. Marriage, its history and ceremonies : with a phrenological and physiological exposition of the functions and qualifications for happy marriages. ce of the social feelings, which affectedhis whole life and conduct. When very strong and active, as in the cut annexed, theyare extremly liable to be perverted, particularly by young per-sons, in whom they are excitable, and who have had but littleexperience in the world. The most effectual way to directthese feelings in the proper channel, and prevent their be-coming perverted, is, to secure the equal exercise of themoral and intellectual faculti
. Marriage, its history and ceremonies : with a phrenological and physiological exposition of the functions and qualifications for happy marriages. ce of the social feelings, which affectedhis whole life and conduct. When very strong and active, as in the cut annexed, theyare extremly liable to be perverted, particularly by young per-sons, in whom they are excitable, and who have had but littleexperience in the world. The most effectual way to directthese feelings in the proper channel, and prevent their be-coming perverted, is, to secure the equal exercise of themoral and intellectual faculties, allowing the social feelingsto be freely exercised in virtuous society, innocent amuse-ments, and in reading suitable books-^thus creating a ba-lance of power in favor of intelligence, morality, and virtue. Some parents who have children with strong social feel-ings, keep them entirely away from all society as a preven-tive to the perversion of those feelings, hoping in this wayto save their sons and daughters from disgrace and ruin, for-getting the old adage, that nature will out, let the restric- THE SOCIAL ALEXANDER VI, 75. tionbe what it may. It would be far better and much morein accordance with nature, if those parents would securegood society, in which those children could exercise theiraffections harmlessly. The first faculty in the social group, to be considered inthis treatise, is Amativeness, situated in the cerebellum, giv-ing width and fulness between and behind the ears. (Seecuts 5 & 6.) Cut No. 5 represents large Amativeness, being the middleand prominence of the neck behind the ear, also very strongFirmness, by the elevation of head from the ear cut was taken from the drawing of a female seventeenyears of age, while she was confined in Auburn jail, forloose, licentious conduct: and the author was informed bythe jailer, that he never had a person under his care so ob-stinate and devoid of shame and modesty, the woman 76 MARRIAGE.
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