facts, and seeks rest and refreshment among genial generalizations. Who desires to count the stitches in Paul's overcoat? Who desires to know the number of square inches in the seamless garment? We prefer, instead, the bold statement of Decker, that

"The best of men

That e'er wore earth about him, was a sufferer;

A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit;
The first true gentleman that ever breathed."

It is worthy of remark that the mind can remember only the main features of anything. The principle of music, for example, is the Commander-in-chief; and all the facts of musicthe notes, from the superior officers down to the last privatenaturally form themselves into obedient battalions; and the sovereign controlling power, the mind, orders them out into open parade and harmonious action.

A weary bird whom fowlers had pursued, escaped, sought out a tree, and thought to build a nest thereon away from danger. She wrought, and when the little resting-place seemed hers, she went for her young, and came, but found it not. One moment on the topmost branch of another tree she poised, then spread her wings and flew, and, with her little ones, entered paradise; for, though she knew it not, she had been building a home in the tree of eternal life near the gate of Eden! Even so it is with human minds who cast away the despotism of facts. They seem to you as so many Illusionists and Idealists -perched upon the summit of systematic dreams, or relying for years upon old chronicles of interior experience—but they are building homes in other spheres, far away from the trammels of dogmatic theologies.

Swedenborg seldom ascended from the empire of particulars. How anxiously the reader looks for one flight among principles ! He tells you of Principles in great grasping words; and yet, they sound hard and dry, like chunks of lead in the ore.

Modern Phrenology, though a useful Science, is not less a system of details. It begins with the science of Experiment; and advocates the two sources of knowledge-viz., observation and experience, or perception and testimony. Now these sources are equally certain and deceptive. They bring you innumerable facts; but principles are ever left to the region of future endless conjecture. You get an assortment of facts, all classified and arranged; but the regulating laws are at best nothing more than Inferences. One feels that a phrenological chart is arbitrary; the soul rebels at lines and boundaries. You bring yourself to the facts; yet how quickly you realize their bondage! The surface-facts are real. They satisfy the intellect. They subserve the logic of the perceptives. They come easily within the domain of knowledge. They give repose to minds that rest solely upon Definitions, and regal discipline. But there are other sources of knowledge, deeper and higher, within the interior structure of mind, which remain intractable, and will not yield to the arbitrary standard. I call these, Love and Wisdom. These open the interior mysteries. of mind. They rise superior to facts, as you do when you leave valleys and hills for mountains; but they never shun facts, nor neglect to acknowledge that facts lie below and within. It is to bring you out of the bondage of local definitions, into the fields of Nature, that I present the following principles of mental History.

By what I am impressed to deem a natural division of MIND, and of its seat in the body, it will be seen that there are three departments-each with definite functions and different mani

festations.

It will be here remembered, that I employ the terms-'Soul,' 'Spirit,' 'Mind,' as synonymous-signifying, in general, man's mental structure.

The Human Mind, when seen interiorly, presents, first, a

Fountain of Life; second, a Fountain of Principles; third, a Casket of Facts. The first is the department of Love; the second is the department of WISDOM; the last is the department of KNOWLEDGE; as represented by the annexed diagram. Love, Wisdom, and Knowledge, therefore, have express constitutional affinities for Life, Principles, and Facts.

This course of lectures pertains almost entirely to Love; its rights and wrongs. Therefore, we will give a brief definition to this fundamental principle.

Love is the parental essence of both the elements of Wisdom and the faculties of Knowledge. It is undeniable, I think, that

Man's whole nature, physical and mental, is not only based upon but is likewise manufactured through the Love-department.

Love is the strongest element, as well as the weakest, in our nature. It keeps the head inspired, the heart beating, the vital functions full of vigor. I speak now of Love's normal action. The whole economy of Man's being ebbs and flows through the affections. Rounded limbs, expanded breast, beautiful teeth, harmonious features, perfection in all the sensibilities, with a noble-formed and well-balanced brain, all is the proper and legitimate work of that essence of our being, which every tongue has learned to pronounce 'Love'! The truth of all this will be hereafter manifested.

In the hemisphere of Love, I recognise all the Phrenological Organs, termed "Alimentativeness, Acquisitiveness, Destructiveness, Combativeness, Secretiveness, Inhabitiveness, Adhesiveness, Philoprogenitiveness, and Amativeness"-that is to say, the propensities of mind, which these terms are used to represent, are included in what I call the Love department. Now it seems incorrect to consider Acquisitiveness, Combativeness, and Destructiveness, as exhibitions of Love. I think these dispositions of Love are its normal methods of self-protection and subsistence. A squirrel would certainly be cruel and untrue to itself as well as to its young, if it did not, from its Love, employ combativeness to go in pursuit of food, and, by calling into action destructiveness and acquisitiveness, obtain the necessaries of life and growth. Man and animals, in the back brain, are organized precisely alike; but Man's pre-eminence is seen in the upper and frontal portions. When Love, the germ-principle and essence of Life, has ascended the mental tree and unfolded the Wisdom department, then the nobler, the grander, the divine parts of character begin to appear.

In affirming the Love-department of human nature to be the most important and essential, I am not alone. Combe asserts

that "the Love-organ is the largest of all the mental organs; and being endowed with natural activity, it fills the mind with emotions and suggestions, the outer manifestations of which may be controlled by intellect and moral sentiment, but which can not be eradicated after they exist."

The whole question, therefore, resolves itself into this: whether it is more beneficial to enlighten the understanding so as to dispose and enable it to control and direct that department of its being; or, under the influence of an error in society, and false delicacy founded upon it, to permit Love to riot in all the fierceness and vulgarity of a blind animal instinct, angular and everywhere unrestrained? The former course appears to me to be the only consistent one with reason and morality.

Every function is instituted to bestow joy on its possessor; each has a legitimate sphere of activity; but all may be abused by ignorance; and it is, therefore, impossible regularly to avoid the abuse of them-except by being instructed in their nature, objects, and relations!

The Love Department occupies all the posterior (or back) portions of the head. Its heart is in the centre of the cerebral substance. Its currents flow down the spinal organism, and ramify, by means of suitable conductors, called "nerves,” throughout all the elements and essences of the body. If this Love-principle be located in the spine, it is then animal in its manifestations. Thus we see fish, reptiles, birds, quadrupeds, and bipeds of various types, with small brains but large spines. The largest and longest spine is the most remote from the human; as fish, saurians, and mammoth reptiles. Even so the largest and lowest back brain, among men, is the farthest down in the human scale-the most remote from purity and civility. But wherever you behold Life, there you behold Love! The energizing vitality of a mammoth and a man is essentially the same; its manifestations depend upon position and relation.