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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Buchanan's Journal of Man, May 1887 + Volume 1, Number 4 + +Author: Various + +Editor: J. R. Buchanan + +Release Date: August 15, 2008 [EBook #26317] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BUCHANAN'S JOURNAL OF MAN, MAY 1887 *** + + + + +Produced by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + <div id="masthead"> + <h1 class="issue_title"><a class="pagenum" id="page1" title="1"></a><span class="proprietor">BUCHANAN’S</span><br /> + JOURNAL OF MAN.</h1> + <div id="mastdate"> + <p id="leftmast"><abbr title="Volume">Vol.</abbr> <abbr title="One">I.</abbr></p> + <p id="centermast">MAY, 1887.</p> + <p id="rightmast"><abbr title="number">No.</abbr> 4.</p> + </div> + </div><!--Masthead--> + +<div id="contents"> + <ul> + <li><a href="#art1">The Prophetic Faculty: War and Peace</a></li> + <li><a href="#art2">Clearing away the Fog</a></li> + <li><a href="#art3">The Danger of living among Christians: A Question of peace or war</a></li> + <li><a href="#art4">Legislative Quackery, Ignorance, and Blindness to the Future</a></li> + <li><a href="#art5">Evils that need Attention</a></li> + <li><a href="#art6">What is Intellectual Greatness</a></li> + <li><a href="#art7">Spiritual Wonders</a>—<a href="#wonder1">Slater’s Tests</a>; <a href="#wonder2">Spirit Pictures</a>; <a href="#wonder3">Telegraphy</a>; <a href="#wonder4">Music</a>; <a href="#wonder5">Slate Writing</a>; <a href="#wonder6">Fire Test</a></li> + <li><a href="#art8">MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE</a>—<a href="#misc1">Erratum</a>; + <a href="#misc2">Co-operation</a>; + <a href="#misc3">Emancipation</a>; + <a href="#misc4">Inventors</a>; + <a href="#misc5">Important Discovery</a>; + <a href="#misc6">Saccharine</a>; + <a href="#misc7">Sugar</a>; + <a href="#misc8">Artificial Ivory</a>; + <a href="#misc9">Paper Pianos</a>; + <a href="#misc10">Social Degeneracy</a>; + <a href="#misc11">Prevention of Cruelty</a>; + <a href="#misc12">Value of Birds</a>; + <a href="#misc13">House Plants</a>; + <a href="#misc14">Largest Tunnel</a>; + <a href="#misc15">Westward Empire</a> + </li> + <li><a href="#art9">Structure of the Brain</a></li> + <li><a href="#art9_part2">Chapter III. Genesis of the Brain</a></li> + <li><a href="#business">To the Readers of the Journal</a>—<a href="#college">College of Therapeutics</a></li> + <li><a href="#press">Journal of Man</a>—<a href="#lang_of_press">Language of Press and Readers</a></li> + </ul> +</div> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<div id="art1" class="article"> + <h2 class="title">The Prophetic Faculty: War and Peace.</h2> + <p><span class="first_word">In</span> 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.</p> + + <p>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 <cite>Sun</cite> + wrote as follows:</p> + + <p>“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.</p> + + <p>“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.</p> + + <p>“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.</p> + + <p><a class="pagenum" id="page2" title="2"> </a>“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.</p> + + <p>“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.”</p> + + <p>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 “<em>peace is assured to Europe for + 1887</em>,” 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.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>“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.”</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p><a class="pagenum" id="page3" title="3"> </a>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.</p> + + <p>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 <em>science of man</em>, + 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.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>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:</p> + + <p>“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!</p> + + <p>“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,</p> + + + <div class="poem"> + <p><a class="pagenum" id="page4" title="4"> </a>‘Whose voice is heard in the rolling thunders,</p> + <p>And whose might is seen in the forked lightnings,’</p> + </div> + + <p class="continued_paragraph">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?</p> + + <p>“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.</p> + + <p>“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 <em>must</em> and <span class="small_all_caps">WILL</span> obey!</p> + + <p>“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.</p> + + <p>“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.</p> + + <p>“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 + <a class="pagenum" id="page5" title="5"> </a>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!”</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + + + <h3>The Alabama Legislature and the Spirits—Prophecy in + the Alabama Legislative Halls—Retribution.</h3> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>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 + <a class="pagenum" id="page6" title="6"> </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.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>In passing through the capital city, Montgomery, a detention + occurred of some hours, in forming a railway connection <em lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">en route</em> 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.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p><a class="pagenum" id="page7" title="7"> </a>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.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>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:</p> + + + <blockquote> + <p>“Woe, woe to thee, Alabama!</p> + + <p>“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.</p> + + <p>“Woe to thee, Alabama! Ere five drear years have fled, thou shalt sit as a + widow, desolate.</p> + + <p>“The staff from thy husband’s hand shall be broken, the crown plucked from his + head, the sceptre rent from his grasp.</p> + + <p>“Thy sons shall be slain, thy legislators mocked and bound with the chains thou + hast fastened on others.</p> + + <p>“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!”</p> + </blockquote> + + <p><a class="pagenum" id="page8" title="8"> </a>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.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>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!</p> + + <p>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:</p> + + <blockquote> + <p>“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 <cite>Herald</cite> 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.</p> + + <p>“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.”</p> + </blockquote> +</div> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<div id="art2" class="article"> + <h2 class="title">Clearing away the Fog.</h2> + + <p><span class="first_word">An</span> 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 + <a class="pagenum" id="page9" title="9"> </a>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.”</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>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 <em>so-called</em> Christian Church. I have had sufficient psychometric + perception at times to realize the <em>present</em> 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.</p> + + <p><a class="pagenum" id="page10" title="10"> </a>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.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>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 <em>practicability</em> 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.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + +</div> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<div id="art3" class="article"> + <h2 class="title"><a class="pagenum" id="page11" title="11"> </a>The Danger of Living Among Christians.</h2> + <p class="subtitle">A QUESTION OF PEACE OR WAR.</p> + <p><span class="first_word">It</span> 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 <cite>Boston Herald</cite> 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.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>Turning aside from these popular discussions, the <cite class="name">Journal of + Man</cite> 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?</p> + + <p>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 + <em>assassination</em>,—wholesale murder by armies is substantially the same + thing as separate murders by each individual of the army.</p> + + <p>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 + <a class="pagenum" id="page12" title="12"> </a>would bring on the dangers of bankruptcy and the revolt of the + oppressed masses.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>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?</p> + + <p>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 <em>dangerous + to live among Christians</em>, 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 <em>hanged</em> in Boston by the + <em>pious</em> 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.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>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 <cite class="name">Journal + of Man</cite> 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.</p> + + <p>Boston has a highly respectable and <em>immensely perfunctory</em> 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.</p> + + <p>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 + <a class="pagenum" id="page13" title="13"> </a>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 <em>desired rest</em>! Alas for the hollowness of American religion + and philanthropy!</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>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 Cæsar 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?</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p><a class="pagenum" id="page14" title="14"> </a>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.</p> + + <p>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?</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>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 + <a class="pagenum" id="page15" title="15"> </a>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.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>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.”</p> + + <p>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.”</p> + + <p>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.</p> +</div> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<div id="art4" class="article"> + <h2 class="title">Legislative Quackery, Ignorance, and Blindness to the Future.</h2> + <p><span class="first_word">In</span> 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 + <a class="pagenum" id="page16" title="16"> </a>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.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>Another piece of legislative quackery is revealed in the action of + Congress as stated in the following paragraph concerning “a new + bureau.”</p> + + <p>“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. + <a class="pagenum" id="page17" title="17"> </a>It will be the gathering of facts whose study will suggest wise legislation + in the future.”</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>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.”</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>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!</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>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, + <a class="pagenum" id="page18" title="18"> </a>and the criminals whom the state finds it necessary to confine in + the penitentiary should be permanently deprived of the power of + parentage.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>If the evil elements at work to-day predominate in our population, + which retrogressive legislation would promote, it will be a time of + <a class="pagenum" id="page19" title="19"> </a>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.</p> +</div> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<div id="art5" class="article"> + <h2 class="title">Evils that need Attention.</h2> + + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> 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.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>A despatch to the <cite>Boston Herald</cite>, March 5, shows how the game + has been played in Chicago on the pork market:</p> + + <p>“‘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.’</p> + + <p>“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.</p> + + <p>“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.</p> + + <p>“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.”</p> + + <p>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?</p> + + <p>In the last <cite>North American Review</cite>, James F. Hudson, in an + essay on “Modern Feudalism,” says:—</p> + + <p><a class="pagenum" id="page20" title="20"> </a>“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.”</p> +</div> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<div id="art6" class="article"> + <h2 class="title">What is Intellectual Greatness?</h2> + <p><span class="first_word">A</span> 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.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>The <cite>Boston Herald</cite> 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, + <a class="pagenum" id="page21" title="21"> </a>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.”</p> + + <p>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 <em>seemed</em> 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.</p> + + <p>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.</p> +</div> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<div id="art7" class="article"> + <h2 class="title"><a class="pagenum" id="page22" title="22"> </a>Spiritual Wonders.</h2> + <div class="subsection" id="wonder1"> + + <p><strong class="headline">Slater’s Wonderful Spiritual Tests</strong> (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?”</p> + + <p>“Perfectly,” said the man, in amazement.</p> + + <p>“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.”</p> + + <p>“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.</p> + + <p>“And don’t you suffer with your limbs?” he inquired of a lady + just in front of him.</p> + + <p>“Well, not now; I used to; I feel it now.”</p> + + <p>“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?”</p> + + <p>“Yes, sir.”</p> + + <p>“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?”</p> + + <p>“It is,” said the lady reddening.</p> + + <p>“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.</p> + </div> + <div class="subsection" id="wonder2"> + <p><strong class="headline">Spirit Pictures.</strong>—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 class="pagenum" id="page23" title="23"> </a>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.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + </div> + <div class="subsection" id="wonder3"> + <p><strong class="headline">Spirit Telegraphy.</strong>—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 <cite>Plain Dealer</cite> exhibits the most profound and accurate + medical knowledge. The full account of these telegraphic developments + in the Cleveland <cite>Plain Dealer</cite> I expected to republish, but my space + was already occupied. It may be found in the <cite>Banner of Light</cite> of April + 9. But we shall have other reports hereafter.</p> + </div> + <div class="subsection" id="wonder4"> + <p><strong class="headline">Spiritual Music.</strong>—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.</p> + </div> + <div class="subsection" id="wonder5"> + <p><strong class="headline">Slate Writing.</strong>—Dr. D. J. Stansbury, of San Francisco, is very + successful in obtaining spiritual writing in public as well as in private. The + <cite>Golden Gate</cite> says:—</p> + + <p>“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.’”</p> + </div> + <div class="subsection" id="wonder6"> + <p><strong class="headline">The Fire Test.</strong>—At the great spiritual convention held at Cincinnati + for several days at the end of March, (the spiritual anniversary) the report + states,—</p> + + <p>“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 + <a class="pagenum" id="page24" title="24"> </a>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.”</p> + </div> + +</div> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<div id="art8" class="article"> + <h2 class="title">Miscellaneous Intelligence.</h2> + + <div class="miscellany_item" id="misc1"> + <p><strong class="headline">Erratum.</strong>—In the April number, the view of the upper surface of the brain, by + mistake of the printer, was turned upside down—<a href="#page29">see page 29</a>. The engraving on + page 31 must be referred to, to illustrate the description in this number.</p> + </div> + <div class="miscellany_item" id="misc2"> + <p><strong class="headline">Co-operation</strong> 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.</p> + </div> + <div class="miscellany_item" id="misc3"> + <p><strong class="headline">Emancipation.</strong>—Brazil has about a million of slaves. Emancipation is proceeding + slowly. It may be thirty years before slavery shall be entirely extinguished.</p> + </div> + <div class="miscellany_item" id="misc4"> + <p><strong class="headline">Inventors.</strong>—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.”</p> + </div> + <div class="miscellany_item" id="misc5"> + <p><strong class="headline">Important Discovery.</strong>—“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.”</p> + </div> + <div class="miscellany_item" id="misc6"> + <p><strong class="headline">Saccharine.</strong>—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.</p> + </div> + <div class="miscellany_item" id="misc7"> + <p><strong class="headline">Sugar</strong> 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.</p> + </div> + <div class="miscellany_item" id="misc8"> + <p><strong class="headline">Artificial Ivory.</strong>—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.</p> + </div> + <div class="miscellany_item" id="misc9"> + <p><strong class="headline">Paper Pianos.</strong>—Pianos have lately been made from paper in Germany, instead + of wood, with great improvement in the tone.</p> + </div> + <div class="miscellany_item" id="misc10"> + <p><a class="pagenum" id="page25" title="25"> </a><strong class="headline">Social Degeneracy of the Wealthy.</strong>—The <cite>Boston Herald</cite> + 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.”</p> + </div> + <div class="miscellany_item" id="misc11"> + <p><strong class="headline">Prevention of Cruelty.</strong>—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.”</p> + </div> + <div class="miscellany_item" id="misc12"> + <p><strong class="headline">Value of Birds.</strong>—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.</p> + </div> + <div class="miscellany_item" id="misc13"> + <p><strong class="headline">House Plants.</strong>—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.</p> + </div> + <div class="miscellany_item" id="misc14"> + <p><strong class="headline">The Largest Tunnel in the World</strong> 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.</p> + </div> + <div class="miscellany_item" id="misc15"> + <p><strong class="headline">“Westward the Star of Empire,” etc.</strong>—“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.”</p> + </div> +</div> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<div id="art9" class="article"> + <h3><a class="pagenum" id="page26" title="26"> </a>Structure of the Brain.</h3> + <p class="subtitle">(<em>Continued from <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/25890/25890-h/25890-h.htm#page32" title="Go to Buchanan’s Journal of Man, April 1887.">page 32.</a></em>)</p> + <p>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.</p> + + <p>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.”</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>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 + <a class="pagenum" id="page27" title="27"> </a>the base or trunk of the superincumbent parts from which they + spring, as a tree from its stump.</p> + + <p>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 <em>great inferior ganglion</em> 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.</p> + + <p>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 minutiæ. + 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.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>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 <em lang="la" xml:lang="la">arbor vitæ</em>, + from its resemblance to the leaf of that evergreen.</p> + + <p>As the fibres of the medulla oblongata ascend they pass between + the cerebellum and the <em lang="la" xml:lang="la">pons Varolii</em> (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.</p> + + <p>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 + <a class="pagenum" id="page28" title="28"> </a>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 + <a href="images/fig1.png"><img class="illo_left" src="images/fig1-th.png" width="226" height="119" alt="Two heads in profile" /></a>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.</p> + + <p>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 <em>Pedunc.</em>) is usually called the <em lang="la" xml:lang="la">crura</em> 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.</p> + + <p>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 <em lang="la" xml:lang="la">corpora quadrigemina</em> (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.</p> + + <p>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 + <em lang="la" xml:lang="la">calamus scriptorius</em>, or writer’s pen.</p> + + <p>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 + <a class="pagenum" id="page29" title="29"> </a>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.</p> + + <div class="image"> + <a href="images/fig2.png"><img src="images/fig2-th.png" width="434" height="541" alt="Brain cross-section from top" /></a> + </div> + + <p>Behind the thalami we see the quadrigemina, the posterior pair of + which is labelled <em lang="la" xml:lang="la">testes</em>, 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.</p> + + <p>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 + <a class="pagenum" id="page30" title="30"> </a>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.</p> + + <div class="image"> + <a href="images/fig3.png"><img src="images/fig3-th.png" width="517" height="386" alt="Brain cross-section from side" /></a> + </div> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <hr class="short" /> + + <h2 class="title" id="art9_part2"><a class="pagenum" id="page31" title="31"> </a>Chapter III.—Genesis of the Brain</h2> + + <p class="chapter_outline">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.</p> + + <p><span class="first_word">The</span> 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.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>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 <em>evolution</em>. How + slow or how rapid this process may have been, science has not yet + <a class="pagenum" id="page32" title="32"> </a>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.</p> + + <p>But as such transmutations of the nervous system do virtually + occur in man before birth, we cannot say that they are <em>impossible</em>, 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.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>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?</p> +</div> + +<div id="business"> + <h2><a class="pagenum" id="page33" title="33"> </a>To the Readers of the Journal of Man.</h2> + <div class="ad_narrow"> + + <p>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?</p> + + <p>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.”</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <div class="subsection"> + <h3>Enlargement of the Journal.</h3> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>☞ <a href="#page34" class="emphasis">See Next Page</a>.</p> + </div> + <div class="subsection"> + <p><strong class="headline">Books Received for Notice</strong>.—“Unanswerable + Logic: Spiritual discourses through the + mediumship of Thomas Gales Forster,” published + by Colby and Rich; $1.50. This is an able and + scholarly discussion of spiritual science. The style + would not suggest mediumship as their source, but + 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.</p> + + </div> + + </div> + <div class="ad_narrow" id="college"> + <h3 class="title">College of Therapeutics.</h3> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>Indeed, every magnetic or electric practitioner + ought to attend such a course of instruction to + become entirely skilful in the correct treatment of + disease.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>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,</p> + + <p class="sign">JOSEPH RODES BUCHANAN, M. D.<br /> + <span class="address name">6 James St., Boston.</span></p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>“<em>Resolved</em>, 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.”</p> + + <div class="subsection"> + <p>Dr. <em class="special_name">K. Meyenberg</em>, 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.</p> + </div> + + </div> + <div class="ad_wide" id="press"> + <h2 class="title"><a class="pagenum" id="page34" title="34"> </a>Buchanan’s Journal of Man.</h2> + + <div class="preamble"> + <p>$1.00 PER ANNUM. SINGLE COPIES 10 CTS.</p> + + <p>Published at 6 James St., Boston, by DR. J. R. BUCHANAN,</p> + + <p class="name">Author of System of Anthropology, The New Education, Manual of Psychometry, + and Therapeutic Sarcognomy. Professor of Physiology and Institutes + of Medicine in four Medical Colleges successively from 1845 to + 1881; and Dean of the Faculty of the Parent School + of American Eclecticism at Cincinnati.</p> + </div> + <h3 class="title" id="lang_of_press">LANGUAGE OF THE PRESS.</h3> + + <p>The reception of this <cite class="name">Journal</cite> by the press, when first issued from 1849 to 1856 was as unique as + its own character. The following quotations show the reputation of the <cite class="name">Journal</cite> thirty to thirty-seven + years ago.</p> + + <p>Buchanan’s <cite class="name">Journal of Man</cite>. “Perhaps no journal published in the world is so far in advance + of the age.”—<cite>Plain Dealer, Cleveland</cite>.</p> + + <p>“His method is strictly scientific; he proceeds on the sure ground of observation and experiment; + he admits no phenomena as reality which he has not thoroughly tested, and is evidently more desirous + to arrive at a correct understanding of nature than to establish a system…. We rejoice that + they are in the hands of one who is so well qualified as the editor of the <cite class="name">Journal</cite> to do them justice, + both by his indomitable spirit of research, his cautious analysis of facts, and his power of exact and + vigorous expression.”—<cite>New York Tribune</cite>.</p> + + <p>“This sterling publication is always welcome to our table. 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When we drop anchor and sit down to + commune with philosophy as taught by Buchanan, the fogs and mists of the day clear up.”—<em>Capital + City Fact.</em></p> + + <p>“This work is a pioneer in the progress of science.”—<cite>Louisville Democrat</cite>.</p> + + <p>“After a thorough perusal of its pages, we unhesitatingly pronounce it one of the ablest publications + in America.”—<cite>Brandon Post</cite>.</p> + + <p>“To hear these subjects discussed by ordinary men, and then to read Buchanan, there is as much + difference as in listening to a novice performing on a piano, and then to a Chevalier Gluck or a + Thalberg.”—<cite>Democrat Transcript</cite>.</p> + + <p>“No person of common discernment who has read Dr. Buchanan’s writings or conversed with him + in relation to the topics which they treat, can have failed to recognize in him one of the very foremost + thinkers of the day. He is certainly one of the most charming and instructive men to whom anybody + with a thirst for high speculation ever listened.”—<cite>Louisville Journal</cite> (<em>edited by <span class="name">Prentice</span> and + <span class="name">Shipman</span></em>).</p> + + <p>☞ The recent issue of the <cite class="name">Journal</cite> in Boston was immediately hailed with the same appreciative + cordiality by the press, and by private correspondents.</p> + + <p>“Dr. Buchanan’s name has been so intimately associated with the foremost moral, social, and + political reforms which have agitated the public mind for the last half century that the mention of it + in connection with the foregoing publication under the old-time name will doubtless draw to it an + extensive patronage.”—<cite>Hall’s Journal of Health, New York</cite>.</p> + + <p>“It is a real pleasure to be able to turn to such a journal after, as a matter of courtesy, skimming + over so much trash as is thrown broadcast…. He seems determined to reverse this order and + use words that will not only <em>express</em> his ideas, but, at the same time, <em>sink them in</em> so they will stay.”—<cite>Nonconformist</cite>.</p> + + <p>“This <cite class="name">Journal</cite> reaches our table as richly laden with thought as ever. When we read it in the + days of our boyhood it was at least thirty-one years ahead of its time.”—<cite>New Thought</cite>.</p> + + <p>“It was at that time one of the most original scientific journals of the day, advancing ideas that + had not then been heard of.”—<cite>Hartford Times</cite>.</p> + + <p>“For this work we know of no one so well adapted as Dr. Buchanan. 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We regard the + publication of such a journal as an event of the century, greater than political changes. Prof. + Buchanan by his discoveries has laid the foundation for the revolution of science.”—<em>Worthington + Advance, Minnesota</em>.</p> + + <p>“It is designed to occupy the highest realm of knowledge attainable by man, hence will not attract + those who have no aspiration toward such knowledge. No brief notice would convey a good idea of + the worth of this magazine.”—<cite>Richmond (Mo.) Democrat</cite>.</p> + + <p>“It is so full of valuable matter that to the thoughtful man it is a mine of gold.”—<em>Deutsche + Zeitung, Charleston, S. C.</em></p> + + <p>“His monthly is one of rare merits, as is everything that comes from the pen of this advanced + thinker….We never read an article from the pen of this world-renowned thinker, but that + we feel we are in the presence of one whose shoes’ latchet we are unworthy to unloose.”—<em>Rostrum, + Vineland, N. J.</em></p> + + <p>“We are more than pleased to know that Prof. Buchanan at his age of life has taken upon himself + such a broad, deep, beneficent task as publishing the <cite class="name">Journal of Man</cite>. We welcome it as a + harbinger of knowledge that will send its light away down the corridors of time as a beacon of the + nineteenth century….We believe that its future pages are destined to contain the vortex of + questions, socially and morally, which are whirling through the human mind, and their solution, in a + manner that will command the profound respect of philosophers, scientists, professors, doctors, + philanthropists, and all grades and classes of thinkers….Every word is interesting and profitable + to the human family.”—<cite>Eastern Star, Maine</cite>.</p> + + <p>“The article on the “Phrenological doctrines of Gall, their past and present status,” is grand and + masterly, and whets the appetite for what is promised in continuation. We hope our readers will give + attention to this one article; it is worth the whole price of the magazine.”—<em>Medium and Daybreak, + London, England</em>.</p> + + <p><strong>The Language of the Readers of this Journal</strong> has expressed in every variety of style their + generous and profound appreciation. One of its most enlightened and distinguished friends said that + language could not fully express his pleasure, and in addition to his subscription sent an extra dollar + <em>to pay for the first number</em>, which he considered was alone worth the subscription price. Another + distinguished friend writes: “It is a leader, and leads in the right direction.” Another whose celebrity + fills England and America writes: “I follow your noble work ever with deep interest.”</p> + + <p>The following quotations show the general drift of expression: “It is a feast of good food for the + soul.”—<span class="small_all_caps">A. C. D.</span> “The Journal is a literary feast of which I am more than proud to be a partaker.”—<span class="small_all_caps">W. + S.</span> “Your “Moral Education” is one of the very best books ever written, and one of the + greatest as well. Your Journal charms me. You are leading the leaders; lead on.”—<span class="small_all_caps">E. E. C.</span> “I + am much pleased with its resurrected body, so bright and attractive.”—<span class="small_all_caps">DR. C. W.</span> “As a reader of the + Journal more than thirty years ago who got his first weak conceptions of the marvellous facts in man’s + spiritual nature, from Dr. Buchanan’s scientific discoveries, I hail the reappearance of the Journal.”—<span class="small_all_caps">D. S. F.</span> + “Praying that your life may be prolonged to complete the work you have planned, and + fully accomplish the mission appointed you by high Heaven, the elevation of the race to a higher spiritual + plane.”—<span class="small_all_caps">DR. E. D.</span> “Your “New Education,” a work destined to play a mighty role in this world + of social redemption,—we quote from it and delight in it all the time.”—<span class="small_all_caps">M. H.</span> “The truths that you so + ably set forth have been felt and known by me for the last six or seven years, because I am unfortunately + a victim of that one-sided education, called literary, which dwarfs instead of developing true and + noble manhood.”—<span class="small_all_caps">L. I. G.</span> of New Mexico. “The <cite class="name">Journal of Man</cite> should startle the advanced + medical man with transports of joy.”—<span class="small_all_caps">DR. D. E. E.</span> “I read it with great pleasure, as I do everything + I can meet that comes from your pen.”—<span class="small_all_caps">H. T. L.</span> “If I were younger I should place myself + under your tuition.”—<span class="small_all_caps">W. B.</span> “When I have read your thoughts I have felt elevated, and have wanted + to grasp you in body as I do spiritually.”—<span class="small_all_caps">L. M. B.</span> “I trust that you will be held in the form years yet + to come to carry out the important work.”—<span class="small_all_caps">J. L.</span> (England.) “I read every scrap of yours I can get my + fingers over.”—<span class="small_all_caps">T. M.</span> “I feel thankful from the depths of my soul that in all this wide world there is + such a mind as your own.”—<span class="small_all_caps">P. C. M.</span> “I do wish you could have taken charge of our American + Anthropological University.”—<span class="small_all_caps">W. W. B.</span> “Your method has been a much greater source of medical + knowledge to me than that I have gained here.”—<span class="small_all_caps">A STUDENT IN COLLEGE.</span> “Sarcognomy has been a source + of wonderful aid to me; I cannot give in words my estimation thereof.”—<span class="small_all_caps">G. P. B., M. D.</span> “It seems + that since our beloved Denton’s departure you are almost left alone to fight the great battle of Psychometry. + If you will make Psychometry the leading theme in your <cite class="name">Journal</cite>, you will do more to + hasten that dawn of a higher civilization that your noble science is destined to usher in than all other + sciences combined.”—<span class="small_all_caps">DR. A. B. D.</span> “I am delighted with it. I send for ten more copies for friends.”—<span class="small_all_caps">DR. B. F.</span></p> + + <p><strong>From Ohio.</strong>—“My father used to take the Journal many years ago, from which I tried my first + experiments in psychology; and have practised magnetism for cure of diseases in an amateur way + with as much success as any I have seen operate.”—<span class="small_all_caps">A. K.</span></p> + + <p><strong>From Germany.</strong>—“A journal of this kind would also be very much needed in Germany, for here + medical ignorance is equally strong. The people on the whole have no comprehension for spiritual + facts,—they are so sunk into dogmatism and belief in authority.”—<span class="small_all_caps">DR. F. H.</span> “As I myself am a + psychometer, your writings have a double interest for me. May God protect you, dear, dear friend!”—<span class="small_all_caps">COUNTESS A. V. 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The article <a href="#art9">STRUCTURE OF THE BRAIN</a> is + continued from the <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/25890/25890-h/25890-h.htm#page32" title="Buchanan’s Journal of Man, April 1887.">previous issue’s page 32</a>.</p> +</div> +<div id="the_end"> </div> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Buchanan's Journal of Man, May 1887, by Various + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BUCHANAN'S JOURNAL OF MAN, MAY 1887 *** + +***** This file should be named 26317-h.htm or 26317-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/2/6/3/1/26317/ + +Produced by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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