These remarks apply with redoubled power to members of the same family. Let parents cultivate affection for one another in their children, and let brothers and sisters separate as little as possol, correspond much, never allow a breach to be made in their attachments, and continually add new fuel to the old fire of family friendship. Let the right hand of hospitality be extended oftener than it now is, and let friends entertain friends around the family board, as often as possible, instead of allowing them to eat their rcial fare at the public hotel. We have too little of the good old Yankee custom of "cousining," and of English hospitality; and spend far too little time in making and receiving social visits. Sli, these formal, polite calls are perfect nonsense-are to friendship what the smut is to the grain-poisonous. True friendship knows no formality. Those who are very polite to you are strangers, or enemies, not friends; for true friendship knows no ceremony, no formality, but expires the moment it is shackled by the rules of modern politeness. We should all love our friends, and as often as may be, relax from the more severe duties of life to indulge it; but let no formality, no etiquette, mar this friendship. True friendship unosoms the heart cordially and freely, pouring forth the full tide of friendly feeling, without any barrier, any reserve. The mere recreation afforded by friendship is invaluable, especially to an intellectual man, as a means of health, and to augment his talents.

To cultivate this faculty, seek every favorable opportunity to exercise it. Choose your friends from among those whose feelings and opinions harmonize with your own, that is, in whose society you can enjoy yourself, and then frequently interchange friendly feeling with them. And do not break up your youthful associations, if you can well avoid it. If you do, renew them as soon or as often as Joss ble. Nothing is better calculated to blunt, and therefore, reduce this faculty, than separation from friends, especially from those who have sat for years at the same table, and become cordially attached to each other.

ASSOCIATION Seems to me to furnish perhaps a more powerfal and constant stimulart to this faculty than any other system. of society. Not that I would endorse all the doctrines of Fourier freary of excitemeat, by being imposed upon by a supposed friend, of his own sex. He appeared very much like those who have been recently disappointed in love.

Rr of his disciple Brisbane; but I do say, and without the fear of extradition, that associations might be so formed as to give this faculty all the food its nature requires, or could bear, (and this is a great deal,) and also avoid those frequent separations of friends so detrimental to this faculty.

Giring and receiving presents, is also directly calculated to stimulate this faculty to increased action. They are the nutural food of this faculty; and with this food let it be fed abundantly. I like the good old custom of making New-year's, Christmas, and other presents, thereby promoting good feeling between man and man, as well as kindling anew the old fires of friendship. Make presents, receive presents, and hold them as sacred tokens of that union of soul which it is the province of this faculty to create.

To diminish or sustain this faculty, (and this is necessary only when it has been placed upon the wrong object, or in case of the death of friends,) break up all association, all connexion, all interchange of all ideas or feelings with them. Exchange no leiters, exchange no looks, no thoughts. Banish, as far as poss bl·, all ideas of the person loved. Busy yourself so effectually about other matters as to compel you to withdraw your feelings from this person, and, above all, form other friendly relations. There is no cure for lacerated affection equal to its transfer. Stop its flow, you cannot, should not, but you can only direct it into another channel. Find other and better objects on which to expend it, and especially, array reason against friendship. When your affect ons revert to their former object, bring them back by placing the motive for their withdrawal before the mind. Intellect should reign supreme. It con govern the feelings. It should govern them all. And every one should train his feelings to obey the dictates of enlightened Mson.

These remarks will apply particularly to those who have fallen in love injudiciously, and wish to tear their affections from those on wthorn they have been improperly or unwise y placed. To such they will be found invaluable; as also to those who lose friends, piklion, or a beloved companion. Let the dead be dead to you. Murning over their decease does not benefit them, but it is ruinous to you, in point of health, in point of mind, as well as in urious to the laculties thus lacerated. And the more you dwell on this loss, do wye you sear this element of your nature. Beware of this la

ceration, and to avoid it, I repeat, banish them from your mind, and engross your time, attention, every thing, in other matters. Seek any thing that will thus divert you. Be the philosopher. May I never be brought to a severe trial, but if so, I do think I could put in practice the direction here given. Many shrink from this direction, but it is the true one. It is the only way to shelter yourself from that merciless storm which threatens to drive you to distraction and wreck your all.

UNION FOR LIFE.

Continuance and congeniality of affection.

Tat silken tie which binds two willing souls." "And they twain shall be one flesh."

This faculty is located between Adhesiveness and Amativeness, and disposes husbands and wives in whom it is large and active, to be always together. They cannot endure the absence of their compar ion, even for an hour, and feel as though the time spent away from them, was so much of their existence lost. It is developed before amativeness appears, and hence this Union is often formed in childhood. It purifies and refines the sentiment of love; desires to caress and be caressed; and is the soul and centre of connubial love; creating that union, that oneness of feeling, that har. mony of spirit and that flowing together of soul, which characterize true conjugal affection. It is very reluctant to fasten upon more than one, and that is upon FIRST LOVE. I have seen several striking proofs and illustrations of the existence of this faculty, and the location of its organ. It is much larger and more active in woman than in man, and in fact causes and accounts for the far greater power and intensity of woman's love than that of man.

INHABITIVENESS:

Or love of HOME, and the DOMICп of both childhood and after life: attachment to the place where one lives, or has lived: unwillingness to change it: desire to locate, and remain, permanently, in one habitation, and to own, and improve a homestead: patriotism

"Home, home! swee', sweet home! There's no place like home." The advantages of having a permane at HOME, and the evils and

losse3 consequent upon ch inging it,* are each very great; "three moves,” it is said, “ are as lad as a fire.” Those who have homes of their own, be they ever so homely, are comparatively rich. They feel that no crusty landlord can turn thein hemeless into the streets, or sell their furniture at auction for rent. Rent-days come and go unheeded, and the domestic affections have full scope for delightful exercise. Every married man is bound ly this inhabitive law of his nature, as well as in duty to his family, to cun a house and garden spot; and every wife is bound ly the same law and duty, to rer.der that home as haply as possible. The prevalent practice of renting houses, violates this law and arrangement of man's domestic nature, and must necessarily produce evil to Loth owner and tenant.

Inhabitiveness can be cultivated by having a home, staying muth at home, and improring that home liy setting out fruit trets and shrubbery, multiplying conveniences about it, and indulging a love of home as your home. Moving often, by tearing us away from the place which has become endeared to us, interrupts and pains this faculty, and this hardens, sears, and enfeebles it. Children should, if possible, be brought up in one house, and home should be rendered as delightful a place to them as possible. I have always otserved, that children who have lived in one dwelling, and especially on a farm, till they were fifteen, have this orvan large; whereas it is sinall in those who have lived in diferent places during childhood. This shows the inportance of cultivating it in children, and says to parents, in the language of nature" Make as few moves as powie ble, and generally keep your children at home."

CONCENTRATIVENESS.

Unity and con'inuity of thought and feeling ; application ; ability

ant disposition to a'!ent to one, and but one, thing at a time, and to complete tha! before turning to another.

Adaptation. Many of the operations of life, and especially the acquisition of knowledge, require the continued, united, and patient application of the faculties to one thing at a time. Firmness gives continuity as regards the general plans, opinions, le., of life, while this organ is adapted to the minor operations of the mind for the

It is estimated, that the expenses of moving on the first of May, in the city of New York alone, excee is $25,000.

time being. Without Concentrativeness, the mental operations would be extremely imperfect, wanting in thoroughness, and too vapid and flashy. Its absence may be advisable in some kinds of business, as in the mercantile, where so many little things are to be done, so many customers waited upon in a short time, and so much versatility of talent required.

ABUSES.-Prolixity, dwelling or talking on one subject tili it is worn thread bare, and reintroducing it after others have been intro. duced.

The whole cast and character of the American people, evinces an almost total deficiency of this faculty in character, and accordingly, in ninety-nine in every hundred of the heads I examine, its organ is small. The error lies in our defective system of education -especially in our crowding so many studies upon the attention of children and youth in a day. In our common schools, a few minutes are devoted to reading, a few minutes to spelling, a few more to writing, a few more to arithmetic, &c., &c., all in half a day. By the time Concentrativeness brings the organs required by a given study, to bear upon it, so that it begins to do them good, the mind is taken off, and the attention directed to another study. This is wrong. When the mind becomes engaged in a particular study or train of thought, it should be allowed to remain fixed without interruption, until fatigue is induced. And I am of the opinion that not more than one, at best only two studies or subjects should be thrust upon the mind in a day. I incline to the opinion that a single study at a time should be the study, and the others, recreations merely. Make thorough work of one study, and then of another. The Germans devote a life-time to a single study, and in them, this organ is usually large. It is much larger in the English and Scotch than in the Americans; and is not generally developed in the French head.

To diminish this faculty, fly from thing to thing. Read a paragraph bere, and a scrap of news there. Get a mere smattering of one thing after another, but dwell on nothing. Pick up information here, there, every where, but let it be a little of every thing, yet not much of any one thing. Go into a store or engage in some business where there is a constant succession of things to be attended to in quick succession, each of which requires but an instant, to be followed by another. Poke iron after iron into the fire so as to