, also, the organs constituting a [29 POSSIBILITIES. group, are of uniform relation to each other. Hence, when the group of moral sentiments are large, we expect to find the organs of Conscientiousness, Hope, Spirituality, Veneration, and Human Nature well devel- oped. As a rule they are, but there are heads abnorm- ally developed in Veneration, and almost totally desti- tute of Conscientiousness; such persons would be devout worshipers, and strong adherents of church polity, and, at the same time, be false to, and betray their best friend. Then the high narrow head, signifying a narrowness of conception, and failure to comprehend only one method of thoxxght-their own; extremists in some particular the- ory, unable to adjust themselves to harmonious relations with their surroundings, or to enjoy the benificent pro- visions Nature has intended for her children. The group of the reasoning faculties, indicated by the narrow com- pressed forehead, precludes the possibility of a happy, ge- nial, well rounded and symmetrical life. Another type, the wide flat head, bound to earth by animal propensities, and to life only by the appetite. Add to this formation excessive Acquisitiveness and Secretiveness, and we have the componant parts of the worst criminal. History, in all ages, hands us down results of these malforma- tions in brain structure. The language used in the prim- itive days of Judas Iscariot, proclaimed it to be, a possess- ed of the Devil. * ? The vocabulary of the Nineteenth Cen- tury has modified, and classified the same results to ec- centric, fanatic, and monomaniac, with the street applica- tion of "crankiness,' 1 for general distribution. While these persons are a menace to our civilization, the most deplor- able feature is, that they are incapable of realizing their situation; and unless a person sincerely wants to reform, and feels conscious of having committed grievous wrong, there is no hope for repentance, or of bringing the will- power into subjection, in stimulating the cooperation of other organs, to assist in counteracting and influencing the intellectual forces in overcoming natural proclivities. Mental Science, or Phrenology, can offer no solution as to any process by which these deluded souls may be made to realize their perverted condition, or to allure them in- to the reality of the enjoyments of a well balanced life; but it can so classify them that the blame, censure and exasperating experiences with them, may be mitigated and harmonized in the great drama of human existence. MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 130 CONCLUSION. "If men but knew the mazes of the brain And all its crowded pictures, they would need No Louvre or Vatican: behind our brows Intricate galleries are built, whose walls Are rich ivith all the splendors of a UfeP Sill. To the one examined: In marking out this examination you may be incredulous as to some of the organ- ic faculties designated as large, or full, while others, perhaps termed moderate, or small, may seem to be erroneous, according to your own computation. This discrepancy may exist, by reason of educa- tion or environments. Circumstances may have cir- cumscribed your limitations to some specific line of action. Education may have placed you in a po- sition not in correlation with natural endowments. Whatever your cranial development, it is yours by inheritance; not by choice. As the finger board at the cross-roads points the way to market, so, Phre- nology, will guide you along the "way." You are here to reason. Theology may assume, and revela- tion will prove, — hereafter. This is Nature's world. Obedience to her mandates is of paramount impor- tance. Placing yourself in harmony with her laws, is securing the highest degree of usefulness here and is the only guarantee of happiness hereafter. It is not sound philosophy to condemn the elements. The next world should not detract our attention from 131 POSSIBILITIES. the enjoyable features to be recognized in this. A harmonious combination of all our faculties is the su- preme object of living. The Creator endowed us with no superfluous powers. That was His prerogative. It is our business to develop, apply, and control them. He had a purpose in creating us, and that motive could not be, that our natures should be inherently corrupt. The theory, that physical creation is disorder- ed, and that we sin when acting in conformity with our natural feelings, is fallacious in the extreme. In treating on this same subject, we quote from that ad- mirable work, Comb's Constitution of Man: "No fac- ulty is bad; but, on the contrary, each has a le- gitimate sphere of action, and, when properly grati- fied, i& a fountain of pleasure; in short, man pos- sesses no feeling, of the right exercise of which an enlightened and ingenuous mind need be ashamed." To possess a brain of symmetrical proportions is a competency in itself. To overcome natural proclivities, and eliminate animal, sensual, groveling traits of char- acter, by increasing and strengthening the moral and intellectual organs, is a distinction worthy of emulation. If your moral, reasoning, and perceptive faculties are large, there is no especial credit due you by reason of unquestionable deportment. It is a natural result. If, on the other hand, your social, and selfish propensi- ties greatly predominate, and you have, by an almost superhuman effort, been true to humanity, you stand on a higher plain, than he who has conquered a province by the munitions of war. Improvement, or 1 advancement, in this matter, implies two conditions: consciousness of present weakness, and an indefat- igable purpose to overcome, and be master of cere- monies yourself, instead of being ruled by passion anc propensity. The first proposition, you can determine by a care-1 MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 132 ful perusal of the foregoing pages, and by so doing ful- ly understand where your NATURAL ENDOWMENTS place you. The second, is at your own discretion; the effort you put forth toward the final victory, in enjoying a life at perfect peace with yourself and all mankind, to so order your "walk and conversation" for Nature "To write no secret in the face For men to read it there" This brings us to the last ordeal, — final dissolution, Every plant, fruit, vegetable, grain, fish, fowl and animal, has given up its life before being prepared in palatable condition for the* sustenance of man. In like manner, younger, stronger, and more vig- orous ones, must, by natural descention, supplant the aged and decrepit. There is nothing deplorable in death. It is an awful thing to live. Tragedies are enacted in daily life, and borne si- lently and uncomplainingly, which require greater strength and courage to live and endure, than it would to suffer martyrdom for principle. Under these con- ditions, who would doubt, that death would be as welcome as the pillow to the sleepy babe. But un- der the most auspicious circumstances, and perfectly natural conditions, if your life has been orderd by true principles of manhood, in your intercourse with your fellow-man, the shadows, as they lengthen to- ward the closing day, will be filled with memories as beautiful in blending as the autumn leaves in the sun-set tints of gold. There is nothing in any religion, doctrine, dogma or belief, that reaches further into Immortality, than a life of truth and honor with our fellow-man. If your friends can truthfully say, as your open grave receives its dust, that you never deceived, or were false to those you knew, there is no more valuable, or 138 POSSIBILITIES. enduring legacy left to the living, or honor in the memory of the lives of those who have died. "Rest is not quitting the busy career, ' Rest is the fitting of self to its sphere. L Tis loving and serving the highest and best, ' Tis onward unswerviug, and that is true rest" "Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace." THE END. I ! WW-' Mm ms. B. m & ^POSSIBILITIES: Deacidified using the Bookkeeper process. Neutralizing agent: Magnesium Oxide Treatment Date: Nov. 2004 PreservationTechnologies A WORLD LEADER IN PAPER PRESERVATION 1 1 1 Thomson Park Drive Cranberry Township, RA 16066 (724)779-2111 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS HI 013 384 568 9 m&mlE}