Anthroponomy, or, Magneto-physiognomico-craniology : a new system on the magnetic constitution of man, as expressed by physiognomy blended with craniology and maintained by moral and physical hygiene, according to the rules of physiology, therapeutics, metaphysics, and present experience, improved from the systems of Messmer, Puységur, Gall, Lavater, Spurzheim, etc., and as established / by J.D.L. Zender.

  • Zender, J. D. L. (Joachim Denis Laurent), 1805-
Date:
1863
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Credit: Anthroponomy, or, Magneto-physiognomico-craniology : a new system on the magnetic constitution of man, as expressed by physiognomy blended with craniology and maintained by moral and physical hygiene, according to the rules of physiology, therapeutics, metaphysics, and present experience, improved from the systems of Messmer, Puységur, Gall, Lavater, Spurzheim, etc., and as established / by J.D.L. Zender. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Then, a oIom and continual exercise of aiy of the faculties (or cranioU> gical organs) performed unduly is a disordered want, and becomes a passion. There are three kinds of passions. merchants. The force of money, we may say, rules society thro ogh all its members generally, and it produces assamptior, pride, aristo- cratioal spirit, and love of those honors and distinctions which belong only to virtue and talent. Pride the abuse of self esteem (No. 13 of Craniologyj, is the greatest disturber of rights and peace among men. Sensual pleasures are abused according to the exposition of oar theory, (see the two principal organs of sensuality, alimeuti veness No. 2, and amativeneas No. 9.) and degrade humanity on a level with the brute. The second evil above mentioned is the tacit sanction of abases from the officers of the government especially in a Republic ; that evil is the consequence of the first abuse. Cupidity and sensual pleasure in the chiefs of a government make them unfaithful to their duties, in the administration of justice, they give a bad example to their families and societies .' the result is bribery in votes and exag- gerated ideas of liberty, for want of a proper definition of it. As regard to voting, there ought to be only one poll for all parties, and a neutral person to receive the tickets; So that no bystander knows the choice of any voter, in order to avoid quarrels ; and no one ought to vote who has no education, no morality, and who lives under tutel- age, etc. As regard to exaggerated ideas of liberty, many children in minority by reading newspapers inform themselves of all the scandals of society, and unfortunately do not find any food adapted to their position, on obedi- ence, modesty and submission to their parents ; so they think they are aa much as men, and then form militia bands, political associations, game clubs, or parties of their own, without the advice of moral parents; forget- ting that they ought to be presided by senior persons whose instructions they are in need of. Parents ought not to separate ages in amusements, and exclude their children from their own amusements, or themselves from their children's amusements, in order to teach them how to play with modesty, nor to allow daughters to walk seperately with a young man, as these abuses create a flirting which degenerates in perversity. All passions will always increase by habits. Prostitution when k comes in the last stage, for girls is worse in America than in Europe, for want of not being regulated by visitors as in France; it undermines the general health of the country, by bringing bad diseases into so many families . Such is the result of a false liberty. Is there any absolute liberty t No. Liberty is only relative, it is the faculty of doing whatever we please, except what is against the laws, against the morals, against the right of others that we have to recognize and re- spect, or against the advice and instruction of parents for minors; we are linked to each other by so many various relative duties, that we •re not free from those duties, and children must be taught that those that obey tho best are the best commanders hereafter, and at kst