INDEX.

ACQUISITIVENESS, 51, 61, 69, 76.

its activity permitted and limited in the bible, 357.

Adhesiveness, 50, 59, 73.

Adumbration of the doctrine of the Trinity, in the nature of man, 353.
Alison, Mr., on the easy childbirths among the lower orders, 385.
Amativeness, 50, 57, 75, 113.

its activity permitted, and limited in the bible, 357.
America, evils anticipated from slavery in the United States of, 247. Cru-
elties of the Spaniards in, 250. Penitentiaries in, 278.
American Indians, character of the, 167.

American war, 239.

Animals, their constitution compared with that of man, 2, 3, 41, 108.
Hereditary transmission of their qualities, 154, 389, 390. Punishment
inflicted by them on each other, 263, et seq.

Animal nature of man addressed, in the bible, in prohibitions, 354.
Approbativeness addressed, appealed to, and its activity limited, in the
bible, 358, 359.

Aristides's advice as to the burning of the Grecian ships, 241.
Aristocracy, source of the unhappiness of the, 233.

Barometer, its utility in foretelling storms, 294.
Benevolence, sentiment of, 51, 65, 77.

Blackstone on the laws of nature, 382.

Blindness of the moral sentiments admitted in the bible, 360.

of the intellectual powers admitted by Phrenology, 361.
Bonaparte's mother, a woman of superior talent and courage, 159.
Brahmins, their children naturally superior to those of other Hindoo castes,
150.

Brain the organ of the mind, 120. Necessity of exercising it, 120, et seq.
Its form and qualities transmissible from parents to children, 152, 269,
304, 386. By improving the brain we may improve human character,
324.

Breeding of live stock, 390.

Bridgewater bequest, 19.

Britain too exclusively manufacturing and commercial, 225, 232. Corrup-
tion of her government arising indirectly from the slave trade, 236.
Strictures on her conduct in entering on the American war, 239. Her
national debt the punishment of foolish wars, 243.

Brown, Dr. John, of Haddington, his complaint about the repeal of penal
statutes against witches, 333.

Butler, Bishop, on the government of God, 30. On the supremacy of con-
science, 42. On the extent to which suffering results from our own
conduct, 282.

Caldwell, Dr. Charles, 279, 280.

Causality addressed in the bible, 358.

Cautiousness, 51, 65, 76.

Chalmers, Dr., on the means of human improvement, 100.

Childbirth, pains of, 116, 385.

Children, resemblance of, to their parents, 149, et seq., 386. See Heredi-
tary transmission.

Christianity has proved itself insufficient, while unaided by physical sci-
ence, to produce moral conduct among men, 327. Practical christianity,
how to be realized, 228, 341, 349.

Christians, primitive, charged with atheism and impiety, 322.

Circassian brain, 159.

Clergy, their zeal in persecuting and tormenting witches, 331. Ought
they to teach the natural as well as revealed laws of God? 348. See
Religion.

Clerks, evils arising from a bad choice of, 178.

Combination laws, 222.

Combativeness, 50, 61.

Commercial prosperity and distress, 222, 303, 403.

Comparison, addressed in the bible, 357.

Conscientiousness, 51, 66, 72.

Constitution of man, general view of the, and its relations to external ob-
jects, 1.

Constructiveness, 51, 76.

Conversion, its necessity asserted by Revelation, and admitted by Phren
ology, 365, 366, 369, 370.

of individuals, Phrenological works silent on it, 366, 367.
Cowper on the punishment of the Spaniards for their cruelties in America,
250.

Crime, origin of, 269. How to be prevented, 270.
land, 404.

Criminals, punishment of, 264. Brains of, 269.

Deafness and dumbness hereditary, 149.

Death, 36, 397. A natural institution, 182, 198.

Depravity of the human mind, 324.

Increase of, in Scot-

human, admitted alike by Phrenology and Revelation, 363-365.
Destructiveness, 50, 61, 75.

its activity permitted, and limited in the bible, 356.
Disease, predisposing causes of, 125, et seq. At different ages, 190.
Dogs, acquired habits of, hereditary, 154.

Drunken fathers produce inferior children, 386.

Edinburgh, great fires in, 288.

entific Instruction, 404.

Edinburgh Association for procuring Sci-

Education, Dr. Chalmers on its power to improve the human race, 100.
Utility of, 121. Classical and scientific compared, 205. Scientific,

208. Utility of phrenology in relation to, 336. What it ought to be,
345. State of, in Wurtemberg, 395.

Eggs of hens, 390.

Emancipation of the Negro slaves, 246, 249.

Endowments, original, unequal in men, admitted alike by Phrenology and
Revelation, 372, 373.

Erskine on the laws of nature, 382.

Ebenezer, his account of the despondency of his wife, 139.
Evil. See Miseries.

Excise laws, their oppressive and unjust operation fifty years ago, 237.
Exercise indispensable to happiness, 46, 82, et seq. 119, 226.

Expediency and justice always accordant, 240.

Faculties of man, summary of the, 50, 57, et seq. Compared with each
other, 54. Compared with external objects, 75.

Fall of man, 14, et seq. 184.

Fire, benefits accruing from its proper use, and evils from its misapplica
tion, 256.

Fires in Edinburgh in 1824, causes of, 288.

Firmness, one of the faculties, 51, 80.

addressed in the bible, and its activity limited, 359.

Flint's account of the American Indians, 167.

Food, relation of, to climate, 47.

French Revolution, 243. Philosophers of the, 383.

Friends, faithless, 60.

Friendship, 59, 72.

Future state, 24, 196, 203.

Geology, truths revealed by, 4, 181.
Germany, burning of witches in, 329.
Education in, 395.

Scripture geology, 320.
State of the lower orders in, 394.

Globe, progressively adapted for the reception of man, 4, 181.
God, existence and attributes of, discoverable from his works, 1, 78.
Professor Sedgwick and Bishop Butler on his government, x. 30.
Locke on his benevolence and justice, 107. Principles on which his
laws seem to be instituted, 256.

Government, ought it to interfere with industry? 230.

Gravitation, law of, results of obedience to, and neglect of, 42, 108, 306.
Gregory, Drs. James and John, on the hereditary transmission of mental
qualities, 150.

Happiness, how attainable, 8, 9, 82, 201. Why so little advance has been
made in the pursuit of, 99. Influence of the natural laws on that of
individuals, 305.

Hare, murderer, engraving of his head, 143.

Harmonious gratification of the faculties necessary to happiness, 57, 69,

92.

Harmony between Phrenology and Christianity, 351.

Head, different forms of, 143. See Brain. Phrenology.

Health, prerequisites of, 44, 46, 115.

Hens, their eggs how made to vary in size, 390.

Hereditary transmission of bodily and mental qualities, 117, 148, et seq.
269, 304, 312, 386; and of acquired habits, 154, 388. Advantage of
crossing the breed, 177.

History exhibits man progressively improving, 10, 217.

Honesty the best policy, 242.

Hope, sentiment of, 52, 66, 78.

Human nature. See Man.

Ideality, 52, 66, 78.

Constitution of Man.

addressed in the bible, 358.

Imitation, one of the faculties, 52, 80.

Independence of the natural laws, 21, 34.

Intellectual faculties, 52, 80. Intended to be exercised, 86. Intellectual
laws, 33.

James I. of England, his pusillanimity accounted for, 160.

Johnson, Sanuel, on the evils arising from hasty marriages, 147.

Jury trial in Scotland, errors in the mode of conducting it pointed out,
285.

Justice always in accordance with expediency, 240. Defective adminis-
tration of, 285.

Knowledge, acquisition of, agreeable, 83. Happiness advances with, 102.
Knowledge of science necessary for rightly interpreting Scripture, 317,
et seq.

Labor, man intended for, 46, 226. Evils arising attending its excess, 218,
225, 403.

Lawrence, Mr., on the easy child-births of savages, 386.
Laws of Nature, 27. Three great classes of, 21, 32. Their indepen-
dence, 21, 33. Definition of the term, 28. Obedience to each re-
warded, and neglect punished, 34. Universal, invariable, and unbend-
ing, 35. In harmony with the whole constitution of man, 35. Appli-
cation of, to the practical arrangements of life, 95. Punishment in-
flicted under the, 254. Instituted for the benefit of created beings, 255.
Moral advantages of punishment under them, 280. Their combined
operation, 285. Their influence on the happiness of individuals, 305.
Extracts from authors who have treated of, 381.

Legislation, utility of Phrenology in relation to 337.

Life, love of, 50, 57, 193. Duration of, increasing, 198, 397. Plan of, 95.

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"Love thy neighbor as thyself," 103.

Lyon, Captain, unsuccessful result of his attempt to reach Repulse Bay
traced to its causes, 283.

Machinery, anticipated moral effects from employment of, in manufactures,
226.

Maclaren, Charles, on the diminution of mortality in England, 397.
Malthus's principle of population, 215.

Man, doctrine of the fall of, 13, et seq. Man considered as a physical
being, 42; as an organized being, 44; as an animal, moral, and intel-
lectual being, 49. Intended for activity, 46, 82, 226. Summary of his
mental faculties, 50, 56, et seq. These compared with each other, 54,
and with external objects, 75. A progressive being, 9, 99. Appa-
rently but in the infancy of his existence, 104. Slowness of his pro-
gress, 230.

Manufacturing population, source of miseries of the, 219, 408:
Marriage, 57, 117, 143, et seq.

Miseries arising from neglect of the or
ganic laws in, 173. Prohibited before the age of twenty-five in Wur-
temberg, 396.

Marvellousness, frequently addressed in the bible, 361.

its existence in man proves the benevolence of God, 362.
its existence in inan, shows the justice of the future pun
ishment of unbelievers, 362, 363.
Melancthon, engraving of his head, 145.

Miseries of mankind, how far referrible to infringements of the laws of
nature, 107.

Misery and evil, sources of, particularly mentioned in this work.-Ill-sorted
and too early marriages, 57, 117, 143, 147, 165, 173, 176, 388. Igno-
rance, 99, 127. Breach of the physical laws, 109, 296. Idleness, 124,
233. Filth, and impurity of air, 126. Ignorance of the organic laws,
or physiology, 132, 136, 137, 209, 259. Bad choice of servants, clerks,
partners, and agents, 178, 213. Rash mercantile speculation, 210.
Mistaken choice of a profession, 211. Excess of population, 215. Too
severe and long continued labor, 225. Oscillations of trade and manu-
factures, 232. National selfishness and unjust wars, 235-253. The
slave trade, 236, 247. rors in the mode of conducting Jury trials,
275; and in the proceedings of judges in the Circuit Courts, 287.
Scotch and English hostility, 288. Selfishness in captains of ships, 292.
Montesquieu on the laws of nature, 381.

Moral laws, 21, 33 Calamities arising from their infringement, 198.
Moral nature of man, its supremacy asserted alike by Scripture and
Phrenology, 354, 355, 360.

Moral sentiments and intellect, supremacy of the, 54.

Moral science outstripped by physical, 252.

More, Hannah, on the effects of sickness on the religious character, 141.
Mortality, diminution of, 45, 198, 397.

Moscow, French retreat from, 122.

Murray, Captain, his mode of preserving the health of seamen, 133.

National brains and character, 152, 158, 166.

prosperity, effect of the moral law on, 234.

wars absurd, 240.

debt of Britain the result of her wars, 242.

Natural Laws. See Laws of Nature.

Navigation, dangers of, 213.

Negro slavery, 236, 247.

Nervous energy, 122.

New doctrines often charged with impiety, 322.

New Hollanders, 166.

New Zealanders, their excellent health, 115. Prognosticate storms, 294.

Operatives, causes of their depressed condition, 219, 493.

Opium, benefits accruing from its proper, and evils from its improper use,

259.

Optimism, 4, 37.

Organic laws, 21, 32. Evils that befall mankind from infringing them,
113, 209, 307.

Organized being, man considered as an,

Owen, Mr., 99.

Pain, utility of, 261.

44.

Paley, on the contrivances in creation, 37.

Parliament

reform, 246.

Partners, ev rising from a bad choice of, 178, 214.
Penitentiaries, 8.

Pestilence, 125.

Philoprogenitiveness, 50, 57, 68, 75.

Phrenology, viii. 17, 102, 147, 178, et seq., 198-200, 269, 324.

faculties according to, 50. Practical utility of, 334.

Physical laws, 21, 32. How man may be placed in accordance with them,
42. Calamities arising from their infringement, 108.

Physiology ought to be generally studied, 118.

Plutarch, on the children of drunken parents, 386.

Politics utility of phrenology in relation to,

337.

Population, Malthus's principle of, 215. Increase of, in manufacturing
towns, 218.

Principles, utility of a knowledge of, 130.

Prichard, Dr., on the hereditary descent of bodily peculiarities, 156.
Profession, choice of

a, 211.

Propagation, laws of, 113, et seq. 148, et seq. Advantage of crossing
the breed, 177. See Hereditary Transmission.

Propensities, activity permitted to them, and its limits prescribed by
Scripture, 356.

of
Moral adran-

Punishment for breach of the natural laws, 254. Punishment inflicted by
the lower animals compared with that inflicted by man, 263, et seq.
criminals, ib. Flogging, the treadmill, executions, 271.
tages of punishment, 280.

future, of unbelievers, admitted to be just, and proved so, by
Phrenology, 362, 363.

Reform of Parliament, 246.

Religion and religious opinions, 23, 37, 96, 139-142, 228, 281, 317, 338,
340. See Clergy. Revelation. Scripture.

Remorse, its occurrence after offences, how reconcilable with benevolence,

79.

Responsibility, various, admitted alike by Phrenology and Revelation,
373, 374.

Retirement from business generally followed by unhappiness, 124.
Revelation, 38. Cannot be at variance with true science, 323.

its necessity, to enlighten the intellectual powers, admitted by
Phrenology, 361.

its truths, the stimuli of the moral sentiments, 367–369.
Right and wrong, natural distinction between, 276.

Royal families, degeneracy of, 159, 177.

Safety-lamp, 128.

Savages, easy child-births among, 385.

Science, physical, has far outstripped moral, 252. Relation between sci-
ence and scripture, 317. Progress of scientific discovery, 104.
Scotland, persecution of witches in, 331. Increase of crime in, 404.
Scripture, interpretation of, 15, 23. A knowledge of science necessary for
correctly interpreting it, 317, et seq Its meaning appears different to
different minds, 338.