Lectures on phrenology, including its application to the present and prospective condition of the United States . love me. When desired to destroy atown which he had conquered, he replied, The pleasurewhich results from gratified revenge lasts but for a moment;that which flows from mercy is eternal. Tendon ex-hibited a most beautiful manifestation of it when he said, I am a true Frenchman, and love my country ; but I lovemankind better than my country. Hobbes resolves itsmanifestation into selfishness. Pleasure indeed is, by abeautiful arrangement of the Creator, made a concomitantof benevolen
Lectures on phrenology, including its application to the present and prospective condition of the United States . love me. When desired to destroy atown which he had conquered, he replied, The pleasurewhich results from gratified revenge lasts but for a moment;that which flows from mercy is eternal. Tendon ex-hibited a most beautiful manifestation of it when he said, I am a true Frenchman, and love my country ; but I lovemankind better than my country. Hobbes resolves itsmanifestation into selfishness. Pleasure indeed is, by abeautiful arrangement of the Creator, made a concomitantof benevolent acts, but it is not for the pleasure that the actsare performed. The man who sees another fall into thewater and leaps in to save him, must feel great delight, ifsuccessful, but not for this did he risk his life. The organ is very distinctly developed in the head of JacobJarvis, of Cork, who could never resist any his wife saw any one coming whom she supposedabout to request something, she had to lock the door or hehad to hide himself. The organ is extremely developed in BENEVOLENCE, 191. Eustache. the head of the negro Eustache,whose merits were publicly ac-knowledged by the I .stitute ofFrance, from which, in 1S32, hereceived the Prize of the contests which fol-lowed on the attempts of theFrench to restore slavery in , the disinterested exer-tions of Eustache in behalf of hismaster M. Belin, were unbound-ed. By his address, courage, anddevotion, this gentleman, withupward of four hundred otherWhites, were saved from thegeneral massacre, and the fortune of M. Belin several timespreserved. At Paris, the profits of his industry and therewards he obtained were all employed in relieving themiserable. At Port au Prince he often heard his master,who was an old man, deplore the gradual weakening of hiseyes. Eustache could not read, but, inspired with the hopeof pleasing his master, he applied himself secretly to study,took less )ns at four
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