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us. They are all pertinent to our argument. They have all
received new elucidation, new value, and new interest from
Phrenology, and they thus tend, in their turn, to establish and
confirm its truth. But the hour, which custom and courtesy
have assigned to lectures and addresses like the present, has, a
good while ago, expired.

GENTLEMEN OF THE BOSTON PHRENOLOGICAL SOCIETY,-
  I should disappoint, I am sure, your feelings, and I should do
wrong to my own, were I now to close this Address, in any
other than a few words of allusion to the departed sage and
philosopher, the anniversary of whose birth we this night com-
memorate. I am not here to relate the incidents of his life. I
am not here to delineate his lofty and harmonious character.
It was not given to me to be one of that favored company, that
"fit audience, though few," who here drank in the eloquent
lessons of truth and wisdom, and good wvill to men, which fell
from his living lips. But, in common with you, did I hail his
arrival on our shores with no ordinary emotions of gratification
and delight;-in common with you, did I feel as though a
friend had been laid in the grave. when I heard of his sudden
death. Worthy was his life of that divine philosophy whose
disciple and expositor he was. Worthily did he fulfil the great
mission upon which he came,-to reveal to humanity its true
nature,-to vindicate its true nobleness,-to clear away its
blindness,-to rebuke its waywardness and folly,-to teach it
its best good,-to call it to its highest happiness,-to reclaim it
from its wanderings,-to lead it into paths of pleasantness and
peace,-to enlighten it, to elevate, and adorn. Single-hearted
seeker after truth,-Lover of all human excellence and good,-
Compassionate mourner over all human perversity and ill,-
Friend and benefactor of men,-Peace be to thy ashes! They
have spread a new and perpetual sanctity over that beautiful
place of the dead, where they rest.