when, without premonition of his illness, his death mteiely 
announced. It was one of those thunder strokes, which, in the full 
eareer of life, bring us up with a sudden check, and throw us, all 
aback. Every man, especially, who presses onward in the habitual 
pleasure of intellectual effort, and who lives less for himself than for 
his fellow men; less for the idolatry of his own poor fame than for 
the honor of his maker; every such man, feels, on an occasion like 
this, a momentary paralysis of his powers, and is, for the time, dis- 
posed to cease from the vain struggles of life. This feeling, so in- 
menses with the melange of ee is happily temporary. -We 
we mourn—we pay them the last honors, 
and then resume our arms, and press irene 3 in our warfare. 
-» On the present occasion, however, we are more desirous to ad- 
vert to facts than to pursue a course of moral reflections, however, 
in other circumstances, proper and useful; and happily, we have an 
interesting biograpical notice of Dr. Spurzheim in the excellent fune- 
ral oration pronounced by Professor Charles Follen, in honor of the 
deceased, which we are permitted to use on the present occasion. 
We shall: a in Dr. Follen’s own aaodees ee ens 
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vich, a village about seven miles from the city of vara 
oselle, in the lower circle of the Rhine, now under the domin= 
ion of Pritceia: His father was a farmer, and in his religious per- 
suasion, a Lutheran. Young Spurzheim received his classical edu- 
‘ation at the college of Treves ; and was destined by his friends, for 
the profession of Theology. In consequence of the war between 
‘Germany and France, in 1797, the students of that college were dis- 
persed; and Spurzheim went to Vienna. Here he devoted himself 
‘to the study of medicine, and became the pupil, and afterward the 
associate of Dr. Gall, who was at that time established a asa — 
at Vienna. 
“This extraordinary man had been induced, by an Felintttion 
made by him when a boy of nine years old, to attempt a new mode 
of scientific investigation. While at school, young Gall felt mortified 
at seeing himself surpassed by a number of his school-fellows in all 
a exercises that required verbal memory. The mortified pupil 
tried to find out some reason to account for this fact, that boys who 
In r other exercises were much his inferiors, yet showed etter 
heads in ‘committing lessons to memory. He was struck wi 
