The organ of Memory I have often tested; it is in the brain under firmness and self esteem, and by placing a finger on the division between these two organs on the head of those suffering from the loss of memory by over-exertion of the faculties, a powerful current of heat will ascend, and continue till the inflammation is subdued; it will then change to a cool aura, like that issuing from the other organs of the head. Many times after I had pleasure in hearing her give off the delineations of nerve-action upon the different organs at the time most active in my brain, and her deductions of what I was mentally busy about by the play of those organs, were correct. I will give one instance. One day, while in her clairvoyant state, she was examining my late wife, and explaining something; she suddenly stopped and said, “But I must give over; Mr. Jones is impatient to go." Surprised, as I had given no indication of my feelings, though she said truly, I inquired, "Why do you think so?" "Because I see the nerves in 'Caution' working with 'Time' and 'Number;' I therefore know you must have an engagement; and Caution' tells you to go." Reader, I need not state how pleased I was to find in this answer an explanation of many things which had before appeared as if she were possessed of supernatural powers. A clairvoyant sees what we cannot see; she reads from a book we cannot read; and but for questioning, would be supposed to have almost divine. power. So thought the savage, when the missionary wrote on a chip of wood, an order to his wife to give the bearer an axe. The chip was delivered, and the axe given. The savage thought the wise man had put life into the chip, and that it talked to the lady; and in wonder and amazement his neighbours heard the tale of that chip ;-so it is with many of the wonders emanating from powers in action under the skin of man. Credit is given either to the "devil" or to "imposture," for the mighty works performed by that body, which is so fearfully and wonderfully made." A man will devote days or weeks to the consideration of metals, vegetables, scenery,

music, and other points of enjoyment and interest; but will hardly devote one hour to an investigation of the powers and properties of his own body; yet will he leap into the chair of judgment, and off-hand pass sentence without hearing a tittle of evidence. I have thus devoted a short section to Phrenology, because of the important bearing it has on various phases of phenomena which have puzzled alike the learned and the ignorant. The law has been hidden, and the results have been as wonderful and mysterious; as would the knowledge of a message coming three thousand miles in a few seconds be to the person who was unaware of the laws of electricity, as manifested by the telegraphic wires.

The knowledge, or rather the conviction, that the intellectual, moral, and animal faculties and propensities of man, depend upon the physical formation of his brain; and that nerves, like hair threads, entwine, and interlace the pulp of the brain-matter; and that they are dependent on their root, and have therefore to act in accordance with the will of the centre power or living principle; as the other nerves in the human body have, which move the arm, the hand, the leg, or the foot; and that those nerves may be excited, inflamed, or paralyzed; gives us the light, the truth light, which rays in, on the cause of the effects perceived in insanity, somnambulism, clairvoyance, and a host of other phenomena which science has been indisposed to probe, and Christians afraid to investigate, for fear it would upset preconceived opinions, forgetting that man's powers during the past of his history, has been finite, whilst the powers of nature have been all but infinite; and that this world is for man's comfort, intellectually as well as physically. Man's happiness almost invariably consists in gaining fresh knowledge; as he acquires that knowledge, he must of necessity be relatively more wise than heretofore, whether personally or ancestorially; and that neither true science nor true theology can suffer by examining the phenomena of Nature-the product of INFINITE WISDOM.

There is an instrument,-a tell-tale instrument, called the

Magnetescope, which I have seen, but not in action; which produces a correct delineation of the character of every one who suffers himself to be examined. By means of a very delicate mechanism, when the operator places a finger of one hand on the machine, and a finger of the other hand on an organ of the head of the person to be examined, in proportion to the size and energy of the organ so does the machine pendulate; and when all the organs have been examined, and the numbers also examined; the organs which have registered the highest are the leading characteristics of the person. This instrument has been tried in our gaols and military stations, and found correct. The magnetescope shows two things: 1st, the truth of phrenology; and 2nd, the existence of an individualized emanation or mesmerine from the head of every man. I regret I have not seen the instrument in action, but I have heard the statement from several persons who have seen it in full operation.

SECTION XI.

DREAMS.

DREAMS appear to me to be the debris of past events. So far as personal experience and relative knowledge go, nothing new ever arises in ordinary dreams; men, women, houses, fields, and trees appear. They vary in their position and appearances, but still dreams are the knowledge of the past broken up; erratic, disjointed, foolish, absurd, and occasionally connected; confusion being the rule, order the exception. If we carefully examine the subject, I think we shall find the solution.

Watch the action of the mind during the day, when partially or totally disengaged with business; whether in the street among crowds, in the counting-house, study, or parlour; it with lightning speed rambles, or rather flits from one subject to another. Perhaps it is something which happened yesterday, or some past event; the persons, the place, the incidents, come up more or less vividly on the mind, the tableaux is before us, the room or street worked like a photograph in light and shade, generally without colour. We leap over the secondary, though interesting incidents, perceiving them, but not staying, we pass on, and rest on the leading incident; all is faint but yet distinct; off flits the mind to some other event, or it creates a possible hereafter scene, when at such a place, with such and such persons present; we will and they will act so and so; away again flies the mind, and in disconnected, disjointed tableaux are imaginary or past scenes portrayed by the nerves working erratically on the organs of the brain. There is a kind of helm power at work, keeping the thoughts to something like possibilities. We now come to night; the body, weary, rests; but dreams are on, the quiet of night, the absence of light, allows the same action as in the day to be carried on but with more vividness; the very colours of the dresses, the very colours of the houses, gardens, trees, &c., appear like discolving views, but with infinitely greater speed;-they change

what a medley! Reason seems gone, and, like lunatics without a keeper, all animate and inanimate nature is performing Harlequin.

If during the day we have been very busy; if from over eating, over drinking, or any other action, there has been, and is, a determination of blood to the head; or if by having too feathery a pillow at night, the head sinks, and is surrounded by undispersed heat; the pulp of the brain being inflamed, irritates the nerves, interlacing the organs; causing them to vibrate or quiver, and develope the functions of those organs. The locality of the inflammation will determine the character of the dreams, as the phrenological energies and powers of those organs will be working in excess of their ordinary and natural action; and phantasmagoria created, as clouds in the sky vapour themselves into mountains and valleys, seas, and rivers, and representations of all things created, animate and inanimate; and if our eyes could see through opaque substances, like those few persons do who are called "clairvoyants," we could, as they do, decide on the nature of the then thoughts or dreams; by observing on what organs the nerves were principally acting on the dreamer; and reducing that which appears supernatural, to a natural physical action of the body.

The under organ in the centre of the brain called Memory, performs a vital part during the operation of the nerves on any given set of organs. If the brain be inflamed, memory sympathises; and if memory be the leading organ inflamed, the results are those which have puzzled the philosophers of old as well as of modern days. The resuscitation of past events which have taken place in, say, childhood, but forgotten till that moment, is remarkable. Let us trace an incident to depict a principle. Fever is on, the head is burning hot; memory as well as the external organs are inflamed, and in proportion to the extent of the excitement, so is the power of the organ increased; the nerves quiver under the excitement. Suppose we feel the head; at or about one part the head feels hottest, let us suppose it to be veneration; the action of which is