324 NOTICES. LONDON. We have been favoured with an interesting notice of the proceedings of the London Phrenological Society, which is printed in this Number; we solicit similar reports from all phrenological societies, that we may be able to record the progress of the science. Mr James de Ville continues his exertions unabated in adding to his collection of casts, and diffusing a knowledge of the science. His gallery in the Strand is a place of fashionable resort,-the Duke of Wellington lately solicited and obtained a private demonstration from Mr De Ville. Dr SPURZHEIM arrived in London in the end of January, and is occupied in bringing out additional publications, and lecturing. He is now delivering lectures in the LONDON IN STITUTION: his auditors are so numerous, that there is not room enough on the benches to sit, at least a hundred persons are occasionally standing; and among them are many who would hesitate to attend his private courses. He delivers also a private course in the evening; but the attendance is less numerous than last year, owing to the overflow at the Institution. Dr S., in lecturing in the Institution, greatly extends a knowledge of the science, but generously sacrifices his private interest; for the Institution, after paying the lecturer a moderate fee, draws the surplus profits arising from the sale of tickets. The newspapers, in reporting Dr S.'s lectures, no longer disgrace themselves by paltry jokes, but treat the subject Dr S. intends to lecture in Dublin in May, if it is in as a science. his power to do so. EDINBURGH.-Sir William Hamilton has not yet published his essay against Phrenology read in the Royal Society. We trust he The interest of will redeem his pledge, and bring it forward soon. the science has been amply supported in the public mind in Edinburgh this season; in private parties it has been a ceaseless topic of discussion, and we are in possession of some curious anecdotes of individuals beginning to read the works, and even submitting their heads to Phrenologists for examination, who till lately could not hear the subject mentioned without indignation against its supposed absurdities. It is certain that the diffusion of the science among the ladies, who have attended two popular courses of lectures by Mr Combe, has produced a decided effect in exciting many to study. Mr Combe concluded his second popular course on Tuesday, 14th, and the following notice of a compliment then paid to him appeared in the Courant newspaper of 20th March: POPULAR LECTURES." Dr Hope's Lectures on Chemistry, "given to ladies within the walls of the University, may justly be "regarded as an era in the history of science. Their perfect sucthe undoubted benefits which they confer on the other sex, " and the evident interest taken in them generally, make it abun dantly certain that the system will be continued; and followed, as " cess, 66 66 "it has already been, by a similar announcement on the part of the "professor of Botany, and by rumours of others from the classes of "natural and moral philosophy, and, we hope, of natural and civil history, it will speedily cause a striking change in the character of our country. Mr Brougham described the mechanics' institutions "as planting a spur in the toe of the lower orders, whereby they pushed forward the upper ranks. Popular institutions will furnish "the other sex with a similar power over ours; and the day is not "far distant, if they prosper, when the poor frivolity of drawingroom conversation will be replaced by a more respectable and not "less pleasing intercourse, and when the rational human nature of "both sexes, differing as it does in each, and yet finely adapted by "both to their mutual wants, will be brought into full play in all "the varied circumstances of life. Dr Hope thus has the merit of giving the weight of a university name to this beautiful improve "ment in education. But it is due to another individual here, "who, though not in the university, is highly esteemed as a teacher, "to say, that he was the first to venture upon it, though not merely exposed to the ridicule from which Dr Hope has suffered; but having already experienced it with reference to the department of "knowledge which he prosecutes. We mean Mr George Combe, "who has now for two years delivered popular courses of lectures to "large audiences, and who from the first invited ladies to attend "them. He completed his course on Tuesday last, and was pre"sented, at the conclusion of the lecture, by the ladies who attend "ed it, with a massive silver case, containing Calliper Compasses of "the same metal, accompanied with a letter, in which they 'ex press the sense they entertained of Mr Combe's kindness in agree "❝ing to give a course of public instruction on an interesting sub'ject, to which they have had access; and regarding him as being "the first resident lecturer who has done this substantial benefit to "their sex, they add, that he is well entitled to receive the first "tribute due to such exertions.' The case and instruments, pre"sented with the letter, are made by Mr James Howden, and are of "very beautiful workmanship." We hear that in the Juvenile Literary and Philosophical Societies in Edinburgh, Phrenology is now so ably and zealously de fended, that opposition to it is no longer a creditable vocation. UNITED STATES.-A number of medical and other gentlemen have lately united in the formation of a society in the city of Washington, for the promotion of Phrenological studies. Among their members they have already enrolled Mr Wirt, attorney-general, and Dr Lovell, surgeon-general, of the United States. We beg to request our correspondents, especially beyond the Atlantic, in transmitting papers and pamphlets, to make them up into a parcel, and, if possible, to get them sent from the port at which they are landed to us, by a stage-coach or public carrier. It seems not to be known there, that in England letters are charged by weight, and we have, in some instances, paid L.1, 5s. Sterling of postage for a packet from Liverpool to Edinburgh, which would have been delivered by a coach or carrier for half-a-crown. Our friend Dr G. D. Cameron, 4, Great George Street, Liverpool, will oblige us by receiving any ship-packets directed for us to that port, and Mr De Ville, 367, Strand, will take charge of any directed to London. Editors of foreign newspapers are respectfully requested to copy this notice. The following articles are prepared, and some of them in types, but we are obliged to defer the publication of them till our next number:-List of the Members of the Phronological Society,-Essay on M'Kaen's Character and Development,-Essay on the Phrenological Theory of Virtue,-Report on Allan's Character and Development,-Essay on the natural Supremacy of the moral Sentiments, -Notice of Master Aspull, the Musical Genius,-Review of Sir George S.Mackenzie's Phrenological Works,-Napoleon and Phrenology, Dr Bailly on the Existence of God and of moral Liberty as proved by Phrenology,-A Notice of Wilderspin on Infant Education, Au Abstract of several Articles contained in the late Numbers of the "Archives Generales de Médécine," viz. 1st, The organ of Language proved by Dissection after Death, and, 2d, on the Application of Phrenology to Medical Jurisprudence. END OF NO X. PRINTED BY OLIVER & BOYD. THE PHRENOLOGICAL JOURNAL. No XI. ARTICLE I. ON THE NATURAL SUPREMACY OF THE MORAL Our readers are now generally acquainted with the several phrenological faculties, their uses, abuses, modes of activity, and the effects of size in the organs upon the manifestations. We subjoin some practical applications of these doctrines. In the first place, let us take a brief retrospective survey of the different faculties, and attend to their relations to outward objects, and their relative dignity in the scale of excellence. The faculties are divided into Propensities common to man with the lower animals, Sentiments common to man with the lower animals, Sentiments proper to man, and Intellect. Every faculty stands in a definite relation to certain external objects; when it is internally active it desires these objects; when they are presented to it, they excite it to activity and delight it with agreeable sensations; and all human happiness and misery is resolvable into the gratification or denial of gratification of one or more of our faculties, including in these the external senses, and all the feelings connected with our bodily frame. The first three faculties, Amativeness, Philoprogenitiveness, and Adhesiveness, or VOL. III.-No XI. 2 A the group of the domestic affections, desire a conjugal partner, offspring, and friends,-the obtaining of these affords them delight, the removal of them occasions pain. But to render an individual happy, the whole faculties must be gratified harmoniously, or at least the gratifications of one or more must not offend any of the others. The animal faculties are all blind in their impulses, and inferior in their nature to the moral and intellectual powers; and hence, if we act in such a manner as to satisfy them to the displeasure of the higher powers, the moment the animal excitement ceases, which, by the nature of the faculties, it will soon do, that instant unhappiness will overtake us. For example, suppose the group of the domestic affections to be highly interested in an individual, and strongly to desire to form an alliance with him, but that the person so loved is improvident and immoral, and altogether an object which the faculties of Self-esteem, Love of Approbation, Benevolence, Veneration, Conscientiousness, and Intellect, if left dispassionately to survey his qualities, could not approve of; then, if an alliance be formed with him under the ungovernable impulses of the lower faculties, bitter days of repentance must necessarily follow when these begin to languish, and the higher faculties receive daily and hourly offence from his qualities. If, on the other hand, the domestic affections are guided by intellect to an object pleasing to the higher powers, then these themselves are gratified, they double the delights afforded by the inferior faculties, and render the enjoyment perma nent. The great distinction between the animal faculties and the powers proper to man is, that the former are all selfish in their desires, while the latter disinterestedly long for the happiness of others. Even the domestic affections, amiable and respectable as they undoubtedly are when combined with the moral feelings, are, in their own nature, purely selfish. The love of children, springing from Philoprogenitiveness, when acting alone, is the same in kind as that of |