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that the day characters are used for the purpose of designating the 
days and not for the significations for the words; 3d, that Landa’s 
characters for the days are at least substantially correct ; 4th, that 
the columns composed of these characters are to be read from the 
top downwards; 5th, that the red numerals refer to the days or 
years of the week; and 6th, that the black numerals in connec- 
tion with the day characters, as well as those in the spaces usually 
refer to the numbers of the month. There are some apparant ~ 
exceptions, but I have ascertained, as I can show, that these are 
only apparent and not real exceptions. I may also add that we 
have in what has been shown strong evidence that Perez was 
right in asserting that the Ahau consisted of 24 years. 
I have succeeded in deciphering a number of the hieroglyphics 
of the text but will not enter upon an explanation of these at 
present, as I have only commenced this part of the work. 
70. 
EDITORS’ TABLE. 
EDITORS: A. S. PACKARD, JR., AND E. D. COPE. 
The recent attempt on the life of the President of the United 
States naturally leads to reflections on the mental condition of the 
author of the crime. It is profitable to look into the question 
involved in the words insanity and responsibility, as expressed in 
terms of mental science. 
The clearest classification of the mental faculties arranges them 
under the three heads of the affections or emotions, the intellect, 
and the will. It is held that through the mutual actions of the 
qualities of these three divisions, the acts, ordinary and extra- 
ordinary, are produced. The affections include the tastes or ten- 
dencies of the individual, which -determine primarily the general 
direction of conduct. The intelligence furnishes the mode and 
means of execution, besides directing the affections through the 
light it throws on ends, as well as means, For those who do not 
believe that the doctrine of the directive power of the strongest 
inducement, covers the whole ground, the will is supposed to 
choose between the motives offered by the two classes of faculties 
first named, 
Experience shows that the mind may be disordered in one of 
these departments and not in another, or in only one, sometimes 
