agitations connected with our civil war, to mitigate some of
its social and political evils.

Of late, however, an urgent and imperative sense of duty has put my
pen in motion as the remnant of my life will be hardly sufficient to
record the results of my investigations.

In the "New Education" and the "Manual of Psychometry--the dawn of a
new civilization"--I have appealed to the public, and three editions
of the former with two of the latter show that the public is not
indifferent. The recognition of the marvellous claims of Psychometry
will prepare the way for the supreme science of Anthropology, to which
the coming century will do justice.

In justice to the learned Prof. Caldwell and myself, I should not omit
to mention that this distinguished, eloquent, and venerable gentleman,
who, in his early life, was a cotemporary of the famous Dr. Rush, of
Philadelphia, and throughout his life was a champion of the most
progressive doctrines in Biology, not only gave his friendly
co-operation on the first presentation of my discoveries, but ten
years later honored me with a visit at Cincinnati, to become more
fully acquainted with them, and subsequently, by appointment of the
National Medical Association, prepared a report upon subjects of a
kindred nature, in which he incorporated a statement of my
discoveries. His subsequent illness and death, in 1854, at an advanced
age, prevented the delivery of this memoir.

In signal contrast to the honorable and candid course of Prof.
CALDWELL, and to the candid examination, followed by eulogistic
language of Prof. H. P. GATCHELL, ROBERT DALE OWEN, President
ANDREW WYLIE, Rev. JOHN PIERPONT, Dr. SAMUEL FORRY, Prof. WM.
DENTON, the eloquent Judge ROWAN, and a score of other eminently
intellectual men, it is my duty to record the melancholy fact
that the great majority of professional men, when tested, have
manifested an entire apathy, if not a positive aversion, to the
investigations and discoveries in which these momentous results
have been reached. While no aversion, disrespect, or suspicion
was shown toward myself, a stubborn aversion was shown to
investigations that might have revolutionary results--proving
that our false systems of education teach men not to think
independently, but to adhere closely to precedent authority,
fashion, popularity, and _habit_, which is the inertia of the
mental world.

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