Memory and intellectual improvement applied to self-education and juvenile instruction . n the head —. They constitutionally impress and control, 34 INDIVIDUALITY. not only the other faculties of their possessor, but also motive,feeling, and mind in general. They are the constitutionalkings of mind and conduct. They retire in Burritts head,and equally in his character. Hence, Franklins reasoningpowers have impressed the great mass of civilized mind, andwill continue to exert a controlling influence for ages to astonishes and delights, but Franklin and Websterimpress. Burritt will
Memory and intellectual improvement applied to self-education and juvenile instruction . n the head —. They constitutionally impress and control, 34 INDIVIDUALITY. not only the other faculties of their possessor, but also motive,feeling, and mind in general. They are the constitutionalkings of mind and conduct. They retire in Burritts head,and equally in his character. Hence, Franklins reasoningpowers have impressed the great mass of civilized mind, andwill continue to exert a controlling influence for ages to astonishes and delights, but Franklin and Websterimpress. Burritt will die while he lives, but reasoning intel-lect lives in and guides other minds long after its author hasleft the stage of action. We proceed next to ascertain the function and means ofimproving each of the intellectual faculties. 24. INDIVIDUALITY. 419. DEFINITION AND LOCATION. Observation : cognizance of the identity, personality, orr ^ividuality of bodies: power and desire to inspect indi-vidual things as isolated existences : curiosity to see and EXAMINE. INDIVIDUALITY VERY No. 11. Burritt. ADAPTATION OF INDIVIDUALITY. 35 Located just above the root of the nose. When large, itcauses a proportional jutting of the lower portion of theforehead over the upper portion of the nose. It is immensely-developed in Elihu Burritt, the learned blacksmith, of Wor-cester, Mass. The author has never seen, and probably noman living possesses Individuality equally developed. Icauses the eyebrows to arch at their inner termination moreand more in proportion to its size, but when it is small theycome nearer together, and run towards each other as they ter-minate inwardly. It is small in Pitt, but larger in Moore. 420. ADAPTATION AND PRIMITIVE FUNCTION. The material world is composed of individual objects mnumerable. Thus, who can count the sands of the sea-shore,the leaves and twigs of the forest, or the component particlesof matter ? But for this or a kindred arrangement for divid-ing
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