Works on phrenology, physiology, and kindred subjects / by O.S. Fowler.

  • Orson S. Fowler
Date:
[1877?]
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Credit: Works on phrenology, physiology, and kindred subjects / by O.S. Fowler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    IMPORTANCE OF SIMILARITY ILLUSTRATED. I’J one of her own ? No element of our nature is more powerful or in- veterate than the reversed action of Amativeness and its combinations, t l°!u --mativeness alone could never turn against the opposite sex, yet the other faculties may reverse it even against a husband or wife, the loathing and disgust, the abhorence and hatred engendered thereby b,eht^ld- , fnd ]h,en *he lingering misery of being chained for life to a loathed and hated husband or wife, and shut out from the em- braces of those that are loved, can be known to those only who exne- for^ver ! °Ve1’ ^ & picture’ let the curtains of darkness be drawn But to return to the reason why we should select companions whose developments accord substantially with our own. When Ideality is large in the one and small in the other, the former will be continuallv disgusted and offended with the coarseness and vulgarity of the latter and the absence of taste and gentility, of refinement, personal neatness ?d e?Se ?f1pr°pr!.ety ’ 7hlle the latter, in turn, will be equally dis- pleased with the former s attention to trifles, and preference of the ornamental to the useful. This disparity of tastes JlTcZZtiven^t even rAaeRSed act'on’ a“d Wldens the breach made in their affections till even Adhesiveness and Amativeness may become reversed and bn h one, will gratify both and what d' U happiness. What pleases ihis Sir be Sits SZSa^tu- thing and fearing nothing will see onlv ’ u? 1USband, hoping every him, and be careless continuant t, y- hme and Prosperity before utterly incapable of sympathizme^uf “g lnt° ew difficulties, and be mind which afflicts hfs wife andtven h, 0,r.so°''hln| the gloomy cast of will he continually dreading the effect^ nf h spleased Wlth it; while she him for it, not only without anvTood ? ™prude,nce, and reproving pleasure. She, being timid and iStS?> ,but Wlth his marked dis- w.11 feel very much^n^J rfST^ £ her own shadow, whose care she may feel safe vet „ n i ?ai®fu1’ judicious husband, in Prudent hn,b,„d/X L,S‘J L m f?Ct> in the hm<is »f ™ to- continually expofL h„ t, lLk%Sg ?'lt.of <,a”S'r. will lx real and imaginary dangers ^ ^htemng her with both bright side of every prospect • f/ be, c°ntii.ually looking upon the a difficulty or dan^r g*^ flT* side : & will never see else. How can they love each are> and seenothin ;‘USl .C(®tention and fault-finding' aod'th^1'’ ‘°'V Can they avoid their social feelings ? But if each one Is e» fr n.Sequent reversal of bT’t?nd b0t? °ok at the same measures am °US m refer0nce to the chirfEh^orua^Jfd!^?wf^!l’ Zms°°d M your * companion, whose ^ »W,
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