Encephalology; Or, a Very Brief Sketch of Dr. Hirnschadel's Ologies of the Cranion and Phren Perfected by the Rationals (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. HIS PUBERTY, ADOLESCENCE, AND MANHOOD. He had now an important accession to his collection; and his affection for his closet daily increased as his ideas became better arranged and better combined. In this beloved retreat, which commanded, from its eminence, a wide extent of forest scenery permeated by the course of the Oder, many and many an hour was rapturously passed; and many observations were made, of which he then but little knew the importance, but which formed and established an habit of discernment wholly unattainable by any who commence their researches in ence- phalology at a later period of life, and under circumstances less extraordinary and less propitious. It has been unnecessary to interrupt the narrative, by pointing out to the reader the particular affection that subsisted between Ernst and his maternal grandfather. The faculty, in which Baron Haupt had raised himself to such distinction, naturally caused him to contemplate his little grandson with enthusiastic fondness; and the interest which he always took in his pursuits, and the information which he was able to impart to him, made Ernst look forwards to his occasional visits, at Hirnschadel, as the consummation of his happiness. But these happy days were now to be interrupted. The age that Ernst had attained, rendered it necessary that he should begin to experience the restraints of a school education. He had learned reading and writing from his careful mother, and had been initiated into the first rudiments of Latin by the respected pastor of his village; he was now, for the first time, to be separated from his parents, his brothers and sisters, his home, and his dearly beloved museum. His feelings were tender and affectionate. Though making every manly effort to suppress those fe...