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trusty staves Man lias to lean upon for gui- 

 dance and support, I cannot here enlarge on 

 this miscalled "science of bumps" so despica- 

 bly attacked by the press in England aad in 

 this country — bumps, in fact, it has yery lit- 

 tle to do with, being really a science dealing 

 with the measurements of angles and the thin- 

 ness or thickness of parts of the skull. But 

 at a future time I intend to devote an entire 

 lecture to a subject so prodigal of light upon 

 Man's self-means of education and perfecti- 

 tude and so certain to give rise to greater prog- 

 ress and greater results. Briefly : in my opin- 

 ion, the study and application of Phrenology 

 is essential to the civilization of Man. 



I must soon conclude; but before so doing 

 I have to remark that I am quite aware that a 

 distinguished Frenchman, Lamarck by name, 

 many years ago suggested that there was a 

 gradual and progressive alteration of animal 

 types, but he founded his ingenious theory en- 

 tirely on Spontaneous Generation, which I in- 

 tend to demonstrate in a succeeding lecture 

 has no substantiation, and he (not enjoying 

 the geological, chemical and phrenological ad- 

 vantages that increasing Knowledge has show- 

 ered on us of the present century) but very 



