![]() In the matter of Phrenology, for example, we first determined, naturally enough, that it was the design of Deity that man should eat. Having thus fathomed to his satisfaction the intentions of Jehovah, out of these intentions he reared his innumerable systems of Mind. The intellectual or logical man, rather than the understanding or observant man, set himself to imagine designs - to dictate purposes to God. It cannot be denied that all metaphysicianism has been concocted à priori. We could not understand - that is to say, we could not have understood, had the notion of this primum mobile ever obtruded itself - in what manner it might be made to further the objects of humanity, either temporal or eternal. We saw no need for the propensity in question. Its idea has not occurred to us, simply because of its seeming supererogation. ![]() We have suffered its existence to escape our senses solely through want of belief - of faith - whether it be faith in Revelation or faith in the inner teachings of the spirit. ![]() In the pure arrogance of the reason we have all overlooked it. In the consideration of the faculties and impulses - of the prima mobilia of the human soul, the phrenologists have failed to make room for a propensity which, although obviously existing as a radical, primitive, irreducible sentiment, has been equally overlooked by all the moralists who have preceded them. ![]()
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