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and say that, as a good wife or a good husband is the best 

 gift that God can bestow, they will carefully watch the in- 

 dications of His guidance and distrust their own judgment 

 in favor of one bearing the tokens of being one sent from 

 God. 



Intuition. There are others who, having simply de- 

 termined that the one on whom they will bestow themselves 

 shall be of suitable age, social standing, education and 

 health, wait for that intuition that shall dawn upon them 

 when.in the presence of the affinity. They must feel, as a 

 friend once said, " that jump of the heart" that was to him 

 nature's infallible guide. 



We shall not ridicule or quarrel with any opinions 

 honestly entertained upon the subject, but will call attention 

 to the fact that there is claimed for phrenology, joined with 

 physiognomy, advantages possessed by no other theory bear- 

 ing on this interesting question. 



The Theory of Phrenology. The theory underly- 

 ing phrenology is that the real spiritual personalty, in 

 clothing itself with a material covering for its temporal 

 sojourn in this material world, has stamped its quality upon 

 the body generally, and upon the covering of the brain 

 specifically ; that the appearance in general, and in particu- 

 lar of the head of man, gives an unerring guide to the 

 inherent nature of the individual. 



It claims, by long continued observation, to have ac- 

 quired such a knowledge of these cranial protuberances and 

 depressions as to grade them with exactness as to their loca- 

 tion and degree or size, so that they may be read with 

 accuracy by one schooled in the study. 



If we need any apology for here introducing what 

 phrenology has to say on the question, it is that nowhere else 

 do we find any coherent teaching bearing upon it, and that, 

 so far as we have examined the subject, phrenology has 

 some strong points in its favor. 



The first to which we will call attention is this, it pre- 

 scribes emphatically the rule that selection should precede 

 courtship. 



