The power of the soul over the body : considered in relation to health and morals / by George Moore.

  • George Moore
Date:
1859
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Credit: The power of the soul over the body : considered in relation to health and morals / by George Moore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    EVILS OF POPULAR PHRENOLOGY. \\& dangerous tendency of the popular notions CKr phenology is most evident in the excuses it supplies to those who seek apologies for their moral depravity, and in the impediments it builds up in the way of those inquisitive minds that expect to find in nature a substitute for revelation. Many, convinced of the authority of the Bible, yet seem to see so much of demonstration in this pseudo- science at variance with the declarations of that strong book, that they are constantly hanging in suspense between the ruling faith, in the spiritual origin of thought, and the vacillating persuasion of the material beginning and end of mind. With such persons, morality and Christianity are thus at stake. A thorough, uncompromising, common phrenologist must apologize if he exhibit respect for either divine or human government; since a will that owns no source but in the accidents of a man's organization can have no relation to the law which demands obedience for the common good. What good can there be to a mind unassociated, and indeed not existing, but with the body, except the individual's physical good ] What community
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