Natural History of Man (1851)

This work shows the natural history of man in three aspects of plant, beast and angel, including plant life, comprising the nutritive apparatus; beast life, or soul, the phrenological faculties; and angel life, or spirit, Jehovah’s likeness in man. Illustrated with engravings. Contents: creation of the life power; nature of plant life; mode of working of the plant life; nervous system; two lives of man; sensations, perceptions, and ideas; physiognomy, the temperaments and races of men; faculties, and their organs; education of the intellect; education of the sensibilities; state of the personality after death; spiritual communications; explanation of seerism.