84 Phrenology. 
the holiest and happiest influences of piety may be exerted and 
made effectual. ee 
Phrenology then, is not a substitute for revealed religion—it 
does not present itself as a rival or an enemy, but as an ally or 
ministering servant.. It is obvious that if all which is claimed 
for it be true, it is capable of exerting a most important influ- 
ence on the faculties and moral powers of our race, and with 
experience for its interpreter, it must form the basis of intellec- 
tual philosophy. "2 
‘The development which it makes of the faculties as connect- 
ed with the organization of the brain, illustrates the wisdom of 
the Creator in common with the wonderful structure of the rest 
of the frame, and indeed it has still higher claims to our admira- 
tion, in as much as the faculties of the mind are more elevated 
in dignity than those of the inferior members. If it should be 
objected, that we ought not to attribute to God a structure in 
which evil propensities are included, we answer that they cease 
to be evil if they are controlled by the superior powers, and after 
all, the introduction of moral and physical evil into this world 
must be referred to the will of God, nor does it at all change the 
conditions of the problem, whether our moral errors arise from 
our organization or from external influences, or from both. In 
either case, we are responsible, because power, either inherent in 
our constitution, or imparted through the influence of religion, is 
given to us, sufficient to resist moral evil and to perform our duty. 
It appears then, that phrenology is neither an unreasonable, an 
unphilosophical, nor an immoral or irreligious pursuit. 
The connection which it proves between the brain andthe 
mind, is founded upon our personal experience and daily obser- 
vation. ‘There is nothing in the nature of the brain which can 
enable us to understand how it is made the residence or instru- 
ment of the mind, nor can we in the least comprehend, in what 
way the mind will subsist after the death of the body, or in what 
the intellectual essence consists. We are indeed instructed, from 
the highest authority, (and the thought, with its illustration, is 
equally beautiful and sublime, in a philosophical as in a moral 
view, ) that “the seed which we sow* is not quickened unless it 
die; that we do not sow the body that shall be, but that God giv- 
= -* ® Bare grain, it may chance of wheat or of some other grain.” 
