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moral and religious influence ; but, on the contrary, if the science 
be true, it indicates in a manner most important, where and how 
to exert the discipline of self-control as well as the right and power 
of controlling others. This discovery will, indeed, without phre- 
nology, be made in the progress of the experience e* the individual, 
but it may be at too late a day. Health, conscience, fortune and 
honor may have been sacrificed, when, had the point of danger 
been early made known, and the course of safety seasonably in- 
dicated, the peril might have been shunned or averted, and peace 
and security insured. 
But, the Christian will anxiously enquire, is our safety: then 
to depend on our own imperfect knowledge and resolution in 
performing our duty? We answer, that however ignorant and 
weak we may be, there can be no doubt that our Creator has 
placed us here in a state of discipline, and that we are under 
bonds to him to perform our duty, despite of evil influences from 
within, and of temptations from without. If, however, phre- 
nology will enable the anxious parent to understand the powers 
and capacities, with the prevailing affections and propensities—it 
cannot but influence: the destination and pursuits of the child; 
while it will also indicate the course of discipline and treatment. 
But all this will not avail, without superior influence flowing 
from the Creator himself, diecast his divine revelation, which is 
the charter of our hopes, and our supreme moral guided in life. 
If there be in any instance, an unhappy cranial formation, surely 
it does not diminish, but, on the contrary, it enhances the neces- 
sity of-a prevailing heavenly in influence to illuminate that which 
is dark, to strengthen the weak faculties, subdue the wild animal 
propensities, and parity, by aholy efciency, ‘the moral Senti- 
ments and affections. 
Religion can therefore da, whit iniahney Salient alone tfc: 
Phrenology undertakes to accomplish for man, what: philosophy 
performs for the external world ; it claims to disclose the real state 
of things, and to present nature, unveiled, and in her true features, 
As science and art build upon the laws of nature, and borrow- 
ing materials from her, proceed to construct all the machines and 
edifices and various physical furniture of refined civilization, so 
, if successful in developing the real powers, affections 
and propensities of man, furnishes to revealed religion, in the best 
possible state, the subject upon which through the spirit of God, 
