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which solely refers to moral conduct, and observe how pertina- 

 ciously some men insist on works and others on belief as the con- 

 dition of salvation. In reading the scriptures, it is surprising, how 

 each marks the passage most congenial with his own views — which 

 latter fact and numerous additional ones of a like stamp, suggests 

 the important idea that religious feeling is not simple but com- 

 bined. But phrenologists assert that there exists a fundamental 

 feeling of this nature with its organ, which is called veneration. 



Speaking generally, it is an easy matter to point out the dis- 

 tinction between man and animals, but when we come to moral 

 feelings and reach the very line of demarcation, it is somewhat 

 difficult to establish the distinction. There are some animals we 

 call good, kind-hearted, he. and instances unnumbered prove the 

 existence of a mutual sympathy, between animals of the same and 

 different species, which displays itself in a manner at once in- 

 teresting and striking. Thus a dog has been known to convey 

 hay to a cow, who could not reach it, and a fox in captivity was 

 constantly supphed with food by his enfranchised companion. 



The diiferent degrees of benevolence or good-heartedness, are 

 evinced even in infancy. Some children delight to divide their 

 enjoyments, and others incline to a complete and isolated appro- 

 priation of whatever they obtain. And there are men ever 

 ready to do good, and some have no time for it. This diversity 

 is distinctly marked in the cerebral development as in habitual 

 conduct. The size of the organ of benevolence being always 

 commensurate with the relative power of that faculty in the mind. 



Firmness is essential to success in every undertaking. Some 

 men think long, but having decided, are immoveable. Others are 

 swayed with the greatest facility. When carried to excess, firm- 

 ness degenerates into obstinacy. It was large in Oberlin, and 

 conjbined with veneration and benevolence enabled him to accom- 

 plish the noble enterprise which he so gloriously effected. 



In making phrenological observations we should ever keep in 

 view one important consideration, viz. that we are not to look at 

 individual elevations and immediately deduce an inference; but 

 first examine the different regions of the head, and see whether 

 the occipital, lateral, sincipital, or frontal is most developed. 



We have seen that the Creator has endowed us with the facul- 

 ties of veneration and benevolence, but, in so doing, has he amply 

 and completely provided for our constant and faithful perform- 

 ance of duty in relation to himself and our fellow-beings.-' Evi- 

 dently not. And first as regards religion, we perceive the in- 

 fluence of a fundamental feeling essential to its growth, prevalence 

 and power. If proof were wanting, the strong tendency to leli- 

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