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  Among the other errors which Phrenology will one day, I
trust, be instrumental in removing, is that of excluding religious
instruction from our public schools. Speculative theology has
been confounded with religious feeling and duty, and, under a
government like our own, where there is perfect freedom of
belief, and where there is no established religion,-it would be
better to say no established form of theology,-the introduction
of religious culture into public seminaries of education is
thought to be impracticable. It is supposed to be incompatible
with the equality of right, and liberty of conscience in matters
of faith, so much vaunted amongst us. I think the true science
of mind shows this to be all wrong. There are many systems
of theology,-those of Christian theology are nearly as nume-
rous as are the saints in the Catholic's calendar,-but there is
only one religion. Whatever be the form whichi this Angel
Spirit may assume,-whatever be the drapery which it wears,
-still is it the same celestial visitant, fitting the soul of man
alike for the performance of its duties on the earth, and for the
fruition of its hopes in heaven,-its strength, its solace and its
ornament. And this religion ought to be made a matter of
universal and efficient culture. Could the religious and moral
powers,-could benevolence, conscientiousness, niarvellotusness,
hope, veneration, and ideality, be only so far systematically
and generally educated, as is the intellect of this nation, an
advancement would be made in public order, happiness, and
prosperity, such as the wildest dreamers about human perfecti-
bility have hardly imagined.
  A great deal of that philosophy,-so lofty, and beautiful, and
pure,-called, oftentimes tauntingly and with a sneer, transcen-
dentalism, or mysticism,-so much of it, at least, as is destined
to live,-is no more nor less than true philosophical Phrenology.
And, although the assertion may seem strange enough, it is,
nevertheless, I believe, strictly true, that this very philosophy,
so mystical and transcendental, is a matter of easiest compre-
hension. Its essence consists simply in giving to the higher
sentiments of which I have been speaking that rightful su-