366 Obituary Notice of Dr. Gaspar Spurzheim. 
_ When he found a child whose head or whose conversation indica= _ 
ted an extraordinary mind, he would find out the parents and warn 
them of the danger of exciting too much the mental faculties, and 
of the importance of attending to the moral and physical education 
of their child. In his visits to the schools in Boston he denounced 
emulation. and mere authority as motives of action, but delighted — 
— benevolence and a sense of duty were made the sneer 
ieee anxious not to give trouble—to prevent pee sufferings 
in others, and was to the last, grateful for every kind service piste: 
ed him. 
In education he was anxious that the moral and prea a 
tion of the pupil should not be sacrificed to the intellectual, and he 
thought many of our establishments for education deficient in these 
respects. In his choice of duties, Dr. Follen remarks that he’ *al- 
ways chose for himself in preference, the performance of that duty 
which required the greatest effort and self-denial ;” and he adds, 
what it gives us much pain to learn, ‘that his anxious desire to ful- 
fil his engagements in Boston and in Cambridge, was the chief cause 
of his death. Although oppressed by indisposition and contrary to 
the entreaties of his medical friends, he continued to. lecture; and 
once in his last. sickness, he started up with the intention to dress 
himself to go to Cambridge. ” At the close of each lecture, he listen- 
ed patiently to every inquirer, however humble, and never turned bing 
_ by, to attend to the great, who were waiting. : ee 
_ He never suffered poverty to exclude any one from bis lectures; 
and.when. his. friends were his almoners in the distribution of free 
tickets, he wished never to be informed to whom they were givem © 
His love of truth was supreme; he wished no. one to believe any 
thing on his authority but simply from conviction, after due exami- 
nation. He was unwilling that phrenology should become an instru- 
ment of soothsaying and quackery, and he always refused to. desig- 
nate the characters of lees: individuals by the applicxion of the rules 
of his science. . 
_ He did not baller vith Dr. Gall, that there: was n-orgaa for 
theft and one for murder, which he thought inconsistent gine” 
nevolence of God. 
“ All his writings and lectures (says Dr. Follen,) were. marked by 
the decidedly religious tendency of his mind. He firmly believed 
in the essential truths of natural and revealed religion. - He nae 
