LECTURES ON MENTAL SCIENCE ACCORDING TO THE Philosophy of Phrenology. DELIVERED BEFORE THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF THE WESTERN LIB. ERAL INSTITUTE OF MARIETTA, OHIO, IN THE AUTUMN OF 1851. Gerize BY REV. G. S. WEAVER. ILLUSTRATED WITH ENGRAVINGS. NEW YORK: FOWLERS AND WELLS, PUBLISHERS, CLINTON HALL, 131 NASSAU STREET. Boston, 142 Washington-St.] 1852. [London, No. 149 Strand Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852, by FOWLERS AND WELLS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. JOHN J. REED, Printer, No. 16 Spruce-Street. PREFACE. THE publishers take great pleasure in presenting this work to the public. The intrinsic merit of the subject to which it is devoted, and the fact that it was called for in a course of lectures to the students of the "Western Liberal Institute," evince the belief that an absolute demand for the work exists, and that it will be received with gladness and read with profit by the young men and women of our country. The following correspondence will explain the occasion, and the reception of the lectures. REV. G. S. WEAVER: MARIETTA, O., Sept. 20, 1851. Dear Sir,-I am instructed by the Anthropological Society of the Western Liberal Institute, to invite you to deliver a course of lectures upon the subject of mental science, before the society, in the hall of the Institute: one lecture on each Friday evening during the present quarter. This will require a series of ten. A general view of the philosophy of mind, made plain and practicable, would suit the wishes of the society. Your maturer judgment, of course, will be our guide on this great subject. We hope nothing ordinary will prompt you to decline. Shall we be favored with an early reply? Yours, etc., (). LEWIS CLARK, Secretary. |