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INFORMATION.Copyrighted February 10, 1885, by A L.

Ferry,All rights reserved.Bend for circular containing information in

iegard to cast of perfect head.This cast will be of great aid to Phrenologi-

cal students, as lack of symmetry and balancein beads will be readily detected after the eyelias become acquainted with the proper pro-portions.

Price of book, 50 cents..Marking of chart, 50 cents.Verbal examination, with privilege of ask-

ing information in regard to marriage, choiceof trade, &e., $1.00.

For further information address the author,Washington, D. C.


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"Make his form and forces square;For the labors lie must dare."

(Diameter, eight inches.)

THE COMING MAN." There growing slowly old at ease.No faster thau his planted trees.


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He may, by reason of his age,In schemes of broader scope engage ;.(Circumference, twenty-five inches.)

THE COMING MAN." Then shall we have a man of the sphere,Fit to grace the solar year." Emerson


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_6PAN.u He is the essence that enquires ;,

He is the axis of the star ;He is the sparkle of the spar ;He is the heart of every creature ;He is the meaning of each feature.'

CREATION.HEALTH.

"With one drop sheds form and feature/*BEAUTY."With the next a special nature,"

SELF."The third adds heat's indulgent spark/'LOVE.

u The fourth gives light which eats the dark/*WISDOM.

** Into the fifth Himself he flings/'PURITY.

And conscious Lav/ is king of kings/PERFECTION.

''Nature centers into balls,And her proud ephemeralsvFast to surface and outside,Scan the profile of the sphere,Knew they what that signifiedA new genesis were here." Emetsan.


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NEW CHART.(See Astrology.)


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" I saw men go up and down,In the country and the town,With this tablet on their neck

4 Judgment and a judge we seek.*Not to mcnarchs they repair,Nor to learned jurist's chair ;But they hurry to their peers,To their kinsfolk and their dears ;Louder than with speech they pray*'What am I? companion, say/And the friend not hesitatesTo assign just place and mates ;Answers not in word or letter,Yet is understood the betterEach to each a looking-glass,Reflects his figure that doth pass.Every wayfarer he meetsWhat himself declared repeats,What himself confessed records,Sentences him in his words ;The form is his own corporeal form,And his thought the penal worm."Emerson.


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9 CHART OF

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AGE, DATE,

This chart is marked according to a scale ofsizes ranging from tweny to twenty-live inchesfor adults, and from fifteen to twenty inchesfor children, gaged by the circumference ofthe head on a line parallel with the lower partof the " Frontal Sinus."

If any of the points in an adult head fall be-low the standard of the scale they will bemarked " ~"; and any points above the stand-ard in children's heads marked " x ".

Key.1, Small; 2, Medium; 3, Average;.4; Excellent ; 5, Perfect,


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POINTS. 1 2|

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LONGEVITY!

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(3) Balance ..... ... i(4) Color

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(5) Relation!MEMORYi

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(4) Tune(")) Language

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POINTS.

REASON .(1) Analogy .........(2) Causality ...........(3) Construction(4) Calculation(5) OrderHARMONY. .Mate . .Pets

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PRUDENCEApplicationVirtueEgoWill

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12EXPLANATION.

Longevity Long life. Breadth of headbetween the ears.The perfect head will measure eight inchesin diameter at this point.Longevity depends on the full development

of the five following faculties :Food ( Aliinentivencss)Love of food.Bite ( Destructiveness)Power to destroy

or execute.Bark ( Combat iven ess)Desire to drive.Life (Vitativeness)Love of life.Force ( Amativeness)Love of physical ex-ercise.Health is necessary to longevity, and the

five points of the star designate the five physi-ognomical signs of health.LungsBreathing .entirety through the nose

is necessarj7 to protect the lungs. Such modeof breathing broadens the nostrils.BloodThe rosy color of the lips and skinand clearness of complexion denote purity ofblood.StomachFull cheeks result from the secre-

tion of saliva. The :r/ixture of such saliva withfood is necessary to secure proper digestion.ThoraxHigh and broad cheek-bones ac-company a full deep chest.Beauty is a result of the perfect develop-ment of these five points of health, and

proper exercise is necessary to attain this end.


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13Facts gives the perception and memory of

facts, of which Form, Size, Balance, Color,and Eelation, together with the remainder ofthe impressions received through the fivesenses viz: feeling, tastings smelling, hear-ing, seeing are attributes.Memory retains impressions received throughthe senses in an associated form, as of Events,Places, Time, Tune, and Language.SystemDeduction from facts is the onlymethod of arriving at correct conclusions, andthis is done by Order, Calculation, and Con-struction, with the aid of Causality and Com-parison.Wisdom results from a perfect developmentof all the intellectual faculties.Harmony results from a perfect developmentof all the points necessary to longevity, health,perception, memory, system, and wisdom.Love depends on the full development ofMate (Conjugality)Love of opposite sex ;Pets (Philoprogenitiveness)Love of chil-

dren and pets ;Home (Tnhabitiveness)Love of home ;Friends (Adhesiveness)Love of special. friends ; and

SocietyLove of society.StrengthThe compact texture of the limbswith good development of the points of health

denotes strength and activity of the body andbrain, as there is harmony through the entiresystem. The exercise necessary to produce


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-15 Earth Peace, Good Will Toward Men."PERFECTIONThe perfect head measurestwenty-five inches in circumference, and i~ aperfect sphere, being full enough in the healthpoints to make perfect beauty and harmony.The only way to restrain faculties is to culti-vate others, and entire attention must be paidto each organ or group of organs to developthem. Every defective point causes discord,from which results more or less misery,The most important development must beattended to first, or, in other words, there canonly he upward growtn by commencing at theroot or underlying principle.^Nature loves balance, and excessive develop-ments are necessary for protection against exist-ing evils. Remove the cause and .Nature willright herself. " Water seeks its level," nohigher, no lower.

Health is the first and absolutely necessarycondition for improvement, and as that isgreater or less, so will there be more or lessharmony.Food contains the elements which are nec-essary to health and activity, and it can onlybe digested and appropriated by the bodywhen it is in certain conditions.

Diamonds, charcoal, sugar, butter, white-wheat flour, molasses; lard, fats, rice, and theprincipal ingredients of cakes and pastries arealmost eytiiely composed of carbon or heatingmaterial. Of these articles, diamonds and


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charcoal are incapable of digestion ; fats, &c.,are very hard to digest, while sugar is digestedrapidly. None of these carbonaceous foodswill sustain active life- The slightest actioncauses waste of muscular tissue and nerve-force, the elements for supplying which are notcontained in the above-named articles exceptin insufficient proportions. The proper articlesof food are those which are easily digested andcontain just enough of each of the elements tosupply all wastes, thus keeping the body ingood repair and health.The wheat grain (Graham flour) has beenadopted by scientists as a standard of proper

proportions, for which it is valuable, as it con-tains m itself all the elements necessary toisustain an average degree of mental and physi-cal activity ; but the proportions sought for infood must depend entirely on the expendituresof force, whether physical or mental, or both.By reference to the accompanying table,and the adoption of the wheat-grain as astandard, a properly proportioned meal mayprobably be selected from the average privateor boarding-house bill of fare.

This table was selected after the author hadcarefully consulted the works of Liebig. Fos-ter, Draper, Bellows, and others, and repre-sents food in its natural or raw state, the pro-portions of which are frequently changed bycooking or mode of preparing.

Chemical analysis of the brine in which fish


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17or meat has been prepared show that it con-tains the soluble phosphates necessary for sup-ply of nerve or brain force, which have beendissolved and extracted'by the chemical actionof the brine.

Soaking articles in water often deprivesthem of their soluble properties, which makesthem almost worthless as articles of food.

Grain grown in different climates often con-tains different proportions of nutritious ele-ments, which fact explains the slight variancein the tables of proportions arranged by differ-ent chemists.

Meats are shown by the table to contain thelife-sustaining elements in fair proportion, butits carbonaceous elements are in the form otoil, which partially resists the action of thesaliva, which % necessarily impedes digestion,causing the food to pass through the stomachuntil it reaches a position where it can be actedupon by the pancreatic juices of the secondstomach before it is thoroughly digested.The stomach can contain but a limited quan-tity of water, and soups, according to theirwatery consistency, fail to supply the amounntof nutrition necessary to an active life, andtheir rapid passage is apt to deprive them ofthe benefit of the saliya

Oat-meal and milk, mush and milk, breadand milk, and, indeed, all soft foods, should beclassed with soups, and should not be eatenexcept with some solid food, as bread, which


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18requires action of the jaws, necessary to inducea, proper flow of saliva. When the saliva isnot used it ceases to he secreted. Teeth decayfor want of proper exercise and attention.The effects of alcohol, opium, tobacco, tea,and coffee are injurious to the system, andperfect development demands their absolutedisuse.There is an essential difference in the pro-

portion of the elements of the meat of stall-fedanimals and those which have their liberty.

All fruits in common use are nicely propor-tioned in their raw condition Some and mostof the present methods of preserving impairtheir value. The carbonaceous elements offruits are already in the form of sugar, intowhich starch and oil are turned in the processof digestion.Raw fruits have rare medicinal value. Busi-ness disasters, death of friends, and other sor-row-producing causes, are almost immediatelyfollowed by loss of appetite and derangementof the system through sympathetic action-Fruit, being rapidly digested and assimulated,and the most solid fruits being entirely capa-ble of sustaining life, and abounding withwaste material, so necessary to open the sys-*tern and keep it clean and active, will be found,with proper nursing and rest, to produce bet-ter results than any disorganized elementswhich may be taken as medicine.

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Nutritious elements ofWheatOats%eNorthern corn .

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BeansPeasRiceBeefMuttonChickenFish (average)Oys ers .....Ei^ffsButterCheeseCow-milk . .

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Human-milk.PotatoesSweet-potatoes.Cauliflower. . . .TurnipsCabbageApples. .......Parsnips

i BonoCarbon. Muscle i and

69.8 01.5 .66,4 17.0 03.071.5 13.8 01.773.0 12.0 01.045.0 35.0 04.075.4 08.6 01.857.7 24.0 03.560.0 23.4 02.579.5 06.5 00.530.0 15.0 05.040.0 12.5 03.5 ,35.0 20.0 04.0 ,00.5 17.0 05.000.0 10.0 02.029.0 33.0 10.0100.0 00.0 00.019.0 65.0 07.008 05.0 01.007.0 03.0 00.5 -26.5 01.5 02.922.5 14.0 00.903.6 06.4 01.004.6 01.1 00.5 ,05.0 04.0 01.0 '10.0 05.0 01.007.0 01.2 01.0

Notes.This table was culled from the more extensivetable in A. J. Bellows' " Philosophy of Eating/'There are two ways of proving the qualities of foodone by chemical analysis, ami the other and most reliable,by individual experimenting. I have tried the latter andfound that it agrees with the former.


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20of the chronic diseases, are the result of indi-gestion, and living on raw fruit from the timethe first symptoms are discovered, will effect mspeedy cure

Physicians give in disorganized conditionwhat should be sought in organized forms infood. Organized food is Nature's method, andthat to which the system is adapted, and a de-viation from that method is attended withmore or less risk, which should be avoided.

A. J. Bellows "Philosophy of Eating" is themost thorough and comprehensive digest of thefood question the author has yet seen, andwhich he recommends to those who wish toknow more of this most important of all sub-jects.

Chemistry is yet in its infancy, and we shallhave to wait for future discovery to teach usthe best food for " The Coming Man,"probablyu Monadnoc's " gift, prophesied by Emerson :

M There's fruit upon my barren soilCostlier far than wine or oil.There's a berry blue and goldAutumn-ripe, its juices holdSparta' b stoutness, Bethlehem's heart,Asia's rancor, Athens' art,Blowsurc Britain's secular might,And the German's inward sight.I will give my son* to eatBest of Pan's immortal meat,Bread to eat and juice to drain ;So the coinage of his brainShall not be forms of stars, but stars,Nor pictures pale, but Jove and Mars,"


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21Food regulates the supply of life-force.When unbroken health has been secured by

obedience to laws, and the physical man devel-oped by systematic exercise, then will be timeenough to seek mental culture. The most im-portant truth science has to teach will havebeen learned in such pursuit, namely, thespeedy and inevitable punishment of either awilful or ignorant violation of law, or, in otherwords, the universal prevalence of unchangea-ble laws, which are no respector of person orthing, but sway man and universe alike, happi-ness awarding obedience, and misery violation.Study and obey laws, not National or Bibli-cal laws, but Nature's laws, for the former are

all absorbed in the latter.Wherever there is advancement there is pos-sibility of perfection.Human progress means human perfection.Everything has a limit, human knowledge is

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22 ASTROLOGY.

The leading features of this new system are :First, The adoption of a standard perfect

head ;Second, The reduction of Phrenology to amathematical science ;Third, A new chart ;Fourth} The rearranging of the faculties ingroups of live ; and

Fifth, Substituting for the word ct Phrenol-ogy " the word u Astrology," as more appropri-ate for the " star-system., These changes, with a general reduction ofthe truths taught in Phrenology to first princi-ples, showing the relation of the faculties toharmonious development, has necessitated thechanging of names, which gave the opportunityof dispensing with long technicalities.

There can only be but one reason why a sci-ence, so important to the welfare of each indi-vidual as Phrenology is, should be s:>.generallymisunderstood as it has been, and that reasonis that it lacked simplicity.

Dr. Gall was the founder of Phrenology, andlocated and named a number of the faculties.Since that time his followers have made addi-tions and changes ; but a trustworthy standard,as a gage of perfection by which all headsmight be studied and charts marked, has neverbefore been produced.


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The chief differences or iinprovemenientsmade by the author in this new system ofmental science, are :

I. The association of Individuality, Form,Size, Weight, and Color, with the added fac-ulty, Relation, under the head u Facts."The definition of Individuality is knowledgeand memory of things ; of Form, forms ; Size,

sizes ; Weight, relation to the perpendicular ;and Color, colors.The four latter merely deal with some of thequalities or components of the former, therest of the qualities of a thing being detectedby the senses of feeling, tasting, smelling, andhearing, which need the perception of theirrelation to a thing. The function of Relationis also to perceive the relation of each to all.A nice development of this faculty can be seenin the pictures of Emerson and Goethe.A harmonious development of all these pointsis necessary for a quick and correct perceptionand memory of facts.

II. The association of the faculties known asEventuality, Locality, Time, Tune, and Lan-guage, under the head " Memory," which em-braces only memoiy of ideas, idea meaning, a ageneral notion or conception formed by gen-eralization."A little thought will show that the memoryof events and localities is made up of the mem-ory of a number of associated i repressions re-ceived through the eyes or other senses.


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24The regular heart-beat is the human time-keeper, and its impressions, with the othermeans of determining duration, associated with

figures, lettem, words, objects, sounds, &c, areprobably the basis of time and tune.Sound means nothing until associated withwords, time, objects, &c, and then it meantune or language.We remember verbal language from formsof letters, their association into words, and theassociation of words into sentences, as well asby the sound made in pronouncing and thelength of time taken in utterance.

All impressions being received through thesenses, and meaning different things accordingto their associations, it is very difficult to ana-lyze the sources of these memories.Every faculty of the mind probably remem-bers the ideas relating to its special growth,although not remembering from whence camethe first impressions, which are rememberedby the vaiious faculties which first received orsprung from the impressions,A full development of " Facts" is most eascntial to an excellent memory, as the separatememories of qualities are so many aids.A memory of associated ideas, without mem-ory of the facts which are the primal and onlysource of growth, can be attained from booksand teachers, but is of little value for progres-sive harmonious growth. Those who have anabnormal growth based on second-baud infor.


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25 tnation may be theorists and ornaments of so-ciety, but the positive people who make societyand lead the other class from stage to stagehave a knowledge of facts, do not know muchbut know what to do with what they know,giving their facts with their theories, withoutwhich, theories are useless.The value of knowledge is not in attainmentbut in application.The teaching of associated ideas without thefacts is one of the principle errors made in thepresent method of instruction in schools, col-leges, seminaries, &c, which error certain work-ers arc now trying to correct by their " kinder-garten " system for children.

III. The association of the faculties knownas Comparison, Causality, Construct!veness,Calculation, and Order, under the head " Rea-son." These faculties are employed m deduc-ing from Facts and Memory the material forthe growth and gratification of the other facuLties.

Comparison is reasoning by comparison oranalog)-. Judgment is based on comparison.Our laws are the standard decided upon as towhat man should do. What man docs is com-pared with this standard, and when the twoconflict he is condemned. We draw our stand-ard of human nature from some of our acquain-tances or from a conception deduced f:\>m ac-quaintances. If the standard is a poor one wewill be poor judges of human nature ; if a true'


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26 one, we will read character accurately at aglance, for every feature and expression has ameaning, which feature or expression becomesembodied in a standard of excellence or de-pravity. The comparison is afterwards madeinstinctively, and impressions received at firstsight.

Causality, Constructiveness, Calculation, andOrder, make the laws. Order deals with ar-rangement of simple forms or facts. These aremultiplied by Calculation, while Constructive-ness deals with facts, forms, sizes, colors, andrelations, in simple, complex, and compoundassociation, arrangement, and rearrangement,while causality deduces or prophesies resultsfrom the material thus constructed.These five faculties form the mill which

grinds the grain to provide for the necessitiesof harmonious life, and a single wheel in thismill being at fault, puts the whole system ofmachinery out of gear, creating discord.

Constructiveness is the center of this group,and is, essentially, the mathematical faculty ;and the harmonious working together of theseintellectual faculties develops system, whichjoins them with cxecutiveness, while Harmonyrepresents the harmonious working together ofall the groups of faculties.

IV. The association of the faculties dealingwith perception, memory, reasoning, or deduc-ing under the head " Wisdom."

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27Alimentiveness, Destructiveness,, Combative-ness, Yitativeness, under the head a Longev-ity," and changing their names to Food, Bite,Bark, Life, and Force

Alimentiveness means love of food ; De-structiveness, the ability to execute or bitingtendency ; Combativeness, the energetic, driv-ing or barking tendency.Combativeness was thus named by Phrenolo-gists, who found a peculiar development in peo-ple who wasted a good deal of strength withoutaccomplishing great results. The deficiency ofthe forward part of Destructiveness, workingwith System, which gives the calculated accu-racy which makes the bite, is necessarily thecause of this peculiar development , Combative-ness being the back part of Destructiveness.

Vitativeness means love of life. There couldbe no life without love of life, and there couldbe no progression without the u love of thebest " in life eternally working at the centerof all being. .Amativeness has been associated with loveof sex ; but experiments by Dalton and otherscientists proved the relation of that part of thebrain with physical strength or control ofphysical action, and the love of sex is merelyp conjugal tic, which is the function of Mate.VI. The addition of two of the five infalli-ble physiognomical signs of health.VIL The association of the social facultiesunder the head * Love," and the changing of


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28their names from long to short technicalities,namely , Conjugalit}7 , or union for life, to Mate;Philoprogenitix eness, or love of children andpets, to Pets ; Inhabitiveness, or love of home,to Home ; Adhesiveness, or love of particularfriends, to Friends, and the addition of Society.Each of these names, as well as those of the

following groups of faculties, needs the prefixof the words " love of," or a appreciation of,'"which must be understood.VIII The association under the head of

" Self" and changing the names of the facul-ties known as Continuity, Caution, Secretive-ness, Approbativeness, Self-esteem, Conscien^tiousness, and Firmness, to Application, Pru-dence, Virtue, Ego, Law, and Will, as moresimple and appropriate.

Application is necessary to all excellence, andworking with Prudence and joining the Selfto the Love or Social faculties produces tem-perance of action or careful action.

Virtue is the result of the working togetherof the faculties known as Caution and Con-*Scientiousness.Love of praise or Approbativeness is a func--tion of Society.

Praise is only an expression of appreciation,-and is especially relished by those who lack ap-preciation of self ; but the better we appreci-ate self the less we care for the approval ofother, and especially of those whom we havereason to believe are not acquainted with or


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29cannot appreciate our merits. A friend's sin-cere expression of appreciation is relished by all.

Secretiveness, so-called, is lack of calculatedaccuracy. People who are weak or are contin-ually making mistakes necessarily become siyand timid, it being their only means for de-fence, and will disappear when the cause isremoved by the adoption of a sk>wr , sure, posi-tive rule of action.Ego gives the appreciation of individualrights, and Law, of eternal justice, while Willgives determination to stand and tight forwhat we think is right, which may be justiceor injustice, according to our accurate knowl-edge of universal laws, without which knowl-edge we can not be just to self or others

IX. The association under the head u Pur-ity " and changing the names of the facultiesknown as Sublimity, Ideality, Suavity, HumanNature, Imitation, Spirituality, Hope, Benevo-lence, and Veneration, to Faith, Man, Hope,Charity, and Eternal Pan.

Appreciation of human nature or Man in thofront part of the head balances the apprecia-tion of self or Ego in the back part of the head.The former has to do with human nature ingeneral, the latter with human nature in self.The growth of Ego can only come from per-gonal success or excellence, and that of theother from the discovery of laws or underlyingprinciples governing all human action.The separate development of Ego is tyranny ;


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30ba lanced by Human Nature it leaves self-re-spect. Each man is his own teacher, and cansee no higher than his own head or character*PtiHty makes the true and only aristocracy.This faculty of appreciation of man embraces

Suavity, or agreeableness, and Imitation, whichconstitute the dramatic arid artistic talent.The secret of dramatic success has been re-duced to the one principle, " Be natural." You

cannot act what you cannot feeL A clowncannot act the saint unless they have feelingsill common, and vice versa.

Fools can fool only fools.Agreeableness is only acting and imitation^

and those who are in harmony with Nature-and the universe have an expression and per-ception that cannot be imitated or deceived.Sugar coating may be nice for pills but it isthe truth which hits the mark, whether adornedor unadorned, and it cuts only those who arein error for their good. When simple truthcannot be spoken, let man hold eternal silence.Art consits in imitating or cultivating Na-ture. It has ^opied it now must cultivate. Itlias wrcncbed itself in its endeavors to pad>double, and patch up coverings for embossingof rhe human form to make it approach somefashion-maker's model, the origin of which few; eem to know or care about, and the authoriuis Hot been able to decide whether it is thew.uli of resurrection or contortion it cer-ta'.nlv is not human.


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A perfect form needs only a simple cover-ingan ostentatious one it makes ridiculous.Freedom of limbs, absolutely necessary toperfect health and muscular development, de-mands the adoption of simple and loose cloth-ing by males and females.The modeling of the human form b}^ exer-cise surpasses all. sculptures' art. How can

art even approximate iiiwStone the rapid andnameless changing of expression and movementof muscle and form of the childish beauty,which melts to music the hardest heart. Themost precious of all knowledge is that whichwill prolong those charms through old age.Paintings may transfer colors ; but not theperfumes, the sunshine, the zephyrs, and theever changing shades of light and shadow, andvarying colors of the dancing green leaves andgrass-blades, or the melodious concord of birdand insect voices, which make up the perfectwholeNature.Faith embraces Ideality, Sublimity, AJirth-fulness. and Spirituality. It is a step of theintellect toward divine conception.

Ideality or imagination is but higher deduc-tion, and a result of the harmonious workingof all of the facujtles, which produces an ap-preciation of and faith in coming excellence.Man cannot conceive of anything beyond com-plete harmony, which is what we love in Na-ture, it being the grand and sublime.

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32 Poetry is harmony ;Beauty is harmony ;Love is harmony ;Happiness is harmony ;And the breath of the Eternal Pan, working"

at the center of all life, is love of happiness orHarmony.Mirthfulness is but an expression of harmony,

and its keenest sensation does not always pro-voke laughter. Laughter is as often satiricalas it is expressive of pleasure or harmony.The intellect detects incongruities, whichmay provoke laughter, but, with a love of thehuman race, a comparison of man's present con-dition with what might and should be producessorrow, of which laughter is sometimes as. ex-pressive as tears. Wit is satire. There is noth-ing ridiculous but ignorance.

Ilope springs eternal in the human breast,and the greater our harmony, the clearer canwe see the dawn of eternal dayon earth se-cured, in heaven perpetuated.When harmony approaches, envy, vanity,jealousy, and littleness slink out of sight.

These but aiise from man's ignorance of thetrue means of satisfying his everlasting wants,or rather, necessities. Man is only greedywhen lie is hungry or sick. Not even beastsrob or murder for the sake of creating; misery.The cat plays with a mouse the same as -withits tail or a ball of yarn for the sake of amuse-mentand the fortitude which enables it to


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33sit and watch a hole in the floor for hours,allows it to put off its repast awhile for thesake of a " little fun." Keep the animals well-fed and they won't eat each other, and if manseems different from the other animals in thisrespect it is because he has more wants withoutknowing how to gratify them all.Hope and Faith may be inherited, but theycannot be developed except by the harmoniousaction of all the live groups of faculties, whichis their primary and only source of growth, andis necessary for progression.Every man has his own conception of God,ever has had, and ever shall have, and the true

conception of Eternal Pan, the God of Nature,will probably not be reached except b}T theperfect man, the beauty and harmony of whoselife will undoubtedly surpass the richest dreamof the present race. Before man understandsthe laws which control man and planet, he maysuppose a great God interposes in his insignifi-cant personal affairs ; but afterwards he knowshim as a God of grand, incomprehensible andunchangeable laws, and that he must obeythose laws to deserve or receive blessing.

Man's only source of knowledge or concep-tion are the feelings or impressions receivedthrough his senses, from which reason makesall deductions.

Prophecy is the result of such conception,and the wise prophet is but a mathematicianwho deals with the problems of existence


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what is and what has been being the factors,what shall be, the result.Law, Philosophy, Theology, Medicine, Chem-istry, Astronomy, Mechanics all sciences,trades, and professions are but differentbranches of mathematics, and a knowledge oftheir basis of facts, principles of deduction, andresults, in their relation to happiness andutility, is all that is worth knowing.

It is a common and indisputable assertionthat " figures won't lie," and figures merelyrepresent facts. If there are any doubts orfalsities in doctrines or theories, they comefrom incorrect deductions, and there must bea reduction to first principles or facts to dis-cover the cause of all differences. There aremany systems, but only one true and underly-ing principle. No rule has an exception. Itceases to be a rule when an exception is found.X. The disuse of the word " Acquisitive-

ness," the definition of which is " love ofmoney."Money is only a means, and but a toy tosupply the wants of the u love of the best."What is wealth to man money cannot pur-

chasenamely, health, wisdom, and purityThe fact that a certain portion of the headwas exceptionally well filled out in capitalistsand wealthy men gave rise to this name ; butmen who have achieved success in any greatundei taking are persons having vitality andsyseni, which cause such development. Sys-


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35tern results in economy. Ask any honest suc-cessful merchant to what he owes his successand he will inform you that it was to theemployment of systemnamely, the adoptionof a few simple, reliable principles by which toconduct business.The proprietors of lotteries take no chances,

all the chances are taken by their poor victims.Successful insurance agents and monopolistsare those who calculate con ectly. If producerswould live by system, they would bring capi-talists and monopolists down to share theirlabors, and all would be happier.Standard. Symmetry, balance, length,height, and breadth of head, with health andstrength, are the measure of power and excel-lence. Love and perception produce length ;purity and self-appreciation produce height ;and vitality produces breadth.The active faculties are transferred to off-spring, and this fact accounts for the malfor-

mation of many heads. Force may be inher-ited without wisdom, which becomes a curse.Hope and Faith may be inherited without thefaculties necessary for their growth, which isalso a curse, and amounts to insanity. Theseabnormal developments can be easily detected,as the fullest development of head in theoristsand visionary people is around the top forehead.

Insanity and Imbecility are either the resultof inheritance or weakness, and is a lack of har-mony iii the entire character or make-up.


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36The brain need not be abnormal or atrophied

when a nicely-shaped head does poor work, butis either biased by false teachings or hinderedfor want of the supplies necessary to giveactivity to all its faculties.Bad habits are tenacious, and so are goodones. Good and bad are governed by the samelaw, and result from harmony or deficiency indevelopment. . Instinct is the result of habitseither individually cultivated or inherited.The longest line of development should bethat from the lowest part of the frontal sinus(see chart and perfect head) to a point exactlyopposite in the back head.

All heads should measure a trifle over eightinches, by caliper measurement at this point.For symmetry and balance it is necessarythat the head should have its fullest develop-ments on the lines extending from these pointsover the top head, where the two brain hemis-pheres meet, and around the center of the sidehead, all parts balancing each other on an axisdirectly above the center between the openingsof the ears. The head must symmetrical tycurve from the lowest point of the frontal sinusto a parallel point just above the opening of theears, and from that to the center of the back-head, the whole top head curving symmetri-cally upward from that line to the center point,which should be highest directly above thecenter of a line between the two ear openings.

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38his head increased in size most rapidly the firstthree }^ears of his life.To compare with this remarkable develop-ment we have the following description of thehead of Ealph Waldo Emerson, for which we

are indebted to a biography of Emerson by0. W. Holmes: " He wore a hat measuringsix and seven-eights, which is equivalent totwTenty-one inches and a quarter in circumfer-ence. The average size is from seven to sevenand an eighth. so that his head was quite smallin that dimension. It was long and narrow,but lofty, almost symmetrical, and of morenearly equal breadth in its anterior and pos-terior region than many or most heads."

This agrees with Emerson's life and writings.If his head was of that circumference wherethe hat rests, and was long and narrow, lofty,and symmetrical, it probably touched, or veryclosely approximated, the front, back, and topline of the circle necessary for a head twenty-five inches in circumference, lacking only theside development which gives longevity andgreat muscular strength and endurance, whichdeficiency Emerson realized, and deplored inthe following lines in " Terminus."" Curse, if thou wilt, thy sires,Bad husbands of their tires,Who, when they gave thee breath,

Failed to bequeathThe needful sinew stark as once,The baresark marrow to thy bones,But left a legacy of ebbing veins,Inconstant heat and nerveless reins."


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89Mr. Holmes' biography of Emerson is well"worth perusing, but the author of it made some

bad errors, as is always the case when an in-consistent writer tries to criticise a consistentone. He accuses Emerson ofa lack of accuracy,which is Emerson's chief charm, and the onethat places him above the heads of almost allother writers, and especially his biographer.His idealism is accurate deduction from facts.u Truth is stranger than fiction," always.Mr Holmes states-

" He once corrected me in giving Flora Temple's timeat Kalamazoo. I made a mistake of a quarter of a sec-ond, and he set me right. He was not always so exact inhis memory, as I have shown in several instances."One of which instances is worth mentioning,

as it speaks for itself.He found the following two lines merelyquoted by Emerson without any credit :

* The pulses of her iron heartGo beating through the storm,"and with considerable presumption states thatthey must be an incorrect quotation of twolines of some of his own verses, which he quotesas follows :

*' The beating of her restless neartStill sounding through the storm."

But he is excusable, as, after caviling aboutthe supposed change, he gives us the key to hisown weakness in these words : u. But extremeaccuracy was not one of Emerson's special gifts,and vanity whispers to the misrepresented


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-41or bringing wants down to correspond withwages, until every man and woman is masterof their own time, and not slaves to task-mas-ters, be they individuals or customers. Eachperson must be able to act according to theirown wisdom if they desire harmonious devel-opment. These rights can only be secured byassociation and co-operation, and this is impos-sible while people lack system. Every personmust do a part of the producing, and the pro-ducts of one person's labor must be equivalentto another person's labor before there is equal-ity, and certificates of labor instead of gold bethe currency. As much as is necessary to pro-vide for a well-endowed person is necessary toprovide for a weak person's wants, who is de-prived by ignorance or inheritance of the great-est boon man can enjoy. Who does not work,(unless invalid.) should not be allowed to eat 9no matter what their ancesters did. Our Na-tional Constitution gives us equal rights to life,liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, whichisbeiied Iry our laws, which allow one man tolive without work, and leaves another a beg-gar from birth, not even daring to appropriateenough land on which to raise food to sustainlife. The principles of the Constitution mustbe stood by or the lies erased, whatever be-comes of the laws. Land, as well as air andwater, are man's birthrighteach to have asmuch as is necessary to secure independence,the rest common property, neither to be bought


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42or sold any more than the air we breathe.It may be impossible to secure this by laws orlegislatures, but by co-operation everything ispossible, and when people have a religion offacts, think facts, eat facts, sleep facts, and diefor facts, facts and nothing but facts, takingno chances and making no mistakes, one stepat a time and that a sure one, then, and notbefore, will men be freemen and live true totheir highest nature.

System is natural and blundering abnormal.Faculties cultivated by parents become

instinct in children.A comparison of the magnificent horses seenon Fifth Avenue, New York city, with their

haggard, careworn, avaricious, yellow-complex-ioned owners, shows that the horses are thenoblest animals of the two. The beautifulhorses show the result of scientific feeding andattention, the owners show the result of igno-rance and debauchery. They employed systemin their business but not in their living Theevent of reducing such men to physical laborwould bless them as well as mankind.Man is not a slave to man, but to his ownappetites and passions. When he controlsthem he will be his own master. Plain clothes,plain food, and few physical wants will leavehim free, with time and means for the cultiva-tion and enjoyment of his higher faculties.A chart of the head will prove a valuableguide to aid improvement, because it is marked


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48-according to actual measurements, and u fig-ures won't lie/'The fact that the world must be round andthat one hemisphere most be balanced hj an-other hemisphere, or, in other words, that bal-ance and symmetry is the infallible law of theuniverse, drew Columbus across the water, andproves that the perfect head will be a perfectsphere.Our lingers and toes are in groups of five.;we have five senses ; five arms from the body ;the faculties group themselves into fives ; and

the star, ever man's brightest symbol and great-est mystery appears to us with five points, andfive times five, or twenty-five inches, will an-swer for the circumference of the standardperfect head till it is proved true or a betterStandard discovered. A standard bushel isnecessary in measuring grain, and a standardhead is necessary for any accurate study ofPhrenology.The perfect man will probably live hundredsof years, or as long as the Biblical records teilthat he once lived.The average head measures from twenty-twoto twenty-three inches in circumference, butit is oblong and lacks symmetry, and the ma-jority of the human race are invalids.Any careful observer, by adopting the sym-metrical head as a standard, and carefullystudying the chart in this boo!;, will soon per-ei\p that every shape of head has its accom-


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- 44 -panning peculiarity of personal action, and wrtfjpractice be able to read character from theshape of the head and signs of health in theface as from an open book.The head is the only reliable indicator ofcharacter. Brain is developed by exercise, andman's inmost thoughts mold the shape of hisskull. The acids carried by the blood dissolveand build up the bony material of the skullas rapidly as the character changes The hardin Nature always succombs to the soft;

Faces express character, for there is harmonythroughout Nature's works, and she ever speaksto man. in symbols 7 the key of which she placesin her lover's brain.

Trees, flowers, zephyrs, perfumes speak plaiuwithout a tongne.Animals tell their secret history to thenaturalist.

Strata and stones speak to the geologist.The God that created the universe inventedfthis language and wrote these books. All thatman knows they taught him.

" The word unto the prophet spokenWas writ on tables yet unbroken jThe word by seers or sibyls told. In groves of oak, or fanes of gold,Still floats upon the morning wind,Still whispers to the willing mind.One accent of the Holy GhostThe heedless world has never lost/'

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45They were the founders of all religions.The stars shine now as in olden times.If man deduced religions truths from facts

then he can now.Saint, poet, philosopher, scientist continually

shake hands.Inspiration comes hack to reason, for it is

reason's offspring.They held slaves, and supposed that specialmen and races were blessed and divineweadvocate man ys equality before his Creator, nospecial man, sect, or race, but all men, sects,and races are blessed and divine.From a divine Creator, nothing but divinitycan flow.They believed woman was an inferior crea-tionwe are just learning to appreciate herequality.They wrote, " Man was created male andfemale "we have pretended to endorse it, butthe true meaning of that writing it but dawn-ing upon us.There can be but one perfect head.Boys and girls inherit equally from both

parents ; but ignorance seeks to restrain thegrowth f the one and encourage the growthf I lie i*1 her, which has ever been a check tohuman progress, for all must advance together.They had Christ and Buddhawe have Em-erson, who has not supplanted, but absorbedall others.Through him speaks the Creator.


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Unite Bethlehem's great heart to Emerson'sinfinite perception, and add the God of eter-nal justice, who makes Self and universe sub-ject to the same law, and the heavens drawdown..The scientists have decided that all forms oflife are hut " Arrested and Progressive devel-opment." Of what ? There is but one an-swer ! " Of the various forms through whichsoul works upward toward perfection."

Clothe soul witli the most beautiful dreamsof human conception and they fade to ghastlypaleness, for what are dreams but single vibra-tions of the perfect tune which puny man knowsnot yet how to prolong.The God of Nature is our Father, let us seekto be Gods by studying all of God's works.

" Too long shut in strait and few,Thinly dieted on dew,I will use the world and sift it,To a thousand humors shift it,As you spin a cherry.O dolemi ghosts, and goblins merry 1O all you virtues, methods, mights,Means, appliances, delights,Reputed wrongs and braggart rights,Smug routine,, and things allowed,Minorities, things under cloud !Hither ! take me, use me, fdl me,Vein and artery, though ye kill iuq!"

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49^u Pondering shadows, colors, clouds,Grass-buds, and caterpillar shrouds,Boughs on which the wild bees settle",Tints that spot the violet's petal,Why Nature loves the number five,And why the star-form she repeats :Lover of all things alive,Wonderer at all he meets,Wonderer chiefly at himself,Who can tell him what he is ?Or how meet in human elfComing and past eternities ?

Ever diving, sifting, gleaning, propoundingthe riddle he was solvinghe ever remained ariddle, and ever will, to the cowardly and im-pure. Led by and never fearing God, his onlycare was not to make a false step.Truth is not complex, but simple, and babescan understand it. He put his verses to aa Test."" I hung my verses in the wind,Time and tide their faults may find.

All were winnowed through and through,Five lines lasted sound and true ;Five were smelted in a potThan the South more fierce and hot ;These the siroc could not melt,Fire their fiercer flaming felt,And the meaning Avas more whiteThan July's meridian light.Sunshine cannot bleach the snow,Nor time unmake what poets know.Have you eyes to find the fiveWhich five hundred did survive ?"

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IS"' Warning to the blind and deaf,"Ka written on the iron ]eafWho drinks of Clipid's nectar cup,Loveth downward, and not tip/'" Yet shine forever virgin minds,Loved by stars and purest winds,Which o'er passion throned sedate,Have not hazarded their state."

Emerson describes love." Not with scarfs or perfumed glovesDo these celebrate their loves."" Their cords of love so public are,They intertwine the farthest star ;The throbbing- sea, the quaking earth,Yield sympathy and signs of mirth :Is none so high, so mean is none,But feels and seals this union ;Even the fell Furies are appeased,The good applaud, the lost are eased.Love's hearts are faithful but not fond,Bound for the just, but not beyond ;Not glad, as the low-loving herd,Of self in other still preferred,But they have heartily designedThe benefit of broad mankind.And they serve men austerely,After their own genius clearly ;Without a false humility ;For this is love's nobility,Not to scatter bread and gold,Goods and raiment bought and sold ;But to hold fast his simple sense,And .speak the speech of innocence,And with hand and body and blood,To 'make his bosom-counsel good.He that feeds men serve! h few ;He serves all who dares be true."

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gsr~All constellations of the skyShed their virtue through his eye.Him Nature givcth for defciceHis formidable innocence ;The mounting sap, the she 's, the sea,All spheres, all stones, his helpers beHe shall meet the speeding year,Without wailing, without fear ;He shall be happy in his love,Like to like shall joyful prove."

Is it any wonder tha* such a pure soul daresto stand alone.

" For what need I of book or priest,Or siby] from the mummied East,When every star is Bethlehem's star."Human nature is the same, and seeks thesame, whether it is the reckless profligate, sac-rificing future in the present, the pius saint,trying to purchase the future by sacrificing thepresent, or the keen-witted philosopher, tryingto get into harmony with his surroundings, or.trying to bring surroundings into harmony withhim, realizing that the flower that blooms intothe greatest beauty and fragrance in the pres-ent life will bloom through eternity.

*' He follows joy and only joy,There is no mask but he will wear,He invented oaths to swear.He paints, he carves, he chants, he prays,And holds all stars in his embrace."il Line in Nature is not found,Unit and universe are round,In vain produced, all rays return,Evil will bices; and ice will burn.'" For the world was built in order,And the atoms march in tune ;


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Rhyme the pipe, and time the warder,The sun obeys them and the moon.Orb and atom forth they prance,When they hear from far the rune ;None so backward in the troop,When the music and the danceReach his place and circumstance,But knows the sun-creating sound,And, though a pyramid, will bound. "Why should the author say more? He has

tried to weave the underlying principles oflife in these pages, drawing to a focus aroundman what the ages have been preparing, as hissmall work in the grand movement, and he willgladly hail the final book of tables of principleswhich will contain all that is in this book, inA. J. Bellows' " Philosophy of Eating," in JohnCowan's " Science of a New Life," and RalphWaldo Emerson's "Complete Works," 'withwhat new truths science may yet add, arrangedaccording to their relation to man's happiness.by knowledge of and obedience to which prin-ciples the perfect man will yet be generated.The following quotations, which close thisbook, express the author's sentiment, and whathas been once beautifully expressed, needs onlyrepetition.

" But if I could, in severe or cordial mood,Lead.you rightly to my altar,Where the wisest muses falter.And worship that world -warming spark,Which dazzles me in midnight dark,Equalizing small an \ large,While the soul it do.h surcharge,Till the poor is wealthy grown,


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And the hermit never aloneThe traveler and the road seem one,With the errand to be doneThat were a man's and lover's part,That were freedom's whitest chart."Let man serve law for man,Live for friendship, live for love,For truth's and harmony's behoof,The State may follow as it can,As Olympus follows Jove."To-day unbind the captive,So only are ye unbound,Lift up a people from the dust,Trump of their rescue sound."0,-what a loadOf care and toil,By lying use bestowed,From his shoulders falls, who seesThe true astronomyThe period of peace."The sun sets, but sets not his hope,Stars rose, his faith was earlier up,Fixed on the enormous galaxy,Deeper and older seemed his eye,And matched his sufferance sublime,The taciturnity of time."The debt is paid,The verdict said,The furies laid,The plague is stayed,All fortunes made.Turn the key and bolt the door,Sweet is death forevermore.Nor haughty hope, nor swart chagrin,murdering' hate can enter in.All is now secure and fast,

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