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+Project Gutenberg's Buchanan's Journal of Man, May 1887, by Various
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+Title: Buchanan's Journal of Man, May 1887
+       Volume 1, Number 4
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+Author: Various
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+Editor: J. R. Buchanan
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+                             BUCHANAN'S
+                           JOURNAL OF MAN.
+
+              VOL. I.         MAY, 1887.        NO. 4.
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS OF JOURNAL OF MAN.
+
+
+  The Prophetic Faculty: War and Peace
+  Clearing away the Fog
+  The Danger of living among Christians: A Question of peace or war
+  Legislative Quackery, Ignorance, and Blindness to the Future
+  Evils that need Attention
+  What is Intellectual Greatness
+  Spiritual Wonders--Slater's Tests; Spirit Pictures; Telegraphy;
+    Music; Slate Writing; Fire Test
+  MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE--Erratum; Co-operation; Emancipation;
+    Inventors; Important Discovery; Saccharine; Sugar; Artificial
+    Ivory; Paper Pianos; Social Degeneracy; Prevention of Cruelty;
+    Value of Birds; House Plants; Largest Tunnel; Westward Empire
+  Structure of the Brain
+  Chapter III. Genesis of the Brain
+  To the Readers of the Journal--College of Therapeutics
+  Journal of Man--Language of Press and Readers
+
+
+
+
+THE PROPHETIC FACULTY: WAR AND PEACE.
+
+
+In our last issue, the psychometric faculty of prophecy was
+illustrated by predictions of peace, while generals, statesmen, and
+editors were promising a gigantic war. In this number the reader will
+find a grand prediction of war, while statesmen and states were
+anticipating peace, and a southern statesman, even upon the brink of
+war, offered to drink all the blood that would be shed.
+
+The strength of the warlike spirit and prediction at the time
+psychometry was prophesying peace was conspicuous even as late as the
+ninth of March, when the London correspondent of the _Sun_ wrote as
+follows:
+
+"An eminent Russian general with whom I have talked believes the plan
+of Russian attack on Austria is fully developed. Galicia is to be the
+battleground between the two countries. Russia will enter the province
+without trouble, as there is nothing to hinder her. Then she will make
+a dash to secure the important strategic railroad which runs parallel
+with the Galician frontier, and seek to drive the Austrians over the
+Carpathians.
+
+"That Galicia will witness the first fighting is generally admitted, as
+also that the possession of the strategic railroad, running as it does
+just at the rear of the Austrian positions, would be the most vital
+question. It may be interesting to say that military men of whatever
+nationality look upon an early war as a certain thing. They are not
+content to say they believe war is coming; they are absolutely positive
+of it, and each little officer has his own personal way of conclusively
+proving that this sort of peace cannot go on any longer.
+
+ "Meanwhile there are lots of straws floating about this week, which
+indicate that international winds are still blowing toward war. From
+Russian Poland there is reported an interruption in all kinds of
+business, owing to the war scare. Manufacturers refuse to accept orders
+from private persons, and financial institutions have still further
+weakened business by reducing their credit to a minimum. A letter from
+St. Petersburg tells of the tremendous enthusiasm of the troops at the
+review by the Czar on last Saturday, of the wild cheering for his
+imperial Majesty, of the loud and strident whistles audible above the
+roar of the cannon with which the officers command their men, and of the
+general blending of barbaric fierceness and courage with modern
+discipline and fighting improvements.
+
+ "In Vienna the troops are hard at work practising with the Numannlicher
+repeating rifle, with which all have been provided. The Sunday
+observance act, usually rigorously enforced, has been suspended, that
+the government orders for military supplies may be completed two weeks
+earlier than contracted for.
+
+ "The business of the Hotchkiss gun-making concern is shown to have
+increased one hundred per cent with the war scare, and the eagerness to
+secure the stock, which now stands at thirty per cent premium, shows a
+conviction among monied men. The capital has been subscribed fifteen
+times over."
+
+The persistent prediction of peace was speedily fulfilled. March 12 my
+statement was sent to the press, and March 22 Bismarck said to Prince
+Rudolph of Austria that "_peace is assured to Europe for 1887_," and
+newspaper correspondents announce that the war alarm is over. Mr.
+Frederick Harrison, who is travelling on foot in France, writes that
+he has found no one who desires war, and that the people are not even
+thinking of it.
+
+What is the popular judgment, or even the judgment of popular leaders
+worth upon any great question? The masses of mankind have their
+judgments enmeshed and inwoven in a web of mechanical habituality,
+compelling them to believe that what is and has been must continue to
+be in the future, thus limiting their conceptions to the commonplace.
+Their leaders do not rise to nobler conceptions, for if they did not
+sympathize with the popular, commonplace conceptions and prejudices
+they would not be leaders.
+
+"We deem it safe to assert," says Mrs. Emma Hardinge Britten in her
+most valuable and interesting "History of Modern Spiritualism," "from
+opinions formed upon an extensive and intimate knowledge of both North
+and South, and a general understanding of the politics and parties in
+both sections, that any settlement of the questions between them by
+the sword was never deliberately contemplated, and that the outbreak,
+no less than the magnitude and length of the mighty struggle, was all,
+humanly speaking, forced on by the logic of events, rather than
+through the preconcerted action of either section of the country. We
+say this much to demonstrate the truly prophetic character of many of
+the visions and communications which circulated amongst the
+Spiritualists prior to the opening of the war."
+
+Not only was it prophesied by the Quaker Joseph Hoag thirty years in
+advance, but more fully prophesied from the spirit world by the spirit
+of Gen. Washington, and again most eloquently predicted through the
+lips of Mrs. E. Hardinge Britten in 1860. Yet who among all the
+leaders of the people knew anything of these warnings, or was
+sufficiently enlightened to have paid them any respect? The petition
+of 15,000 Spiritualists was treated with contemptuous ridicule by the
+American Senate, and even the demonstrable invention of Morse was
+subjected to ridicule in Congress. Congressmen stand on no higher
+moral plane than the people who elect them, and it is the moral
+faculties that elevate men into the atmosphere of pure truth.
+
+But ah! could we have had a Congress and State Legislatures in 1860,
+composed of men sufficiently elevated in sentiment to realize the
+state of the nation and the terrible necessity of preserving the peace
+by conciliatory statesmanship, that four years of bloody horror and
+devastation might have been spared.
+
+Will the time ever come when nations shall be guided by wisdom
+sufficient to avoid convulsions and calamities? Not until there is
+sufficient intelligence and wisdom to appreciate the _science of man_,
+to understand the wondrous faculties of the human soul, to follow
+their guidance, and to listen to the wisdom of our ancestors as they
+speak to us from a higher world.
+
+The prophecies to which I would call attention now, came from the
+upper world, and came unheeded and unproclaimed! Great truths are
+always buried in silence, if possible, when they first arrive. It is
+probable that the grandest prophecies in their far-reaching scope will
+always come from such sources, and the grandest seers will be
+inspired. The grandest prophecy of the ultimate destiny and power of
+"Anthropology" came to me direct from an exalted source in the spirit
+world, and no human hand had aught to do with its production. But the
+human psychometric faculty has the same prophetic power in a more
+limited and more practical sphere. We have no reason to affirm that
+the wonderful personal prophecies of Cazotte on the brink of the
+French Revolution, stated in the "Manual of Psychometry," were at all
+dependent on spiritual agency.
+
+The prophecy of our great American calamity, which purports to have
+come from the spirit of Gen. Washington, appears in a book published
+by Josiah Brigham in 1859, of which few of my readers have any
+knowledge. The messages were written by the hand of the famous medium,
+Joseph D. Stiles, between 1854 and 1857, at the house of Josiah
+Brigham in Quincy, Mass., and were published at Boston in 1859, in a
+large volume of 459 pages, entitled "Messages from the Spirit of John
+Quincy Adams." The medium was in an unconscious trance, and the
+handwriting was a fac-simile of that of John Quincy Adams. But other
+spirit communications are given, and that which purports to come from
+Washington was in a handwriting like his own, though not of so bold
+and intellectual a style. I quote the portion of his message which
+relates to the war of secession, as follows:
+
+"The cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, when they had attained the summit of
+imperial wickedness and licentiousness, as the Bible informs us, fell
+from their high estate by the visitation of natural penalties, and the
+righteous judgments of an overruling Providence. The fall of Rome and
+other large cities proves to us that no individual or nation can disobey
+the irrepealable enactments of the Infinite Father, and escape the fixed
+penalties attached to such transgression!
+
+"And can boasting, sinful America indulge in the flattering, delusive
+hope, that the heavy judgments which fell upon those ancient cities will
+be averted from her, whose guilt is equal, if not even greater than
+theirs? Does she think that Cain-like, she can escape the vigilant,
+sleepless eye of that Divine Parent,
+
+  'Whose voice is heard in the rolling thunders,
+  And whose might is seen in the forked lightnings,'
+
+and that He will turn a deaf ear to the cry of 'mortal agony,' daily
+borne on the 'four winds of Heaven' to His throne of justice, from the
+almost broken hearts of His slavery-crushed children?
+
+"Far from it; America can no more expect mercy in her prosperous
+wickedness, from the hand of Deity, that can the most degraded child of
+earth expect to enjoy equal happiness and bliss with the more refined
+and exalted intelligences of heaven. The Parent of all cares not for the
+unity or perpetuation of a family of States, where the prosperity or
+welfare of a single child of His is concerned.
+
+"God, the eternal Father, has commissioned us, His ministers of truth
+and justice, to a great and important undertaking! He has invested us
+with power and authority to influence and guide the actions of mankind,
+and aid them in their struggles for right and truth. He has bade us arm
+ourselves with the weapons of love and justice, and hasten to the rescue
+of our struggling brother man. His call is imperative and binding, and
+we _must_ and WILL obey!
+
+"We are able to discern the period rapidly approximating when man will
+take up arms against his fellow-man, and go forth to contend with the
+enemies of Republican liberty, and to assert at the point of the bayonet
+those rights of which so large a portion of their fellow-creatures are
+deprived. Again will the soil of America be saturated with the blood of
+freedom-loving children, and her noble monuments, those sublime
+attestations of patriotic will and determination, will tremble, from
+base to summit, with the heavy roar of artillery, and the thunder of
+cannon. The trials of that internal war will far exceed those of the war
+of the Revolution, while the cause contended for will equal, if not
+excel, in sublimity and power, that for which the children of '76
+fought.
+
+"But when the battle-smoke shall disappear, and the cannon's fearful
+tones are heard no more, then will mankind more fully realize the
+blessings outflowing from the mighty struggle in which they so valiantly
+contended! No longer will their eyes meet with those bound in the chains
+of physical slavery, or their ears listen to the heavy sobs of the
+oppressed child of God. But o'er a land dedicated to the principles of
+impartial liberty the King of Day will rise and set, and hearts now
+oppressed with care and sorrow will rejoice in the blessings of
+uninterrupted freedom.
+
+"In this eventful revolution, what the patriots of the past failed to
+accomplish their descendants will perform, with the timely assistance of
+invisible powers. By their sides the heavenly hosts will labor,
+imparting courage and fortitude in each hour of despondency, and urging
+them onward to a speedy and magnificent triumph. Deploring, as we do,
+the existence of slavery, and the means to be employed to purge it from
+America, yet our sympathies will culminate to the cause of right and
+justice, and give strength to those who seek to set the captive free,
+and crush the monster, Slavery. The picture which I have presented is,
+indeed, a hideous one. You may think that I speak with too much
+assurance when I thus boldly prophesy the dissolution of the American
+Confederacy, and, through it, the destruction of that gigantic
+structure, human slavery! But this knowledge was not the result of a
+moment's or an hour's gleaning, but nearly half a century's existence in
+the seraph life. I have carefully watched my country's rising progress,
+and I am thoroughly convinced that it cannot always exist under the
+present Federal Constitution, and the pressure of that most terrible
+sin, slavery!"
+
+Had the people of this country been sufficiently enlightened to
+investigate these messages fairly, they would have seen that there was
+sufficient evidence that this warning really came from Washington, and
+the pulpit would have enforced its solemn truths. But our destiny was
+fixed; Washington knew that his voice would not be heeded, and that
+war could not be prevented.
+
+Again came the warning in 1860, through the lips of a more
+intellectual medium, more capable of expressing the bright thought of
+the higher world. Mrs. E. Hardinge Britten tells the story in her
+"History of American Spiritualism," pages 416-419. She refers to the
+stupid and criminal action of the Legislature of Alabama; and a
+similar piece of brutality has been recommended by a committee in the
+Pennsylvania Legislature recently. The following is quoted from the
+History.
+
+
+THE ALABAMA LEGISLATURE AND THE SPIRITS--PROPHECY IN THE ALABAMA
+LEGISLATIVE HALLS--RETRIBUTION.
+
+Sometime about the month of January, 1860, the Legislature of Alabama
+passed a bill declaring that any person or persons giving public
+spiritual manifestations in Alabama should be subject to a penalty of
+five hundred dollars.
+
+We have given the substance, though not the exact wording of this
+edict, which was met by considerable opposition, not only on the part
+of great numbers of Spiritualists resident in the State, but also by
+the governor himself, who refused to give his sanction to the bill.
+
+Mr. George Redman, the celebrated physical test medium, had just
+passed through the South, and remained long enough to create an
+immense interest throughout its length and breadth.
+
+The author was already engaged to deliver a course of lectures in
+Mobile, and numerous invitations were sent to her from other parts of
+the State.
+
+As Mrs. Hardinge's visit was anticipated at the very time when the
+bill above named was in agitation, its friends in the Legislature
+considered themselves much aggrieved by the governor's refusal to
+sanction its passage, and deeming either that he was suspiciously
+favorable to the cause it was designed to destroy, or that their own
+case would be aggravated by the advent of the expected lecturer, they
+passed their bill over the governor's veto, just twenty-four hours
+before the explosion anticipated on her arrival could take place.
+
+On landing in Mobile, Mrs. Hardinge was greeted by a large and
+enthusiastic body of friends, but found herself precluded, by
+legislative wisdom, from expounding the sublime truths of immortality
+in a city whose walls were placarded all over with bills announcing
+the arrival of Madame Leon, the celebrated "seeress and business
+clairvoyant, who would show the picture of your future husband, tell
+the successful numbers in lotteries, and enable any despairing lover
+to secure the affections of his heart's idol," etc. Side by side with
+these creditable but legalized exhibitions, were flaming announcements
+of "the humbug of Spiritualism exposed by Herr Marvel," with a long
+list of all the astonishing feats which "this only genuine living
+wizard" would display for the benefit of the pious State where angelic
+ministry might not be spoken of.
+
+Mrs. Hardinge passed through Mobile, leaving many warm hearts behind
+her, who would fain have exchanged these profane caricatures for the
+glad tidings which beloved spirit friends were ready to dispense to
+the world.
+
+In passing through the capital city, Montgomery, a detention occurred
+of some hours, in forming a railway connection _en route_ for Macon,
+Georgia, when Mrs. Hardinge and some friends travelling in her
+company, were induced to while away the tedious time by visiting the
+State House. The Legislature was not sitting that day, and one of the
+party, a Spiritualist, remarked that they were even then standing in
+the very chamber from which the recent obnoxious enactment against
+their faith had issued.
+
+The day was warm, soft, and clear. The sweet southern breeze stirred a
+few solitary pines which waved on the capitol hill, and the scene from
+the windows of the legislative hall was pleasant, tranquil, and
+suggestive of calm but sluggish peace.
+
+At that period--January, 1860--not an ominous murmur, not the faintest
+whisper, even, that the war spirit was abroad, and the legions of
+death and ruin were lighting their brands and sharpening their
+relentless swords to be drenched in the life-blood of millions, had
+made itself heard in the land.
+
+The long cherished purposes of hate and fratricidal struggle were all
+shrouded in the depths of profound secrecy, and the whole southern
+country might have been represented in the scene of stillness and
+tranquility that lay outstretched before the eyes of the watchers, who
+stood in the State House of the capital city of Alabama, on that
+pleasant January afternoon.
+
+There were present six persons besides the author, namely: Mr. and
+Mrs. Adams, of Tioga County, Pennsylvania; Mrs. Waters and her son, a
+Scotch lady and gentleman from Aberdeen; Mr. Halford, of New York
+City; and Mr. James, of Philadelphia. All but the mother and son from
+Scotland were acquainted with the author, and more or less sympathetic
+with her belief; all are now living, and willing to testify to what
+follows.
+
+Suddenly Mrs. Hardinge became entranced, when the whole scene, laying
+outstretched before her eyes, appeared to become filled with long
+lines of glittering horse and foot soldiers, who, in martial pomp and
+military discipline, filed, rank after rank and regiment after
+regiment, through the streets of Montgomery, and then passed off into
+distance, and were lost to view.
+
+Meantime the crash of military music seemed to thrill through the
+clairvoyant's ears, at first merely marking the tramp of the vast
+bodies of infantry with a joyous rhythm, but anon, as it died off in
+their receding march, wild, agonizing shrieks commingled with its
+tones, and the thundering roll of the drums seemed to be muffled by
+deep, low, but heart-rending groans, as of human sufferers in their
+last mortal agony.
+
+At length all was still again; the last gleam of the muskets flashed
+in the sunlight and melted away in the dim horizon; the last echo of
+the strangely mingled music and agony ceased, and then, over the whole
+radiant landscape, there stole an advancing army of clouds, like a
+march of tall gray columns, reaching from earth to the skies, and
+filling the air with such a dense and hideous gloom that the whole
+scene became swallowed up in the thick, serried folds of mist. In the
+midst of these cloudy legions, the eye of the seeress could discern
+innumerable forms who seemed to shiver and bend, as if in the whirl of
+a hidden tempest, and flitted restlessly hither and thither, aimless
+and hopeless, apparently driven by some invisible power from nothing
+to nowhere.
+
+And these mystic shadows, flitting about in the thick grayness, were
+unbodied souls; not like visitants from the bright summer land, nor
+yet beings resembling the dark, undeveloped "dwellers on the
+threshold," whom earthly crimes held bound near their former homes,
+but they seemed as if they were misty emanations of unripe human
+bodies, scarcely conscious of their state, yet living, actual
+individualities, once resident in mortal tenements, but torn from
+their sheltering envelope too soon, or too suddenly, to have acquired
+the strength and consistency of a fresh existence. And yet the numbers
+of these restless phantoms were legion, and their multitude seemed to
+be ever increasing, when, lo! this weird phantasmagoria too passed
+away, but not before the seeress had, with entranced lips, described
+to the listeners every feature of the scene she had witnessed.
+
+Then the influence seemed to deepen upon her, and she pronounced words
+which the young Scotchman, Mr. Waters, a phonographic writer,
+transcribed upon the spot to the following effect:
+
+    "Woe, woe to thee, Alabama!
+
+    "Fair land of rest, thy peace shall depart, thy glory be
+    shorn, and the proud bigots, tyrants, and cowards, who have
+    driven God's angels back from thy cities, even in this
+    chamber, have sealed thy doom, and their own together.
+
+    "Woe to thee, Alabama! Ere five drear years have fled, thou
+    shalt sit as a widow, desolate.
+
+    "The staff from thy husband's hand shall be broken, the crown
+    plucked from his head, the sceptre rent from his grasp.
+
+    "Thy sons shall be slain, thy legislators mocked and bound
+    with the chains thou hast fastened on others.
+
+    "The blind ones, who have proscribed the spirits of love and
+    comfort from ministry in thy homes, shall be spirits
+    themselves, and ere those five years be passed, more spirits
+    than bodies shall wander in the streets of Alabama, homeless,
+    restless, and unripe, torn from their earthly tenements, and
+    unfit for their heavenly ones; until thy grass-grown streets
+    and thy moss-covered dwellings shall be the haunts of legions
+    of unbodied souls, whom thy crimes shall have violently thrust
+    into eternity!"
+
+When this involuntary prophecy of evil import was read by the young
+scribe to the disenthralled medium, her own horror and regret at its
+utterance far exceeded that of any of her aghast listeners, not one of
+whom, any more than herself, attached to it any other meaning than an
+impression produced by temporary excitement and the sphere of the
+unholy legislative chamber.
+
+How deeply significant this fearful prophecy became during the ensuing
+five years, all who were witnesses to its utterance, and many others,
+to whom it was communicated in that same year, can bear witness of.
+
+Swept into the red gulf of all-consuming war, many of the unhappy
+gentlemen who had legislated against "the spirits in Alabama," became,
+during the ensuing five years, spirits themselves, and have doubtless
+realized the inestimable privileges which the communion they so rashly
+denounced on earth was calculated to afford to the inhabitants of the
+spheres.
+
+In other respects, the fatal prophecy has been too literally
+fulfilled. Many a regiment of brave men have marched out of the city
+streets of Alabama, only to return as unbodied souls, and to behold
+the streets grass-grown and deserted, and the thresholds which their
+mortal feet might never again cross, overspread with the moss of
+corruption and decay.
+
+Alabama has truly sat "as a widow, desolate." Her strength has been
+shorn, her beauty gone. No State has sent forth a greater number of
+brave and devoted victims to the war than Alabama; no Southern State
+has suffered more fearfully. May God and kind angels lift the war
+curse from her widowed head!
+
+The following extract from a letter, written by Mr. Adams, one of the
+witnesses of the above scene, to the author, in 1864, from New York,
+during a temporary sojourn there, will carry its own comment on the
+fulfilment of the fatal prophecy:
+
+    "Now that my two poor boys are in daily danger of themselves
+    becoming 'unbodied spirits,' Emma, I continually revert to
+    that terrible prophecy of yours uttered in the assembly
+    chamber at Montgomery. Heaven knows I was then so little
+    prepared to expect war or any reasonable fulfilment of the
+    doom, that I could only look to see some great pestilence,
+    fire, or other sweeping calamity falling on poor Alabama. Last
+    night, when I read in the _Herald_ of the sweeping
+    extermination that had visited those two fine Alabama
+    regiments, I could not help going to Mrs. Adams's desk, where
+    she keeps the copy that young Waters made us of your prophecy,
+    and reading it aloud to the whole company.
+
+    "Our friend J. B., who was present, insisted upon seeing the
+    date, and when he saw that it was January, 1860, they were all
+    fairly aghast, and said if ever there was genuine prophecy it
+    was contained in that paper."
+
+
+
+
+CLEARING AWAY THE FOG.
+
+
+An esteemed correspondent writes, "For several years I have been a
+reader of some of the treatises you have published in the interest of
+progressive thought, and have found much to admire and reread; yet an
+occasional paragraph containing the formula of orthodox theology, with
+its dogma of God and Jesus, interwoven into your sequences of
+argument, mystifies and perplexes my reason and judgment, and I
+indulge in much speculation regarding your exact position,--whether
+Christianity is to be vitalized and conserved by the discoverer of
+modern science, or the Bible dogmas and traditions reinterpreted to
+coincide with scientific method."
+
+I am not aware of having ever written anything that could make my
+position at all doubtful, nor do I see how doubts could arise in any
+one who attends carefully to my language, and does not indulge in
+drawing inferences therefrom which my language does not warrant. Upon
+this very question I have expressed myself fully in published
+lectures. I have never manifested any sympathy with the theology of
+the churches, have never failed to speak of it in terms of absolute
+denunciation, and see no reason why any one should suspect me of
+leaning in that direction.
+
+As to the recognition of God to which my correspondent objects, I
+think science, as I understand it, sanctions the idea that the basic
+power of the universe is spiritual and not material; that spirit may
+evolve, create, and modify matter, but matter never originates spirit,
+though they have a continual interaction, which it is the function of
+scientists to investigate, in which investigation, anthropology,
+especially in its department of sarcognomy, is a long step of
+progress. My investigations have given me some additional evidence as
+to the Divine existence beyond what has been recorded, but do not
+sanction the personal anthropological conceptions of Deity, which
+bring the Divine within the conceptions of narrow and superstitious
+minds.
+
+Having discarded the whole scheme of Christian theology, there is no
+reason why I should reject the fundamental principles of religion,
+which are at the basis of all religions, and which are sanctioned by
+the study of man's religious nature. The spirit of the Christian
+religion as it appeared among the founders of Christianity appears to
+me a more perfect expression of religion than I find in any other of
+the world's religions, more spiritual, devoted, loving, and heroic,
+more in accordance with the true religion which belongs to man's
+noblest faculties.
+
+As for Jesus, I think the general opinion of historians and scholars
+as to his historic existence is correct, but whether the historic
+accounts are reliable or not I am entirely certain of his existence
+to-day as one of the most exalted beings in the spirit world,--the
+spirit of the Teacher who appeared in Palestine, whose principles and
+purposes are the same advocated by myself, and who like all the other
+exalted and ancient spirits is profoundly interested in human welfare
+and in the progress of spiritual science, and reformation of the
+_so-called_ Christian Church. I have had sufficient psychometric
+perception at times to realize the _present_ character of such beings
+as Jesus, Moses, St. John, John the Baptist, St. Peter, Confucius,
+Joan of Arc, and Gen. Washington, as well as many other admirable
+beings whose influence falls like dews upon many sympathetic souls.
+
+I realize most profoundly and sadly the absence from all the high
+places of society of those nobler qualities which I recognize in the
+higher world, but I labor in the hope that when mankind have advanced
+into the light of anthropological science they shall become
+enlightened enough to sympathize with the supernal life in reverent
+love, and to organize a social condition here which will bring even
+the lowest classes into so satisfactory a condition that
+philosophizers will no longer have to wrestle with the problem of evil
+and explain the great mystery that a universe so full of the marks of
+a grandly benevolent purpose should still be marred and dishonored by
+human misery and degradation. It would be an unsolvable problem to-day
+did we not perceive through spiritual science the immense
+preponderance of good in the glorious plan of life of which this world
+shows only the beginning.
+
+As an anthropologist, I cannot but esteem and cherish the religious
+element of human nature. Sincere worship is simply the most exalted
+love, and fills human life with nobility and benevolence; let those
+who can, worship the divine; let those who shrink from the thought of
+the Infinite, worship the most exalted beings they may conceive, and
+let those who cannot quite reach the exalted beings of the spirit
+world, worship their parents or children, or conjugal companions,--for
+worship is but unlimited love,--and they who recoil from humanity may
+perhaps find something to adore in the beauty and grandeur of nature
+on this globe, which every summer arrays in beauty, and in the
+grandeur of stellar worlds. From love and adoration come
+obedience,--which is the perfect life, for it is not slavery, but
+harmony and delight.
+
+Profound science does not take away religion, as superficial or false
+science does, but develops a far nobler, holier, and more beneficent
+religion than any churches comprehend. It corresponds to that ideal
+religion which belongs to the higher realms of the spirit world, and
+which has sometimes appeared on earth in inspired mortals, and most
+often in women whose souls were devoted to love. That this religious
+sentiment appeared in the time of Jesus among inspired men, I believe,
+and their lives and sentiments have been to me an inspiration,
+enabling me to believe in the _practicability_ of that which
+philosophy teaches concerning the religious life, which without those
+illustrious examples might have seemed an unattainable excellence in
+the present conditions of society.
+
+I do not object to any worship of Jesus and his illustrious associate
+reformers, for true worship will lead to the imitation of their heroic
+lives. They were not divine, and were too heroically faithful to truth
+to put forth any such false claims, nor could they in that dark age be
+profound in science, or correct in all their opinions, as they are now
+in a higher world. As they were on earth I honor them; as they are in
+heaven to-day I honor them far more. They silently invite us to reach
+that higher plane of life on which their beneficent influence and
+inspiration may be felt. Fortunate are they reach that plane.
+
+
+
+
+THE DANGER OF LIVING AMONG CHRISTIANS.
+
+A QUESTION OF PEACE OR WAR.
+
+
+It is seldom that any of the great questions of the time are treated
+from an ethical standpoint. Old opinions and old usages furnish the
+standpoint for our press writers, our politicians, and our clergy. The
+question of national defence has been under discussion for years, and
+Samuel J. Tilden, who was regarded by millions as the ablest of our
+statesmen, gave his whole mental power to urging its consideration
+upon the American people; but if this question has ever been seriously
+discussed from the ethical standpoint it has escaped my notice. The
+nearest approach to the ethical view was the suggestion of the _Boston
+Herald_ that in putting on the full armor of national defence the
+effect might be to stimulate the haughty and warlike impulses of our
+people, and thus increase the danger of war, while a defenceless
+seacoast would tend to inspire prudence and moderation in our national
+government.
+
+There is a great deal of truth in this view. We have a score of
+prominent politicians whose sentiments on international questions are
+too much like those of a bully in private life, and they have a
+dangerous amount of influence in public affairs.
+
+Turning aside from these popular discussions, the JOURNAL OF MAN
+maintains the ethical standpoint for the consideration of such
+subjects; and its first suggestion would be, Why should the people--of
+this country spend $120,000,000 as a preparation for slaughtering our
+brethren the Christian population of Europe, the only people from whom
+any danger can be apprehended--our brethren in civilization and
+Christianity, our brethren too by the ties of blood?
+
+Do they not all maintain the Christian religion (at least nominally)
+by all the power of their governments and public opinion? Would not
+our good people in visiting them or they in visiting us be invited to
+participate in the communion service which commemorates the martyred
+Teacher of the law of love? Are they not our brethren, the neighbors
+to whom the command applies, "Love thy neighbor as thyself"? Is this
+our Christian love, to spend a hundred and twenty millions for the
+assassination of our beloved brethren--avowedly for that purpose? It
+is needless to object to the word _assassination_,--wholesale murder
+by armies is substantially the same thing as separate murders by each
+individual of the army.
+
+But, it is urged, we are in danger of invasion, and the bombardment of
+our cities. Does any one seriously believe that a powerful nation intent
+on peace--the strongest power in the world, the friend of all mankind,
+ready to submit any international question to arbitration--would be in
+danger of an unjust, lawless, causeless assault from the Christian
+nations of Europe, who have so much to lose and nothing to gain by
+war, and who have already, in their groaning, tax-burdened people, a
+sufficient reminder of the folly and criminality of war? They have not
+money for another war, which would bring on the dangers of bankruptcy
+and the revolt of the oppressed masses.
+
+It must be that this is seriously apprehended, or else that it is
+feared that the arrogant and bullying temper of our own people or our
+politicians may originate and exasperate international irritation to
+the insane extreme of war.
+
+What a horrible theory is this! Is all the civilization,
+statesmanship, and Christianity of the leading nations of the earth
+incapable of withholding them from such gigantic crimes? Is
+Christendom the only dangerous portion of the world, where an
+honorable and peaceful nation cannot exist in safety?
+
+The heathen nations are not a source of danger. If Christendom were
+annihilated to-morrow, there would be no occasion to speak of
+defending our coasts or building up a powerful navy. It is apparent,
+then--it is confessed--that it is very dangerous to live among these
+Christian nations, or in other words, it is very _dangerous to live
+among Christians_, as they are called! But do our statesmen or our
+clergy suggest this view? Do they recoil from war or inspire the
+people with thoughts of peace? Never! One of the conspicuous clergymen
+of England was the fiercest advocate of war with Russia. The
+fundamental principle of the Christianity of Jesus is dead in the
+so-called Christian church, except in that little fragment, the church
+of the Quakers, who, for their fidelity to the fundamental principle,
+were scourged and _hanged_ in Boston by the _pious_ predecessors of
+our present churches, until they were forbidden by the unsanctified
+monarch, Charles II. Has the old spirit died out? Look at the
+hostility to Theodore Parker--to spiritual investigation, even. See
+the scornful and hostile attitude of the descendant of Cotton Mather,
+Col. Higginson.
+
+It may be a shocking proposition to say that it is dangerous to live
+among Christians, but it is a sober reality, to which I invite the
+attention of clergymen and moralists who wish to live up to their
+profession, and who have enough of the ethical faculty to realize the
+central principle of true Christianity.
+
+If our statesmanship, religion, and education cannot protect us
+against such horrors, may we not justly say it is a false
+statesmanship, a false religion, and a false education? Indeed, our
+whole fabric of opinion and morals is fundamentally false, and the
+JOURNAL OF MAN goes to record as an indictment at the bar of heaven
+against the polished barbarism of modern society, against which we
+hear only a feeble and almost inaudible protest.
+
+Boston has a highly respectable and _immensely perfunctory_ Peace
+Society, amply endowed with names and numbers, of which our late
+postmaster was the president, and whose presidency was vastly more
+inefficient than his postmastership.
+
+A peace society might possibly be established in Boston, if its best
+people could be roused, but the society that we have is little better
+than a piece of ornamental nomenclature. When there is anything to be
+done it understands how not to do it. When Mr. Gladstone had performed
+the most glorious act of his life in the preservation of the peace of
+Europe against the fierce opposition of the turbulent element in
+England, an act which will make the brightest jewel in his crown of
+honor, there was an opportunity of sustaining him by American
+sympathy. The voice of Americans, if they cared aught for peace,
+should have been heard in Europe in commanding tones,--the voice of
+the people, the voice of Legislatures, the voice of the Federal
+government. An effort was made by half a dozen or less of enlightened
+gentlemen in Boston to have a fitting response emanate from this city.
+Dr. Miner and Hon. Stephen M. Allen realized its importance when I
+first suggested it, but on that occasion the Peace Society was a
+lifeless corpse. The society might have been waked up if Mr. Lowell,
+then returning from England, could have been induced to co-operate. He
+was approached on the subject, but would not respond,--he only said
+that he _desired rest_! Alas for the hollowness of American religion
+and philanthropy!
+
+There is a nobler religion than that of American churches, a nobler
+statesmanship than that of Mr. Tilden (which is a good specimen of the
+popular sort), a nobler education than that of our American schools
+and colleges--an education, a statesmanship, and a religion which will
+wash the blood from the sword, bury the sword in the earth, and
+proclaim the fraternity of man in all the nations of the earth.
+
+Ah! when shall the demand for the supremacy of the moral law be
+anything more than "the voice of one crying in the wilderness"? Is it
+not possible to have a protest against the barbarism of war from men
+of influence, who have sufficient mental power and strength of
+character to command the attention of the nation? When Elihu Burritt
+and Robert Dale Owen were alive I thought it might be possible, but it
+was not attempted. Is it possible now? Is all the genius and energy of
+the American people bound in fidelity to the Moloch of war? I do not
+believe it, and would invite correspondence from those who share this
+belief and wish to co-operate in such a movement.
+
+We have to-day a practical subject of discussion: Shall we, the people
+of the United States, tax ourselves $120,000,000 at once and an
+unknown amount hereafter, to place ourselves upon a par with the
+homicidal nations of Europe, and sanction by our example the
+infernalism in which they have lived from Caesar to the Napoleonic
+period, or shall we endeavor to introduce a true civilization, lay
+aside the weapons of homicide, and urge by our powerful mediation the
+disarmament of Europe, relieving the oppressed millions from
+accumulating war debts, and from that infernalism of the soul which
+makes the duel still an established institution in France and even in
+German universities? Shall we move onward toward humane civilization,
+or cling to a surviving barbarism?
+
+The measure now proposed is an abandonment of Divine law, and a
+practical pledge of this country to the infernalism of war. It is a
+declaration that we do not believe peace attainable at all, and that
+we indorse and seek to renew forever the blood-stained history of the
+past.
+
+Is there not among our politicians who sustained the Blair Education
+bill some one whose voice may be heard in behalf of peace? Is Col.
+Ingersoll too much of a pessimist to believe that American moral power
+will be sufficient in time to calm the world's agitation? Let him
+espouse this cause, and he will find it more practical by far than
+riding down the ghosts of an effete theology. Let Henry George turn
+his attention to this question, and he will find in it even more than
+in the question of sovereignty over the land; for every acre on the
+globe, if confiscated to-day, would pay but a portion of the boundless
+cost of war. The blood alone that has incarnadined all lands is worth
+vastly more than the dead soil into which it has been poured. Let Dr.
+McGlynn, who has already entered on the perilous path of the reformer,
+look at this question in the light of religion and philanthropy, and
+he will find it more worthy of his attention than any other
+practicable reform, for it is practicable now and here to roll back
+the warlike policy from its approach to our national government.
+
+Are not such questions as these worthy of the profound attention of
+such men as Rev. Dr. Miner, Rev. M. J. Savage, Rev. J. K. Applebee,
+and Rev. W. H. Thomas of Chicago? They are not theological dilettanti,
+but earnest thinkers. Should not every Universalist and every Quaker
+realize that it is time for them to stir when our nation's destiny is
+under discussion, and that their voices should be heard at Washington?
+
+The proposition is made and sustained by the influence of Mr. Tilden,
+to place this country in the list of mail-clad warrior nations, and it
+is rather a fascinating proposition to those who entertain pessimistic
+ideas of man, and believe that all nations are ready to slay and rob
+when they have a good opportunity.
+
+Capt. F. V. Greene, late of the U. S. engineering corps, appears as
+the advocate of American fortifications, and at the Massachusetts
+Reform Club he presented his views substantially as follows: The
+United States have 3,000 miles of Atlantic and Gulf coast, 2,200 on
+the lakes, and 1,200 on the Pacific, and have cities on these coasts
+aggregating a wealth of $6,000,000,000--all exposed to a hostile
+fleet, which could in a short time destroy everything within
+cannon-shot from the water, and drive five millions of people from
+their city homes. The fortification board estimates $120,000,000 as
+the sum necessary to supply cannon and forts for protection, which is
+but two per cent upon the amount of property protected.
+
+This is a very satisfactory statement of the case from the average
+standpoint, which is not the ethical. But in the first place I
+consider it morally sure that this country will never have a foreign
+war if it models its national policy on the Divine law; and secondly,
+whenever war is foreseen as probable in consequence of an intolerable
+spirit of aggression and the refusal of the hostile party to submit to
+arbitration, a sufficient number of cannon can be cast and placed on
+floating batteries or behind iron walls to protect every endangered
+point. It would be necessary only to know that our foundries were
+adequate to the task; and the fact that such an armament was preparing
+would be a sufficient warning to avert a hostile movement. Yet the
+costly steel cannon, which require such enormous appropriations to
+prepare for their manufacture on a large scale, are not absolutely
+necessary. It has been shown by recent experiments that dynamite
+shells of 150 pounds can be thrown two miles and a quarter by air
+pressure or steam pressure from light, slender-built cannon, or steel
+tubes of unusual length, which may be enlarged to compete with the
+most formidable artillery. A single steel-clad vessel of the Monitor
+type with such an armament could destroy a squadron.
+
+But let arbitration be known as our fixed national policy--let us
+secure also the co-operation of other nations pledged to the
+arbitration policy, and war would be almost an impossibility.
+
+Capt. Greene's exposition of the necessity of coast defence was clear
+and forcible, but his concluding remarks gave a glimpse of peaceful
+purposes. "He supplemented his speech by remarking that the United
+States will probably be called on before long to be the arbitrator
+between the nations of Europe. The latter cannot stand the financial
+strain much longer, and inside of twenty years we shall probably be
+the equal in population and wealth of any two, if not three, nations
+of Europe, and to us will be referred all their disputes for
+settlement. When we become the referees of the world we must have the
+force behind us, so that when we give a decision we shall be able to
+enforce it; and this can only be adequately effected by a perfect
+system of coast defences."
+
+Commander Burke of the U.S. Navy, who followed Capt. Greene "thought
+that if the Irish question be settled satisfactorily, there will be no
+danger of a war with England unless we desire war. He had been advised
+that the English people, Great Britain and her colonies, look to the
+Americans to assist them in case of war with any foreign powers, and
+there is a strong sentiment of friendship for the American people for
+that reason, if for no other. He believed that the use of high
+explosives, by which war could be rendered more dangerous, would
+result in reducing the probability of war."
+
+Certainly if the United States would lead in a pacific policy, Great
+Britain, under Gladstone, would unite in the movement, and arbitration
+would ere long become the policy of the world, and would not long be
+the established policy before disarmament would follow and the sword
+be buried forever.
+
+
+
+
+LEGISLATIVE QUACKERY, IGNORANCE, AND BLINDNESS TO THE FUTURE.
+
+
+In Iowa, by the management of a medical clique, a law has been juggled
+through the Legislature, under which the founders of Christianity
+would have been criminals, and prolonged imprisonment might have been
+as effective as crucifixion. That any class of men could have been
+mean enough and shameless enough to ask for such a law is a sad
+commentary on the demoralizing influence of medical schools, from
+which they derived their inspiration; and that any legislative body
+could have yielded to the demand is another illustration of the well
+known corruption of political life.
+
+The Iowa papers state that Mrs. Post, of McGregor, Iowa, has been
+twice arrested, convicted, and fined fifty dollars and costs for
+praying with the sick and curing them. European tyranny is eclipsed in
+Iowa. The old world is freer than the new, if the medical clique are
+allowed to rule. G. Milner Stephen performs his miraculous cures in
+London with honor, and Dorothea Trudell had her house of cure by
+prayer in Switzerland, which has been made famous in religious
+literature. All over Europe the people enjoy a freedom in the choice
+of their physicians which has been prohibited in Iowa.
+
+The Legislature of Maine which adjourned March 17 was induced, by the
+newspaper comments on two bogus institutions which had been chartered
+some years ago, to depart from their settled policy and pass a law
+prepared by the medical clique, but not quite as stringent as that of
+Iowa. Gov. Bodwell, however, vetoed the bill, pointing out its
+objectionable features, and the Senate, which had passed it
+unanimously, after being enlightened by the governor rejected it by a
+nearly two thirds majority, showing how thoughtlessly a great deal of
+our legislation is effected.
+
+Under the laws which the colleges and their clique seek to establish,
+Priessnitz could never have introduced hydropathy, Pasteur could not
+have inoculated for hydrophobia without danger of imprisonment, and
+the great American Medical Reformation, which abolished the lancet and
+mercurial practice, and which is now represented by seven colleges,
+would have been strangled at its birth, for its primitive origin was
+outside of college authority. There are other great ideas, great
+discoveries, great reforms, not yet strong enough to be embodied in
+colleges, which medical legislation is designed to suppress, to
+enforce a creedal uniformity.
+
+Another piece of legislative quackery is revealed in the action of
+Congress as stated in the following paragraph concerning "a new
+bureau."
+
+"One of the acts of the retiring Congress has not been noted so far,
+but, though not a large item in itself, it is the entering wedge of
+subsequent legislation which will be of the highest importance to the
+country. It is the item in the legislative appropriation bill which
+allows of the expenditure of $10,000 by the bureau of labor "for the
+collection of statistics of and relating to marriage and divorce in
+the several states and territories, and in the District of Columbia."
+This gives the opportunity, which has heretofore not existed, to
+obtain reasonably accurate statistics of what is going on as concerns
+the integrity of the family throughout the whole country. This will be
+a department under Col. Wright, in the work of the bureau of labor,
+and is one of the results of persistent work which the National
+Divorce League has done, under the direction of its secretary, Rev. S.
+W. Dike. Col. Wright has already formulated plans which are likely to
+make this new branch of the labor bureau the channel for one of the
+most valuable reports which have yet come from his hands. It will be
+the gathering of facts whose study will suggest wise legislation in
+the future."
+
+It may not be absolutely unconstitutional for Congress to collect such
+statistics, but it is contrary to the spirit of the constitution.
+Congress has nothing whatever to do with such social questions, which
+are exclusively matters of state legislation. It has allowed itself to
+be made a cat's paw by the National Divorce League for its
+retrogressive policy. The welfare of society is deeply concerned in
+breaking up all unhappy, discordant marriages, which are simply
+nurseries of misery and crime. Every generous sentiment should prompt
+us to go to the relief of the large number of women who suffer in
+secret from tyranny and brutality, while from poverty, timidity,
+helplessness, and a dread of publicity or censure, they endure their
+wrongs in silence, and continue to bear children cursed from their
+conception with intemperance and brutality. And when they seek to
+escape, a barbarian law comes in to give the brutal husband the
+ownership of their offspring; and thus they are bound fast as galley
+slaves in their unhappy position.
+
+The Legislature of Massachusetts had the opportunity of redressing
+this wrong at their present session; but, like other masculine
+legislatures in the past, they were deaf to the voice of mercy, and
+the press quietly reports (March 18) that "Inexpedient was reported
+by the House judiciary committee on equalizing the respective rights
+of husband and wife in relation to their minor children, and on
+equalizing their interest in each other's property."
+
+The ladies who are so active in behalf of woman suffrage might have
+taken more interest in this vital question, which was so easily
+disposed of. A great wrong remains unredressed.
+
+The barbarous policy of the church of Rome, which has been finally
+abolished even in Catholic France, where divorce is now permitted, our
+clerical bigots would revive in this country, as if it were the
+business of the state to encourage or compel the propagation of the
+worthless and criminal classes!
+
+It is not the interest of the state to encourage human multiplication
+at all, for it is already too powerful and progressive. It is the
+public interest to check all propagation but that of good citizens,
+and to protect all women from enforced maternity, whether enforced
+under legal powers or by the arts of seduction and libertinism.
+
+Prostitution, in the light of political economy, is far less of an
+evil than the enforced maternity of wretched and discordant families,
+which becomes the fountain of an endless flow of crime, while
+prostitution shows its evils only in the parties immediately
+concerned, and effectually purifies society in time by arresting the
+propagation of its most worthless members. In the same manner it may
+be said that some epidemics are an advantage to society, by cutting
+off the feeble and worthless constitutions so as to leave a better
+race. Any one who recollects the history of the Jukes family, and the
+number of criminals infesting society who were descendants of one
+depraved pair, will not believe that such a propagation of crime
+should be permitted. The worthless class should not be allowed to
+marry, and the criminals whom the state finds it necessary to confine
+in the penitentiary should be permanently deprived of the power of
+parentage.
+
+Few ever reflect upon the necessary consequences of the growth of
+population. The great wars, famines, and pestilences as in the past
+will not be able to keep down population, and where it has free course
+under favorable circumstances it doubles in twenty-five or thirty
+years. In two centuries more we shall begin to feel a terrible
+pressure, and that pressure will be aggravated by the exhaustion of
+coal mines, of petroleum, of gas, and of forests. In Great Britain
+alone 120,000,000 tons of coal are annually mined.
+
+It may be safely assumed that one thousand to the square mile is about
+the limit of population of the world, a limit at which population must
+be arrested. Massachusetts is already within less than a century of
+its utmost possible limit. It has at this time about 250 to the square
+mile, and at the American rate of growth it would reach its utmost
+limit by the year 1950, and begin to realize the crush and crisis of a
+crowded population, which must either cease to grow or encounter the
+horrors of famine and social convulsions arising from the struggle for
+life, or the calamities arising from unfortunate seasons which in
+China and India have in our own time hurried millions into their
+graves.
+
+If Massachusetts is within sixty years of this collision with destiny,
+other countries are still nearer the dead line of the coming century.
+Italy is parallel with Massachusetts and Rhode Island, but Great
+Britain and Ireland are considerably further advanced. British India
+and the Netherlands are still further advanced, and half a century, if
+they had the American ratio of growth, would bring them to their
+limit, while Belgium's progress would be arrested in thirty years.
+
+A wise statesmanship would not seek to hurry mankind on to this great
+crisis, the results of which have never been foreseen or provided for,
+but would realize that the greater the amount of inferior and
+demoralized population the more terrible must that crisis be when it
+comes--a crisis which can be safely borne only by elevating the entire
+population to a higher condition than any nation has ever heretofore
+attained.
+
+Calculate as we may, the crisis must come, as certainly as death comes
+to each individual; and whether our social system can bear the strain
+of such conditions is beyond human ken. Look even two centuries ahead,
+and what do we see? At that time the prolific energy of the people of
+this republic, if continued as it has been in the past, will give us
+more than twice the estimated population of the entire globe at
+present--more than three thousand millions.
+
+It is possible that our vast territory (including Alaska) of three
+million, six hundred thousand square miles may, with the greatly
+improved agriculture of the future, maintain such a population,
+especially if relieved by overflow to the north and south.
+
+If the evil elements at work to-day predominate in our population,
+which retrogressive legislation would promote, it will be a time of
+calamity and social convulsions; but if the benevolent and
+enlightening influences now at work predominate (as we may hope), two
+centuries hence will bring us to a consummation of prosperity,
+enlightenment, and happiness, of which the pessimistic and sceptical
+thinkers of to-day have no conception. A thorough comprehension of the
+science of man will lead us in the path of enlightened progress.
+
+
+
+
+EVILS THAT NEED ATTENTION.
+
+
+The public mind has been greatly stirred upon the subject of
+monopolies and legislative abuses; but there are some glaring evils,
+which a short statute might suppress, that are flourishing unchecked.
+
+Speculative dealers in the necessaries of life have learned how to
+build colossal fortunes by extortion from the entire nation, and the
+nation submits quietly because gambling competition is the fashion.
+The late Charles Partridge endeavored to show up these evils and have
+them suppressed. We need another Partridge to complete the work he
+undertook.
+
+A despatch to the _Boston Herald_, March 5, shows how the game has
+been played in Chicago on the pork market:
+
+"'Phil Armour must have been getting ready for this break for three
+months,' said a member of the board of trade to-day. 'Since September
+last he has visited nearly every large city in the country. He knows
+from observation where all the pork is located, and, having cornered it,
+his southern trip was a scheme to throw his enemies off the scent, and
+enable his brokers to quietly strengthen the corner. His profits and
+Plankinton's cannot be less than $3,000,000.'
+
+"But if Armour and his old Milwaukee side partner have made money, so
+have hundreds of others here. A messenger boy in the board of trade drew
+$100 from a savings bank on Monday last at 11 o'clock and margined 100
+barrels of pork. To-day the lad deposited $1,000, and has $300 for
+speculation next week.
+
+"Those poor snorts who are expecting to have pork to-day to make their
+settlement, paid $21. Anything less was scouted. 'You will have to pay
+$25 next Saturday night,' was all the comfort afforded.
+
+"An advance of 2 cents a bushel in wheat was also scored by the bulls
+to-day. The explanation is that the several big wheat syndicates
+encouraged by the action of pork have made an alliance. The talk at the
+hotels to-night is that Armour has started in to buy wheat."
+
+We have laws that forbid boycotting, and they are enforced in New York
+and New Haven by two recent decisions. Financial extortion is an equal
+crime, and needs a law for its suppression. Why is the metropolitan
+press silent? Have the syndicates too much influence? Will editors who
+read these lines speak out?
+
+In the last _North American Review_, James F. Hudson, in an essay on
+"Modern Feudalism," says:--
+
+"The conquest of all departments of industry by the power of combination
+has just begun. But the mere beginning has imposed unwarrantable taxes
+on the fuel, light, and food of the masses. It has built up vast
+fortunes for the combining classes, drawn from the slender means of
+millions. It has added an immense stimulant to the process, already too
+active, of making the rich richer and the poor poorer. The tendency in
+this direction is shown by the arguments with which the press has teemed
+for the past two months, that the process of combination is a necessary
+feature of industrial growth, and that the competition which fixes the
+profits of every ordinary trader, investor or mechanic, must be
+abolished for the benefit of great corporations, while kept in full
+force against the masses of producers and consumers, between whom the
+barriers of these combinations are interposed."
+
+
+
+
+WHAT IS INTELLECTUAL GREATNESS?
+
+
+A large amount of that which the world calls greatness is nothing more
+than vigorous and brilliant commonplace. Taine, who is the most
+splendid writer upon Bonaparte, ascribes to him intellectual
+greatness, but it was greatness on a common plane--the plane of animal
+life. He had a grand comprehension of physical and social forces, of
+everything upon the selfish plane, for he was absolutely selfish, but
+of nothing that belongs to the higher life of man, to the civilization
+of coming centuries. To him Fulton was a visionary and so was Gall. It
+was not in his intellectual range to see the steamships that change
+the world's commerce, and the cerebral discoveries that are destined
+to revolutionize all philosophy.
+
+The pulpit orator, Beecher, who has just passed away, was estimated by
+many as intellectually great; but Mr. Beecher never took the position
+of independence that any great thinker must have occupied. He never
+moved beyond the sphere of popularity. He never led men but where they
+were already disposed to go. Upon the great question of the return of
+the spirit, one of the most important and fundamental of all religious
+questions, Mr. Beecher was silent. That silence was infidelity to
+truth, for Mr. Beecher was not ignorant of the truth he concealed. Nor
+was he faithful to any true ideal of religion. With his princely
+salary he accomplished less than other men, living upon a salary he
+would have scorned. He lived for self--he spent thousands of dollars
+on finger rings, and a hundred thousand on a fancy farm, but little if
+anything to make the world better.
+
+The _Boston Herald_ estimates very fairly his intellectual status,
+saying: "He spoke easily. His stories were well told, his points well
+put. He invested people with a new atmosphere, but he did not set them
+to thinking, and can hardly be called a thinker himself. Much as he
+has done to forward the vital interests of humanity, he has
+contributed nothing to the vital thinking of his generation. The
+secret of his power is the wonderful combination of animalism, with a
+certain bright way of stating the thoughts which are more or less in
+the minds of all men. Few preachers have lived with their eyes and
+ears more open to the world, and few have better understood the art of
+putting things. Mr. Beecher knew supremely well two persons--himself
+and the man next to him. In interesting the man next to him he
+interested the multitude. He had in a great degree the same qualities
+which made Norman McLeod the foremost preacher of his day in the
+Scotch pulpit. Such a man lives too much on the surface to exhaust
+himself. He has only to keep within the sphere of commonplace to
+interest people as long as he lives.... Mr. Beecher lived on the
+surface of things. He never got far below the surface. If he ever was
+profound it was only for a moment at a time.... His work was to
+illustrate the ideas which were operative in the world at the time,
+not to originate or formulate them."
+
+This is a just estimate. Brilliant commonplace is not greatness, but
+the man who is thoroughly commonplace in his conceptions, who
+expresses well and forcibly what his hearers think, is the one to win
+applause and popularity. Had Beecher been a great thinker, a church of
+moderate size would have held his followers. But he was not and
+thinkers knew it. The Rev. George L. Perin, of the Shawmut
+Universalist Church, Boston, said of Beecher, "As we have tried to
+analyze the influence of his address we have said to ourselves, 'There
+was nothing new in that, for I have thought the same thing a thousand
+times myself;' and yet at the same time everything _seemed_ new, and
+we have gone away thinking better of ourselves because he taught us to
+see what we were able to think but had not been able to express. He
+had the remarkable faculty of dressing up the things that everybody
+was thinking, and making us see that they were worth thinking. And
+there was something contagious about his wonderful faith in human
+nature. He believed in the divinity of man and made others believe in
+it." In other words, he added much to the sentiment of his hearer, but
+little to his thought. This was greatness of character and personal
+power, but not intellectual greatness. Beecher was a great man, but
+not a great thinker. The great thinker overwhelms his hearers with new
+and strange thought. The multitude, fixed in habit, reject it all.
+Clear and dispassionate thinkers feel that they cannot reject it, but
+it is too new even to them to elicit their enthusiasm. They sympathize
+with him only so far as they had previously cherished similar
+thoughts.
+
+Hence we see it is ordained that the teacher of great truths must
+struggle against great opposition; and in proportion to his resistance
+by his contemporaries is the grandeur of his reception by posterity;
+in proportion to the power arrayed against him is the remoteness of
+the century in which that power shall be extinct and his triumph
+complete.
+
+
+
+
+SPIRITUAL WONDERS.
+
+
+SLATER'S WONDERFUL SPIRITUAL TESTS (described by a Brooklyn newspaper
+correspondent).--"I have something to say to that gentlemen with the
+black hair and high forehead," he continued, turning to another part
+of the house; "you have a business engagement to-morrow morning at 10
+o'clock with two men. I see you go up a flight of steps into a room
+where there are two desks. In the second drawer of one of these are
+the papers of the transaction which you had in your hand to-day. You
+are going to invest $4,000. Is that all so?"
+
+"Perfectly," said the man, in amazement.
+
+"Well, now, these two men are sharpers, and if you want to save that
+$4,000 keep out of that bargain. Legal advice is good, but mine is
+better."
+
+"I believe it," said the man, emphatically. His name was C. G. Bulmer,
+and he lives at 229 Macon Street, Brooklyn. Your correspondent has
+since verified the accuracy of the test.
+
+"And don't you suffer with your limbs?" he inquired of a lady just in
+front of him.
+
+"Well, not now; I used to; I feel it now."
+
+"Well, I am going to show you that I know all about your limbs. The
+pain is here," he continued, touching the calf of his leg. "You have a
+peculiar feeling of drowsiness and then sharp pains run through you,
+right there. Is it true?"
+
+"Yes, sir."
+
+"I'll tell you something else. You missed what your sister called a
+big chance when you were seventeen years old, and she said you were a
+great fool to let it go by. Is that so?"
+
+"It is," said the lady reddening.
+
+"There's a man in the hall," he continued, pacing restlessly up and
+down with clasped hands. "He has been sitting here and saying to him
+self, 'Well, this is all mind-reading. Now, if he will tell me
+something that is going to happen I may believe something in
+Spiritualism.' He has been rather scoffing me. Now, I want to know if
+this is true. I am talking to you," pointing his long, thin finger at
+a gray-haired man who sat on his left. "All correct?" The man bowed
+his head. "Well, I tell you, that one Christmas day," he continued, so
+solemnly that a hush fell on the audience--"I don't think the spirits
+ought to tell these things, but I am forced to say that one Christmas
+day a member of your family will die." A startled look passed over his
+face, and a shiver ran through the audience at the uncanny message.
+The man's name could not be learned, but on the succeeding Sunday your
+correspondent heard two women get up in the audience and admit that
+the young Spiritualist was correct.
+
+
+SPIRIT PICTURES.--Henry Rogers, a slate writing and prescribing medium
+of established reputation, recently located at 683 Tremont Street,
+Boston, has wonderful powers in the production of spirit pictures of
+the departed. His most recent success is certainly a fine work of art,
+resembling a crayon portrait of a young lady. His previous pictures
+are entitled to a high rank as works of art. They are purely spirit
+productions, no human hand being concerned. San Francisco has similar
+productions under the mediumship of Fred Evans, but the pictures have
+not the artistic merit of those produced by Rogers, whose beautiful
+pictures, however, require many sittings for their production; while
+those of Duguid of Glasgow, and Mrs. De Bar of New York, are produced
+in a few minutes and are also highly artistic. One of the very finest
+works of art at San Francisco is the portrait of Mrs. Watson, made by
+a medium, Mr. Briggs.
+
+Our highest productions in art, music, poetry, philosophy, and
+medicine, are destined yet to come from the co-operation of the spirit
+world. We have no music at present superior to that of the medium
+Jesse Shepard.
+
+
+SPIRIT TELEGRAPHY.--In 1885 we were informed of the success of spirits
+at Cleveland, Ohio, in communicating messages by the telegraphic
+method in rapping, in which our millionaire friend, Mr. J. H. Wade,
+has taken much interest. A little apparatus has been constructed, with
+which the spirits give their communications in great variety. I have
+repeatedly stated that the diagnoses and prescriptions of deceased
+physicians have always proved in my experience more reliable than
+those of the living. This has been verified at Cleveland. The late Dr.
+Wells of Brooklyn has been giving diagnoses and prescriptions through
+the telegraph. One of these published in the _Plain Dealer_ exhibits
+the most profound and accurate medical knowledge. The full account of
+these telegraphic developments in the Cleveland _Plain Dealer_ I
+expected to republish, but my space was already occupied. It may be
+found in the _Banner of Light_ of April 9. But we shall have other
+reports hereafter.
+
+
+SPIRITUAL MUSIC.--Maud Cook, a little blind girl nine years of age, at
+Manchester, Tenn., is an inspired musical wonder,--a performer and
+composer. She is said to equal Blind Tom, and the local newspapers
+speak of her in the most enthusiastic terms. She needs a judicious and
+wealthy friend to bring her before the public in the best manner.
+
+
+SLATE WRITING.--Dr. D. J. Stansbury, of San Francisco, is very
+successful in obtaining spiritual writing in public as well as in
+private. The _Golden Gate_ says:--
+
+"There came upon the slates at Dr. Stansbury's public seance, last
+Sunday evening, the following message from Judge Wm. R. Thompson, father
+of H. M. Thompson, of this city: 'The essential principles of primitive
+Christianity and the precepts of Modern Spiritualism are essentially one
+and the same, which, if practised, would lead to the highest standard of
+morality and be the means of grace by which all might be saved.'"
+
+
+THE FIRE TEST.--At the great spiritual convention held at Cincinnati
+for several days at the end of March, (the spiritual anniversary) the
+report states,--
+
+"Mrs. Isa Wilson Porter, under control of an Oriental spirit, held her
+bared hands and arms in the flames of a large coal oil lamp. She also
+heated lamp chimneys and handled them as readily as she would in their
+normal condition, and made several gentlemen cringe and some ladies
+screech by slightly touching them with the hot glass. The test was made
+under supervision of a committee of doctors and well known physicians,
+who reported at the conclusion that previous to its commencement they
+examined the lady's hands and arms, and that they were in their natural
+condition, and that her pulse beat was seventy. While the test was in
+progress the pulse indicated forty. After its conclusion the pulse beat
+was sixty-five; the arms and hands were a little red, but unscorched,
+and the hair upon them not even singed. This incident seems weak in the
+description after witnessing the fact of tender flesh and blood held in
+such a flame for several minutes."
+
+
+
+
+MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE.
+
+
+ERRATUM.--In the April number, the view of the upper surface of the
+brain, by mistake of the printer, was turned upside down--see page 29.
+The engraving on page 31 must be referred to, to illustrate the
+description in this number.
+
+
+CO-OPERATION is making great progress. A colony similar to that at
+Topolobampo is to be established on 3,000 acres at Puget Sound.
+Manufacturers are beginning to adopt the principle of giving a share
+of profits to their employees, but space forbids details. Topolobampo
+has 400 busy colonists, and is not ready yet for any more.
+
+
+EMANCIPATION.--Brazil has about a million of slaves. Emancipation is
+proceeding slowly. It may be thirty years before slavery shall be
+entirely extinguished.
+
+
+INVENTORS.--A correspondent remarks very justly that "Inventors have
+rescued the race from primitive barbarism. They have transformed the
+primeval curse into a blessing. True saviors they, whose every gift
+has multiplied itself a thousand-fold by opening new fields of
+industry, and scattering luxuries even among the poorest. To the
+inventor, and not to the statesman, politician, or warrior, do we owe
+our present prosperity."
+
+
+IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.--"Tests were recently made at Louisville of a new
+and not expensive process for hardening and tempering steel, by which
+hardness and elasticity are carried forward in combination. A drill
+made of the new steel penetrated in forty minutes a steel safe-plate
+warranted to resist any burglar drill for twelve hours. A penknife
+tempered by the process cut the stem of a steel key readily, and with
+the same blade the inventor shaved the hairs on his arm. The inventor
+is a young blacksmith. He has also a new process for converting iron
+into steel."
+
+
+SACCHARINE.--This new substance said to be 200 times as sweet as sugar
+is manufactured from coal tar. It was discovered about six years ago
+in the laboratory of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, by
+Prof. Remsen and a student named Fahlberg, who has since taken out
+patents upon it. It is greatly superior to sugar, as it is free from
+fermentation and decomposition. A small quantity added to starch or
+glucose will make a compound equal to sugar in sweetness. It is a
+valuable antiseptic and has valuable medical properties.
+
+
+SUGAR has been discovered to have great value as an addition to
+mortar, as it has a solvent action on lime. An English builder wrote
+an important letter to the authorities of Charleston, S. C., on this
+subject, after that city had suffered from the earthquake.
+
+
+ARTIFICIAL IVORY.--We shall no longer need the elephant for ivory.
+Compounds of a celluloid character, made from cotton waste, can now be
+made hard as ivory, or flexible or soft as we wish. White and
+transparent, or brilliantly colored, it can be handled like wood cut
+and carved, or applied as a varnish. An artificial ivory of creamy
+whiteness and great hardness is now made from good potatoes washed in
+diluted sulphuric acid, and then boiled in the same solution until
+they become solid and dense. They are then washed free of the acid and
+slowly dried. This ivory can be dyed and turned, and made useful in
+many ways.
+
+
+PAPER PIANOS.--Pianos have lately been made from paper in Germany,
+instead of wood, with great improvement in the tone.
+
+
+SOCIAL DEGENERACY OF THE WEALTHY.--The _Boston Herald_ says: "The
+spirit of the age is censorious. There is no doubt of that, or that
+with every new day the tendency toward pessimism increases. But even
+taking these facts into consideration, there is no denying that the
+young man about town of the nineteenth century is a blot upon our
+boasted modern civilization. His is not a pleasant figure to
+contemplate, though it is one that we all see very often and know very
+well--clothed irreproachably in the most expensive raiment that London
+tailors and unlimited credit can supply. He lives lazily and
+luxuriously on his father's money and his wife's, and, being after his
+natural term of days laid away in a tomb at Mt. Auburn, ends his
+existence without making any more impression upon the world's history
+than a falling rose leaf, or an August cricket's faintest chirp."
+
+
+PREVENTION OF CRUELTY.--In Congress, Feb. 14, Mr. Collins, for the
+judiciary committee, has given a favorable report on the bill and
+memorial of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
+Animals, asking the passage of a law to protect dumb animals in the
+various territories from unnecessary cruelty. In the report Mr.
+Collins says: "This body occupies the foremost place among the
+organizations of men and women who in our time have done so much to
+repress and punish human cruelty, abuse, and neglect in dealing with
+dumb animals. In all the States, we believe, laws now exist to prevent
+and punish unnecessary exposure, neglect, or cruel treatment of beasts
+of burden and other animals. To bring the federal legislation into
+co-operation and harmony with the laws of the States on the subject,
+and provide a uniform rule for the District of Columbia and the
+Territories, your committee recommend the passage of the bill."
+
+
+VALUE OF BIRDS.--Maurice Thompson contends that the failure of
+orchards in this country is largely or mainly due to the war upon
+birds. The mocking bird he considers the most valuable of all. "No
+Scuppernong vine," he says, "should be without its mocking bird to
+defend it." Let ladies think of this who patronize cruelty by wearing
+birds' plumage on their bonnets.
+
+
+HOUSE PLANTS.--Dr. J. M. Anders has decided after eight years'
+investigation that house plants are very sanitary agents, and even
+thinks that they help to ward off consumption and other diseases.
+
+
+THE LARGEST TUNNEL IN THE WORLD has been completed at Schemnitz in
+Hungary. It was begun in 1782, and is ten and a quarter miles long,
+nine feet ten inches high, and five feet three inches wide, costing
+nearly $5,000,000. Its purpose is to drain the water of the Schemnitz
+mines, which is worth $75,000 a year.
+
+
+"WESTWARD THE STAR OF EMPIRE," ETC.--"The Fall River (Mass.,) iron
+works, which have been in operation for fifty years, have shut down
+permanently and all the hands have been discharged. It was found
+impossible to compete with western works that are situated near the
+base of natural gas and iron supplies."
+
+
+
+
+STRUCTURE OF THE BRAIN.
+
+(_Continued from page 32._)
+
+
+Nevertheless, in men and animals killed in full health there is very
+little serum in any part of the brain, the blood requiring all the
+space there is for fluids; and as the blood distends one part of the
+brain more than another in consequence of local excitement, the other
+portions of the brain, which are in a passive state, are compressed
+and deprived of their full supply of blood, so that they are of less
+nourished and their development declines.
+
+Thus do we hold our destiny in our own hands. If we will cultivate the
+faculties which are most in need of cultivation, their organs,
+receiving more blood, will grow faster than any other portions of the
+brain, while the organs that are kept in check and deprived of
+activity will gradually decline in power and size, so that the
+character will become essentially changed. It is in the power of every
+individual who has the necessary determination to change essentially
+his own nature for better or worse, as well as to modify and enlarge
+his capacities, changing the structure of his brain; and this should
+encourage every young man and woman to make for themselves a noble
+destiny. Moreover, it is still more practicable to accomplish this by
+means of education, with all proper appliances for the young; and this
+should encourage philanthropists to struggle for that social
+regeneration which is so clearly possible for all the world, as I have
+shown in "The New Education." The study of the anatomy of the brain
+and the innumerable experiments I have made on the brain, showing how
+completely the brain of the impressible can be revolutionized in its
+action in a few minutes, make it very apparent that society as a whole
+is responsible for the continued existence of criminals, paupers, and
+lunatics; for there should not be one, and would not be, if mankind
+could be aroused from their criminal apathy and ignorance to the
+performance of our duty in education. But alas! "the light shineth in
+darkness and the darkness comprehendeth it not."
+
+The study of the brain continually leads us into grand philanthropic
+conceptions by showing the splendid possibilities of humanity,--showing
+how near we are to a nobler social state from which we are debarred by
+ignorance, by moral apathy, by ignorant self sufficiency, by intolerant
+bigotry, and by selfish animality,--qualities which, alas! pervade all
+ranks to-day.
+
+But returning from this digression to our study of the interior of the
+brain: the great ventricles of which we have considered the position,
+and which are called lateral ventricles, are interesting for another
+reason, that they are the central region around which the cerebrum is
+developed, as it folds over upon itself in its early growth, and
+consequently must be borne in mind as its centre when we are studying
+its comparative development in different heads. The basilar organs lie
+below the ventricles and the coronal organs above.
+
+If we have inserted a finger under the corpus callosum, the fibres of
+which are above our finger, we may feel below, the structure which may
+be called the bottom of the ventricle, and which is likewise the base
+or trunk of the superincumbent parts from which they spring, as a tree
+from its stump.
+
+This structure is one mass, called anteriorly the corpus striatum, or
+striated body, and posteriorly the optic thalamus or bed of the optic
+nerve, though the optic nerve has its principal origin in another
+part, called the optic lobes. The thalamus and corpus striatum are
+called together, the _great inferior ganglion_ of the brain. They are
+masses of gray substance, with white fibres from below passing through
+them, and white fibres originating in them to ascend and spread, so
+that their entire masses of fibres, ascending and spreading out like a
+fan, constitute an extensive structure which folds together toward the
+median line somewhat like a nervous sac, inclosing the cavity of the
+ventricle and sending its representative fibres across the median
+line,--which are called the corpus callosum. This will be more fully
+explained when we consider the genesis of the brain as it grows in the
+unborn infant.
+
+As the reader now understands the principal parts around the
+ventricles, let him look lower down to complete the survey and
+understand the plan of the brain, though not its anatomical minutiae.
+The optic thalamus is indicated in the engraving, but the corpus
+striatum, being more exterior and anterior, does not appear.
+Practically they may be regarded as one body.
+
+Where the thalami come together and touch or unite on the median line,
+the junction is called a commissure (commiss. med.) and the space
+between them where they do not touch is called the third ventricle
+(ventric. III), which, like the lateral ventricles, may also hold a
+little serum. It is unnecessary to consider the small parts above the
+thalami, the choroid plexus of blood vessels, the fornix or strip of
+nerve membrane, and the septum lucidum or delicate fibres under the
+corpus callosum.
+
+Beginning at the bottom of the figure, we observe the medulla
+oblongata rising from the spinal cord to reach the cerebrum. Behind
+this we see the cerebellum divided on the median line, and thus
+presenting where it is divided the appearance called _arbor vitae_,
+from its resemblance to the leaf of that evergreen.
+
+As the fibres of the medulla oblongata ascend they pass between the
+cerebellum and the _pons Varolii_ (bridge of Varolius) mingling with
+its substance. The pons or bridge (for if the brain were laid on its
+upper surface the pons would appear like a bridge over the river
+represented by the medulla oblongata) is the commissure or connecting
+body of the cerebellum, as the corpus callosum is of the cerebrum.
+When the head is held erect the fibres of the pons arch forward from
+the interior of the cerebellum on one side across the median line to
+the other side, so that a straight line through from the right to the
+left ear would pierce its lower portion. It looks toward the front,
+corresponding with the upper jaw, just below the nostrils, through
+which region it may be reached for experiment.
+
+My experiments upon the brain of man show that the pons on each side
+of the median line is the commanding head of the respiratory impulse,
+and in marking the organ of respiration on my busts, it is located
+around the mouth from the nose to the chin. When this region
+(especially its lower portion) is prominent it indicates active
+respiration and a forcible voice. Hence there is a great contrast in
+the vocal power of two such heads as are shown in the adjoining
+figure. This discovery has been verified by the pathological
+researches of Dr. J. B. Coste, published at Paris, 1857.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Following the line of the ascending fibres, after passing through the
+pons they continue expanding and plunge into the thalamus and corpus
+striatum. Their first appearance above the pons (marked in the
+engraving by the word _Pedunc._) is usually called the _crura_ or
+thighs of the brain. The right crus, running through the thalamus,
+expands by successive additions into the right hemisphere, and the
+left crus into the left hemisphere, of the cerebrum, and the two
+hemispheres unite together on the median line by the corpus callosum.
+
+There is very little space for the crura (plural of crus) between the
+pons and the thalamus, but if we look at the posterior surface of the
+ascending fibres or crura we see a larger surface, on which we find a
+quadruple elevation called the _corpora quadrigemina_ (the four
+twins). This is an important intermediate structure between the
+cerebrum and the cerebellum, and in fishes is the largest part of the
+brain, but in man is the smallest portion, as will be explained
+hereafter, and is the origin of the optic nerve, as well as a
+commanding head for the spinal system, from which convulsions may be
+produced.
+
+The quadrigemina are distinguished also as the location of the pineal
+gland, which rests upon them, to which we may ascribe important
+psychic functions. The engraving shows the fibres connecting the
+quadrigemina with the cerebellum, and a channel under them (aqueduct
+of Sylvius) connecting the ventricles of the cerebrum with those of
+the spinal cord. What is called the fourth ventricle is the small
+space between the medulla oblongata and the cerebellum. At this spot
+the posterior surface of the medulla oblongata, as it gives origin to
+the pneumogastric nerve, which conveys the sensations of the lungs,
+becomes the immediate source of the respiratory impulse on which
+breathing depends, and hence is of the greatest importance to life. A
+very slight injury at this spot with a lancet or point of a knife
+would be fatal. It is recognized by converging fibres which look like
+a pen, and are therefore called the _calamus scriptorius_, or writer's
+pen.
+
+If the reader has not fully mastered the intricacy of the brain
+structure, he will find his difficulties removed by studying two more
+skilful dissections. The following engraving presents the appearances
+when we cut through the middle of the brain horizontally and reveal
+the bottom of the ventricles, in which we see the great ganglion, or
+optic thalamus and corpus striatum, and the three localities at which
+the hemispheres are connected by fibres on the median line, called
+anterior, middle, and posterior commissures. These commissures are of
+no importance in our study; they assist the corpus callosum in
+maintaining a close connection between the right and left hemispheres.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Behind the thalami we see the quadrigemina, the posterior pair of
+which is labelled _testes_, and resting upon them we have the pineal
+gland, a centre of spiritual influx. Behind the thalami, the posterior
+lobes are cut away that we may look down to the cerebellum, and the
+middle of the cerebellum is also removed so that we may see the back
+of the medulla oblongata and its fibres, called restiform bodies,
+which give origin to the cerebellum. The fibres from the cerebellum to
+the quadrigemina are shown, and the space at the back of the medulla,
+called the fourth ventricle.
+
+As the fibres of the medulla pass up through the pons to the great
+inferior ganglion, and the fibres of the corpus striatum pass outward
+and upward to form the cerebrum, this procession of the fibres is
+shown in the annexed engraving, in which we see the restiform bodies
+passing up to form the cerebellum, and the remainder of the medulla
+fibres passing through the pons, and then, under the name crus cerebri
+or thigh of the cerebrum, passing through the thalamus and striatum to
+expand in the left hemisphere of the cerebrum. We see the quadrigemina
+on the back of the ascending fibres and their connection by fibres
+with the cerebellum behind, as they connect with the thalami in front.
+This is as complete a statement of the structure of the brain as is
+necessary, and further anatomical details would only embarrass the
+memory.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The engraving above represents not an actual dissection, but the plan
+of the fibres as understood by the anatomist. The intricacy of the
+cerebral structure is so great that it would require a vast number of
+skilful dissections and engravings to make a correct portrait.
+Fortunately, this is not necessary for the general reader, who
+requires only to understand the position of the organs in the head,
+and the direction of their growth, which is in all cases directly
+outward from the central region or ventricles, so as to cause a
+prominence of the cranium--not a "bump," but a general fulness of
+contour. Bumps belong to the growth of bone--not that of the brain.
+
+Let us next consider the genesis of the brain, which will give us a
+more perfect understanding of its structure, by showing its origin,
+the correct method of estimating its development.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER III.--GENESIS OF THE BRAIN
+
+    Beginning of the brain--Its correspondence to the animal
+    kingdom and the law of evolution--Inadequacy of physical
+    causes in evolution--The Divine influence and its human
+    analogy--Probability of influx--Possible experimental
+    proof--Potentiality of the microscopic germinal element and
+    its invisible life--Is it a complete microcosm?--The cosmic
+    teaching of Sarcognomy--The fish form of the brain--The triple
+    form of the brain--Decline of the middle brain--Brains of the
+    codfish, flounder, and roach--Embryo of twelve weeks--Lowest
+    type of the brain--Measurement of the embryo brain--Structure
+    of the convolutions--Unfolding of the brain--Forms of
+    twenty-one weeks and seven months--Anatomy shows the central
+    region--Its importance--Neglect of prior authors--Errors of
+    the phrenological school explained--Misled by Mr. Combe into a
+    false system of measurement--How I was led to detect the
+    error--Form of the animal head and form of the noble
+    character--Line of the ventricles--Coronal and basilar
+    development--Its illustration in two heads and in the entire
+    animal kingdom---Dulness of human observers--Anatomy shows the
+    central region--Circular character of cerebral
+    development--Accuracy of a true cerebral science, and errors
+    of the Gallian system.
+
+
+The brain begins in a human being in embryonic life, as it begins in
+the animal kingdom, void of the convolutions which are seen in its
+maturity,--beginning as a small outgrowth from the medulla oblongata,
+which after the second month extends into three small sacs of nervous
+membrane inclosing cavities, making a triple brain, such as exists in
+fishes, which are the lowest type of vertebrated animals,--animals
+that have a spinal column or backbone.
+
+From this condition, the fishy condition of the nervous system of the
+embryo human being at the end of the second month, there is a regular
+growth which develops in the embryo the forms characteristic of higher
+orders of animals in regular succession,--fishes, reptiles, birds, and
+quadrupeds or mammalia, monkeys, and man.
+
+This is the same order of succession which geologists assign to the
+development of the animal kingdom, the higher species coming in after
+the lower; and if every human being, instead of developing at once,
+according to the human type, is compelled to pass through this regular
+gradation of development, is it not apparent that the lower forms are
+absolutely necessary as a basis for the higher, and that the higher
+forms cannot arrive except by building up and giving additional
+development to the lower? In other words, the present status of
+humanity above the animal kingdom was attained not by a sudden burst
+of creative power, making a distinct and isolated being, but by the
+gradual and consecutive influx, which evolved new faculties and
+organs,--a process called _evolution_. How slow or how rapid this
+process may have been, science has not yet determined; but it would
+require incalculable millions of years if nothing but the common
+exciting effects of environment and necessity have been operative in
+evolution; and science has utterly failed to discover any power which
+could carry on development so effectively as to produce an entire
+transformation of species, and overcome the vast differences between
+the oyster and the bird, the fish and the elephant.
+
+But as such transmutations of the nervous system do virtually occur in
+man before birth, we cannot say that they are _impossible_, for that
+which occurs in the womb under the influence of parental love may also
+occur in the womb of nature under the influence of Divine love; for
+love is the creative power, and as the maternal influx may determine
+the noble development of humanity or the ignoble development of
+monsters and animalized beings, it is obvious that the formative stage
+of all beings is a plasmic condition in which the most subtle or
+spiritual influences may totally change their destiny and development.
+
+That such an influx may come to exalt or to modify the animal type is
+by no means unreasonable, for human beings in vast numbers are liable
+to such influences from the unseen, which exert a controlling
+influence, and many animals are as accessible to invisible influences
+as man, while their embryos are vastly more so than the parents. If
+then we recognize the spiritual being in man, and the same spiritual
+being disembodied as a potential existence,--if, moreover, we
+recognize the illimitable and incomprehensible psychical power behind
+the universe, of which man is one expression, we cannot fail to see
+that the embryonic development of animals from a lower to a higher
+form is entirely possible and probable; and in the absence of any
+other practicable method of evolution to higher types we are compelled
+to adopt this as the most rational.
+
+What is difficult or utterly impossible when we rely on physical
+causes alone, becomes facile enough when we introduce the spiritual,
+and argue from what we see in the spiritual genesis of every human
+being to the analogous processes of nature on the largest scale.
+
+If a false and brutal superstition did not stand in the way, clothed
+in pharisaical assumption and political power, experiments might be
+made on human beings and animals sufficient to settle most positively
+all doubt as to transmutation of species by the semi-creative power
+from the invisible world, combined with visible agencies.
+
+Indeed, the entire difficulty vanishes from the mind of a philosopher
+when he refers to the fact that the potentiality of all being resides
+in a microscopic germinal element containing within itself an
+invisible spiritual energy, which determines for all time a continual
+succession of animals of certain forms and characteristics which human
+power has never been able to change.
+
+Why is it that a simple speck of protoplasm void of visible
+organization--a mere jelly to hold the invisible life power--carries
+within itself in that invisible spiritual element the destiny of
+myriads of animal beings, and according to the nature of that
+invisible spiritual element it may develop into a Humboldt or an
+oyster, an elephant, a humming-bird, or a serpent?
+
+
+
+
+To the Readers of the Journal of Man.
+
+
+The establishment of a new Journal is a hazardous and expensive
+undertaking. Every reader of this volume receives what has cost more
+than he pays for it, and in addition receives the product of months of
+editorial, and many years of scientific, labor. May I not therefore
+ask his aid in relieving me of this burden by increasing the
+circulation of the Journal among his friends?
+
+The establishment of the Journal was a duty. There was no other way
+effectively to reach the people with its new sphere of knowledge.
+Buckle has well said in his "History of Civilization," that "No great
+political improvement, no great reform, either legislative or
+executive, has ever been originated in any country by its ruling
+class. The first suggestors of such steps have invariably been bold
+and able thinkers, who discern the abuse, denounce it, and point out
+the remedy."
+
+This is equally true in science, philanthropy, and religion. When the
+advance of knowledge and enlightenment of conscience render reform or
+revolution necessary, the ruling powers of college, church,
+government, capital, and the press, present a solid combined
+resistance which the teachers of novel truth cannot overcome without
+an appeal to the people. The grandly revolutionary science of
+Anthropology, which offers in one department (Psychometry) "the dawn
+of a new civilization," and in other departments an entire revolution
+in social, ethical, educational, and medical philosophy, has
+experienced the same fate as all other great scientific and
+philanthropic innovations, in being compelled to sustain itself
+against the mountain mass of established error by the power of truth
+alone. The investigator whose life is devoted to the evolution of the
+truth cannot become its propagandist. A whole century would be
+necessary to the full development of these sciences to which I can
+give but a portion of one life. Upon those to whom these truths are
+given, who can intuitively perceive their value, rests the task of
+sustaining and diffusing the truth.
+
+The circulation of the Journal is necessarily limited to the sphere of
+liberal minds and advanced thinkers, but among these it has had a more
+warm and enthusiastic reception than was ever before given to any
+periodical. There must be in the United States twenty or thirty
+thousand of the class who would warmly appreciate the Journal, but
+they are scattered so widely it will be years before half of them can
+be reached without the active co-operation of my readers, which I most
+earnestly request.
+
+Prospectuses and specimen numbers will be furnished to those who will
+use them, and those who have liberal friends not in their own vicinity
+may confer a favor by sending their names that a prospectus or
+specimen may be sent them. A liberal commission will be allowed to
+those who canvas for subscribers.
+
+
+Enlargement of the Journal.
+
+The requests of readers for the enlargement of the Journal are already
+coming in. It is a great disappointment to the editor to be compelled
+each month to exclude so much of interesting matter, important to
+human welfare, which would be gratifying to its readers. The second
+volume therefore will be enlarged to 64 pages at $2 per annum.
+
+[Hand pointing right] SEE NEXT PAGE.
+
+
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+through the mediumship of Thomas Gales Forster," published by Colby
+and Rich; $1.50. This is an able and scholarly discussion of spiritual
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+rather study and research. There are several passages the Journal
+would like to quote when space permits. Mr. Forster should be
+remembered with gratitude as an able and fearless pioneer in the
+diffusion of noble truths.
+
+
+College of Therapeutics.
+
+The large amount of scientific and therapeutic knowledge developed by
+recent discoveries, but not yet admitted into the slow-moving medical
+colleges, renders it important to all young men of liberal minds--to
+all who aim at the highest rank in their profession--to all who are
+strictly conscientious and faithful in the discharge of their duties
+to patients under their care, to have an institution in which their
+education can be completed by a preliminary or a post-graduate course
+of instruction.
+
+The amount of practically useful knowledge of the healing art which is
+absolutely excluded from the curriculum of old style medical colleges
+is greater than all they teach--not greater than the adjunct sciences
+and learning of a medical course which burden the mind to the
+exclusion of much useful therapeutic knowledge, but greater than all
+the curative resources embodied in their instruction.
+
+The most important of these therapeutic resources which have sometimes
+been partially applied by untrained persons are now presented in the
+College of Therapeutics, in which is taught not the knowledge which is
+now represented by the degree of M. D., but a more profound knowledge
+which gives its pupils immense advantages over the common graduate in
+medicine.
+
+Therapeutic Sarcognomy, a science often demonstrated and endorsed by
+able physicians, gives the anatomy not of the physical structure, but
+of the vital forces of the body and soul as located in every portion
+of the constitution--a science vastly more important than physical
+anatomy, as the anatomy of life is more important than the anatomy of
+death. Sarcognomy is the true basis of medical practice, while anatomy
+is the basis only of operative surgery and obstetrics.
+
+Indeed, every magnetic or electric practitioner ought to attend such a
+course of instruction to become entirely skilful in the correct
+treatment of disease.
+
+In addition to the above instruction, special attention will be given
+to the science and art of Psychometry--the most important addition in
+modern times to the practice of medicine, as it gives the physician
+the most perfect diagnosis of disease that is attainable, and the
+power of extending his practice successfully to patients at any
+distance. The methods of treatment used by spiritual mediums and "mind
+cure" practitioners will also be philosophically explained.
+
+The course of instruction will begin on Monday, the 2d of May, and
+continue six weeks. The fee for attendance on the course will be $25.
+To students who have attended heretofore the fee will be $15. For
+further information address the president,
+
+        JOSEPH RODES BUCHANAN, M. D.
+                6 JAMES ST., BOSTON.
+
+The sentiments of those who have attended these courses of instruction
+during the last eight years were concisely expressed in the following
+statement, which was unanimously signed and presented to Dr. Buchanan
+by those attending his course in Boston, of which we present only the
+concluding resolution.
+
+"_Resolved_, That Therapeutic Sarcognomy is a system of science of the
+highest importance, alike to the magnetic healer, to the
+electro-therapeutist, and to the medical practitioner,--giving great
+advantages to those who thoroughly understand it, and destined to
+carry the fame of its discoverer to the remotest future ages."
+
+Dr. K. MEYENBERG, who is the Boston agent for Oxygen Treatment, is a
+most honorable, modest, and unselfish gentleman, whose superior
+natural powers as a magnetic healer have been demonstrated during
+eighteen years' practice in Washington City. Some of his cures have
+been truly marvelous. He has recently located in Boston as a magnetic
+physician.
+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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