. Marriage, its history and ceremonies : with a phrenological and physiological exposition of the functions and qualifications for happy marriages. for kindness, deep religious anddevotional feelingârefinement, great ambition and curiosi-tyâfor taste and susceptibility of impressions, together withquickness and readiness of resource, occasioned by theirmore narrow brain, and consequent greater mental activity:while man is acknowledged to have naturally more dignity,pride, resolution, independence, force, and energy, togetherwith greater mental power, growing out of the greaterwidth of his head
. Marriage, its history and ceremonies : with a phrenological and physiological exposition of the functions and qualifications for happy marriages. for kindness, deep religious anddevotional feelingârefinement, great ambition and curiosi-tyâfor taste and susceptibility of impressions, together withquickness and readiness of resource, occasioned by theirmore narrow brain, and consequent greater mental activity:while man is acknowledged to have naturally more dignity,pride, resolution, independence, force, and energy, togetherwith greater mental power, growing out of the greaterwidth of his headâit being a phrenological rule, that lengthof fibre is an index of activity, while width denotes power. 204 MARRIAGE SUGGESTIONS: DEVELOPMENTS WHICH SHOULD AND SHOULD NOT BE UNITED 1 have previously stated that extremes of the same de-velopment, either very large or very small, should nevergo together. 1 will now illustrate my meaning with suita-ble cuts, and explanatory remarks. The first cvt to which your attention is called, has avery large head, and slim physiology: too much brain andnervous power fo r his vital system to For various reasons, this gentleman should not marryone exactly his counterpart, neither the opposite extreme IMPORTANT SUGGESTIONS. 205 If he should be united with the same organization, therewould be too much of the mental, and not sufficient physi-cal power, to give health, strength, and vitality ; and hischildren would inherit a nervous, puny, weakly, and sus-ceptible frame of mind. He has a predominance of the re-flective intellect, with uncommon perseverance and con-centration of mind, with limited observation, so that he isliable to abstractedness of thought, forgets to eat, and frequently does not hear or heed the call to dinner. If the organization of the wife should be like his, shewould be so absent-mindedthat she would forget to preparedinner; or, if she commenced she would be just as likelyto take up a book and neglect her domesti
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