Phreno-geology: the progressive creation of man, indicated by natural history, and confirmed by discoveries which connect the organization and functions of the brain with the successive geological periods . him, and allowing him leisure for X. Experi-mentive playfulness in youth, preparing him for experi-mental plans of happiness in mature age. Next, theincreasing wants and numbers of a complicated com-munity render improvements necessary in all the variousdepartments of industry, and this introduces XI. Per-fectiveness, which carries man forward and supplieshis wants, until he is again at his
Phreno-geology: the progressive creation of man, indicated by natural history, and confirmed by discoveries which connect the organization and functions of the brain with the successive geological periods . him, and allowing him leisure for X. Experi-mentive playfulness in youth, preparing him for experi-mental plans of happiness in mature age. Next, theincreasing wants and numbers of a complicated com-munity render improvements necessary in all the variousdepartments of industry, and this introduces XI. Per-fectiveness, which carries man forward and supplieshis wants, until he is again at his wits end. Finally,XII. Hope, rises on her migrative wings, and bears himto a distant promised land, where he is to enjoy all thepleasures which his soul desires, but which could not befound in his native home. Hope makes him engage inperilous and doubtful enterprises with confidence andenergy, casting his bread upon the waters, like seed uponthe ground, assured that the future will return it withgreat usury. Although the present country is cold andcheerless, migrative hope leads him to another and moregenial clime, where primeval plenty still exists to cheerhis heart, and reward his *. <L The above engraving represents the Ipseal Organs, developed in five ranges, or strata,which are superadded, in a regular and progressive order, from 1 to 5, corresponding withthe order in which animals were created and adapted to the successive geological con-ditions. 1. This range is at the base of the brain, and relates to the lowest necessities of animalexistence. It was possessed by the first created vertebral animal. 2. This range relates to the violence and contention which arose from the necessityof eating flesh. 3. This range relates to the cunning and prudence which violence rendered necessary. 4. This range relates to the necessities produced by cold, since the carboniferous period. 5. This range relates to the ipseal wants produced by the increase, progression, and
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