Usually or occasionally did, and was always occasionally doing, rather than upon the basis of what we took it for granted the Deity It would have been wiser, it would have been safer to classify, (if classify we must), upon the basis of what man Preconceived destiny of man, and upon the ground of the objects of his Creator. Or upon the whole, have but followed, in principle, the footsteps of their predecessors deducing and establishing every thing from the And in these arrangements of the principia of human action, the Spurzheimites, whether right or wrong, in part, With constructiveness, - so, in short, with every organ, whether representing a propensity, a moral sentiment, or a faculty of the And so with combativeness, with ideality, with causality, Should continue his species, we discovered an organ of amativeness, forthwith. Secondly, having settled it to be God's will that man Then assigned to man an organ of alimentiveness, and this organ is the scourge with which the Deity compels man, will-I nill-I, intoĮating. Matter of phrenology, for example, we first determined, naturally enough, that it was the design of the Deity that man should eat. Thus fathomed, to his satisfaction, the intentions of Jehovah, out of these intentions he built his innumerable systems of mind. Logical man, rather than the understanding or observant man, set himself to imagine designs - to dictate purposes to God. It cannot beĭenied that phrenology and, in great measure, all metaphysicianism, have been concocted à priori. Understand, that is to say, we could not have understood, had the notion of this primum mobile ever obtruded itself - weĬould not have understood in what manner it might be made to further the objects of humanity, either temporal or eternal. We saw no need of the impulse - for the propensity. The idea of it has never occurred to us, simply because of its Whether it be faith in Revelation, or faith in the Kabbala. ![]() We have suffered its existence to escape our senses, solely through want of belief - of faith. ![]() Irreducible sentiment, has been equally overlooked by all the moralists who have preceded them. The human soul, the phrenologists have failed to make room for a propensity which, although obviously existing as a radical, primitive, I N the consideration of the faculties and impulses - of the prima mobilia of
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