age requires that parents, and especially mothers, should be enlightened, that they may judiciously bestow that care and attention upon their offspring, which will assist to make them, not only sources of true comfort to the parent, but enlightened and virtuous members of the community. The science of Anthropology, embracing as it does all that belongs to the human character, should be peculiarly the study of mothers. Then will physical, moral, and intellectual education be commenced as it should be, and the foundation laid for that great improvement in our race, which must precede the universal adoption of the Christian religion. The organ was large in Burns and Sheridan.

IV. - ADHESIVENESS.

Innateness and analysis of the feeling. Man is universally admitted to be a social being. We associate in society, form parties in politics, and unite in social worship. We form friendships, and attach ourselves to parents, and kindred, and also to favorite animals, to favorite instruments, and to favorite pursuits. These attachments are not transient, but lasting. Phrenologists claim this to arise from a peculiar and distinct feeling. And in so doing, they agree with common language and common opinion. Friendship and habit have been the standing and hacknied themes of the moralist and poet, from the earliest period of our literature. The feeling is stronger in some than in others. It is manifested more strongly in children than in the aged. It gives constancy to the marriage relation. It is usually stronger in the female than in the male. In some brute animals it is strong; others are solitary and dissocial.

Existence and location of the organ. - The organ of this feeling is located a little upward and outward of that of philoprogenitiveness. When large, it will appear as a circular protuberance, a little clipped on the border of philoprogenitiveness. Dr. Gall was the fortunate discoverer of the organ; and facts are easily collected by which any one may be satisfied of its existence and location. It was some time before I readily recognised it on examination of heads, but of late have found no difficulty. In children the feeling is quite strong, and the organ is frequently decidedly marked. On female heads, also, it often appears large. In hundreds of instances I have found a large organ of adhesiveness on the the heads of persons, remarkable for their social feelings and personal attachments. I noticed it so large on the head of a gentleman, as to be seen easily notwithstanding a thick head of hair. He had recently lost his wife; and he said he would sooner part with all his estate than with a picture of her. Such is the strength of his attachments. I will not multiply facts, because every one can find them for himself, by the examination of the heads of children remarkable for attachment to parents and others.

Its uses. The exercise of this feeling seems more necessary to personal enjoyment than any other; it also forms the basis of the social compact, and of every social virtue. To some, protracted solitary imprisonment would be more terrible than death; and solitude has sometimes been the cause of derangement. Those, who are most solitary, fasten their attachments upon something,they have the object of their devotion, a book or a domestic animal. "Woman's whole life," says Irving, " is a history of the affections. The heart is her world;

She

it is there her ambition seeks for hidden treasures. embarks her whole soul in the traffic of affection; and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless, for it is a bankruptcy of the heart."

Its abuses are manifested in our attachments to unworthy objects, and, from its force, being led to adhere to an unworthy cause.

Natural language. The natural language of this feeling is manifested by throwing the head back without elevating it. If the object of attachment be at the side, the head will be involuntarily inclined towards it, and friends will be locked arm in arm. Other demonstrations are so common, as to make any further description unnecessary. Joining of hands has always been an emblem of friendship.

V. - INHABITIVENESS.

Its innateness and analysis. Most people, I believe, experience a pain, when transplanted from their native soil, from the home of their childhood, which has something in it far more deep and lasting, than what is occasioned by merely severing parental and other attachments. A sense of desolation comes over the soul, and sickens the heart. We are indeed so constituted as to feel a peculiar attachment to our fireside, our room, our house, our neighbourhood, our town, our state, and our country. This is the first ingredient of patriotism. It is indeed more felt when wounded than when gratified. As a peculiar instinct, it is more easily recognised in the malady of home-sickness, than in its most perfect enjoyment. The innateness of the feeling is proved from the difference of individuals in regard to it. Some are indifferent

to place; others are extremely attached to home, and never feel easy without one. I saw an insane person at the Retreat for the Insane in Hartford, who has wandered the world over, and is uneasy in any place; he was almost destitute of the feeling, and the organ was much depressed. I know a boy, who has the organ large, and he cannot be prevailed upon to leave his home. Like philoprogenitiveness, it is larger in the female than in the male. The organ is situated directly above philoprogenitiveness, and is one of the least of the domestic feelings. Uses.

-It seems to be necessary that we should have such a distinct feeling, in order that every clime should be inhabited, and that the inhabitants should be attached to their own place.

"The shuddering tenant of the frigid zone
Boldly proclaims that happiest spot his own,
Extols the treasures of his stormy seas,
And his long nights of revelry and ease.
The naked negro, panting at the line,
Boasts of his golden sands and palmy wine,
Basks in the glare, or stems the tepid wave,
And thanks his gods for all the good they gave.
Such is the patriot's boast where'er we roam,
The first, best country ever is at home."

CAMPBELL.

Like the other domestic feelings, this has an indirect power as a propelling principle. In aid of acquisitiveness, it leads to the accumulation of a fortune abroad, that it may be enjoyed in some favored spot called home. How many enterprising young men go to foreign countries to acquire wealth, in secret hope to return in a few years to the home of their fathers, and there, with a companion, enjoy the group of domestic affections.

I have not been able to find facts, which lead me fully to adopt the doctrine of Mr. Combe, in attributing to this feeling the power of concentrativeness, or of maintaining in simultaneous and combined activity two or more faculties, so that they may be directed towards one object.* Doubtless some instinct in the brute creation, analogous to this propensity, inclines animals to live in some particular location. Some seek the water from the first moment of their existence. Others prefer elevated and mountainous regions some the plain, and some the marsh. Some birds build their nests and seek rest on the tops, and others in the holes of trees.

Analysis. I think it will not be doubted but that opposition, contention, sparring, and fighting have characterized the human species in every period of their history. The records of the past abound in the accounts of the activity of this feeling, as manifested by individuals, by parties, and by tribes and nations. Animals indicate the same spirit in their contentions for mastery.

* I am acquainted with a gentleman in Maine, in whom the organ is remarkably large. He is himself an ardent phrenologist, and has attended to his own consciousness and natural language for several years, in reference to this organ. As an extemporaneous speaker, he has uncommon readiness, and can summon all his energies instantly, and when engaged is addicted to dwelling very long on every topic - even to repetition. His manner is to run his hand through his hair in the region of the organ when engaged in thought. I would remark that his perceptive organs in general, and his comparison are large. This, together with an active temperament, would doubtless do much to account for his readiness and fulness of illustration.