{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_26317/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_26317","id":"gutenberg_26317","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26317","summary":null,"tags":["Buchanan's Journal of Man","Category: Archaeology & Anthropology","Category: Journals","Category: Philosophy & Ethics","Category: Politics","Category: Psychiatry/Psychology","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Category: Sociology","Medicine -- Periodicals","Phrenology -- Periodicals","Science -- Periodicals"],"text":"Produced by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier and the Online\nDistributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net\n\n\n\n\n\n                             BUCHANAN'S\n                           JOURNAL OF MAN.\n\n              VOL. I.         MAY, 1887.        NO. 4.\n\n\n\n\nCONTENTS OF JOURNAL OF MAN.\n\n\n  The Prophetic Faculty: War and Peace\n  Clearing away the Fog\n  The Danger of living among Christians: A Question of peace or war\n  Legislative Quackery, Ignorance, and Blindness to the Future\n  Evils that need Attention\n  What is Intellectual Greatness\n  Spiritual Wonders--Slater's Tests; Spirit Pictures; Telegraphy;\n    Music; Slate Writing; Fire Test\n  MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE--Erratum; Co-operation; Emancipation;\n    Inventors; Important Discovery; Saccharine; Sugar; Artificial\n    Ivory; Paper Pianos; Social Degeneracy; Prevention of Cruelty;\n    Value of Birds; House Plants; Largest Tunnel; Westward Empire\n  Structure of the Brain\n  Chapter III. Genesis of the Brain\n  To the Readers of the Journal--College of Therapeutics\n  Journal of Man--Language of Press and Readers\n\n\n\n\nTHE PROPHETIC FACULTY: WAR AND PEACE.\n\n\nIn our last issue, the psychometric faculty of prophecy was\nillustrated by predictions of peace, while generals, statesmen, and\neditors were promising a gigantic war. In this number the reader will\nfind a grand prediction of war, while statesmen and states were\nanticipating peace, and a southern statesman, even upon the brink of\nwar, offered to drink all the blood that would be shed.\n\nThe strength of the warlike spirit and prediction at the time\npsychometry was prophesying peace was conspicuous even as late as the\nninth of March, when the London correspondent of the _Sun_ wrote as\nfollows:\n\n\"An eminent Russian general with whom I have talked believes the plan\nof Russian attack on Austria is fully developed. Galicia is to be the\nbattleground between the two countries. Russia will enter the province\nwithout trouble, as there is nothing to hinder her. Then she will make\na dash to secure the important strategic railroad which runs parallel\nwith the Galician frontier, and seek to drive the Austrians over the\nCarpathians.\n\n\"That Galicia will witness the first fighting is generally admitted, as\nalso that the possession of the strategic railroad, running as it does\njust at the rear of the Austrian positions, would be the most vital\nquestion. It may be interesting to say that military men of whatever\nnationality look upon an early war as a certain thing. They are not\ncontent to say they believe war is coming; they are absolutely positive\nof it, and each little officer has his own personal way of conclusively\nproving that this sort of peace cannot go on any longer.\n\n \"Meanwhile there are lots of straws floating about this week, which\nindicate that international winds are still blowing toward war. From\nRussian Poland there is reported an interruption in all kinds of\nbusiness, owing to the war scare. Manufacturers refuse to accept orders\nfrom private persons, and financial institutions have still further\nweakened business by reducing their credit to a minimum. A letter from\nSt. Petersburg tells of the tremendous enthusiasm of the troops at the\nreview by the Czar on last Saturday, of the wild cheering for his\nimperial Majesty, of the loud and strident whistles audible above the\nroar of the cannon with which the officers command their men, and of the\ngeneral blending of barbaric fierceness and courage with modern\ndiscipline and fighting improvements.\n\n \"In Vienna the troops are hard at work practising with the Numannlicher\nrepeating rifle, with which all have been provided. The Sunday\nobservance act, usually rigorously enforced, has been suspended, that\nthe government orders for military supplies may be completed two weeks\nearlier than contracted for.\n\n \"The business of the Hotchkiss gun-making concern is shown to have\nincreased one hundred per cent with the war scare, and the eagerness to\nsecure the stock, which now stands at thirty per cent premium, shows a\nconviction among monied men. The capital has been subscribed fifteen\ntimes over.\"\n\nThe persistent prediction of peace was speedily fulfilled. March 12 my\nstatement was sent to the press, and March 22 Bismarck said to Prince\nRudolph of Austria that \"_peace is assured to Europe for 1887_,\" and\nnewspaper correspondents announce that the war alarm is over. Mr.\nFrederick Harrison, who is travelling on foot in France, writes that\nhe has found no one who desires war, and that the people are not even\nthinking of it.\n\nWhat is the popular judgment, or even the judgment of popular leaders\nworth upon any great question? The masses of mankind have their\njudgments enmeshed and inwoven in a web of mechanical habituality,\ncompelling them to believe that what is and has been must continue to\nbe in the future, thus limiting their conceptions to the commonplace.\nTheir leaders do not rise to nobler conceptions, for if they did not\nsympathize with the popular, commonplace conceptions and prejudices\nthey would not be leaders.\n\n\"We deem it safe to assert,\" says Mrs. Emma Hardinge Britten in her\nmost valuable and interesting \"History of Modern Spiritualism,\" \"from\nopinions formed upon an extensive and intimate knowledge of both North\nand South, and a general understanding of the politics and parties in\nboth sections, that any settlement of the questions between them by\nthe sword was never deliberately contemplated, and that the outbreak,\nno less than the magnitude and length of the mighty struggle, was all,\nhumanly speaking, forced on by the logic of events, rather than\nthrough the preconcerted action of either section of the country. We\nsay this much to demonstrate the truly prophetic character of many of\nthe visions and communications which circulated amongst the\nSpiritualists prior to the opening of the war.\"\n\nNot only was it prophesied by the Quaker Joseph Hoag thirty years in\nadvance, but more fully prophesied from the spirit world by the spirit\nof Gen. Washington, and again most eloquently predicted through the\nlips of Mrs. E. Hardinge Britten in 1860. Yet who among all the\nleaders of the people knew anything of these warnings, or was\nsufficiently enlightened to have paid them any respect? The petition\nof 15,000 Spiritualists was treated with contemptuous ridicule by the\nAmerican Senate, and even the demonstrable invention of Morse was\nsubjected to ridicule in Congress. Congressmen stand on no higher\nmoral plane than the people who elect them, and it is the moral\nfaculties that elevate men into the atmosphere of pure truth.\n\nBut ah! could we have had a Congress and State Legislatures in 1860,\ncomposed of men sufficiently elevated in sentiment to realize the\nstate of the nation and the terrible necessity of preserving the peace\nby conciliatory statesmanship, that four years of bloody horror and\ndevastation might have been spared.\n\nWill the time ever come when nations shall be guided by wisdom\nsufficient to avoid convulsions and calamities? Not until there is\nsufficient intelligence and wisdom to appreciate the _science of man_,\nto understand the wondrous faculties of the human soul, to follow\ntheir guidance, and to listen to the wisdom of our ancestors as they\nspeak to us from a higher world.\n\nThe prophecies to which I would call attention now, came from the\nupper world, and came unheeded and unproclaimed! Great truths are\nalways buried in silence, if possible, when they first arrive. It is\nprobable that the grandest prophecies in their far-reaching scope will\nalways come from such sources, and the grandest seers will be\ninspired. The grandest prophecy of the ultimate destiny and power of\n\"Anthropology\" came to me direct from an exalted source in the spirit\nworld, and no human hand had aught to do with its production. But the\nhuman psychometric faculty has the same prophetic power in a more\nlimited and more practical sphere. We have no reason to affirm that\nthe wonderful personal prophecies of Cazotte on the brink of the\nFrench Revolution, stated in the \"Manual of Psychometry,\" were at all\ndependent on spiritual agency.\n\nThe prophecy of our great American calamity, which purports to have\ncome from the spirit of Gen. Washington, appears in a book published\nby Josiah Brigham in 1859, of which few of my readers have any\nknowledge. The messages were written by the hand of the famous medium,\nJoseph D. Stiles, between 1854 and 1857, at the house of Josiah\nBrigham in Quincy, Mass., and were published at Boston in 1859, in a\nlarge volume of 459 pages, entitled \"Messages from the Spirit of John\nQuincy Adams.\" The medium was in an unconscious trance, and the\nhandwriting was a fac-simile of that of John Quincy Adams. But other\nspirit communications are given, and that which purports to come from\nWashington was in a handwriting like his own, though not of so bold\nand intellectual a style. I quote the portion of his message which\nrelates to the war of secession, as follows:\n\n\"The cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, when they had attained the summit of\nimperial wickedness and licentiousness, as the Bible informs us, fell\nfrom their high estate by the visitation of natural penalties, and the\nrighteous judgments of an overruling Providence. The fall of Rome and\nother large cities proves to us that no individual or nation can disobey\nthe irrepealable enactments of the Infinite Father, and escape the fixed\npenalties attached to such transgression!\n\n\"And can boasting, sinful America indulge in the flattering, delusive\nhope, that the heavy judgments which fell upon those ancient cities will\nbe averted from her, whose guilt is equal, if not even greater than\ntheirs? Does she think that Cain-like, she can escape the vigilant,\nsleepless eye of that Divine Parent,\n\n  'Whose voice is heard in the rolling thunders,\n  And whose might is seen in the forked lightnings,'\n\nand that He will turn a deaf ear to the cry of 'mortal agony,' daily\nborne on the 'four winds of Heaven' to His throne of justice, from the\nalmost broken hearts of His slavery-crushed children?\n\n\"Far from it; America can no more expect mercy in her prosperous\nwickedness, from the hand of Deity, that can the most degraded child of\nearth expect to enjoy equal happiness and bliss with the more refined\nand exalted intelligences of heaven. The Parent of all cares not for the\nunity or perpetuation of a family of States, where the prosperity or\nwelfare of a single child of His is concerned.\n\n\"God, the eternal Father, has commissioned us, His ministers of truth\nand justice, to a great and important undertaking! He has invested us\nwith power and authority to influence and guide the actions of mankind,\nand aid them in their struggles for right and truth. He has bade us arm\nourselves with the weapons of love and justice, and hasten to the rescue\nof our struggling brother man. His call is imperative and binding, and\nwe _must_ and WILL obey!\n\n\"We are able to discern the period rapidly approximating when man will\ntake up arms against his fellow-man, and go forth to contend with the\nenemies of Republican liberty, and to assert at the point of the bayonet\nthose rights of which so large a portion of their fellow-creatures are\ndeprived. Again will the soil of America be saturated with the blood of\nfreedom-loving children, and her noble monuments, those sublime\nattestations of patriotic will and determination, will tremble, from\nbase to summit, with the heavy roar of artillery, and the thunder of\ncannon. The trials of that internal war will far exceed those of the war\nof the Revolution, while the cause contended for will equal, if not\nexcel, in sublimity and power, that for which the children of '76\nfought.\n\n\"But when the battle-smoke shall disappear, and the cannon's fearful\ntones are heard no more, then will mankind more fully realize the\nblessings outflowing from the mighty struggle in which they so valiantly\ncontended! No longer will their eyes meet with those bound in the chains\nof physical slavery, or their ears listen to the heavy sobs of the\noppressed child of God. But o'er a land dedicated to the principles of\nimpartial liberty the King of Day will rise and set, and hearts now\noppressed with care and sorrow will rejoice in the blessings of\nuninterrupted freedom.\n\n\"In this eventful revolution, what the patriots of the past failed to\naccomplish their descendants will perform, with the timely assistance of\ninvisible powers. By their sides the heavenly hosts will labor,\nimparting courage and fortitude in each hour of despondency, and urging\nthem onward to a speedy and magnificent triumph. Deploring, as we do,\nthe existence of slavery, and the means to be employed to purge it from\nAmerica, yet our sympathies will culminate to the cause of right and\njustice, and give strength to those who seek to set the captive free,\nand crush the monster, Slavery. The picture which I have presented is,\nindeed, a hideous one. You may think that I speak with too much\nassurance when I thus boldly prophesy the dissolution of the American\nConfederacy, and, through it, the destruction of that gigantic\nstructure, human slavery! But this knowledge was not the result of a\nmoment's or an hour's gleaning, but nearly half a century's existence in\nthe seraph life. I have carefully watched my country's rising progress,\nand I am thoroughly convinced that it cannot always exist under the\npresent Federal Constitution, and the pressure of that most terrible\nsin, slavery!\"\n\nHad the people of this country been sufficiently enlightened to\ninvestigate these messages fairly, they would have seen that there was\nsufficient evidence that this warning really came from Washington, and\nthe pulpit would have enforced its solemn truths. But our destiny was\nfixed; Washington knew that his voice would not be heeded, and that\nwar could not be prevented.\n\nAgain came the warning in 1860, through the lips of a more\nintellectual medium, more capable of expressing the bright thought of\nthe higher world. Mrs. E. Hardinge Britten tells the story in her\n\"History of American Spiritualism,\" pages 416-419. She refers to the\nstupid and criminal action of the Legislature of Alabama; and a\nsimilar piece of brutality has been recommended by a committee in the\nPennsylvania Legislature recently. The following is quoted from the\nHistory.\n\n\nTHE ALABAMA LEGISLATURE AND THE SPIRITS--PROPHECY IN THE ALABAMA\nLEGISLATIVE HALLS--RETRIBUTION.\n\nSometime about the month of January, 1860, the Legislature of Alabama\npassed a bill declaring that any person or persons giving public\nspiritual manifestations in Alabama should be subject to a penalty of\nfive hundred dollars.\n\nWe have given the substance, though not the exact wording of this\nedict, which was met by considerable opposition, not only on the part\nof great numbers of Spiritualists resident in the State, but also by\nthe governor himself, who refused to give his sanction to the bill.\n\nMr. George Redman, the celebrated physical test medium, had just\npassed through the South, and remained long enough to create an\nimmense interest throughout its length and breadth.\n\nThe author was already engaged to deliver a course of lectures in\nMobile, and numerous invitations were sent to her from other parts of\nthe State.\n\nAs Mrs. Hardinge's visit was anticipated at the very time when the\nbill above named was in agitation, its friends in the Legislature\nconsidered themselves much aggrieved by the governor's refusal to\nsanction its passage, and deeming either that he was suspiciously\nfavorable to the cause it was designed to destroy, or that their own\ncase would be aggravated by the advent of the expected lecturer, they\npassed their bill over the governor's veto, just twenty-four hours\nbefore the explosion anticipated on her arrival could take place.\n\nOn landing in Mobile, Mrs. Hardinge was greeted by a large and\nenthusiastic body of friends, but found herself precluded, by\nlegislative wisdom, from expounding the sublime truths of immortality\nin a city whose walls were placarded all over with bills announcing\nthe arrival of Madame Leon, the celebrated \"seeress and business\nclairvoyant, who would show the picture of your future husband, tell\nthe successful numbers in lotteries, and enable any despairing lover\nto secure the affections of his heart's idol,\" etc. Side by side with\nthese creditable but legalized exhibitions, were flaming announcements\nof \"the humbug of Spiritualism exposed by Herr Marvel,\" with a long\nlist of all the astonishing feats which \"this only genuine living\nwizard\" would display for the benefit of the pious State where angelic\nministry might not be spoken of.\n\nMrs. Hardinge passed through Mobile, leaving many warm hearts behind\nher, who would fain have exchanged these profane caricatures for the\nglad tidings which beloved spirit friends were ready to dispense to\nthe world.\n\nIn passing through the capital city, Montgomery, a detention occurred\nof some hours, in forming a railway connection _en route_ for Macon,\nGeorgia, when Mrs. Hardinge and some friends travelling in her\ncompany, were induced to while away the tedious time by visiting the\nState House. The Legislature was not sitting that day, and one of the\nparty, a Spiritualist, remarked that they were even then standing in\nthe very chamber from which the recent obnoxious enactment against\ntheir faith had issued.\n\nThe day was warm, soft, and clear. The sweet southern breeze stirred a\nfew solitary pines which waved on the capitol hill, and the scene from\nthe windows of the legislative hall was pleasant, tranquil, and\nsuggestive of calm but sluggish peace.\n\nAt that period--January, 1860--not an ominous murmur, not the faintest\nwhisper, even, that the war spirit was abroad, and the legions of\ndeath and ruin were lighting their brands and sharpening their\nrelentless swords to be drenched in the life-blood of millions, had\nmade itself heard in the land.\n\nThe long cherished purposes of hate and fratricidal struggle were all\nshrouded in the depths of profound secrecy, and the whole southern\ncountry might have been represented in the scene of stillness and\ntranquility that lay outstretched before the eyes of the watchers, who\nstood in the State House of the capital city of Alabama, on that\npleasant January afternoon.\n\nThere were present six persons besides the author, namely: Mr. and\nMrs. Adams, of Tioga County, Pennsylvania; Mrs. Waters and her son, a\nScotch lady and gentleman from Aberdeen; Mr. Halford, of New York\nCity; and Mr. James, of Philadelphia. All but the mother and son from\nScotland were acquainted with the author, and more or less sympathetic\nwith her belief; all are now living, and willing to testify to what\nfollows.\n\nSuddenly Mrs. Hardinge became entranced, when the whole scene, laying\noutstretched before her eyes, appeared to become filled with long\nlines of glittering horse and foot soldiers, who, in martial pomp and\nmilitary discipline, filed, rank after rank and regiment after\nregiment, through the streets of Montgomery, and then passed off into\ndistance, and were lost to view.\n\nMeantime the crash of military music seemed to thrill through the\nclairvoyant's ears, at first merely marking the tramp of the vast\nbodies of infantry with a joyous rhythm, but anon, as it died off in\ntheir receding march, wild, agonizing shrieks commingled with its\ntones, and the thundering roll of the drums seemed to be muffled by\ndeep, low, but heart-rending groans, as of human sufferers in their\nlast mortal agony.\n\nAt length all was still again; the last gleam of the muskets flashed\nin the sunlight and melted away in the dim horizon; the last echo of\nthe strangely mingled music and agony ceased, and then, over the whole\nradiant landscape, there stole an advancing army of clouds, like a\nmarch of tall gray columns, reaching from earth to the skies, and\nfilling the air with such a dense and hideous gloom that the whole\nscene became swallowed up in the thick, serried folds of mist. In the\nmidst of these cloudy legions, the eye of the seeress could discern\ninnumerable forms who seemed to shiver and bend, as if in the whirl of\na hidden tempest, and flitted restlessly hither and thither, aimless\nand hopeless, apparently driven by some invisible power from nothing\nto nowhere.\n\nAnd these mystic shadows, flitting about in the thick grayness, were\nunbodied souls; not like visitants from the bright summer land, nor\nyet beings resembling the dark, undeveloped \"dwellers on the\nthreshold,\" whom earthly crimes held bound near their former homes,\nbut they seemed as if they were misty emanations of unripe human\nbodies, scarcely conscious of their state, yet living, actual\nindividualities, once resident in mortal tenements, but torn from\ntheir sheltering envelope too soon, or too suddenly, to have acquired\nthe strength and consistency of a fresh existence. And yet the numbers\nof these restless phantoms were legion, and their multitude seemed to\nbe ever increasing, when, lo! this weird phantasmagoria too passed\naway, but not before the seeress had, with entranced lips, described\nto the listeners every feature of the scene she had witnessed.\n\nThen the influence seemed to deepen upon her, and she pronounced words\nwhich the young Scotchman, Mr. Waters, a phonographic writer,\ntranscribed upon the spot to the following effect:\n\n    \"Woe, woe to thee, Alabama!\n\n    \"Fair land of rest, thy peace shall depart, thy glory be\n    shorn, and the proud bigots, tyrants, and cowards, who have\n    driven God's angels back from thy cities, even in this\n    chamber, have sealed thy doom, and their own together.\n\n    \"Woe to thee, Alabama! Ere five drear years have fled, thou\n    shalt sit as a widow, desolate.\n\n    \"The staff from thy husband's hand shall be broken, the crown\n    plucked from his head, the sceptre rent from his grasp.\n\n    \"Thy sons shall be slain, thy legislators mocked and bound\n    with the chains thou hast fastened on others.\n\n    \"The blind ones, who have proscribed the spirits of love and\n    comfort from ministry in thy homes, shall be spirits\n    themselves, and ere those five years be passed, more spirits\n    than bodies shall wander in the streets of Alabama, homeless,\n    restless, and unripe, torn from their earthly tenements, and\n    unfit for their heavenly ones; until thy grass-grown streets\n    and thy moss-covered dwellings shall be the haunts of legions\n    of unbodied souls, whom thy crimes shall have violently thrust\n    into eternity!\"\n\nWhen this involuntary prophecy of evil import was read by the young\nscribe to the disenthralled medium, her own horror and regret at its\nutterance far exceeded that of any of her aghast listeners, not one of\nwhom, any more than herself, attached to it any other meaning than an\nimpression produced by temporary excitement and the sphere of the\nunholy legislative chamber.\n\nHow deeply significant this fearful prophecy became during the ensuing\nfive years, all who were witnesses to its utterance, and many others,\nto whom it was communicated in that same year, can bear witness of.\n\nSwept into the red gulf of all-consuming war, many of the unhappy\ngentlemen who had legislated against \"the spirits in Alabama,\" became,\nduring the ensuing five years, spirits themselves, and have doubtless\nrealized the inestimable privileges which the communion they so rashly\ndenounced on earth was calculated to afford to the inhabitants of the\nspheres.\n\nIn other respects, the fatal prophecy has been too literally\nfulfilled. Many a regiment of brave men have marched out of the city\nstreets of Alabama, only to return as unbodied souls, and to behold\nthe streets grass-grown and deserted, and the thresholds which their\nmortal feet might never again cross, overspread with the moss of\ncorruption and decay.\n\nAlabama has truly sat \"as a widow, desolate.\" Her strength has been\nshorn, her beauty gone. No State has sent forth a greater number of\nbrave and devoted victims to the war than Alabama; no Southern State\nhas suffered more fearfully. May God and kind angels lift the war\ncurse from her widowed head!\n\nThe following extract from a letter, written by Mr. Adams, one of the\nwitnesses of the above scene, to the author, in 1864, from New York,\nduring a temporary sojourn there, will carry its own comment on the\nfulfilment of the fatal prophecy:\n\n    \"Now that my two poor boys are in daily danger of themselves\n    becoming 'unbodied spirits,' Emma, I continually revert to\n    that terrible prophecy of yours uttered in the assembly\n    chamber at Montgomery. Heaven knows I was then so little\n    prepared to expect war or any reasonable fulfilment of the\n    doom, that I could only look to see some great pestilence,\n    fire, or other sweeping calamity falling on poor Alabama. Last\n    night, when I read in the _Herald_ of the sweeping\n    extermination that had visited those two fine Alabama\n    regiments, I could not help going to Mrs. Adams's desk, where\n    she keeps the copy that young Waters made us of your prophecy,\n    and reading it aloud to the whole company.\n\n    \"Our friend J. B., who was present, insisted upon seeing the\n    date, and when he saw that it was January, 1860, they were all\n    fairly aghast, and said if ever there was genuine prophecy it\n    was contained in that paper.\"\n\n\n\n\nCLEARING AWAY THE FOG.\n\n\nAn esteemed correspondent writes, \"For several years I have been a\nreader of some of the treatises you have published in the interest of\nprogressive thought, and have found much to admire and reread; yet an\noccasional paragraph containing the formula of orthodox theology, with\nits dogma of God and Jesus, interwoven into your sequences of\nargument, mystifies and perplexes my reason and judgment, and I\nindulge in much speculation regarding your exact position,--whether\nChristianity is to be vitalized and conserved by the discoverer of\nmodern science, or the Bible dogmas and traditions reinterpreted to\ncoincide with scientific method.\"\n\nI am not aware of having ever written anything that could make my\nposition at all doubtful, nor do I see how doubts could arise in any\none who attends carefully to my language, and does not indulge in\ndrawing inferences therefrom which my language does not warrant. Upon\nthis very question I have expressed myself fully in published\nlectures. I have never manifested any sympathy with the theology of\nthe churches, have never failed to speak of it in terms of absolute\ndenunciation, and see no reason why any one should suspect me of\nleaning in that direction.\n\nAs to the recognition of God to which my correspondent objects, I\nthink science, as I understand it, sanctions the idea that the basic\npower of the universe is spiritual and not material; that spirit may\nevolve, create, and modify matter, but matter never originates spirit,\nthough they have a continual interaction, which it is the function of\nscientists to investigate, in which investigation, anthropology,\nespecially in its department of sarcognomy, is a long step of\nprogress. My investigations have given me some additional evidence as\nto the Divine existence beyond what has been recorded, but do not\nsanction the personal anthropological conceptions of Deity, which\nbring the Divine within the conceptions of narrow and superstitious\nminds.\n\nHaving discarded the whole scheme of Christian theology, there is no\nreason why I should reject the fundamental principles of religion,\nwhich are at the basis of all religions, and which are sanctioned by\nthe study of man's religious nature. The spirit of the Christian\nreligion as it appeared among the founders of Christianity appears to\nme a more perfect expression of religion than I find in any other of\nthe world's religions, more spiritual, devoted, loving, and heroic,\nmore in accordance with the true religion which belongs to man's\nnoblest faculties.\n\nAs for Jesus, I think the general opinion of historians and scholars\nas to his historic existence is correct, but whether the historic\naccounts are reliable or not I am entirely certain of his existence\nto-day as one of the most exalted beings in the spirit world,--the\nspirit of the Teacher who appeared in Palestine, whose principles and\npurposes are the same advocated by myself, and who like all the other\nexalted and ancient spirits is profoundly interested in human welfare\nand in the progress of spiritual science, and reformation of the\n_so-called_ Christian Church. I have had sufficient psychometric\nperception at times to realize the _present_ character of such beings\nas Jesus, Moses, St. John, John the Baptist, St. Peter, Confucius,\nJoan of Arc, and Gen. Washington, as well as many other admirable\nbeings whose influence falls like dews upon many sympathetic souls.\n\nI realize most profoundly and sadly the absence from all the high\nplaces of society of those nobler qualities which I recognize in the\nhigher world, but I labor in the hope that when mankind have advanced\ninto the light of anthropological science they shall become\nenlightened enough to sympathize with the supernal life in reverent\nlove, and to organize a social condition here which will bring even\nthe lowest classes into so satisfactory a condition that\nphilosophizers will no longer have to wrestle with the problem of evil\nand explain the great mystery that a universe so full of the marks of\na grandly benevolent purpose should still be marred and dishonored by\nhuman misery and degradation. It would be an unsolvable problem to-day\ndid we not perceive through spiritual science the immense\npreponderance of good in the glorious plan of life of which this world\nshows only the beginning.\n\nAs an anthropologist, I cannot but esteem and cherish the religious\nelement of human nature. Sincere worship is simply the most exalted\nlove, and fills human life with nobility and benevolence; let those\nwho can, worship the divine; let those who shrink from the thought of\nthe Infinite, worship the most exalted beings they may conceive, and\nlet those who cannot quite reach the exalted beings of the spirit\nworld, worship their parents or children, or conjugal companions,--for\nworship is but unlimited love,--and they who recoil from humanity may\nperhaps find something to adore in the beauty and grandeur of nature\non this globe, which every summer arrays in beauty, and in the\ngrandeur of stellar worlds. From love and adoration come\nobedience,--which is the perfect life, for it is not slavery, but\nharmony and delight.\n\nProfound science does not take away religion, as superficial or false\nscience does, but develops a far nobler, holier, and more beneficent\nreligion than any churches comprehend. It corresponds to that ideal\nreligion which belongs to the higher realms of the spirit world, and\nwhich has sometimes appeared on earth in inspired mortals, and most\noften in women whose souls were devoted to love. That this religious\nsentiment appeared in the time of Jesus among inspired men, I believe,\nand their lives and sentiments have been to me an inspiration,\nenabling me to believe in the _practicability_ of that which\nphilosophy teaches concerning the religious life, which without those\nillustrious examples might have seemed an unattainable excellence in\nthe present conditions of society.\n\nI do not object to any worship of Jesus and his illustrious associate\nreformers, for true worship will lead to the imitation of their heroic\nlives. They were not divine, and were too heroically faithful to truth\nto put forth any such false claims, nor could they in that dark age be\nprofound in science, or correct in all their opinions, as they are now\nin a higher world. As they were on earth I honor them; as they are in\nheaven to-day I honor them far more. They silently invite us to reach\nthat higher plane of life on which their beneficent influence and\ninspiration may be felt. Fortunate are they reach that plane.\n\n\n\n\nTHE DANGER OF LIVING AMONG CHRISTIANS.\n\nA QUESTION OF PEACE OR WAR.\n\n\nIt is seldom that any of the great questions of the time are treated\nfrom an ethical standpoint. Old opinions and old usages furnish the\nstandpoint for our press writers, our politicians, and our clergy. The\nquestion of national defence has been under discussion for years, and\nSamuel J. Tilden, who was regarded by millions as the ablest of our\nstatesmen, gave his whole mental power to urging its consideration\nupon the American people; but if this question has ever been seriously\ndiscussed from the ethical standpoint it has escaped my notice. The\nnearest approach to the ethical view was the suggestion of the _Boston\nHerald_ that in putting on the full armor of national defence the\neffect might be to stimulate the haughty and warlike impulses of our\npeople, and thus increase the danger of war, while a defenceless\nseacoast would tend to inspire prudence and moderation in our national\ngovernment.\n\nThere is a great deal of truth in this view. We have a score of\nprominent politicians whose sentiments on international questions are\ntoo much like those of a bully in private life, and they have a\ndangerous amount of influence in public affairs.\n\nTurning aside from these popular discussions, the JOURNAL OF MAN\nmaintains the ethical standpoint for the consideration of such\nsubjects; and its first suggestion would be, Why should the people--of\nthis country spend $120,000,000 as a preparation for slaughtering our\nbrethren the Christian population of Europe, the only people from whom\nany danger can be apprehended--our brethren in civilization and\nChristianity, our brethren too by the ties of blood?\n\nDo they not all maintain the Christian religion (at least nominally)\nby all the power of their governments and public opinion? Would not\nour good people in visiting them or they in visiting us be invited to\nparticipate in the communion service which commemorates the martyred\nTeacher of the law of love? Are they not our brethren, the neighbors\nto whom the command applies, \"Love thy neighbor as thyself\"? Is this\nour Christian love, to spend a hundred and twenty millions for the\nassassination of our beloved brethren--avowedly for that purpose? It\nis needless to object to the word _assassination_,--wholesale murder\nby armies is substantially the same thing as separate murders by each\nindividual of the army.\n\nBut, it is urged, we are in danger of invasion, and the bombardment of\nour cities. Does any one seriously believe that a powerful nation intent\non peace--the strongest power in the world, the friend of all mankind,\nready to submit any international question to arbitration--would be in\ndanger of an unjust, lawless, causeless assault from the Christian\nnations of Europe, who have so much to lose and nothing to gain by\nwar, and who have already, in their groaning, tax-burdened people, a\nsufficient reminder of the folly and criminality of war? They have not\nmoney for another war, which would bring on the dangers of bankruptcy\nand the revolt of the oppressed masses.\n\nIt must be that this is seriously apprehended, or else that it is\nfeared that the arrogant and bullying temper of our own people or our\npoliticians may originate and exasperate international irritation to\nthe insane extreme of war.\n\nWhat a horrible theory is this! Is all the civilization,\nstatesmanship, and Christianity of the leading nations of the earth\nincapable of withholding them from such gigantic crimes? Is\nChristendom the only dangerous portion of the world, where an\nhonorable and peaceful nation cannot exist in safety?\n\nThe heathen nations are not a source of danger. If Christendom were\nannihilated to-morrow, there would be no occasion to speak of\ndefending our coasts or building up a powerful navy. It is apparent,\nthen--it is confessed--that it is very dangerous to live among these\nChristian nations, or in other words, it is very _dangerous to live\namong Christians_, as they are called! But do our statesmen or our\nclergy suggest this view? Do they recoil from war or inspire the\npeople with thoughts of peace? Never! One of the conspicuous clergymen\nof England was the fiercest advocate of war with Russia. The\nfundamental principle of the Christianity of Jesus is dead in the\nso-called Christian church, except in that little fragment, the church\nof the Quakers, who, for their fidelity to the fundamental principle,\nwere scourged and _hanged_ in Boston by the _pious_ predecessors of\nour present churches, until they were forbidden by the unsanctified\nmonarch, Charles II. Has the old spirit died out? Look at the\nhostility to Theodore Parker--to spiritual investigation, even. See\nthe scornful and hostile attitude of the descendant of Cotton Mather,\nCol. Higginson.\n\nIt may be a shocking proposition to say that it is dangerous to live\namong Christians, but it is a sober reality, to which I invite the\nattention of clergymen and moralists who wish to live up to their\nprofession, and who have enough of the ethical faculty to realize the\ncentral principle of true Christianity.\n\nIf our statesmanship, religion, and education cannot protect us\nagainst such horrors, may we not justly say it is a false\nstatesmanship, a false religion, and a false education? Indeed, our\nwhole fabric of opinion and morals is fundamentally false, and the\nJOURNAL OF MAN goes to record as an indictment at the bar of heaven\nagainst the polished barbarism of modern society, against which we\nhear only a feeble and almost inaudible protest.\n\nBoston has a highly respectable and _immensely perfunctory_ Peace\nSociety, amply endowed with names and numbers, of which our late\npostmaster was the president, and whose presidency was vastly more\ninefficient than his postmastership.\n\nA peace society might possibly be established in Boston, if its best\npeople could be roused, but the society that we have is little better\nthan a piece of ornamental nomenclature. When there is anything to be\ndone it understands how not to do it. When Mr. Gladstone had performed\nthe most glorious act of his life in the preservation of the peace of\nEurope against the fierce opposition of the turbulent element in\nEngland, an act which will make the brightest jewel in his crown of\nhonor, there was an opportunity of sustaining him by American\nsympathy. The voice of Americans, if they cared aught for peace,\nshould have been heard in Europe in commanding tones,--the voice of\nthe people, the voice of Legislatures, the voice of the Federal\ngovernment. An effort was made by half a dozen or less of enlightened\ngentlemen in Boston to have a fitting response emanate from this city.\nDr. Miner and Hon. Stephen M. Allen realized its importance when I\nfirst suggested it, but on that occasion the Peace Society was a\nlifeless corpse. The society might have been waked up if Mr. Lowell,\nthen returning from England, could have been induced to co-operate. He\nwas approached on the subject, but would not respond,--he only said\nthat he _desired rest_! Alas for the hollowness of American religion\nand philanthropy!\n\nThere is a nobler religion than that of American churches, a nobler\nstatesmanship than that of Mr. Tilden (which is a good specimen of the\npopular sort), a nobler education than that of our American schools\nand colleges--an education, a statesmanship, and a religion which will\nwash the blood from the sword, bury the sword in the earth, and\nproclaim the fraternity of man in all the nations of the earth.\n\nAh! when shall the demand for the supremacy of the moral law be\nanything more than \"the voice of one crying in the wilderness\"? Is it\nnot possible to have a protest against the barbarism of war from men\nof influence, who have sufficient mental power and strength of\ncharacter to command the attention of the nation? When Elihu Burritt\nand Robert Dale Owen were alive I thought it might be possible, but it\nwas not attempted. Is it possible now? Is all the genius and energy of\nthe American people bound in fidelity to the Moloch of war? I do not\nbelieve it, and would invite correspondence from those who share this\nbelief and wish to co-operate in such a movement.\n\nWe have to-day a practical subject of discussion: Shall we, the people\nof the United States, tax ourselves $120,000,000 at once and an\nunknown amount hereafter, to place ourselves upon a par with the\nhomicidal nations of Europe, and sanction by our example the\ninfernalism in which they have lived from Caesar to the Napoleonic\nperiod, or shall we endeavor to introduce a true civilization, lay\naside the weapons of homicide, and urge by our powerful mediation the\ndisarmament of Europe, relieving the oppressed millions from\naccumulating war debts, and from that infernalism of the soul which\nmakes the duel still an established institution in France and even in\nGerman universities? Shall we move onward toward humane civilization,\nor cling to a surviving barbarism?\n\nThe measure now proposed is an abandonment of Divine law, and a\npractical pledge of this country to the infernalism of war. It is a\ndeclaration that we do not believe peace attainable at all, and that\nwe indorse and seek to renew forever the blood-stained history of the\npast.\n\nIs there not among our politicians who sustained the Blair Education\nbill some one whose voice may be heard in behalf of peace? Is Col.\nIngersoll too much of a pessimist to believe that American moral power\nwill be sufficient in time to calm the world's agitation? Let him\nespouse this cause, and he will find it more practical by far than\nriding down the ghosts of an effete theology. Let Henry George turn\nhis attention to this question, and he will find in it even more than\nin the question of sovereignty over the land; for every acre on the\nglobe, if confiscated to-day, would pay but a portion of the boundless\ncost of war. The blood alone that has incarnadined all lands is worth\nvastly more than the dead soil into which it has been poured. Let Dr.\nMcGlynn, who has already entered on the perilous path of the reformer,\nlook at this question in the light of religion and philanthropy, and\nhe will find it more worthy of his attention than any other\npracticable reform, for it is practicable now and here to roll back\nthe warlike policy from its approach to our national government.\n\nAre not such questions as these worthy of the profound attention of\nsuch men as Rev. Dr. Miner, Rev. M. J. Savage, Rev. J. K. Applebee,\nand Rev. W. H. Thomas of Chicago? They are not theological dilettanti,\nbut earnest thinkers. Should not every Universalist and every Quaker\nrealize that it is time for them to stir when our nation's destiny is\nunder discussion, and that their voices should be heard at Washington?\n\nThe proposition is made and sustained by the influence of Mr. Tilden,\nto place this country in the list of mail-clad warrior nations, and it\nis rather a fascinating proposition to those who entertain pessimistic\nideas of man, and believe that all nations are ready to slay and rob\nwhen they have a good opportunity.\n\nCapt. F. V. Greene, late of the U. S. engineering corps, appears as\nthe advocate of American fortifications, and at the Massachusetts\nReform Club he presented his views substantially as follows: The\nUnited States have 3,000 miles of Atlantic and Gulf coast, 2,200 on\nthe lakes, and 1,200 on the Pacific, and have cities on these coasts\naggregating a wealth of $6,000,000,000--all exposed to a hostile\nfleet, which could in a short time destroy everything within\ncannon-shot from the water, and drive five millions of people from\ntheir city homes. The fortification board estimates $120,000,000 as\nthe sum necessary to supply cannon and forts for protection, which is\nbut two per cent upon the amount of property protected.\n\nThis is a very satisfactory statement of the case from the average\nstandpoint, which is not the ethical. But in the first place I\nconsider it morally sure that this country will never have a foreign\nwar if it models its national policy on the Divine law; and secondly,\nwhenever war is foreseen as probable in consequence of an intolerable\nspirit of aggression and the refusal of the hostile party to submit to\narbitration, a sufficient number of cannon can be cast and placed on\nfloating batteries or behind iron walls to protect every endangered\npoint. It would be necessary only to know that our foundries were\nadequate to the task; and the fact that such an armament was preparing\nwould be a sufficient warning to avert a hostile movement. Yet the\ncostly steel cannon, which require such enormous appropriations to\nprepare for their manufacture on a large scale, are not absolutely\nnecessary. It has been shown by recent experiments that dynamite\nshells of 150 pounds can be thrown two miles and a quarter by air\npressure or steam pressure from light, slender-built cannon, or steel\ntubes of unusual length, which may be enlarged to compete with the\nmost formidable artillery. A single steel-clad vessel of the Monitor\ntype with such an armament could destroy a squadron.\n\nBut let arbitration be known as our fixed national policy--let us\nsecure also the co-operation of other nations pledged to the\narbitration policy, and war would be almost an impossibility.\n\nCapt. Greene's exposition of the necessity of coast defence was clear\nand forcible, but his concluding remarks gave a glimpse of peaceful\npurposes. \"He supplemented his speech by remarking that the United\nStates will probably be called on before long to be the arbitrator\nbetween the nations of Europe. The latter cannot stand the financial\nstrain much longer, and inside of twenty years we shall probably be\nthe equal in population and wealth of any two, if not three, nations\nof Europe, and to us will be referred all their disputes for\nsettlement. When we become the referees of the world we must have the\nforce behind us, so that when we give a decision we shall be able to\nenforce it; and this can only be adequately effected by a perfect\nsystem of coast defences.\"\n\nCommander Burke of the U.S. Navy, who followed Capt. Greene \"thought\nthat if the Irish question be settled satisfactorily, there will be no\ndanger of a war with England unless we desire war. He had been advised\nthat the English people, Great Britain and her colonies, look to the\nAmericans to assist them in case of war with any foreign powers, and\nthere is a strong sentiment of friendship for the American people for\nthat reason, if for no other. He believed that the use of high\nexplosives, by which war could be rendered more dangerous, would\nresult in reducing the probability of war.\"\n\nCertainly if the United States would lead in a pacific policy, Great\nBritain, under Gladstone, would unite in the movement, and arbitration\nwould ere long become the policy of the world, and would not long be\nthe established policy before disarmament would follow and the sword\nbe buried forever.\n\n\n\n\nLEGISLATIVE QUACKERY, IGNORANCE, AND BLINDNESS TO THE FUTURE.\n\n\nIn Iowa, by the management of a medical clique, a law has been juggled\nthrough the Legislature, under which the founders of Christianity\nwould have been criminals, and prolonged imprisonment might have been\nas effective as crucifixion. That any class of men could have been\nmean enough and shameless enough to ask for such a law is a sad\ncommentary on the demoralizing influence of medical schools, from\nwhich they derived their inspiration; and that any legislative body\ncould have yielded to the demand is another illustration of the well\nknown corruption of political life.\n\nThe Iowa papers state that Mrs. Post, of McGregor, Iowa, has been\ntwice arrested, convicted, and fined fifty dollars and costs for\npraying with the sick and curing them. European tyranny is eclipsed in\nIowa. The old world is freer than the new, if the medical clique are\nallowed to rule. G. Milner Stephen performs his miraculous cures in\nLondon with honor, and Dorothea Trudell had her house of cure by\nprayer in Switzerland, which has been made famous in religious\nliterature. All over Europe the people enjoy a freedom in the choice\nof their physicians which has been prohibited in Iowa.\n\nThe Legislature of Maine which adjourned March 17 was induced, by the\nnewspaper comments on two bogus institutions which had been chartered\nsome years ago, to depart from their settled policy and pass a law\nprepared by the medical clique, but not quite as stringent as that of\nIowa. Gov. Bodwell, however, vetoed the bill, pointing out its\nobjectionable features, and the Senate, which had passed it\nunanimously, after being enlightened by the governor rejected it by a\nnearly two thirds majority, showing how thoughtlessly a great deal of\nour legislation is effected.\n\nUnder the laws which the colleges and their clique seek to establish,\nPriessnitz could never have introduced hydropathy, Pasteur could not\nhave inoculated for hydrophobia without danger of imprisonment, and\nthe great American Medical Reformation, which abolished the lancet and\nmercurial practice, and which is now represented by seven colleges,\nwould have been strangled at its birth, for its primitive origin was\noutside of college authority. There are other great ideas, great\ndiscoveries, great reforms, not yet strong enough to be embodied in\ncolleges, which medical legislation is designed to suppress, to\nenforce a creedal uniformity.\n\nAnother piece of legislative quackery is revealed in the action of\nCongress as stated in the following paragraph concerning \"a new\nbureau.\"\n\n\"One of the acts of the retiring Congress has not been noted so far,\nbut, though not a large item in itself, it is the entering wedge of\nsubsequent legislation which will be of the highest importance to the\ncountry. It is the item in the legislative appropriation bill which\nallows of the expenditure of $10,000 by the bureau of labor \"for the\ncollection of statistics of and relating to marriage and divorce in\nthe several states and territories, and in the District of Columbia.\"\nThis gives the opportunity, which has heretofore not existed, to\nobtain reasonably accurate statistics of what is going on as concerns\nthe integrity of the family throughout the whole country. This will be\na department under Col. Wright, in the work of the bureau of labor,\nand is one of the results of persistent work which the National\nDivorce League has done, under the direction of its secretary, Rev. S.\nW. Dike. Col. Wright has already formulated plans which are likely to\nmake this new branch of the labor bureau the channel for one of the\nmost valuable reports which have yet come from his hands. It will be\nthe gathering of facts whose study will suggest wise legislation in\nthe future.\"\n\nIt may not be absolutely unconstitutional for Congress to collect such\nstatistics, but it is contrary to the spirit of the constitution.\nCongress has nothing whatever to do with such social questions, which\nare exclusively matters of state legislation. It has allowed itself to\nbe made a cat's paw by the National Divorce League for its\nretrogressive policy. The welfare of society is deeply concerned in\nbreaking up all unhappy, discordant marriages, which are simply\nnurseries of misery and crime. Every generous sentiment should prompt\nus to go to the relief of the large number of women who suffer in\nsecret from tyranny and brutality, while from poverty, timidity,\nhelplessness, and a dread of publicity or censure, they endure their\nwrongs in silence, and continue to bear children cursed from their\nconception with intemperance and brutality. And when they seek to\nescape, a barbarian law comes in to give the brutal husband the\nownership of their offspring; and thus they are bound fast as galley\nslaves in their unhappy position.\n\nThe Legislature of Massachusetts had the opportunity of redressing\nthis wrong at their present session; but, like other masculine\nlegislatures in the past, they were deaf to the voice of mercy, and\nthe press quietly reports (March 18) that \"Inexpedient was reported\nby the House judiciary committee on equalizing the respective rights\nof husband and wife in relation to their minor children, and on\nequalizing their interest in each other's property.\"\n\nThe ladies who are so active in behalf of woman suffrage might have\ntaken more interest in this vital question, which was so easily\ndisposed of. A great wrong remains unredressed.\n\nThe barbarous policy of the church of Rome, which has been finally\nabolished even in Catholic France, where divorce is now permitted, our\nclerical bigots would revive in this country, as if it were the\nbusiness of the state to encourage or compel the propagation of the\nworthless and criminal classes!\n\nIt is not the interest of the state to encourage human multiplication\nat all, for it is already too powerful and progressive. It is the\npublic interest to check all propagation but that of good citizens,\nand to protect all women from enforced maternity, whether enforced\nunder legal powers or by the arts of seduction and libertinism.\n\nProstitution, in the light of political economy, is far less of an\nevil than the enforced maternity of wretched and discordant families,\nwhich becomes the fountain of an endless flow of crime, while\nprostitution shows its evils only in the parties immediately\nconcerned, and effectually purifies society in time by arresting the\npropagation of its most worthless members. In the same manner it may\nbe said that some epidemics are an advantage to society, by cutting\noff the feeble and worthless constitutions so as to leave a better\nrace. Any one who recollects the history of the Jukes family, and the\nnumber of criminals infesting society who were descendants of one\ndepraved pair, will not believe that such a propagation of crime\nshould be permitted. The worthless class should not be allowed to\nmarry, and the criminals whom the state finds it necessary to confine\nin the penitentiary should be permanently deprived of the power of\nparentage.\n\nFew ever reflect upon the necessary consequences of the growth of\npopulation. The great wars, famines, and pestilences as in the past\nwill not be able to keep down population, and where it has free course\nunder favorable circumstances it doubles in twenty-five or thirty\nyears. In two centuries more we shall begin to feel a terrible\npressure, and that pressure will be aggravated by the exhaustion of\ncoal mines, of petroleum, of gas, and of forests. In Great Britain\nalone 120,000,000 tons of coal are annually mined.\n\nIt may be safely assumed that one thousand to the square mile is about\nthe limit of population of the world, a limit at which population must\nbe arrested. Massachusetts is already within less than a century of\nits utmost possible limit. It has at this time about 250 to the square\nmile, and at the American rate of growth it would reach its utmost\nlimit by the year 1950, and begin to realize the crush and crisis of a\ncrowded population, which must either cease to grow or encounter the\nhorrors of famine and social convulsions arising from the struggle for\nlife, or the calamities arising from unfortunate seasons which in\nChina and India have in our own time hurried millions into their\ngraves.\n\nIf Massachusetts is within sixty years of this collision with destiny,\nother countries are still nearer the dead line of the coming century.\nItaly is parallel with Massachusetts and Rhode Island, but Great\nBritain and Ireland are considerably further advanced. British India\nand the Netherlands are still further advanced, and half a century, if\nthey had the American ratio of growth, would bring them to their\nlimit, while Belgium's progress would be arrested in thirty years.\n\nA wise statesmanship would not seek to hurry mankind on to this great\ncrisis, the results of which have never been foreseen or provided for,\nbut would realize that the greater the amount of inferior and\ndemoralized population the more terrible must that crisis be when it\ncomes--a crisis which can be safely borne only by elevating the entire\npopulation to a higher condition than any nation has ever heretofore\nattained.\n\nCalculate as we may, the crisis must come, as certainly as death comes\nto each individual; and whether our social system can bear the strain\nof such conditions is beyond human ken. Look even two centuries ahead,\nand what do we see? At that time the prolific energy of the people of\nthis republic, if continued as it has been in the past, will give us\nmore than twice the estimated population of the entire globe at\npresent--more than three thousand millions.\n\nIt is possible that our vast territory (including Alaska) of three\nmillion, six hundred thousand square miles may, with the greatly\nimproved agriculture of the future, maintain such a population,\nespecially if relieved by overflow to the north and south.\n\nIf the evil elements at work to-day predominate in our population,\nwhich retrogressive legislation would promote, it will be a time of\ncalamity and social convulsions; but if the benevolent and\nenlightening influences now at work predominate (as we may hope), two\ncenturies hence will bring us to a consummation of prosperity,\nenlightenment, and happiness, of which the pessimistic and sceptical\nthinkers of to-day have no conception. A thorough comprehension of the\nscience of man will lead us in the path of enlightened progress.\n\n\n\n\nEVILS THAT NEED ATTENTION.\n\n\nThe public mind has been greatly stirred upon the subject of\nmonopolies and legislative abuses; but there are some glaring evils,\nwhich a short statute might suppress, that are flourishing unchecked.\n\nSpeculative dealers in the necessaries of life have learned how to\nbuild colossal fortunes by extortion from the entire nation, and the\nnation submits quietly because gambling competition is the fashion.\nThe late Charles Partridge endeavored to show up these evils and have\nthem suppressed. We need another Partridge to complete the work he\nundertook.\n\nA despatch to the _Boston Herald_, March 5, shows how the game has\nbeen played in Chicago on the pork market:\n\n\"'Phil Armour must have been getting ready for this break for three\nmonths,' said a member of the board of trade to-day. 'Since September\nlast he has visited nearly every large city in the country. He knows\nfrom observation where all the pork is located, and, having cornered it,\nhis southern trip was a scheme to throw his enemies off the scent, and\nenable his brokers to quietly strengthen the corner. His profits and\nPlankinton's cannot be less than $3,000,000.'\n\n\"But if Armour and his old Milwaukee side partner have made money, so\nhave hundreds of others here. A messenger boy in the board of trade drew\n$100 from a savings bank on Monday last at 11 o'clock and margined 100\nbarrels of pork. To-day the lad deposited $1,000, and has $300 for\nspeculation next week.\n\n\"Those poor snorts who are expecting to have pork to-day to make their\nsettlement, paid $21. Anything less was scouted. 'You will have to pay\n$25 next Saturday night,' was all the comfort afforded.\n\n\"An advance of 2 cents a bushel in wheat was also scored by the bulls\nto-day. The explanation is that the several big wheat syndicates\nencouraged by the action of pork have made an alliance. The talk at the\nhotels to-night is that Armour has started in to buy wheat.\"\n\nWe have laws that forbid boycotting, and they are enforced in New York\nand New Haven by two recent decisions. Financial extortion is an equal\ncrime, and needs a law for its suppression. Why is the metropolitan\npress silent? Have the syndicates too much influence? Will editors who\nread these lines speak out?\n\nIn the last _North American Review_, James F. Hudson, in an essay on\n\"Modern Feudalism,\" says:--\n\n\"The conquest of all departments of industry by the power of combination\nhas just begun. But the mere beginning has imposed unwarrantable taxes\non the fuel, light, and food of the masses. It has built up vast\nfortunes for the combining classes, drawn from the slender means of\nmillions. It has added an immense stimulant to the process, already too\nactive, of making the rich richer and the poor poorer. The tendency in\nthis direction is shown by the arguments with which the press has teemed\nfor the past two months, that the process of combination is a necessary\nfeature of industrial growth, and that the competition which fixes the\nprofits of every ordinary trader, investor or mechanic, must be\nabolished for the benefit of great corporations, while kept in full\nforce against the masses of producers and consumers, between whom the\nbarriers of these combinations are interposed.\"\n\n\n\n\nWHAT IS INTELLECTUAL GREATNESS?\n\n\nA large amount of that which the world calls greatness is nothing more\nthan vigorous and brilliant commonplace. Taine, who is the most\nsplendid writer upon Bonaparte, ascribes to him intellectual\ngreatness, but it was greatness on a common plane--the plane of animal\nlife. He had a grand comprehension of physical and social forces, of\neverything upon the selfish plane, for he was absolutely selfish, but\nof nothing that belongs to the higher life of man, to the civilization\nof coming centuries. To him Fulton was a visionary and so was Gall. It\nwas not in his intellectual range to see the steamships that change\nthe world's commerce, and the cerebral discoveries that are destined\nto revolutionize all philosophy.\n\nThe pulpit orator, Beecher, who has just passed away, was estimated by\nmany as intellectually great; but Mr. Beecher never took the position\nof independence that any great thinker must have occupied. He never\nmoved beyond the sphere of popularity. He never led men but where they\nwere already disposed to go. Upon the great question of the return of\nthe spirit, one of the most important and fundamental of all religious\nquestions, Mr. Beecher was silent. That silence was infidelity to\ntruth, for Mr. Beecher was not ignorant of the truth he concealed. Nor\nwas he faithful to any true ideal of religion. With his princely\nsalary he accomplished less than other men, living upon a salary he\nwould have scorned. He lived for self--he spent thousands of dollars\non finger rings, and a hundred thousand on a fancy farm, but little if\nanything to make the world better.\n\nThe _Boston Herald_ estimates very fairly his intellectual status,\nsaying: \"He spoke easily. His stories were well told, his points well\nput. He invested people with a new atmosphere, but he did not set them\nto thinking, and can hardly be called a thinker himself. Much as he\nhas done to forward the vital interests of humanity, he has\ncontributed nothing to the vital thinking of his generation. The\nsecret of his power is the wonderful combination of animalism, with a\ncertain bright way of stating the thoughts which are more or less in\nthe minds of all men. Few preachers have lived with their eyes and\nears more open to the world, and few have better understood the art of\nputting things. Mr. Beecher knew supremely well two persons--himself\nand the man next to him. In interesting the man next to him he\ninterested the multitude. He had in a great degree the same qualities\nwhich made Norman McLeod the foremost preacher of his day in the\nScotch pulpit. Such a man lives too much on the surface to exhaust\nhimself. He has only to keep within the sphere of commonplace to\ninterest people as long as he lives.... Mr. Beecher lived on the\nsurface of things. He never got far below the surface. If he ever was\nprofound it was only for a moment at a time.... His work was to\nillustrate the ideas which were operative in the world at the time,\nnot to originate or formulate them.\"\n\nThis is a just estimate. Brilliant commonplace is not greatness, but\nthe man who is thoroughly commonplace in his conceptions, who\nexpresses well and forcibly what his hearers think, is the one to win\napplause and popularity. Had Beecher been a great thinker, a church of\nmoderate size would have held his followers. But he was not and\nthinkers knew it. The Rev. George L. Perin, of the Shawmut\nUniversalist Church, Boston, said of Beecher, \"As we have tried to\nanalyze the influence of his address we have said to ourselves, 'There\nwas nothing new in that, for I have thought the same thing a thousand\ntimes myself;' and yet at the same time everything _seemed_ new, and\nwe have gone away thinking better of ourselves because he taught us to\nsee what we were able to think but had not been able to express. He\nhad the remarkable faculty of dressing up the things that everybody\nwas thinking, and making us see that they were worth thinking. And\nthere was something contagious about his wonderful faith in human\nnature. He believed in the divinity of man and made others believe in\nit.\" In other words, he added much to the sentiment of his hearer, but\nlittle to his thought. This was greatness of character and personal\npower, but not intellectual greatness. Beecher was a great man, but\nnot a great thinker. The great thinker overwhelms his hearers with new\nand strange thought. The multitude, fixed in habit, reject it all.\nClear and dispassionate thinkers feel that they cannot reject it, but\nit is too new even to them to elicit their enthusiasm. They sympathize\nwith him only so far as they had previously cherished similar\nthoughts.\n\nHence we see it is ordained that the teacher of great truths must\nstruggle against great opposition; and in proportion to his resistance\nby his contemporaries is the grandeur of his reception by posterity;\nin proportion to the power arrayed against him is the remoteness of\nthe century in which that power shall be extinct and his triumph\ncomplete.\n\n\n\n\nSPIRITUAL WONDERS.\n\n\nSLATER'S WONDERFUL SPIRITUAL TESTS (described by a Brooklyn newspaper\ncorrespondent).--\"I have something to say to that gentlemen with the\nblack hair and high forehead,\" he continued, turning to another part\nof the house; \"you have a business engagement to-morrow morning at 10\no'clock with two men. I see you go up a flight of steps into a room\nwhere there are two desks. In the second drawer of one of these are\nthe papers of the transaction which you had in your hand to-day. You\nare going to invest $4,000. Is that all so?\"\n\n\"Perfectly,\" said the man, in amazement.\n\n\"Well, now, these two men are sharpers, and if you want to save that\n$4,000 keep out of that bargain. Legal advice is good, but mine is\nbetter.\"\n\n\"I believe it,\" said the man, emphatically. His name was C. G. Bulmer,\nand he lives at 229 Macon Street, Brooklyn. Your correspondent has\nsince verified the accuracy of the test.\n\n\"And don't you suffer with your limbs?\" he inquired of a lady just in\nfront of him.\n\n\"Well, not now; I used to; I feel it now.\"\n\n\"Well, I am going to show you that I know all about your limbs. The\npain is here,\" he continued, touching the calf of his leg. \"You have a\npeculiar feeling of drowsiness and then sharp pains run through you,\nright there. Is it true?\"\n\n\"Yes, sir.\"\n\n\"I'll tell you something else. You missed what your sister called a\nbig chance when you were seventeen years old, and she said you were a\ngreat fool to let it go by. Is that so?\"\n\n\"It is,\" said the lady reddening.\n\n\"There's a man in the hall,\" he continued, pacing restlessly up and\ndown with clasped hands. \"He has been sitting here and saying to him\nself, 'Well, this is all mind-reading. Now, if he will tell me\nsomething that is going to happen I may believe something in\nSpiritualism.' He has been rather scoffing me. Now, I want to know if\nthis is true. I am talking to you,\" pointing his long, thin finger at\na gray-haired man who sat on his left. \"All correct?\" The man bowed\nhis head. \"Well, I tell you, that one Christmas day,\" he continued, so\nsolemnly that a hush fell on the audience--\"I don't think the spirits\nought to tell these things, but I am forced to say that one Christmas\nday a member of your family will die.\" A startled look passed over his\nface, and a shiver ran through the audience at the uncanny message.\nThe man's name could not be learned, but on the succeeding Sunday your\ncorrespondent heard two women get up in the audience and admit that\nthe young Spiritualist was correct.\n\n\nSPIRIT PICTURES.--Henry Rogers, a slate writing and prescribing medium\nof established reputation, recently located at 683 Tremont Street,\nBoston, has wonderful powers in the production of spirit pictures of\nthe departed. His most recent success is certainly a fine work of art,\nresembling a crayon portrait of a young lady. His previous pictures\nare entitled to a high rank as works of art. They are purely spirit\nproductions, no human hand being concerned. San Francisco has similar\nproductions under the mediumship of Fred Evans, but the pictures have\nnot the artistic merit of those produced by Rogers, whose beautiful\npictures, however, require many sittings for their production; while\nthose of Duguid of Glasgow, and Mrs. De Bar of New York, are produced\nin a few minutes and are also highly artistic. One of the very finest\nworks of art at San Francisco is the portrait of Mrs. Watson, made by\na medium, Mr. Briggs.\n\nOur highest productions in art, music, poetry, philosophy, and\nmedicine, are destined yet to come from the co-operation of the spirit\nworld. We have no music at present superior to that of the medium\nJesse Shepard.\n\n\nSPIRIT TELEGRAPHY.--In 1885 we were informed of the success of spirits\nat Cleveland, Ohio, in communicating messages by the telegraphic\nmethod in rapping, in which our millionaire friend, Mr. J. H. Wade,\nhas taken much interest. A little apparatus has been constructed, with\nwhich the spirits give their communications in great variety. I have\nrepeatedly stated that the diagnoses and prescriptions of deceased\nphysicians have always proved in my experience more reliable than\nthose of the living. This has been verified at Cleveland. The late Dr.\nWells of Brooklyn has been giving diagnoses and prescriptions through\nthe telegraph. One of these published in the _Plain Dealer_ exhibits\nthe most profound and accurate medical knowledge. The full account of\nthese telegraphic developments in the Cleveland _Plain Dealer_ I\nexpected to republish, but my space was already occupied. It may be\nfound in the _Banner of Light_ of April 9. But we shall have other\nreports hereafter.\n\n\nSPIRITUAL MUSIC.--Maud Cook, a little blind girl nine years of age, at\nManchester, Tenn., is an inspired musical wonder,--a performer and\ncomposer. She is said to equal Blind Tom, and the local newspapers\nspeak of her in the most enthusiastic terms. She needs a judicious and\nwealthy friend to bring her before the public in the best manner.\n\n\nSLATE WRITING.--Dr. D. J. Stansbury, of San Francisco, is very\nsuccessful in obtaining spiritual writing in public as well as in\nprivate. The _Golden Gate_ says:--\n\n\"There came upon the slates at Dr. Stansbury's public seance, last\nSunday evening, the following message from Judge Wm. R. Thompson, father\nof H. M. Thompson, of this city: 'The essential principles of primitive\nChristianity and the precepts of Modern Spiritualism are essentially one\nand the same, which, if practised, would lead to the highest standard of\nmorality and be the means of grace by which all might be saved.'\"\n\n\nTHE FIRE TEST.--At the great spiritual convention held at Cincinnati\nfor several days at the end of March, (the spiritual anniversary) the\nreport states,--\n\n\"Mrs. Isa Wilson Porter, under control of an Oriental spirit, held her\nbared hands and arms in the flames of a large coal oil lamp. She also\nheated lamp chimneys and handled them as readily as she would in their\nnormal condition, and made several gentlemen cringe and some ladies\nscreech by slightly touching them with the hot glass. The test was made\nunder supervision of a committee of doctors and well known physicians,\nwho reported at the conclusion that previous to its commencement they\nexamined the lady's hands and arms, and that they were in their natural\ncondition, and that her pulse beat was seventy. While the test was in\nprogress the pulse indicated forty. After its conclusion the pulse beat\nwas sixty-five; the arms and hands were a little red, but unscorched,\nand the hair upon them not even singed. This incident seems weak in the\ndescription after witnessing the fact of tender flesh and blood held in\nsuch a flame for several minutes.\"\n\n\n\n\nMISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE.\n\n\nERRATUM.--In the April number, the view of the upper surface of the\nbrain, by mistake of the printer, was turned upside down--see page 29.\nThe engraving on page 31 must be referred to, to illustrate the\ndescription in this number.\n\n\nCO-OPERATION is making great progress. A colony similar to that at\nTopolobampo is to be established on 3,000 acres at Puget Sound.\nManufacturers are beginning to adopt the principle of giving a share\nof profits to their employees, but space forbids details. Topolobampo\nhas 400 busy colonists, and is not ready yet for any more.\n\n\nEMANCIPATION.--Brazil has about a million of slaves. Emancipation is\nproceeding slowly. It may be thirty years before slavery shall be\nentirely extinguished.\n\n\nINVENTORS.--A correspondent remarks very justly that \"Inventors have\nrescued the race from primitive barbarism. They have transformed the\nprimeval curse into a blessing. True saviors they, whose every gift\nhas multiplied itself a thousand-fold by opening new fields of\nindustry, and scattering luxuries even among the poorest. To the\ninventor, and not to the statesman, politician, or warrior, do we owe\nour present prosperity.\"\n\n\nIMPORTANT DISCOVERY.--\"Tests were recently made at Louisville of a new\nand not expensive process for hardening and tempering steel, by which\nhardness and elasticity are carried forward in combination. A drill\nmade of the new steel penetrated in forty minutes a steel safe-plate\nwarranted to resist any burglar drill for twelve hours. A penknife\ntempered by the process cut the stem of a steel key readily, and with\nthe same blade the inventor shaved the hairs on his arm. The inventor\nis a young blacksmith. He has also a new process for converting iron\ninto steel.\"\n\n\nSACCHARINE.--This new substance said to be 200 times as sweet as sugar\nis manufactured from coal tar. It was discovered about six years ago\nin the laboratory of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, by\nProf. Remsen and a student named Fahlberg, who has since taken out\npatents upon it. It is greatly superior to sugar, as it is free from\nfermentation and decomposition. A small quantity added to starch or\nglucose will make a compound equal to sugar in sweetness. It is a\nvaluable antiseptic and has valuable medical properties.\n\n\nSUGAR has been discovered to have great value as an addition to\nmortar, as it has a solvent action on lime. An English builder wrote\nan important letter to the authorities of Charleston, S. C., on this\nsubject, after that city had suffered from the earthquake.\n\n\nARTIFICIAL IVORY.--We shall no longer need the elephant for ivory.\nCompounds of a celluloid character, made from cotton waste, can now be\nmade hard as ivory, or flexible or soft as we wish. White and\ntransparent, or brilliantly colored, it can be handled like wood cut\nand carved, or applied as a varnish. An artificial ivory of creamy\nwhiteness and great hardness is now made from good potatoes washed in\ndiluted sulphuric acid, and then boiled in the same solution until\nthey become solid and dense. They are then washed free of the acid and\nslowly dried. This ivory can be dyed and turned, and made useful in\nmany ways.\n\n\nPAPER PIANOS.--Pianos have lately been made from paper in Germany,\ninstead of wood, with great improvement in the tone.\n\n\nSOCIAL DEGENERACY OF THE WEALTHY.--The _Boston Herald_ says: \"The\nspirit of the age is censorious. There is no doubt of that, or that\nwith every new day the tendency toward pessimism increases. But even\ntaking these facts into consideration, there is no denying that the\nyoung man about town of the nineteenth century is a blot upon our\nboasted modern civilization. His is not a pleasant figure to\ncontemplate, though it is one that we all see very often and know very\nwell--clothed irreproachably in the most expensive raiment that London\ntailors and unlimited credit can supply. He lives lazily and\nluxuriously on his father's money and his wife's, and, being after his\nnatural term of days laid away in a tomb at Mt. Auburn, ends his\nexistence without making any more impression upon the world's history\nthan a falling rose leaf, or an August cricket's faintest chirp.\"\n\n\nPREVENTION OF CRUELTY.--In Congress, Feb. 14, Mr. Collins, for the\njudiciary committee, has given a favorable report on the bill and\nmemorial of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to\nAnimals, asking the passage of a law to protect dumb animals in the\nvarious territories from unnecessary cruelty. In the report Mr.\nCollins says: \"This body occupies the foremost place among the\norganizations of men and women who in our time have done so much to\nrepress and punish human cruelty, abuse, and neglect in dealing with\ndumb animals. In all the States, we believe, laws now exist to prevent\nand punish unnecessary exposure, neglect, or cruel treatment of beasts\nof burden and other animals. To bring the federal legislation into\nco-operation and harmony with the laws of the States on the subject,\nand provide a uniform rule for the District of Columbia and the\nTerritories, your committee recommend the passage of the bill.\"\n\n\nVALUE OF BIRDS.--Maurice Thompson contends that the failure of\norchards in this country is largely or mainly due to the war upon\nbirds. The mocking bird he considers the most valuable of all. \"No\nScuppernong vine,\" he says, \"should be without its mocking bird to\ndefend it.\" Let ladies think of this who patronize cruelty by wearing\nbirds' plumage on their bonnets.\n\n\nHOUSE PLANTS.--Dr. J. M. Anders has decided after eight years'\ninvestigation that house plants are very sanitary agents, and even\nthinks that they help to ward off consumption and other diseases.\n\n\nTHE LARGEST TUNNEL IN THE WORLD has been completed at Schemnitz in\nHungary. It was begun in 1782, and is ten and a quarter miles long,\nnine feet ten inches high, and five feet three inches wide, costing\nnearly $5,000,000. Its purpose is to drain the water of the Schemnitz\nmines, which is worth $75,000 a year.\n\n\n\"WESTWARD THE STAR OF EMPIRE,\" ETC.--\"The Fall River (Mass.,) iron\nworks, which have been in operation for fifty years, have shut down\npermanently and all the hands have been discharged. It was found\nimpossible to compete with western works that are situated near the\nbase of natural gas and iron supplies.\"\n\n\n\n\nSTRUCTURE OF THE BRAIN.\n\n(_Continued from page 32._)\n\n\nNevertheless, in men and animals killed in full health there is very\nlittle serum in any part of the brain, the blood requiring all the\nspace there is for fluids; and as the blood distends one part of the\nbrain more than another in consequence of local excitement, the other\nportions of the brain, which are in a passive state, are compressed\nand deprived of their full supply of blood, so that they are of less\nnourished and their development declines.\n\nThus do we hold our destiny in our own hands. If we will cultivate the\nfaculties which are most in need of cultivation, their organs,\nreceiving more blood, will grow faster than any other portions of the\nbrain, while the organs that are kept in check and deprived of\nactivity will gradually decline in power and size, so that the\ncharacter will become essentially changed. It is in the power of every\nindividual who has the necessary determination to change essentially\nhis own nature for better or worse, as well as to modify and enlarge\nhis capacities, changing the structure of his brain; and this should\nencourage every young man and woman to make for themselves a noble\ndestiny. Moreover, it is still more practicable to accomplish this by\nmeans of education, with all proper appliances for the young; and this\nshould encourage philanthropists to struggle for that social\nregeneration which is so clearly possible for all the world, as I have\nshown in \"The New Education.\" The study of the anatomy of the brain\nand the innumerable experiments I have made on the brain, showing how\ncompletely the brain of the impressible can be revolutionized in its\naction in a few minutes, make it very apparent that society as a whole\nis responsible for the continued existence of criminals, paupers, and\nlunatics; for there should not be one, and would not be, if mankind\ncould be aroused from their criminal apathy and ignorance to the\nperformance of our duty in education. But alas! \"the light shineth in\ndarkness and the darkness comprehendeth it not.\"\n\nThe study of the brain continually leads us into grand philanthropic\nconceptions by showing the splendid possibilities of humanity,--showing\nhow near we are to a nobler social state from which we are debarred by\nignorance, by moral apathy, by ignorant self sufficiency, by intolerant\nbigotry, and by selfish animality,--qualities which, alas! pervade all\nranks to-day.\n\nBut returning from this digression to our study of the interior of the\nbrain: the great ventricles of which we have considered the position,\nand which are called lateral ventricles, are interesting for another\nreason, that they are the central region around which the cerebrum is\ndeveloped, as it folds over upon itself in its early growth, and\nconsequently must be borne in mind as its centre when we are studying\nits comparative development in different heads. The basilar organs lie\nbelow the ventricles and the coronal organs above.\n\nIf we have inserted a finger under the corpus callosum, the fibres of\nwhich are above our finger, we may feel below, the structure which may\nbe called the bottom of the ventricle, and which is likewise the base\nor trunk of the superincumbent parts from which they spring, as a tree\nfrom its stump.\n\nThis structure is one mass, called anteriorly the corpus striatum, or\nstriated body, and posteriorly the optic thalamus or bed of the optic\nnerve, though the optic nerve has its principal origin in another\npart, called the optic lobes. The thalamus and corpus striatum are\ncalled together, the _great inferior ganglion_ of the brain. They are\nmasses of gray substance, with white fibres from below passing through\nthem, and white fibres originating in them to ascend and spread, so\nthat their entire masses of fibres, ascending and spreading out like a\nfan, constitute an extensive structure which folds together toward the\nmedian line somewhat like a nervous sac, inclosing the cavity of the\nventricle and sending its representative fibres across the median\nline,--which are called the corpus callosum. This will be more fully\nexplained when we consider the genesis of the brain as it grows in the\nunborn infant.\n\nAs the reader now understands the principal parts around the\nventricles, let him look lower down to complete the survey and\nunderstand the plan of the brain, though not its anatomical minutiae.\nThe optic thalamus is indicated in the engraving, but the corpus\nstriatum, being more exterior and anterior, does not appear.\nPractically they may be regarded as one body.\n\nWhere the thalami come together and touch or unite on the median line,\nthe junction is called a commissure (commiss. med.) and the space\nbetween them where they do not touch is called the third ventricle\n(ventric. III), which, like the lateral ventricles, may also hold a\nlittle serum. It is unnecessary to consider the small parts above the\nthalami, the choroid plexus of blood vessels, the fornix or strip of\nnerve membrane, and the septum lucidum or delicate fibres under the\ncorpus callosum.\n\nBeginning at the bottom of the figure, we observe the medulla\noblongata rising from the spinal cord to reach the cerebrum. Behind\nthis we see the cerebellum divided on the median line, and thus\npresenting where it is divided the appearance called _arbor vitae_,\nfrom its resemblance to the leaf of that evergreen.\n\nAs the fibres of the medulla oblongata ascend they pass between the\ncerebellum and the _pons Varolii_ (bridge of Varolius) mingling with\nits substance. The pons or bridge (for if the brain were laid on its\nupper surface the pons would appear like a bridge over the river\nrepresented by the medulla oblongata) is the commissure or connecting\nbody of the cerebellum, as the corpus callosum is of the cerebrum.\nWhen the head is held erect the fibres of the pons arch forward from\nthe interior of the cerebellum on one side across the median line to\nthe other side, so that a straight line through from the right to the\nleft ear would pierce its lower portion. It looks toward the front,\ncorresponding with the upper jaw, just below the nostrils, through\nwhich region it may be reached for experiment.\n\nMy experiments upon the brain of man show that the pons on each side\nof the median line is the commanding head of the respiratory impulse,\nand in marking the organ of respiration on my busts, it is located\naround the mouth from the nose to the chin. When this region\n(especially its lower portion) is prominent it indicates active\nrespiration and a forcible voice. Hence there is a great contrast in\nthe vocal power of two such heads as are shown in the adjoining\nfigure. This discovery has been verified by the pathological\nresearches of Dr. J. B. Coste, published at Paris, 1857.\n\n[Illustration]\n\nFollowing the line of the ascending fibres, after passing through the\npons they continue expanding and plunge into the thalamus and corpus\nstriatum. Their first appearance above the pons (marked in the\nengraving by the word _Pedunc._) is usually called the _crura_ or\nthighs of the brain. The right crus, running through the thalamus,\nexpands by successive additions into the right hemisphere, and the\nleft crus into the left hemisphere, of the cerebrum, and the two\nhemispheres unite together on the median line by the corpus callosum.\n\nThere is very little space for the crura (plural of crus) between the\npons and the thalamus, but if we look at the posterior surface of the\nascending fibres or crura we see a larger surface, on which we find a\nquadruple elevation called the _corpora quadrigemina_ (the four\ntwins). This is an important intermediate structure between the\ncerebrum and the cerebellum, and in fishes is the largest part of the\nbrain, but in man is the smallest portion, as will be explained\nhereafter, and is the origin of the optic nerve, as well as a\ncommanding head for the spinal system, from which convulsions may be\nproduced.\n\nThe quadrigemina are distinguished also as the location of the pineal\ngland, which rests upon them, to which we may ascribe important\npsychic functions. The engraving shows the fibres connecting the\nquadrigemina with the cerebellum, and a channel under them (aqueduct\nof Sylvius) connecting the ventricles of the cerebrum with those of\nthe spinal cord. What is called the fourth ventricle is the small\nspace between the medulla oblongata and the cerebellum. At this spot\nthe posterior surface of the medulla oblongata, as it gives origin to\nthe pneumogastric nerve, which conveys the sensations of the lungs,\nbecomes the immediate source of the respiratory impulse on which\nbreathing depends, and hence is of the greatest importance to life. A\nvery slight injury at this spot with a lancet or point of a knife\nwould be fatal. It is recognized by converging fibres which look like\na pen, and are therefore called the _calamus scriptorius_, or writer's\npen.\n\nIf the reader has not fully mastered the intricacy of the brain\nstructure, he will find his difficulties removed by studying two more\nskilful dissections. The following engraving presents the appearances\nwhen we cut through the middle of the brain horizontally and reveal\nthe bottom of the ventricles, in which we see the great ganglion, or\noptic thalamus and corpus striatum, and the three localities at which\nthe hemispheres are connected by fibres on the median line, called\nanterior, middle, and posterior commissures. These commissures are of\nno importance in our study; they assist the corpus callosum in\nmaintaining a close connection between the right and left hemispheres.\n\n[Illustration]\n\nBehind the thalami we see the quadrigemina, the posterior pair of\nwhich is labelled _testes_, and resting upon them we have the pineal\ngland, a centre of spiritual influx. Behind the thalami, the posterior\nlobes are cut away that we may look down to the cerebellum, and the\nmiddle of the cerebellum is also removed so that we may see the back\nof the medulla oblongata and its fibres, called restiform bodies,\nwhich give origin to the cerebellum. The fibres from the cerebellum to\nthe quadrigemina are shown, and the space at the back of the medulla,\ncalled the fourth ventricle.\n\nAs the fibres of the medulla pass up through the pons to the great\ninferior ganglion, and the fibres of the corpus striatum pass outward\nand upward to form the cerebrum, this procession of the fibres is\nshown in the annexed engraving, in which we see the restiform bodies\npassing up to form the cerebellum, and the remainder of the medulla\nfibres passing through the pons, and then, under the name crus cerebri\nor thigh of the cerebrum, passing through the thalamus and striatum to\nexpand in the left hemisphere of the cerebrum. We see the quadrigemina\non the back of the ascending fibres and their connection by fibres\nwith the cerebellum behind, as they connect with the thalami in front.\nThis is as complete a statement of the structure of the brain as is\nnecessary, and further anatomical details would only embarrass the\nmemory.\n\n[Illustration]\n\nThe engraving above represents not an actual dissection, but the plan\nof the fibres as understood by the anatomist. The intricacy of the\ncerebral structure is so great that it would require a vast number of\nskilful dissections and engravings to make a correct portrait.\nFortunately, this is not necessary for the general reader, who\nrequires only to understand the position of the organs in the head,\nand the direction of their growth, which is in all cases directly\noutward from the central region or ventricles, so as to cause a\nprominence of the cranium--not a \"bump,\" but a general fulness of\ncontour. Bumps belong to the growth of bone--not that of the brain.\n\nLet us next consider the genesis of the brain, which will give us a\nmore perfect understanding of its structure, by showing its origin,\nthe correct method of estimating its development.\n\n\n\n\nCHAPTER III.--GENESIS OF THE BRAIN\n\n    Beginning of the brain--Its correspondence to the animal\n    kingdom and the law of evolution--Inadequacy of physical\n    causes in evolution--The Divine influence and its human\n    analogy--Probability of influx--Possible experimental\n    proof--Potentiality of the microscopic germinal element and\n    its invisible life--Is it a complete microcosm?--The cosmic\n    teaching of Sarcognomy--The fish form of the brain--The triple\n    form of the brain--Decline of the middle brain--Brains of the\n    codfish, flounder, and roach--Embryo of twelve weeks--Lowest\n    type of the brain--Measurement of the embryo brain--Structure\n    of the convolutions--Unfolding of the brain--Forms of\n    twenty-one weeks and seven months--Anatomy shows the central\n    region--Its importance--Neglect of prior authors--Errors of\n    the phrenological school explained--Misled by Mr. Combe into a\n    false system of measurement--How I was led to detect the\n    error--Form of the animal head and form of the noble\n    character--Line of the ventricles--Coronal and basilar\n    development--Its illustration in two heads and in the entire\n    animal kingdom---Dulness of human observers--Anatomy shows the\n    central region--Circular character of cerebral\n    development--Accuracy of a true cerebral science, and errors\n    of the Gallian system.\n\n\nThe brain begins in a human being in embryonic life, as it begins in\nthe animal kingdom, void of the convolutions which are seen in its\nmaturity,--beginning as a small outgrowth from the medulla oblongata,\nwhich after the second month extends into three small sacs of nervous\nmembrane inclosing cavities, making a triple brain, such as exists in\nfishes, which are the lowest type of vertebrated animals,--animals\nthat have a spinal column or backbone.\n\nFrom this condition, the fishy condition of the nervous system of the\nembryo human being at the end of the second month, there is a regular\ngrowth which develops in the embryo the forms characteristic of higher\norders of animals in regular succession,--fishes, reptiles, birds, and\nquadrupeds or mammalia, monkeys, and man.\n\nThis is the same order of succession which geologists assign to the\ndevelopment of the animal kingdom, the higher species coming in after\nthe lower; and if every human being, instead of developing at once,\naccording to the human type, is compelled to pass through this regular\ngradation of development, is it not apparent that the lower forms are\nabsolutely necessary as a basis for the higher, and that the higher\nforms cannot arrive except by building up and giving additional\ndevelopment to the lower? In other words, the present status of\nhumanity above the animal kingdom was attained not by a sudden burst\nof creative power, making a distinct and isolated being, but by the\ngradual and consecutive influx, which evolved new faculties and\norgans,--a process called _evolution_. How slow or how rapid this\nprocess may have been, science has not yet determined; but it would\nrequire incalculable millions of years if nothing but the common\nexciting effects of environment and necessity have been operative in\nevolution; and science has utterly failed to discover any power which\ncould carry on development so effectively as to produce an entire\ntransformation of species, and overcome the vast differences between\nthe oyster and the bird, the fish and the elephant.\n\nBut as such transmutations of the nervous system do virtually occur in\nman before birth, we cannot say that they are _impossible_, for that\nwhich occurs in the womb under the influence of parental love may also\noccur in the womb of nature under the influence of Divine love; for\nlove is the creative power, and as the maternal influx may determine\nthe noble development of humanity or the ignoble development of\nmonsters and animalized beings, it is obvious that the formative stage\nof all beings is a plasmic condition in which the most subtle or\nspiritual influences may totally change their destiny and development.\n\nThat such an influx may come to exalt or to modify the animal type is\nby no means unreasonable, for human beings in vast numbers are liable\nto such influences from the unseen, which exert a controlling\ninfluence, and many animals are as accessible to invisible influences\nas man, while their embryos are vastly more so than the parents. If\nthen we recognize the spiritual being in man, and the same spiritual\nbeing disembodied as a potential existence,--if, moreover, we\nrecognize the illimitable and incomprehensible psychical power behind\nthe universe, of which man is one expression, we cannot fail to see\nthat the embryonic development of animals from a lower to a higher\nform is entirely possible and probable; and in the absence of any\nother practicable method of evolution to higher types we are compelled\nto adopt this as the most rational.\n\nWhat is difficult or utterly impossible when we rely on physical\ncauses alone, becomes facile enough when we introduce the spiritual,\nand argue from what we see in the spiritual genesis of every human\nbeing to the analogous processes of nature on the largest scale.\n\nIf a false and brutal superstition did not stand in the way, clothed\nin pharisaical assumption and political power, experiments might be\nmade on human beings and animals sufficient to settle most positively\nall doubt as to transmutation of species by the semi-creative power\nfrom the invisible world, combined with visible agencies.\n\nIndeed, the entire difficulty vanishes from the mind of a philosopher\nwhen he refers to the fact that the potentiality of all being resides\nin a microscopic germinal element containing within itself an\ninvisible spiritual energy, which determines for all time a continual\nsuccession of animals of certain forms and characteristics which human\npower has never been able to change.\n\nWhy is it that a simple speck of protoplasm void of visible\norganization--a mere jelly to hold the invisible life power--carries\nwithin itself in that invisible spiritual element the destiny of\nmyriads of animal beings, and according to the nature of that\ninvisible spiritual element it may develop into a Humboldt or an\noyster, an elephant, a humming-bird, or a serpent?\n\n\n\n\nTo the Readers of the Journal of Man.\n\n\nThe establishment of a new Journal is a hazardous and expensive\nundertaking. Every reader of this volume receives what has cost more\nthan he pays for it, and in addition receives the product of months of\neditorial, and many years of scientific, labor. May I not therefore\nask his aid in relieving me of this burden by increasing the\ncirculation of the Journal among his friends?\n\nThe establishment of the Journal was a duty. There was no other way\neffectively to reach the people with its new sphere of knowledge.\nBuckle has well said in his \"History of Civilization,\" that \"No great\npolitical improvement, no great reform, either legislative or\nexecutive, has ever been originated in any country by its ruling\nclass. The first suggestors of such steps have invariably been bold\nand able thinkers, who discern the abuse, denounce it, and point out\nthe remedy.\"\n\nThis is equally true in science, philanthropy, and religion. When the\nadvance of knowledge and enlightenment of conscience render reform or\nrevolution necessary, the ruling powers of college, church,\ngovernment, capital, and the press, present a solid combined\nresistance which the teachers of novel truth cannot overcome without\nan appeal to the people. The grandly revolutionary science of\nAnthropology, which offers in one department (Psychometry) \"the dawn\nof a new civilization,\" and in other departments an entire revolution\nin social, ethical, educational, and medical philosophy, has\nexperienced the same fate as all other great scientific and\nphilanthropic innovations, in being compelled to sustain itself\nagainst the mountain mass of established error by the power of truth\nalone. The investigator whose life is devoted to the evolution of the\ntruth cannot become its propagandist. A whole century would be\nnecessary to the full development of these sciences to which I can\ngive but a portion of one life. Upon those to whom these truths are\ngiven, who can intuitively perceive their value, rests the task of\nsustaining and diffusing the truth.\n\nThe circulation of the Journal is necessarily limited to the sphere of\nliberal minds and advanced thinkers, but among these it has had a more\nwarm and enthusiastic reception than was ever before given to any\nperiodical. There must be in the United States twenty or thirty\nthousand of the class who would warmly appreciate the Journal, but\nthey are scattered so widely it will be years before half of them can\nbe reached without the active co-operation of my readers, which I most\nearnestly request.\n\nProspectuses and specimen numbers will be furnished to those who will\nuse them, and those who have liberal friends not in their own vicinity\nmay confer a favor by sending their names that a prospectus or\nspecimen may be sent them. A liberal commission will be allowed to\nthose who canvas for subscribers.\n\n\nEnlargement of the Journal.\n\nThe requests of readers for the enlargement of the Journal are already\ncoming in. It is a great disappointment to the editor to be compelled\neach month to exclude so much of interesting matter, important to\nhuman welfare, which would be gratifying to its readers. The second\nvolume therefore will be enlarged to 64 pages at $2 per annum.\n\n[Hand pointing right] SEE NEXT PAGE.\n\n\nBOOKS RECEIVED FOR NOTICE.--\"Unanswerable Logic: Spiritual discourses\nthrough the mediumship of Thomas Gales Forster,\" published by Colby\nand Rich; $1.50. This is an able and scholarly discussion of spiritual\nscience. The style would not suggest mediumship as their source, but\nrather study and research. There are several passages the Journal\nwould like to quote when space permits. Mr. Forster should be\nremembered with gratitude as an able and fearless pioneer in the\ndiffusion of noble truths.\n\n\nCollege of Therapeutics.\n\nThe large amount of scientific and therapeutic knowledge developed by\nrecent discoveries, but not yet admitted into the slow-moving medical\ncolleges, renders it important to all young men of liberal minds--to\nall who aim at the highest rank in their profession--to all who are\nstrictly conscientious and faithful in the discharge of their duties\nto patients under their care, to have an institution in which their\neducation can be completed by a preliminary or a post-graduate course\nof instruction.\n\nThe amount of practically useful knowledge of the healing art which is\nabsolutely excluded from the curriculum of old style medical colleges\nis greater than all they teach--not greater than the adjunct sciences\nand learning of a medical course which burden the mind to the\nexclusion of much useful therapeutic knowledge, but greater than all\nthe curative resources embodied in their instruction.\n\nThe most important of these therapeutic resources which have sometimes\nbeen partially applied by untrained persons are now presented in the\nCollege of Therapeutics, in which is taught not the knowledge which is\nnow represented by the degree of M. D., but a more profound knowledge\nwhich gives its pupils immense advantages over the common graduate in\nmedicine.\n\nTherapeutic Sarcognomy, a science often demonstrated and endorsed by\nable physicians, gives the anatomy not of the physical structure, but\nof the vital forces of the body and soul as located in every portion\nof the constitution--a science vastly more important than physical\nanatomy, as the anatomy of life is more important than the anatomy of\ndeath. Sarcognomy is the true basis of medical practice, while anatomy\nis the basis only of operative surgery and obstetrics.\n\nIndeed, every magnetic or electric practitioner ought to attend such a\ncourse of instruction to become entirely skilful in the correct\ntreatment of disease.\n\nIn addition to the above instruction, special attention will be given\nto the science and art of Psychometry--the most important addition in\nmodern times to the practice of medicine, as it gives the physician\nthe most perfect diagnosis of disease that is attainable, and the\npower of extending his practice successfully to patients at any\ndistance. The methods of treatment used by spiritual mediums and \"mind\ncure\" practitioners will also be philosophically explained.\n\nThe course of instruction will begin on Monday, the 2d of May, and\ncontinue six weeks. The fee for attendance on the course will be $25.\nTo students who have attended heretofore the fee will be $15. For\nfurther information address the president,\n\n        JOSEPH RODES BUCHANAN, M. D.\n                6 JAMES ST., BOSTON.\n\nThe sentiments of those who have attended these courses of instruction\nduring the last eight years were concisely expressed in the following\nstatement, which was unanimously signed and presented to Dr. Buchanan\nby those attending his course in Boston, of which we present only the\nconcluding resolution.\n\n\"_Resolved_, That Therapeutic Sarcognomy is a system of science of the\nhighest importance, alike to the magnetic healer, to the\nelectro-therapeutist, and to the medical practitioner,--giving great\nadvantages to those who thoroughly understand it, and destined to\ncarry the fame of its discoverer to the remotest future ages.\"\n\nDr. K. MEYENBERG, who is the Boston agent for Oxygen Treatment, is a\nmost honorable, modest, and unselfish gentleman, whose superior\nnatural powers as a magnetic healer have been demonstrated during\neighteen years' practice in Washington City. Some of his cures have\nbeen truly marvelous. He has recently located in Boston as a magnetic\nphysician.\n\n\n\n\n                      Buchanan's Journal of Man.\n\n                $1.00 PER ANNUM. SINGLE COPIES 10 CTS.\n\n       PUBLISHED AT 6 JAMES ST., BOSTON, BY DR. J. R. BUCHANAN,\n\n    AUTHOR OF SYSTEM OF ANTHROPOLOGY, THE NEW EDUCATION, MANUAL OF\n        PSYCHOMETRY, AND THERAPEUTIC SARCOGNOMY. PROFESSOR OF\n    PHYSIOLOGY AND INSTITUTES OF MEDICINE IN FOUR MEDICAL COLLEGES\n    SUCCESSIVELY FROM 1845 TO 1881; AND DEAN OF THE FACULTY OF THE\n         PARENT SCHOOL OF AMERICAN ECLECTICISM AT CINCINNATI.\n\n\n                        LANGUAGE OF THE PRESS.\n\nThe reception of this JOURNAL by the press, when first issued from\n1849 to 1856 was as unique as its own character. The following\nquotations show the reputation of the JOURNAL thirty to thirty-seven\nyears ago.\n\nBuchanan's JOURNAL OF MAN. \"Perhaps no journal published in the world\nis so far in advance of the age.\"--_Plain Dealer, Cleveland._\n\n\"His method is strictly scientific; he proceeds on the sure ground of\nobservation and experiment; he admits no phenomena as reality which he\nhas not thoroughly tested, and is evidently more desirous to arrive at\na correct understanding of nature than to establish a system.... We\nrejoice that they are in the hands of one who is so well qualified as\nthe editor of the JOURNAL to do them justice, both by his indomitable\nspirit of research, his cautious analysis of facts, and his power of\nexact and vigorous expression.\"--_New York Tribune._\n\n\"This sterling publication is always welcome to our table. Many of its\narticles evince marked ability and striking originality.\"--_National\nEra, Washington City._\n\n\"It is truly refreshing to take up this monthly.... When we drop\nanchor and sit down to commune with philosophy as taught by Buchanan,\nthe fogs and mists of the day clear up.\"--_Capital City Fact._\n\n\"This work is a pioneer in the progress of science.\"--_Louisville\nDemocrat._\n\n\"After a thorough perusal of its pages, we unhesitatingly pronounce it\none of the ablest publications in America.\"--_Brandon Post._\n\n\"To hear these subjects discussed by ordinary men, and then to read\nBuchanan, there is as much difference as in listening to a novice\nperforming on a piano, and then to a Chevalier Gluck or a\nThalberg.\"--_Democrat Transcript._\n\n\"No person of common discernment who has read Dr. Buchanan's writings\nor conversed with him in relation to the topics which they treat, can\nhave failed to recognize in him one of the very foremost thinkers of\nthe day. He is certainly one of the most charming and instructive\nmen to whom anybody with a thirst for high speculation ever\nlistened.\"--_Louisville Journal_ (_edited by PRENTICE and SHIPMAN_).\n\n[Hand pointing right] The recent issue of the JOURNAL in Boston was\nimmediately hailed with the same appreciative cordiality by the press,\nand by private correspondents.\n\n\"Dr. Buchanan's name has been so intimately associated with the\nforemost moral, social, and political reforms which have agitated the\npublic mind for the last half century that the mention of it in\nconnection with the foregoing publication under the old-time name will\ndoubtless draw to it an extensive patronage.\"--_Hall's Journal of\nHealth, New York._\n\n\"It is a real pleasure to be able to turn to such a journal after, as\na matter of courtesy, skimming over so much trash as is thrown\nbroadcast.... He seems determined to reverse this order and use words\nthat will not only _express_ his ideas, but, at the same time, _sink\nthem in_ so they will stay.\"--_Nonconformist._\n\n\"This JOURNAL reaches our table as richly laden with thought as ever.\nWhen we read it in the days of our boyhood it was at least thirty-one\nyears ahead of its time.\"--_New Thought._\n\n\"It was at that time one of the most original scientific journals of\nthe day, advancing ideas that had not then been heard of.\"--_Hartford\nTimes._\n\n\"For this work we know of no one so well adapted as Dr. Buchanan. He\nstands at the head of the thinkers of this nation, and has given to\nthe topics with which he regales his readers his best\nthoughts.\"--_Golden Gate, San Francisco._\n\n\"This publication is unique in its aims, and by pursuing almost\nuntrodden mental paths, leads the reader into new and heretofore\nunexplored fields of thought.\"--_Herald Times, Gouverneur, N. Y._\n\n\"We have read with interest the varied contents of the present number,\nand feel eager for more.\"--_The New Age._\n\n\"All will be profited by the candid and able presentation of the\nvarious topics by the distinguished anthropologist\neditor.\"--_Spiritual Offering._\n\n\"The complete volume will be worth twelve times the cost to\nprogressive people.\"--_Medical Liberator._\n\n\"Undoubtedly this will be a journal of rare merit, and much looked for\nby all thinking minds, as its editor has established a reputation in\nnew scientific researches, not attained by any man on this continent\nor any other.\"--_Eastern Star_.\n\n\"Several years ago, the _Advance_, in an article on pyschometry,\nexpressed the opinion that Dr. Buchanan was the greatest discoverer of\nthis age, if not of any age of the world. We regard the publication of\nsuch a journal as an event of the century, greater than political\nchanges. Prof. Buchanan by his discoveries has laid the foundation for\nthe revolution of science.\"--_Worthington Advance, Minnesota_.\n\n\"It is designed to occupy the highest realm of knowledge attainable by\nman, hence will not attract those who have no aspiration toward such\nknowledge. No brief notice would convey a good idea of the worth of\nthis magazine.\"--_Richmond (Mo.) Democrat_.\n\n\"It is so full of valuable matter that to the thoughtful man it is a\nmine of gold.\"--_Deutsche Zeitung, Charleston, S. C._\n\n\"His monthly is one of rare merits, as is everything that comes from\nthe pen of this advanced thinker....We never read an article from the\npen of this world-renowned thinker, but that we feel we are in the\npresence of one whose shoes' latchet we are unworthy to\nunloose.\"--_Rostrum, Vineland, N. J._\n\n\"We are more than pleased to know that Prof. Buchanan at his age of\nlife has taken upon himself such a broad, deep, beneficent task as\npublishing the JOURNAL OF MAN. We welcome it as a harbinger of\nknowledge that will send its light away down the corridors of time as\na beacon of the nineteenth century....We believe that its future pages\nare destined to contain the vortex of questions, socially and morally,\nwhich are whirling through the human mind, and their solution, in a\nmanner that will command the profound respect of philosophers,\nscientists, professors, doctors, philanthropists, and all grades and\nclasses of thinkers....Every word is interesting and profitable to the\nhuman family.\"--_Eastern Star, Maine_.\n\n\"The article on the \"Phrenological doctrines of Gall, their past and\npresent status,\" is grand and masterly, and whets the appetite for\nwhat is promised in continuation. 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H. \"The truths that you so ably\nset forth have been felt and known by me for the last six or seven\nyears, because I am unfortunately a victim of that one-sided\neducation, called literary, which dwarfs instead of developing true\nand noble manhood.\"--L. I. G. of New Mexico. \"The JOURNAL OF MAN\nshould startle the advanced medical man with transports of joy.\"--DR.\nD. E. E. \"I read it with great pleasure, as I do everything I can meet\nthat comes from your pen.\"--H. T. L. \"If I were younger I should place\nmyself under your tuition.\"--W. B. \"When I have read your thoughts I\nhave felt elevated, and have wanted to grasp you in body as I do\nspiritually.\"--L. M. B. \"I trust that you will be held in the form\nyears yet to come to carry out the important work.\"--J. L. (England.)\n\"I read every scrap of yours I can get my fingers over.\"--T. M. \"I\nfeel thankful from the depths of my soul that in all this wide world\nthere is such a mind as your own.\"--P. C. 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