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ihemy being restrained from indulging her appetite by .the terror of 

 punishment. The setting-dog and pointer, in a wild state, Icill and 

 devour all sorts of game ; but thfeir innate propensity is overcome 

 by the force of a canine education, and they shrink from a dead hare 

 or pheasant, as food, with as much repugnance as a man would from 

 poison. The carnivorous and destructive propensity of the bear and 

 the lion are thus controlled and subdued by discipline ; the former 

 becomes a dancer for the amusement of children ; the latter opens 

 his tremendous jaws quietly, to admit the head of his living keeper, 

 who, without fear, and with safety, exhibits this feat for the grati- 

 fication of the spectator's curiosity, and to prove the triumph of edu- 

 cation over the most destructive of savage animals. The prodigious 

 strength of the elephant is, alike, subdued by education, and he be- 

 comes a useful servant of man. 



Mr. Turley proceeded to treat his subject under eight distinct 

 divisions, — acquisitiveness, constructiveness, self-esteem, or pride, 

 love of approbation, the occipital region, caution, the sincipital re- 

 gion, and benevolence. Beginning with the question, is there a 

 propensity to acquire ? We all must admit there is ; and that, under 

 the settled control of religion and the laws, it is the great incentive 

 of ingenuity, industry, and genius, and the pregnant source of arts, 

 manufactures, and commerce. We, also, must admit that, in its se- 

 cond degree, it becomes avarice ; in its third, theft ; on each of which, 

 their effects on society, and their means of counteraction, he reasoned 

 with peculiar perspicuity and force. The propensity to construc- 

 tiveness he exemplified in the newly-invented steam gun of Mr. 

 Perkins, the steam carriage of Dr. Church, the ingenious automa- 

 ton chess-player, the model of Paris lately exhibited, the beautiful 

 nests of birds, also recently exhibited, the houses of beavers, cells 

 of bees, and webs of spiders and silk-worms. In man, its situation 

 is just behind the angle of the eye-brow, beneath the temporal mus- 

 cle. When large, it gives the head a squareness of front, as in the 

 Chinese, who are noted for their ingenuity ; and we see, every day, 

 persons who are never happy but when building is going on under 

 their direction, or when they are constructing some novel contri- 

 vance with their own hands. On the contrary, there are some por- 

 tions of the human race, who pass their lives in caverns and trees, 

 without appearing to invent or construct a better dwelling. We 

 must, however, in this organ, yield the palm of superior ingenuity 

 in constructiveness to our French neighbours. 



The second genus in the order of feelings comprises the Senti- 

 ments ; and the first in this division is pride, or self-esteem. The 

 situation of this faculty is at the top of the head ; and it is necessa- 

 ry to distinguish it from vanity, with which it is frequently imagin- 

 ed to be synonymous. Pride is the characteristic of the English 

 nation, while vanity no less distinguishes the French; and nothing 

 is more common, in French theatres, than to see the Englishman's 

 pride held up to ridicule ; as, in our theatres, the French courtier 

 is made a jest. It is very amusing to be in a mixed company of 



