O.S. Fowler on temperance, founded on phrenology and physiology, or, The laws of life, and the principles of the human constitution, as developed by the sciences of phrenology and physiology, applied to total abstinence from all alcoholic and intoxicating drinks / by O.S. Fowler.

  • Fowler, O. S. (Orson Squire), 1809-1887.
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©1842, 1844
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Credit: O.S. Fowler on temperance, founded on phrenology and physiology, or, The laws of life, and the principles of the human constitution, as developed by the sciences of phrenology and physiology, applied to total abstinence from all alcoholic and intoxicating drinks / by O.S. Fowler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PHRENOLOGY APPLIED TO THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE MEMORY, AND THE INTEL¬ LECTUAL EDUCATION OF CHILDREN. If to know a simple, if not the only, method of materially improving the Memory — if to exchange forg’etfulness for that clearness and retentiveness of Memory, which will enable its possessor to recall all the knowledge ever acquired; if to pre¬ sent as it were in a mirror of the mind, the only successful method of conducting infantile and juvenile education, adapted to the laws of intellect or the constitution of the mind; and if to know how to place intellect upon the throne, and bring out the mind of man in all the power and glory of its primative creation—be im¬ portant, then is the subject matter of this Work ALL-important. This Work is adapted to the eome-at-U-at-once disposition of our age and nation, and conducted on the multum-in-parvo principle. Unlike the English and Germans, who are willing to prose through consecutive propositions to their ultimate conclusions, Americans -equire to jump right into the middle of conclusions at one leap. Hence, the Author has published, in this detached form, that por¬ tion of his Work on “ Phrenology applied to Education and Self- Improvement” which relates to the Cultivation of the Memory, and to the intellectual Education of the Young. To appreciate the full force of the views presented in this Work, what precedes it in the other, should be studied first, and if this iso¬ lated portion of it affords pleasure or profit, the perusal of the whole of that Work will afford still more. The subjects presented in it, previous to this, are,u Physical Education,” or the value of health and the means of preserving and regaining it; balance of faculties, as constituting perfection of character; facts showing that the size of the organs, and the power of their faculties, can be increased by exercise, and diminished by inaction, and this balance thereby se¬ cured ; and- the analysis of each faculty, with special directions for stimulating and strengthening those that are deficient, and for sub¬ duing and restraining those that are too strong, not only in children, but also in every one for himself. No subject is equally important with the improvement of the mind, and Phrenology shows just what to do in order to secure this improvement; that is, it shows parents and teachers how to conduct the moral training and government of children, as well as their intellectual cultivation, and teaches all, especially the young, how to restrain defects, and form their own CHARACTERS.