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characteristic of the rapid march of all sorts of improvement in this truly inquisitive 

 and ambitious age. 



" I have been frequently solicited by friends who are amateurs in the science, to allow 

 them to give me a chart of my head. Their reports were, in the main, generally con- 

 formable to my knowledge of myself; but their previous knowledge of my character 

 was always such as to leave some dubiety whether they did not correct their Phrenology 

 from their memory or acquaintance with me, rather than simply utter the revelations of 

 the cranium. Your having no advantage of this sort, has given to your details a value 

 paramount to those of any other phrenologist with whom I have been conversant ; and 

 I cannot but admire the science which bestows upon its possessor the power thus to 

 develope the human mind, and to advance the cause of education, physical, and intel- 

 lectual, and moral. Please accept my thanks for the copy which you have sent me of 

 what you said to me, almost off-hand, with my wishes for your success in all your 

 endeavors to further the cause of a rational education, to improve the human constitu- 

 tion, and to increase the social happiness of our species. 



" Respectfully, your obedient servant, 



"A. CAMPBELL." 



