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Show Pk.-KHSoR FOWI.ER'3 LEfTtTRK. The inirodaitory lecture of Professor Fowler at the "Liberal Institute," last night, was delivered to a large audience j and came up to the high expectation which the public had formed of the ability of the lecturer. Mr. Fowler is not only a master of his subject, but lis master of the faculty of making his arguments upon even the abstruse, cognate scientific principles connected with phrenology, readily understood by persons of limited educational capacity. In his discourse he treated of the fundamental fun-damental principles upon which the science of phrenology is based, giving the general rnles that govern biology, and while maintaining the intimate connection between mind and matter, contended that such a doctrine was distinct from the gross miterialim denounced de-nounced by ihe theologians. He incidentally, in-cidentally, in treaiisgof the laws of life, propounded and demonstrated by logical analysis that the planets were kept in their spheres by electtical action; ac-tion; and thai it was electricity inhaled in the lungs lhal caused the circulation of the blood, and not the muscular action ac-tion of the heart. His lecture although strictly scientific and exceedingly interesting, inter-esting, was interspaced with etionyh of humor to relieve the serious feature? inseparably connected with a eriiic:i! consideration of tho laws of life. The Professor lectures ibis evening on "Love, Courtship and Matrimony." |