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 tissue which fills out the skin, effaces the osseous projec- tions, and affords those soft inflections and those graceful outlines which impart to her comeliness, and attract our admiration. It harmonizes the different parts of her body by insensible curves, and influences the suppleness of her movements by lubricating the organs of locomotion. But, this cellular tissue is regarded as the elementary tissue of organized bodies, and its greater abundance shows her to be less advanced in personal development, and destined to provide for other creations.

"The head of woman differs from that of man in form, volume and weight. We believe that the more the head approximates the spherical form, and the more it is developed in the anterior lateral regions, the nearer it approaches perfection. . . . Ancient sculpture, which did not comprehend phrenology, had at least an intuition when it expressed this anatomical contrast by the development accorded to the forehead of Jupiter, and the contraction of that of Venus. But, if the forehead of woman is lower and less capacious, " the posterior region of the cranium is larger. It is now known from the most positive revelations of phrenology, that to this conformation belongs the greatest depth of feeling, and of nurturing the affections."

The bodies of the spinal bones (vertebrae) are longer and thinner, and the cartilages which separate them occupy more space; hence the spinal column is longer, the canal larger, and the spinal marrow more developed. Now vital activity is always in direct relation to the development of the spinal marrow relatively to the other portions of the body, and in its greater or less predominance over that of the brain, is the degree of relative inferiority throughout the whole animal series. Woman generally lives longer