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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    is only finite. Now ilie soul of man has been popularly taken into two meanings; as an intelligent substance and as a living principle. In the (/ first place ihe soul is a spiritual, simple substance, a breath or an eman- ation from God, Gen. 1; '20, and 2; 7, St. Paul culls it a spiritual , i body, alter it lias lelt the physical body, 1 Cor. 15; 44; and as a [ / living principle it may be defined ; au ndic and electric organizatinr atoms giving rise and growth to an aggregate of tissues, com \ ;' to all annual* of any kind, but diversely modified among them, a. M which serves as a link of communication between the soul and the body. The soul atiects the body and is afire!ed by it, through the link of an odic and electro nervous system, (like electricity which is the nervous system of the world.) The soul is present to the body and chiefly to ; /, the bruin. It possesses two (acuities, the understanding and the will, alias the mind and the heart. The Body is a material, extended, divisible substance made up of di- Yers primary elements. It is endowed with a two-fold life, viz : the veg- etative, nutritive, organic or interior life residing iu the viscera, (the stomach being the principal organ, and among the least animated beings the sole organ to maintaiii ibat hle^. The oilier life residing in the i-' braiu is called the animal sensitive or exterior life, (the external senses ^ y^ with iheir nervous system being ihe princij al organs to maintain that life in all animalsj. The conjunction ol ihe soul with the body makes man possess a third life called the intellectual, moral or spiritual life of the soul through the body.) in study with itsell and in contemplation with its Creator. All impressions from the external world going through the senses of the body atl'ect the brain, that is, are daguerreotyped in it, and are called sensations. Those sensations like the food in the stomach, are elaborated in the brain. The understanding peiceives and observes those lhat belong to it, and reacts by reflection upon them; ttie rest that belong to the satsfaction of ihe body, remain under the control of the will with the names of feelings, because they prompt the soul to action, with or without liberty, lhat is with or without the approbation of the understanding. Those feelings Ibrm the power of the will as we will see hereafter, that has so much influence over the body. In order to excite lhat three-fold life above mentioned, the Almighty t Maker bad previously given hiajiat and the Lvx, Light or Electricity J^~* was made Tliai primary light, the first created being, nothing else but electricity, or the electro magnetic caloric, is the cause of all ihe phenomena of the universe, the principle lhat explains motion, vitality, magnetism, absorp- tion, expansion, heat, galvanism, gravitation, cohesion, attraction and repulsion. The electrical force works by polarized currents, like atom- ic molecules, penetrating ihe moleculoe of matter, it pervades alt substan- ces, establishing harmony among them and among their integrant parts. Indeed we see in man all the phenomena of electricity or to spewk technically the most complicated galvanic battery. Tiose material molecules have all a centrifugal tendency, that is, a ( fugacious lorce or impulsion which would make them move onward forever, were it not tor a contrary force or centripetal tendency in the atomic or electric moleculoe which absorbs the material moleculoe, and forces it to a rotation upon its axis. Hence the two contrary forces are called : absorption and expansion—or; absorbing force of the elec-