Lectures on man: being a series of discourses on phrenology and physiology / Delivered by Professor L.N. Fowler in Great Britain.
- Lorenzo N. Fowler
- Date:
- 1886
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Lectures on man: being a series of discourses on phrenology and physiology / Delivered by Professor L.N. Fowler in Great Britain. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![You plainly perceive that some remember by seeing, others by thinking, each according to his organization. Lavater had great per- ceptive faculties, and remembered what he saw. His valuable work is filled with the results of his extensive observations. Daniel Webster remembered thoughts, ideas, and words, because his mind was not only stored with facts, but he had a large and comprehensive brain. One way to cultivate the memory is to travel and become acquainted with the external world. If your child is deficient in the perceptive faculties, let him go abroad and see different countries. He will thereby accumulate a fund of information which will be a substantial basis for his philosophy. It is in vain to expect that a child will remember, unless he has the organization expressly adapted for memory, without special cultivation of those powers of the mind, in which he is deficient. The weaker faculties should be strengthened by exercise. It was wisdom in Prince Albert to prescribe an extensive tour of travelling for the Prince of Wales. He has more of the observing than reason- ing intellect; and by the course of education which has been adopted for him, his practical talents have been developed, which will lay a good foundation for the exercise of his reasoning faculties and judgment in after years. The mind should be developed according to its peculiar requirements. Some need one kind of stimulus, while others want a different training. Each should strive to discover his or her neces- sities, and supply the deficiency. The advantages of a good memory are too great to allow this subject to be neglected, and every collateral aid should be welcomed in order to develope the mind, so that it can be a lasting treasure-house in which useful knowledge may be stored. The world around and about us is so full of individual objects, that we have only to open our eyes to see at every hand the wonders of creation. But how many are there, who, having eyes, see not; having ears, hear not. The faculties of the mind should continue vigorous as long as life lasts. The reason why memory fails in old age, is, that the body loses its power and efficiency, health is gone, the person ceases to observe as in his youth ; hence, the cerebra] organs have not as great activity. The great lesson of life should be to discipline the mind and bod,y, so that each may be harmoniously developed.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21053029_0137.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
