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                       " Apart, sat on a hill retired,
               In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high
               Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate;
               Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute;
               And found no end in wandering mazes lost.
               -Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy."

   Phrenology, by demonstrating the primary faculties of the
 mind, and their relations, first rendered intelligible the infinite
 variety of thought and action in individuals. Extending the
 same principles from the individual to the race,-from the one
 person, thinking and acting to-day, to the many hundreds or
 millions of like persons, thinking and acting at any time, and at
 all times, in the past, it solves the riddle of history, it interprets
 the great events of time. Beautifully unfolding itself in the
 process of this interpretation, shall we find, everywhere, Law.
 Chance disappears, and we see that, throughout'all that multi-
 tudinous thought and action of humanity, constituting its his-
 tory,-in all its fightings, from the first fratricide down to the
 battle of Waterloo,-in all its art,-in all its literatuire,-in its
 religion,-in its laws,-in its politics,-in its love, and in its hate,
 -in its wisdom, and in its perversity,-in its migrations, in
 its conquests, in its discoveries,-in the mutations of empires,
 as truly as in the phases of individual life,-is there nothing
 fortuitous, nothing accidental, nothing anomalous. We have
 only to apply to all this the true principles of human nature,
 as they are now expounded by Phrenology, and its obscurity is
 dissipated, its apparent contradictions are reconciled, the seem-
 ingly inextricable confusion in which its elements are mingled
 is cleared up. As the sea,-alike in its vast aggregate, and its
 every atom,-alike in its rest and in its wrath,-is still subject
 to the laws of gravity and motion, so is the great tide,-as it
 has been called,-of human affairs,-in its ebb, and in its flow,-
 in its agitation, and in its repose,-obedient, ever, to the few
 and simple laws which God has impressed upon it.
 One result of this method of investigating the past will be a
 conviction, clearer and stronger than we can, in any other way,
attain, that all Form is created and moulded by Spirit ;-that