Phrenology, in connexion with the study of physiognomy : illustration of characters / by J.G. Spurzheim.

  • Johann Spurzheim
Date:
1833
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Credit: Phrenology, in connexion with the study of physiognomy : illustration of characters / by J.G. Spurzheim. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    This model of christian piety found the inhab- itants of his parish, isolated in five different vil- lages, poor, ignorant, agitated by henious pas- sions, and without the most necessary means of comfortable existence. But by laboring unremit- tingly he, by degrees, succeeded in changing their wretched condition. He taught them to cultivate potatoes, flax, and such vegetables as succeeded best in light and sandy soils. He laid out a nursery, in order to supply the peasants with trees of va- rious kinds, and shewed them the advantages they would reap by attending to their cultivation. He gave instructions to the children himself, teach- ing the younger to read, write, and calculate; while he lectured to the more advanced in age, upon the cultivation of fruit-trees, the principles of agricul- ture, and the noxious and useful qualities of the plants which the country produced. He particu- larly accustomed them to order and cleanliness. The good pastor, with his parishioners at his back, actually worked at the formation of conven- ient ways from one village to another, and of a good and ready communication with the great road leading to Strasburg. To this city he sent children to become artisans, such as tailors, shoe- makers, smiths, and carpenters, a female to learn midwifery, and a promising youth to study medi- cine and surgery. He himself had some knowl- edge of the healing art, used the lancet in cases of necessity, and preserved the most necessary