writer of this treatise
took every opportunity, afforded him by the kindness of its generous
owner, to study the contents of this rare collection; and, after
having studied it with assiduous care, he is bound to say that out of
the hundred thousand facts which it contained, not one could be
pointed out that did not testify to the never-failing agreement of
particular parts or organs of the brain, with certain independent,
elementary faculties, according to the laws discovered by Gall.

"It is with the view of demonstrating the stability and
unchangeableness of those laws that the composition of this treatise
has been undertaken; in order to excite in its regard such a degree of
attention as will tend to awaken it from the state of inauspicious
somnolency in which it has for some years lain prostrate. But,
strongly impressed with a conviction of the importance of the subject,
and fully alive to the difficulty of treating it, the writer cannot
help being crossed by fears for the success of this attempt. Relying,
however, upon the solidity of the foundation upon which his subject
rests, and surveying the vast store of accumulated materials which
have, for more than thirty years, been constantly passing through his
hands, and the facts which are now strewn before him in whatever
society he may be placed, he would fain hope that even his humble
abilities will enable him to make such a selection of incontrovertible
facts as will place beyond a doubt the possibility of determining the
innate talents and dispositions of any one by making a skilful survey
of the head; and, should he succeed in merely raising a more general
spirit of active inquiry in regard to the nature of the evidence
adduced, and the deductions drawn from it by phrenologists, than at
present exists, he will have reaped a fair reward for his efforts, for
he has long been thoroughly convinced that a strict and faithful
examination of the facts which bear upon the case is alone requisite
for converting the incredulous scoffer into the zealous advocate."

Having thus vindicated the claims of the great pioneer in philosophy,
our next issue will show the limitations of his discoveries, and give
an outline of the new and all-comprehensive Anthropology.

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THERAPEUTIC SARCOGNOMY.--The publication of this work has
been laid aside to introduce the JOURNAL OF MAN. It will appear
during the present year, but not in a cheap abri