SECTION IX.

TIMES AND SEASONS.

GOD is the great Agriculturist of the universe; every world is a farm, and every farm has its occupants, and they have their duties. I speak with reverence. Every farmer who knows his business, according to the nature of the soil, manures his ground, and, to produce good crops, changes the kind of seed to be developed on the soil, under the term rotation of crops; and now and then, he allows certain fields to lie fallow for a time, so that for another succession of years he may reap a heavier crop than if he kept up a perpetual irritation in the soil, or produced nausea by the too frequent supply of one description of plant. The Great Farmer of this world adopts a similar method, and, if the little farmers would observe and reflect on the operations of their Instructor, they would better understand the principles he brings into play; and, following in his footsteps, secure an amount of success previously unexampled.

It appears to me that God manures the earth by the quality of the atmospheres. That there is a regular succession of atmospheres which pass over and manure the ground; each atmosphere in rotation, being different in chemical constituents, is absorbed by the most negative plant to the manure or positive, which is then being dewed on the ground, and that plant will that year yield the greatest crop; and the next negative plant will produce the next greatest crop, till the line being passed, and the plants being positive to the atmosphere, and therefore not receptive; the crops become more and more unproductive, till the last in the list has the blight, or starvation for want of food.

We have reputed good farmers, and bad farmers; the good ones are those who gather knowledge, and apply that knowledge to their business, by which means they are the "wellto-do" men of the day-they act according to their knowledge,

but the elements overcome their sagacity, and they are foiled every now and then; whereas, if they knew the law of atmospheric manures, they would never fail, because the Great Farmer in his wisdom is carrying on his operations; and if they would take advantage of it by following in his wake, success would be certain. I conceive that the law I have given out, is as certain as light from the sun; therefore it is, that in our fruit gardens, where men can exercise but little control, we have one year an extraordinary crop of apples, another year an equally large crop of pears, but a diminished supply of apples; so with plums, cherries, &c.; so with flowers; so also with grain; though those productions being more under the control of man by his educational use of manures, his efforts disturb the ordinary action of the atmospheric manures, as a horse-shoe magnet disturbs the compass-needle, under the influence of the magnetic meridian.

If farmers would note down the annual rise and fall of crops, they would, in a few years, lay hold of the law of Atmospheric Rotation Manures, if I may so call them; and as I before stated, realise crops hitherto unexampled.

I think this great law in atmospheres, in a like manner acts on man; producing the rise and fall of physical energies. Man, so far as his body is concerned, appears to me to be a mere animal plant, with locomotive powers, subject to the same character of laws as a vegetable; therefore it is, Man has the blight every now and then in the shape of the socalled Epidemic; producing extra mortality, but followed by increased productiveness in following years. I would refer to only one example: after the great plague in London had destroyed its thousands, the productiveness or largeness of the crop of human beings was so great, as to form an epoch in the history of population. If medical men would study this great law of Chemical-atmospheric rotation currents—I dislike to use the phrase I gave for farmers-"atmospheric manure currents," they would be able to predict the year for the prevalence of a certain chemical atmosphere, and that with as much certainty

as an astronomer predicts an eclipse; and, knowing the kind of chemical property deficient in the atmosphere, supply the lack in his medicinal preparations during the prevalence of that atmosphere.

Herein we have the indications of the cause of the rise and fall of families; the human family, though one, are of different qualities. Some are in the actual flesh tissues, coarse; others, fine; and are therefore, subject to life and death influences, as the flowers in our gardens, our green-houses, and conservatories.

I have given out the Germ thought, for the thinkers on and collectors of Facts.

SECTION X.

PHRENOLOGY.

THE Brain of man plays an important part in his mental developments. Narrow the brain, and you narrow the thoughts, or the power of developing them; injure the brain, and the continuity of mental operation is broken. On examining its structure, we find the nerves lacing the pulp of the brain, and running to a common centre; that this centre is small, but that it radiates or shoots out fibres in all directions throughout the body; that the pulp is irregular in its surface, yet the nerves run in, through, and around it; and, as we find that the same system is in the arm and the foot, and that in obedience to the spirit at the seat of power, the foot and the hand has to perform certain duties adapted to its position; so the brain has its duties to perform, of working for the mental powers of the spirit; and as in telegraphy, the divisions on the clock-face tell the letters of the alphabet, and the needle moves from one letter to another by the nerves of electricity, set in action by the will of the operator; so, the brain has been found to be a machine or index of mental powers, put in motion by the nerve-wires under the control of the operator-the Spirit in The external formation of the brain of the fox, the cat, and the horse tribes has attracted the special attention of the naturalist, and I would also call attention to the brain of the elephant, and state that wherever a given form of brain or head developes itself in the animal; there is sure to be the result, of a peculiarity of mental or instructive individuality. "As cunning as a fox;" "I don't like that man, he is so foxlike;" are common expressions; and it is found, that whenever any human being has the form of his head, or a portion of his head, like any given animal, there are the propensities of that animal largely developed.

man.

By a careful investigation of these peculiarities, and by observing that all men with a certain natural unevenness on the

scull or head, were possessed with a like strong and almost over-ruling tendency to perform a certain class of actions; the science of Phrenology has proved itself true as true as any other science. I remember, when studying it some years ago, a gentleman came into the room in which I was, to see a friend I had sitting by my side; as he sat, and conversed, the light shone on his forehead; on that part of the head called "Time." I saw the organ, or key large and round like a ring, clear and distinct. After he left the room, I said to my friend, "Is that gentleman a Timeist-I mean one who is anxious to keep an appointment, or to keep time in music?" He looked at me with surprise, and said, "Yes, he is a perfect annoyance to his family and friends. If any one were to ask me what time it was in his presence, and I should say four minutes to three, he would take out his watch, and say, three and a-half minutes when he and his family have to go anywhere, he teases and torments them as to the time; and how long it takes to go such a distance, to be at such a place by a given minute. He is a perfect annoyance." I have tried the principle on others, I have seen it tried by others, and felt it tried on myself; and the organs, like keys in music, have given out their mental sound clear and harmonious. Occasionally, there has been an uncertain sound from one of the keys-but the cause of which I have found out through the medium of

clairvoyance," a power of seeing independent of the usual organs or powers of sight. Of Clairvoyance-its existence and power-there is no doubt on the mind of anyone who has examined, practically examined, the subject; in due course the subject with illustrations, will arise for consideration. In the mean time, let the reader who does not believe, for want of evidence, take for granted its truth; as I wish the honour of the discoveries in phrenology to be given to those to whom honour is due.

On referring to the phrenological casts of heads sold, we find that the leading organs discovered and named are thirty-five; as the names almost, if not altogether, denote their capability, I need only direct attention to the list.

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