. Fowler's works on education and self-improvement, cultivation of the memory and intellect, on matrimony, hereditary descent, its laws and facts, natural religion, temperance and tight lacing : all founded on phrenology & physiology . on of the head, as far removed as pos-sible from those influences vv^hich disturbthe body, (a vv^ise provision this,) whilstintellect is located in the forehead. Again: the organs of the perceptivefaculties, which acquire and retain knowl-edge, give the various kinds of memory,and bring man in contact with matter andits physical properties, are located aroundthe
. Fowler's works on education and self-improvement, cultivation of the memory and intellect, on matrimony, hereditary descent, its laws and facts, natural religion, temperance and tight lacing : all founded on phrenology & physiology . on of the head, as far removed as pos-sible from those influences vv^hich disturbthe body, (a vv^ise provision this,) whilstintellect is located in the forehead. Again: the organs of the perceptivefaculties, which acquire and retain knowl-edge, give the various kinds of memory,and bring man in contact with matter andits physical properties, are located aroundthe eye, close to the body again, whilstthe organs of reason, the noblest gift ofGod to man, occupy the highest portionof the forehead, being also far removed from the body. Mark well the inference. Not only, as already shown, is there sev-eral hundred per cent, more of the exhileration produced by alcohol car-ried to the head than to any other portion of the system, but this stimu-lus is concentrated upon the base of the brain, or upon the organs of theanimal propensities, thereby goading to the highest degree of inflamedand morbid action, the merely animal nature of man, but leaving hismoral and reasoning powers far in the 14 IT V/EAKEXS THE MORAL AND INTELLECTUAL FACULTIES. Not only, therefore, is tliis effect produced by the juxtaposition of thsanimal organs and body, but so intimate are the nature and relations ofeach to the other, that to excite either is to excite the otlier—to inflameor stimulate the body is to stimulate those mental faculties which servethat body, namely, the animal joassions. Again, by a law of our nature, to over-tax any organ draws the strengthfrom the other portions, and concentrates it upon the laboring part. Thusan overloaded stomach draws the strength from the muscles, from thebrain, from every other part, to remove the load, rendering us drowsy,dull and averse to both mental and physical action. Close mental appli-cation, powerful thinkin
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