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CONTENTS.

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Philoprogenitiveness,

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Duty of Parents, especially mothers, to educate their own children, 11 Analysis and adaptation of Adhesiveness,

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Caution to the young about forming or breaking attachments,

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Existence and analysis of Union for Life,

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Analysis and adaptation of Amativeness,

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Analysis and objects of Inhabitiveness,

Owning a home contrasted with the renting system,

City residences, boarding, farming, &c.

The combinations of the Social Faculties,

Location and appearance of the Social Organs,
Filial Love-its" cultivation,

Amount of brain allotted to the Social Organs,

The facility and power of their combinations illustrated,
Every element of our nature brought into delightful action by

the family relations,

Who should not marry,

How to secure congeniality by means of Phrenology,
Evils of modern courtship,

A new method of ascertaining the character of your intended for

certain,

Governing love, by rectifying the standard of Admiration,
Directions for courting and marrying PHRENOLOGICALLY,
Necessity of amply developed Moral Faculties,

Reversal of these faculties, and amount of misery caused thereby, 31 Domestic happiness and misery contrasted,

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Securing this pleasure and avoiding this unhappiness, by obeying the Social laws,

The thing to be done in marrying is to secure Congeniality, Select a companion whose qualities resemble your own, reversed or painful action of the faculties,

Importance of similarity and effects of dissimilarity, illustrated

and contrasted,

Directions for counteracting defects by off-setting them,

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Evils of marrying for beauty, music, or wealth,"

. 51 Rich and fashionable young women make poor wives, Good constitutions—against small waists and soft hands,

53 Natural waists, or no wives,

54 Matrimonial anecdotes,

55 Marrying a wit, talker, economist, &c.

56 Being a good wife, implies being a good house-keeper, Samples of well developed female heads,

58 Importance of a good physical organization and strong constitution, 60 Young women should take exercise and avoid becoming delicate, 61 A small stature objectionable in women,

62 Marry so as to gratify the greatest number of faculties,

03 Hints in reference to conducting courtship,

63 Never let pride interfere with love, Age most suitable for marrying,

65 An improper objection to early marriages,

66 Single blessedness,

67 Marrying for a home inerely,

69 Marry to please no one but yourself, not even your parents, 70 Parents should advise, but not control their children's choice, Evils of marrying an intemperate companion,

72 Be certain of marriage before bestowing the affections, Causes and evil consequences of searing the Domestic Faculties, 75 Evils of courting periodically and for sport,

• 76 Interruptions in love, and coquetry, main causes of licentiousness, Inconsistencies of pious people, in praying for reform, yet ignorantly augmenting the evil they wish to be removed,

78 Choosing Intellectually first and loving afterward,

79 An important hint to young ladies,

.80 The premature development of Amativeness the primary cause of licentiousness,

81 Caused by the conduct and conversation of adults before the young, 81 by reading novels, love-tales, &c.

89 a stimulating diet,

83 want of exercise,

84 modern female education,

85 Marry your first love,

88 Mutual love, and not the legal ceremony, constitutes matrimony, 89 True love perpetuates itself,

91 To interrupt love the same as separating husbands and wives, One love-one marriage, Directions to the Married,

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