{"collection":"philosophy-ethics","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_27812/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_27812","id":"gutenberg_27812","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27812","summary":null,"tags":["Buchanan's Journal of Man","Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches","Category: Philosophy & Ethics","Category: Religion/Spirituality","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.        JANUARY, 1888.        NO. 12.\n\n\n\n\nCONTENTS OF JOURNAL OF MAN.\n\n\n  The Pursuit of Truth\n  Occultism defined\n  Psychic Phenomena\n  The Ancient Iberians\n  The Star Dust of the Universe\n  MISCELLANEOUS--Bright Literature; The Two Worlds; Foote's Health\n    Monthly; Psychic Theories; Twentieth Century Science, Dawning at\n    the end of the Nineteenth; Comparative Speed of Light and\n    Electricity; Wonderful Photography; Wooden Cloth; The\n    Phylloxera; Falling Rents; Boston Civilization; Psychic\n    Blundering; Beecher's Mediumship; A Scientific Cataract;\n    Obstreperous and Pragmatic Vulgarity; Hygiene; Quinine; Life and\n    Death; Dorothea L. Dix; The Drift of Catholicism; Juggernaut\n  The Principal Methods of Studying the Brain\n  Responses of Readers--Medical Orthodoxy\n\n\n\n\nTHE PURSUIT OF TRUTH.\n\n\n    \"To be loyal to the truth is of more account than to be merely\n    successful in formulating it.\"--_Popular Science Monthly_ for\n    December.\n\n\nIndeed it is; for loyalty to truth is the prior condition of success\nin formulating or stating it, and that loyalty not only precedes the\nspecial success in formulating it, but is the prior cause of\n_universal success_ in its attainment. Special perceptive powers and\nfavorable opportunities may enable scientists to ascertain certain\ntruths, as a lamp may enable them to discover a few objects near them\nwhich darkness hides from others, but loyalty to truth reveals, like\ndaylight, all that lies within our horizon, for it opens widely all\nthe avenues between the mind and universal nature, and prevents our\nmental transparency from being darkened in any direction or relation.\nHe who has this loyalty dominant in his nature never pronounces\nanything false which subsequent investigation, or the investigation by\nothers, proves true. He never becomes an obstacle to the spread of any\ntruth. He is always the first to welcome a new truth and the last to\nfalter in sustaining it. He is always ready to recognize the same\nsincerity and fidelity in others, and to give a kindly welcome to the\nlabors and discoveries of other followers of truth. As brave men\nreadily recognize and honor each other, so do the soldiers of truth\nmeet in quick sympathy and cordial co-operation.\n\nThe labors, the discoveries and promulgations of such men ever become\ncriteria by which to test the loyalty and truthfulness of others, for,\nwherever they are presented, all who live in loyalty to truth are at\nonce attracted and realize their harmony with the truth. As the\nmagnetized iron attracts the unmagnetized, so does the loyal soul\ncharged with truth attract all other loyal souls.\n\nBut all through human history we find that inventions, discoveries\nand, above all, momentous truths uniformly fail to attract the masses,\neither of the learned or the unlearned, as was illustrated in our\nDecember number, and hence we must conclude that, in the present early\nor juvenile stage of human evolution, loyalty to truth is one of the\nrarest virtues of humanity.\n\nAnd yet, how often do we meet in literature expressions which would\nindicate that the writers were entirely loyal. They mistake loyalty to\ntheir own self-esteem, loyalty to their own dogmatic convictions,\nmental limitations, prejudices, and prepossessions for loyalty to\ntruth, which is a passionless, modest, lovely and noble quality.\n\nNo doubt the contemporaries of Galileo, Newton, and Harvey indulged in\nthe same self-gratulations. The bigot and dogmatist in all ages have\nentertained no doubt of their own loyalty to truth; but it was loyalty\nto their own very limited perceptions, and to their profound\nconviction that all outside of their own sphere of perception was\nfalsehood or nonentity, and should be received with supercilious scorn\nor crushing blows whenever presented.\n\nMen's minds are thus narrowed in the base contests of selfishness,\njealousy, and fraud; but of all the demoralizing influences that\ndarken the mind by closing up permanently its most important inlets,\nnone have had such a wide-spread and far-reaching power for evil as\nthe false theology which demands the absolute surrender of reason to\nself-evident absurdities.\n\nBenumbed by countless centuries of superstition and passive surrender\nto false education, to social influences, to pre-natal conditions, to\nthe terrors of law and custom, and to the lurid threats and horrors of\nthe imaginary drama of eternity, the mass of mankind have lost the\npower of the dispassionate philosophical reasoning demanded by loyalty\nto truth, and they do not know how to appreciate it when they see it.\n\nRebelling now against this limitation and slavery, they still carry in\ntheir rebellion the marks of their slavery, and in their honest\nagnosticism they still fail to reason fairly in loyalty to truth, and\nindulge in the same dogmatism, narrowness or prejudice as when they\nwere slaves to priestly dogmas.\n\nIt is true that in the agnostic scientific classes there is far more\nindependent reasoning capacity generally than among those who dwell in\nthe theological limitations, but their independence has not relieved\nthem from the dogmatism which has so long been cultivated in the human\nrace by all religious systems. The dogmatism of the medical college,\nand of most scientific associations, rivals that of theological\nsectarianism.\n\nThe _Popular Science Monthly_, from which the above expression in\nbehalf of loyalty to truth was taken, is itself a striking\nillustration of _disloyalty_, and rigidly confines itself to the\nfashionable doctrines of the schools, excluding from its pages\nwhatever differs from the prevalent scientific dogmatism, and while\ndenouncing the dogmatism of theology, exhibiting itself a dogmatism\nequally blind, unreasoning and regardless of facts. Experimental\ndemonstrations and scientific facts, which transcend the limits of\ntheir arbitrary theories, receive as little attention from the\ndogmatists trained in medical schools, as they would from a college of\ncardinals.\n\nThe JOURNAL OF MAN, in the presentation of new truths, attracts only\nthe candid, loyal and progressive. It does not hope to conquer the\nresults of inheritance, pre-natal influence and old institutions, or\nforce any truth upon reluctant and disloyal minds, but it knows that\nthere is an important and growing class who sympathize with loyalty\nand prefer the glowing future to the decaying remains of the past.\n\nTo the party of progress, this magnificent republic opens a free and\nample field. The domination of habit and transmitted dogmatism is\ngrowing continually weaker, fading away in churches and colleges. The\npulpit of today is tolerant indeed in comparison with the pulpit of\nour fathers, and the bright, free thought of the advanced people\nsurrounds the colleges with an atmosphere which is gradually\npenetrating their walls and modifying their policy. An important duty\ndevolves upon every loyal, progressive thinker,--the duty of speaking\nout firmly, manfully and distinctly, to swell the volume of thought\nwhich carries mankind onward to a nobler future.\n\n\n\n\nOCCULTISM DEFINED.\n\nBY ONE WHO KNOWS.\n\n\nMy own claims to be considered as an exponent of true Occultism are\nfounded upon the following grounds: When quite young, in fact, before\nI had attained my thirteenth year, I became acquainted with certain\nparties who sought me out and professed a desire to observe the\nsomnambulic faculties for which I was then remarkable. I found my new\nassociates to be ladies and gentlemen, mostly persons of noble rank,\nand during a period of several years, I, and many other young persons,\nassisted at their sessions in the quality of somnambulists, or\nmesmeric subjects. The persons I thus came into contact with were\nrepresentatives of many other countries than Great Britain. They\nformed one of a number of secret societies, and all that I am\nprivileged to relate of them is, that they were students of the two\nbranches of Occultism hereafter to be described; that they claimed an\naffiliation with societies derived from the ancient mysteries of\nEgypt, Greece, and Judaea; that their beliefs and practices had been\nconcealed from the vulgar by cabalistic methods, and that though their\nreal origin and the purpose of their association had at times been\nalmost lost, it had revived, and been restored under many aspects.\nThey claimed that alchemy, mediaeval Rosicrucianism, and modern\nFreemasonry were off-shoots of the original Cabala, and that during\nthe past 150 years new associations had been formed, and the parties\nwho had introduced me into their arcanum were a society in affiliation\nwith many others then in existence in different countries. These\npersons, deeming that the intrusion into their ranks of unprepared\nminds would be injurious to the harmony necessary for their studies,\ncarefully avoided assuming any position of prominence in reference to\nthe society, so that they might never be solicited to admit those\nwhose presence might be prejudicial. Indeed it was one of their\nleading regulations never to permit the existence of the society to be\nknown or the members thereof named, until they passed from earth to\nthe higher life. It is in virtue of this last clause that I am at\nliberty to say that Lord Lytton, the Earl of Stanhope, and Lieut.\nMorrison (better known as \"Zadkiel\"), and the author of \"Art Magic,\"\nbelonged to this society.\n\nI should have known but little of its principles and practices, as I\nwas simply what I should now call a clairvoyant, sought out by the\nsociety for my gifts in this direction, had I not, in later years,\nbeen instructed in the fundamentals of the society by the author of\n\"Art Magic.\" When modern spiritualism dawned upon the world, for\nspecial reasons of my own, the fellows of my society gave me an\nhonorary release from every obligation I had entered into with them\nexcept in the matter of secrecy. On that point I can never be released\nand never seek to be; but in respect to the statements I am about to\nmake, my former associates,--deeming their publication might serve to\ncorrect some of the erroneous opinions that are put into circulation\nby individuals who arrogate to themselves a knowledge, of which they\nhave not the slightest iota,--not only sanction, but command me to\npresent to the candid inquirer the following brief definition of\ngenuine practical\n\n\nOCCULTISM--ANCIENTLY WRITTEN IN \"CABALA.\"\n\nOCCULTISM is a study and application of the occult, or hidden\nprinciples and forces of the Universe, or, in its more limited sense,\nof Nature.\n\nThe study of occultism is called speculative. The application of that\nstudy is practical occultism.\n\nSpeculative occultism includes opinions and teachings, often so widely\nat variance with commonly received beliefs that it would be extremely\nunwise to subject it to the criticism of persons generically called\nthe world. Speculative occultism of course might be regarded as\n_speculative only_, were it not possible by the aid of practical\noccultism to demonstrate its truths.\n\nThe subjects which engage the attention of the speculative occultist\nare THE CREATOR, or creative power; WORLD BUILDING, and the order and\ndesign of the earth and its spirit spheres; MAN, and his relations to\nthe Creator, the earth, and his fellow-man.\n\nDESCENT OF SPIRIT into matter, and its growth through embryotic\nstages, during which period it is first _elemental_, then _animal_,\nthen _man_.\n\nASCENT OF SPIRIT out of matter, and its progress through future stages\nof growth as planetary and solar spirits.\n\nBesides these purely theoretical subjects are suggestions concerning\nthe best methods of communing with spiritual existences, and of\nreceiving information from lower and higher states than man. These,\ntogether with _some mental exercises and practices_, form the main\nthemes of consideration in the colleges of speculative occultism.\nSpirit Communion, together with Astronomy, Astrology, Mathematics,\nGeometry, Music, Anatomy, Physiology, Psychology, and Psychometry, are\nall kindred branches of study which must engage the attention of the\ntrue occultist.\n\n\nPRACTICAL OCCULTISM.\n\nPRACTICAL OCCULTISM consists, first, of a perfect mastery of the\nindividual's _own spirit_. No advance whatever can be made in\nacquiring power over other spirits, such as controlling the lower or\nsupplicating the higher, until the spirit within has acquired such\nperfect mastery of itself, that it can never be moved to anger or\nemotion--realizes no pleasure, cares for no pain; experiences no\nmortification at insult, loss, or disappointment--in a word, subdues\nevery emotion that stirs common men's minds.\n\nTo arrive at this state, severe and painful as well as long continued\ndiscipline is necessary. Having acquired this perfect _equilibrium_,\nthe next step is _power_. The individual must be able to wake when he\npleases and sleep when he pleases; go in spirit during bodily sleep\nwhere he will, and visit--as well as remember when awake--distant\nscenes.\n\nHe must be enabled by practice, to telegraph, mentally, with his\nfellow associates, and present himself, spiritually, in their midst.\n\nHe must, by practice, acquire psychological control over the minds of\nany persons--not his associates--_beneath_ his own calibre of mind. He\nmust be able to still a crying infant, subdue fierce animals or angry\nmen, and by will, transfer his thought without speech or outward sign\nto any person of a mental calibre below himself; he must be enabled to\nsummon to his presence elementary spirits, and if he desires to do so\n(knowing the penalties attached), to make them serve him in the\nspecial departments of Nature to which they belong.\n\nHe must, by virtue of complete subjugation of his earthly nature, be\nable to invoke Planetary and even Solar Spirits, and commune with them\nto a certain degree.\n\nTo attain these degrees of power the processes are so difficult that a\nthorough practical occultist can scarcely become one and yet continue\nhis relations with his fellow-men.\n\nHe must continue, from the first to the last degree, a long series of\nexercises, each one of which must be perfected before another is\nundertaken.\n\nA practical occultist may be of either sex, but must observe as the\nfirst law inviolable chastity--and that with a view of conserving all\nthe virile powers of the organism. No aged person, especially one who\nhas not lived the life of strict chastity, can acquire the full sum of\nthe powers above named. It is better to commence practice in early\nyouth, for after the meridian of life, when the processes of waste\nprevail over repair, few of the powers above described can be\nattained; the full sum never.\n\nStrict abstinence from animal food and all stimulants is necessary.\nFrequent ablutions and long periods of silent contemplation are\nessential. Codes of exercises for the attainment of these powers can\nbe prescribed, but few, if any, of the self-indulgent livers of modern\ntimes can perform their routine.\n\nThe arts necessary for study to the practical occultist are, in\naddition to those prescribed in speculative occultism, a knowledge of\nthe qualities of drugs, vapors, minerals, electricity, perfumes,\nfumigations, and all kinds of anaesthetics.\n\nAnd now, having given in brief as much as is consistent with my\nposition--as the former associate of a secret society--I have simply\nto add, that, whilst there are, as in Masonry, certain preliminary\ndegrees to pass through, there are numerous others to which a\nthoroughly well organized and faithful association might advance. In\neach degree there are some valuable elements of practical occultism\ndemanded, whilst the teachings conveyed are essential preliminaries.\nIn a word, speculative occultism must precede practical occultism; the\nformer is love and wisdom, the latter, simply power.\n\nIn future papers I propose to describe the two Ancient Cabalas,\nand the present attempts to incarnate their philosophy in\nmodern--so-called--Theosophy.\n\n                                                           SIRIUS.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nIn the foregoing essay, taken from the first number of _The Two\nWorlds_, edited by Mrs. E. H. Britten, we have the best exposition of\nOccultism that has been published. It shows that Occultism, theoretic\nand practical, is a matter of intellectual ambition--ambition to\nunderstand the mysteries of nature, and to wield the power which such\nunderstanding gives. It exhibits no ulterior purpose of using its\nknowledge for the benefit of mankind, or even of diffusing it. Its aim\nis selfish, and the secrecy which it has maintained is not justifiable\nin the present condition of our civilization.\n\nANTHROPOLOGY, which I am endeavoring to introduce for the benefit of\nmankind, comprehends the whole of the theory and practice of\nOccultism, and there is no need for seeking mysterious societies for a\nspecies of knowledge which is no longer a secret, and which will be\nfully illustrated in my future publications.\n\n\"Practical Occultism,\" as defined by Sirius, is perfectly intelligible\nto one who understands the science of the brain. It is an effort to\ncultivate into _abnormal_ predominance the heroic, firm, hardy, and\nspiritual regions of the brain, to the neglect if not suppression of\nits nobler powers. In suppressing sympathy and sensibility, it impairs\nthe foundation of our most amiable virtues, isolates man from the\ncompanionship and love of his fellow-beings and comes dangerously near\nto misanthropy and black magic, or the attempt to use spiritual powers\nand the spiritual realm for purely selfish purposes.\n\nBulwer, it is stated, was one of the occult society. In his case the\npursuit was one of pure selfishness; his motives in his literary\ncareer were selfish and avaricious; his domestic life was detestable,\nand the use that he made of his knowledge in his literary labors was\nmeretricious and fantastic. That noble-minded woman and gifted medium,\nthe late Mrs. M. B. Hayden, M. D., was received by him at Knebworth,\nand gave him ample evidence of truths which he never publicly\nsustained.\n\nWhatever withdraws us from society and from the duties to\nfellow-beings which are incumbent upon all, is unworthy of\nencouragement. The noblest cultivation is symmetrical, and in its\nsymmetry maintains the supremacy of the ethical sentiments, which\nrecognize human fraternity.\n\nNevertheless, this \"practical occultism,\" abnormal and egotistic\nthough it be, may develop marvellous powers, at which we may wonder as\nwe do at the skill of an acrobat or the pugilism of Sullivan. It\ncultivates a will power and a spirituality by which miraculous\nphenomena may be shown, but they are of little real value compared to\nthe nobler miracle of healing those whom physicians have surrendered\nto death, and bringing to the knowledge of mankind the entire truth\nconcerning the future life, and the ennobling lessons derived\ntherefrom, which bring earth life nearer to heaven.\n\n\n\n\nPSYCHIC PHENOMENA.\n\n\nThe _New York World_ publishes a narrative of psychic experiments by\nits correspondent at Washington which may interest those who have not\nwitnessed anything like it. They are just such as have been on\nexhibition publicly in this country for more than forty years, but\nowing to conservative prejudice have not received their due attention\nfrom the press. But as newspaper correspondents and reporters are a\nprivileged class, they can bring before the public marvellous\nphenomena which would not be welcomed from other sources. The\nfollowing is the letter from Washington:\n\n    \"You know what an excitement there has been about mesmerism in\n    Paris this summer? A lion tamer, who was also a mesmerist, took\n    into his cages a young lady whom he had mesmerized, and made his\n    dentate pets jump over her on the floor. There was great\n    excitement about it, and a law was passed in the French\n    Congress, I believe, forbidding such exhibitions, even where the\n    consent of the subject had been obtained previously to losing\n    consciousness.\n\n    \"This letter will be in the nature of a confession. Last spring,\n    discovering by accident that I could mesmerize, I took up\n    mesmerism as a diversion for the amusement of myself and\n    friends. I had long believed in it entirely and carefully\n    watched its processes, but I wished to study its philosophy and\n    find out, if I could, the cause and the limits of its mysterious\n    phenomena.\n\n    \"I first found that I could, by placing my hand on the forehead\n    of a young acquaintance and accompanying the slight pressure\n    with an imperative command, close his eyes and keep them firmly\n    closed against all efforts of his will. I could compel him to\n    dance or keep him from moving from his tracks; could prevent his\n    rising from his chair; prevent his striking his hands together,\n    and, at last, could prevent him from speaking. In fact, I\n    absolutely controlled his voluntary muscles in every respect,\n    and could compel him to do anything that he was physically\n    capable of doing.\n\n    \"Extending the experiments, I obtained the same control over\n    others, both men and women, till I had quite a class of\n    sensitives so responsive that I could control them with ease. Up\n    to this time they were all perfectly conscious and without any\n    hallucinations; they knew who they were, where they were and\n    what they were doing, and they laughed as heartily at the absurd\n    results obtained as any spectator. Up to this time, too, I had\n    no means of ascertaining whether the apparent results were\n    genuine. I might be the dupe of cunning people who were\n    conspiring to fool me, for, in these early stages, there seems\n    to be no way of scientifically proving it.\n\n    \"It was some time before I was able to carry the experiments\n    further and get control of the consciousness and senses of my\n    class. At last success came. I made them see and hear mosquitoes\n    and fight the tormentors with great energy. At this point they\n    became dazed, and it was easy to command their senses in other\n    respects. At a suggestion they heard music, the noises of a\n    riot, a thunderstorm, the roaring of lions, a speech by Col.\n    Ingersoll, and they gradually came to see vividly anything to\n    which I directed their attention. In this world of hallucination\n    they lost consciousness--or, rather, they abandoned their real\n    existence and assumed an abnormal existence, as one does in a\n    dream.\n\n    \"I am not yet certain whether this strange condition is imposed\n    on them by my will, or whether it is self-imposed, subjective,\n    and the result of expectation on their part. I am inclined to\n    believe the latter theory is true, because, when I direct their\n    attention to a horse, for instance, each one sees a different\n    sort of horse, and his head is in different directions.\n\n    \"By a few additional passes I can induce a cataleptic state, in\n    which the sensitive becomes perfectly rigid and can be laid out\n    between two chairs, his head on one and his heels on another,\n    like a log. They can also be easily made insensible to pain, so\n    that pins are stuck through their hands, teeth drawn, and\n    painful but harmless acids put in the eye, without extorting a\n    sign of feeling. In this way, and others even more conclusive, I\n    have demonstrated the good faith of my class.\n\n    \"I have given several receptions for the entertainment of my\n    friends, and record here some results for the benefit of those\n    in other cities who choose to try similar experiments.\n\n    \"The available class now consists of eight--four gentlemen and\n    four ladies, from seventeen to forty years of age. Two of these\n    (both ladies) I have never been able to take into the region of\n    hallucinations. I can control them physically, can prevent their\n    unclasping their hands, or laying down a fan, or rising from\n    their chairs, or pronouncing their own names; but here my\n    influence stops. I cannot make them think that the room is hot\n    or cold, or that mosquitoes are prevalent, or disturb the\n    testimony of their senses in any way.\n\n    \"The other six are lost to the realities of life the instant I\n    touch them. One of them I can put into a sound sleep in a\n    second, and he will sleep until I awaken him.\n\n    \"It should be stated here that these sensitives are above the\n    average of intelligence and mental activity. Three of them are\n    clerks in the departments, one, who took the valedictory in\n    college, being an artist in the Smithsonian. Two are in business\n    for themselves; one of them, a shrewd, sagacious and\n    level-headed man as one would meet anywhere, with a sharp\n    commercial turn of mind. This man differs from the others in\n    being keenly incredulous--sceptical of his hallucinations when\n    they seem unreasonable.\n\n    \"For instance, at a reception the other evening, at which the\n    members of the Cabinet were present with their families, I\n    introduced to my sensitives a learned pig.\n\n    \"'See here!' I said, when they were all in the mesmeric trance;\n    'here you are in my dime museum. Let me show you my educated\n    pig.'\n\n    \"They all wanted to see it, and I whistled, snapped my fingers,\n    and called their attention to the fine animal before them. They\n    evidently saw it.\n\n    \"'A lovely little white pig!' said a young lady.\n\n    \"'Only it isn't little and it isn't white,' said the\n    silversmith; 'it is a big black fellow,' and he appealed to the\n    others.\n\n    \"I explained that it was a scarlet pig, and told them it could\n    read and sing.\n\n    \"'Sing! Oh yes, we hear you!' said the incredulous man\n    sarcastically.\n\n    \"I snapped my fingers. 'There he goes!' said the artist,\n    'singing 'Wait till the Clouds Roll By.''\n\n    \"'I hear singing,' said Incredulous, turning to me.\n    ''Titwillow,' isn't it? How do you work him--the machinery, I\n    mean?'\n\n    \"The others laughed at him. 'Why, the pig sings,' said the young\n    lady; 'can't you hear him sing? can't you see him sing?'\n\n    \"'He looks as if he sang. I see his jaws move, and he sounds as\n    if he sang,' persisted Incredulous; 'but he doesn't sing. Pigs\n    don't sing.'\n\n    \"'Very well, what is it, then?' asked one of the clerks,\n    triumphantly.\n\n    \"'A tube and a hole in the floor, may be; it's well done,\n    though,' said the doubter.\n\n    \"'Suppose you go and find the tube,' suggested the artist.\n\n    \"He went and kicked around where he supposed it to be, tore up a\n    piece of the carpet and looked nonplussed.\n\n    \"'Yonder's the pig over by the entrance, singing 'A Warrior\n    Bold,'' said the artist, amid laughter.\n\n    \"The scoffer came back to his seat and said,\n\n    \"'It's probably ventriloquism.'\n\n    \"'Aw!' said the silversmith derisively, 'you can't throw the\n    voice any such distance nor make it sound clear and sweet like\n    that. I've made a study of ventriloquism.'\n\n    \"'Well, I've made a study of pig,' said Incredulous obstinately.\n\n    \"Then I changed the illusion by making the pig's ear grow out\n    three feet long, and then turning him into an elephant with one\n    leg and four tails.\n\n    \"Sometimes I turn my class into infants and have them 'play\n    school,' with infinite fun; sometimes I transport them over the\n    seas to Africa or Japan on my enchanted carpet, where for a\n    brief space they enjoy all the delights of travel; sometimes we\n    participate in battles, sometimes visit famous picture\n    galleries, sometimes the artist enjoys a quiet talk with\n    Socrates, or Moses or Confucius, providing both questions and\n    answers in a curious dual action of the mind highly entertaining\n    to the audience.\n\n    \"The other evening I transformed my artist into President\n    Cleveland. He assumed the character with quiet dignity, but said\n    he had had a hard day's work and was tired.\n\n    \"'Queen Victoria will visit you this evening, you know,' I said.\n\n    \"'No!' he exclaimed with surprise. 'I didn't know she was in\n    this country. When did she come?'\n\n    \"'Yesterday, on the Aurania; here she comes, now.'\n\n    \"He straightened up as I spoke and received her imaginary\n    Majesty with real dignity and tact. After bowing and shaking\n    hands he said:\n\n    \"'I have heard with unfeigned pleasure of your Majesty's\n    approach to the capital of the republic, and it is my agreeable\n    privilege to extend to you the freedom of this city and country\n    in behalf of sixty millions of people. Dan, get the lady a\n    chair!'\n\n    \"As she seemed to seat herself he listened a moment, smiled and\n    said: 'I reciprocate those feelings, as do all Americans, and I\n    trust that the amicable relations so long preserved between this\n    republic and the mighty realm of which you are the honored and\n    beloved ruler may never be broken.'\n\n    \"'Where can the lady hang her crown?' I asked him. 'It must have\n    a peck of diamonds in it. Can't I take it?'\n\n    \"He looked scornfully at me and I added: 'Can't the boys manage\n    to get it away from her Majesty when she goes down stairs?'\n\n    \"'You are a disgrace to this administration, Dan, and have got to\n    be fired out!' the President exclaimed angrily to me, and then\n    he humbly apologized to the Queen.\n\n    \"He casually added that the fisheries dispute might lead to\n    trouble, and she would be prudent to let our boys get bait along\n    shore where it seemed handiest.\n\n    \"I know of no other thing in which there is so much\n    entertainment as mesmerism. For the benefit of those who desire\n    to experiment I append certain conclusions from my own\n    experiments here:\n\n    \"1. About one person in ten can be mesmerized.\n\n    \"2. The proportion of people who have the 'power' to mesmerize,\n    if it be a power, I do not know.\n\n    \"3. Mesmerism is a trance and seems to me almost identical with\n    somnambulism.\n\n    \"4. It is as harmless as sleep. My sensitives occasionally come\n    to me in the daytime to be put to sleep for the purpose of\n    obtaining rest.\n\n    \"5. Hallucinations that take place under mesmerism are seldom\n    remembered in a subsequent waking state, but are generally\n    recalled with vividness in a subsequent mesmeric state.\n\n    \"6. Mesmerized subjects do not see the objects or people in the\n    room, or hear any noise whatever except the voice of the\n    operator.\n\n    \"7. My sensitives could have an arm or a leg amputated, I have\n    no doubt, without suffering any pain.\n\n    \"8. Some of my sensitives are able to tell what goes on behind\n    them and where they cannot see it, by some occult sense of which\n    I am ignorant. I am at present pursuing study along this line.\n\n    \"Others here are now experimenting, and I think mesmerism is the\n    coming fashionable 'fad.'\n\n                                              \"W. A. CROFFUT.\"\n\n\nANIMAL MAGNETISM.--Methinks that if some of our eminent (?) scientists\nwere to investigate this much abused subject (as all of them might)\nthey would soon find themselves _hors de combat_ in relation to their\npremises that all manifestations of mind are nothing but products of\nmatter. Huxley, for instance, that the \"mind is a voltaic pile giving\nshocks of thought,\" and many other quotations equally as absurd by\nother materialistic philosophers (?) who claim prominence as such.\n\nAs long ago as 1843 I was induced to investigate and try this\nphenomenon mainly for a hygienic purpose and afterwards led on by\ncuriosity. I had no teacher, consulted no works on the subject, but\nderived all I learned in relation thereto by my own individual\nexperiments, and in parenthesis say that what I learned I hold as\nabove all price in settling in my mind the vexed question, \"to be or\nnot to be.\"\n\nIn 1847 I was in Wisconsin, and for the satisfaction of others I was\ninduced to a renewal of experiments in magnetism. I was located with\nseveral other families with a view of forming a co-operative colony,\nso that excepting myself the rest had their residences closely\ntogether, whilst mine was half a mile from the rest. The subject at\none time was brought up for discussion, and an earnest desire on the\npart of many to see something of it resulted in my finding a subject\nto experiment with at once, and fortunately he proved to be an\nextraordinary one. The finding of property through him in a mesmeric\ncondition was a thing of common occurrence, and in some instances he\nseemed to be conscious of the mental conditions under which the\nproperty was lost. I found that he could take cognizance of what was\noccurring out of his sight, by pre-arrangements to test him.\n\nOne evening I mesmerized him, and in imagination took him to England,\nand prepared as I was to accept the marvellous, I was considerably\nsurprised at the probabilities of some statements from a letter\nreceived afterwards. Telling of this to my neighbors, they suggested\nthe institution of a series of experiments to thoroughly test the\nmatter. The course pursued was this: His brother would magnetize him,\ndistant from me one-half a mile, and in the evening, according to\narrangements, my family were to be engaged at anything suggested to\nour minds at the time, something for instance somewhat out of the\nordinary routine of family occupation, to make it more apparent, and\nby comparing notes it was evident that through some mysterious law or\npower of mind he was with us taking cognizance of our actions. This\nwas so thoroughly demonstrated that the parties concerned would have\nsubscribed and sworn to the same before any officer qualified to\nadminister an oath.--A. LANSDELL, _in Golden Gate_.\n\n\nGOOD CLAIRVOYANCE.--Dr. E. S. Packard, of Corunna, Me., in the\n_Eastern Star_, states that Mr. David Prescott, of South Sangerville,\nover ninety years of age, \"wandered away into the woods, and not\nreturning, a crowd of over a hundred men hunted for him nearly two\ndays; the mill pond near his house was drained. Search was made in\nevery direction but to no success.\n\n\"A gentleman of that place decided to call in the aid of Mrs. Stevens;\nshe told him somebody was lost, and not being able to visit the place\nshe drew a map or chart of the locality, giving directions, by which,\non his return he was immediately found alive, but died the next day.\nThe day following I was at South Sangerville, and stopping at this\ngentleman's house, examined the map, which was perfect in every\nrespect. The house and shed were correctly drawn, the mill and pond\nnear the house were marked, the field and woods, two fences over which\nMr. Prescott must climb, even to the swinging of the road by the house\nwas definitely given.\n\n\"The spot where she said he was, was shown by a large black mark, and\nhe was found exactly in that place. When we consider that Mrs. Stevens\nnever saw this place in her normal condition, it is to me a wonderful\ntest of spirit power.\"\n\n\nHYPNOTISM IN INSANITY.--We learn from the German periodical, _Sphinx_,\nthat hypnotism has been used in an insane asylum near Zurich since\nMarch, 1887, in 41 cases, a report of which has been made by Dr.\nForel. In fourteen cases there was a failure, but in twenty-seven\nthere was a degree of success without any unfavorable results\nafterwards. In four of the cases due to intemperance a cure was\neffected and the patients joined the temperance society. A morphine\neater was cured in the same manner in six weeks and dismissed from the\nasylum.\n\n\n\n\nTHE ANCIENT IBERIANS.\n\nTHEIR STATION IN CANADA DESCRIBED BY THE REV. W. H. H. MURRAY.--A\nPSYCHOMETRIC REPORT ON AN ANCIENT RACE.\n\n\nThe Rev. W. H. H. Murray, the eloquent minister who was once so\nconspicuous in Boston, on a yacht excursion to Canada recently wrote\nfrom Tadousac to the _Boston Herald_ as follows:\n\n\"At that point of time touched by the earliest ray of historic\nknowledge, the eye of the student of human annals sees, occupying the\nSpanish peninsula, a race of men called Iberians. These old Iberians\nwere not a tribe or clan, but a people, numerous and potential, with a\nfully developed and virile language, skilled in arms and the working\nof precious metals, and industriously commercial. This much can be\nclearly inferred from the extent of their territory and the remnant of\nthem, with their characteristics and habits, which still remain. This\nold people, themselves a colony from some other country, once existent\nand highly civilized in the remote past, spread from the Mediterranean\nSea to the slopes of the Pyrenees, and all over southern Gaul as far\nas the Rhone, and flowed westward with a movement so forceful that it\nincluded all the British Islands. All this happened 4000 to 5000 B. C.\nThey are older than the Egyptians probably by 1000 years, and were\nstrong enough to attempt the conquest of the known world.\n\n\"These Iberians colonized Sicily. They were the original settlers in\nItaly and pushed their way northward as far as Norway and Sweden,\nwhere can still be found among the present inhabitants their physical\ncharacteristics--dark skin and jet black hair. This ancient people\nwere not barbarians, but highly civilized. They had the art of writing\nand a literature. Poetry was cultivated. Their laws were set in verse;\nand for these laws thus written they claimed an antiquity of 6000\nyears.\n\n\"This ancient race has passed away, as all great races do. The rise\nand decline of a people are as a day. They have a sunrise, a noon, a\nsunset, and there remains of them and their splendor nothing but a\ngloaming, a twilight of a thousand years, perhaps, and after that\n\n\nOBLIVION'S STARLESS NIGHT.\n\n\"This old Iberian, world-conquering race came to its sunset hour a\nthousand years ago, and the gloaming after their sunset is deepening\ninto that gloom which hides all. Only a remnant, a hint of the\nold-time radiance, remains up to this day.\n\n\"In Southern Europe, the remnant of this antique race, the fragment of\na root with the old-time vigorous sap in it, may still be found.\nThere, on the Spanish peninsula where its cradle was rocked, the grave\nof a once powerful race is being slowly sodded; for there still live\nthat strange people called the Basques. It matters not today what they\nare--chiefly mountaineers, I think--but they are of the old Iberian\nstock, and the Iberians were colonists from some unknown land,\npre-historic, undiscoverable by us. Colonists and colonizers also.\nFrom some unknown land, hidden from us in the gloom of ages, these\nIberians came to Southern Europe in ships. To Sicily they went in\nships; to Britain and Ireland; to Norway also, and where else, or how\nfar or for what, is left to conjecture. But being strong in numbers,\nambitious to conquer, skilled in navigation, we can well believe that\nthey pushed their flag and commerce nigh to the ends of the world.\n\n\"Now these Basques, to-day mountaineers, they tell me, were once, nor\nlong ago, great sailors. In instinct and habit, they were true to the\nold Iberian stock, to which they were as the last green leaf on a\ndying tree. They were of a world-conquering race, and they sailed the\nseas of the world, seeking profit fearlessly. Four hundred years ago\nJacques Cartier, himself a Breton, with the old Basque or Iberian\nblood warm in him--for the Bretons were of the old Iberian stock, with\nthe same temper and look of face--sailed into the gulf of the St.\nLawrence, and found--what?\n\n    THE BASQUES BEFORE HIM.\n\nNot one Basque ship, but many. Engaged in what? In hunting whales.\nWhalers they were, and whalers they had been in these parts for years\nand centuries.\n\n\"How know I this? Because--the records are scanty, and pity it is that\nthey are not fuller--Cartier himself, and other of the old navigators\nto these waters, found not only the Basque whaling ships before them,\nbut the nomenclature of all the shores and of the fish in the waters\npurely Basque. Bucalaos is the Basque name for codfish, and the\nBasques called the whole coast Bucalaos land, or codfish land, because\nof the multitudes of codfish along the coast. And up to this day,\nunderlying the thin veneer of saint this and saint that, which\nsuperstitious piety has given to every bay and cape and natural object\nin gulf and on river, you find the old Basque names of places and\nthings--the solid oak beneath the tawdry coating applied by priestly\nbrush for churchly purposes. There is Basque harbor, Basque island,\nand old Basque fort, and a place known as the spot where these\nold-time whalers boiled their blubber and cured their catch of fish.\nIt was from these old Basque whalers, whose fathers and forefathers\nfor a thousand or thousands of years had visited this coast in\ncommerce, and who knew every cape, bay, island, shoal, and harbor from\nthe Bay of Fundy to Cape Tourmente, as well as from the old Icelandic\npilots, that Columbus learned of the existence of this Western\nContinent; and when he sailed from Lisbon on his 'world-seeking\nvoyage,' I make no doubt that he as surely knew, by actual\ninformation, of America, as I know that the island of Anticosti is but\n200 miles below me. And yet I read in a paper somewhere lately that\nsome wise dunce had proposed to 'celebrate the fourth centennial of\nthe discovery of America by Columbus'! That's rich!\n\n\"To-night the yacht Champlain is swinging at anchor in the harbor of\nTadousac, and I am writing in her little cabin with a profound\nconviction that, a thousand years\n\n    BEFORE COLUMBUS WAS BORN,\n\na little group of men, Basques by name, then living in southern\nEurope, a remnant of the old Iberian race, anchored their ships in the\nsame harbor in the month of August annually. Only half a mile to the\nwest of me, the Saguenay, whose bottom is one hundred fathoms deeper\ndown than the bed of the St. Lawrence, pours its gloomy current\nbetween the stupendous cliffs of rock which make for its resistless\npassage an awful portal. These monstrous cliffs of bare, gray rock\nhave not changed in form or color or appearance since some force, next\nto that of the Almighty, lifted them from the under world and placed\nthem to stand eternal sentinels at the entrance to this strange,\nimpressive, awe-inspiring river--for the wind and wear of unnumbered\ncenturies have left them cold and bare, soilless and treeless, save\nwhere some stunted shrub, with a single root, has spiked itself into a\ncrevice, and there stands starved and dying, as it lives its withered\nlife.\n\n\"As it is to-night to eye and ear, so was it centuries ago; and so the\nold Basque whalers saw it while yet the great continent to the west\nwas a trackless wilderness from ocean to ocean and gulf to gulf. And\nColumbus and Jacques Cartier and Champlain were not, by five hundred\nyears, yet born.\n\n\"The harbor of Tadousac is a basin shaped like a sickle. On the west\nthe mountain wall of the Saguenay protects it. The eastern curve is\nsheltered by vast sand lanes, scoured from the sea bottom and whirled\nupward by some mighty eddy in geologic ages. To the north are\nmountains of stone, their gray surface flecked here and there by\nstunted fir and cedar or dwarfed birches. Between these mountains of\nrock and the water of the harbor or basin is a short, narrow plateau,\nlifted some fifty feet above the water line, every foot of which is\nhistoric to a degree. On no other bit of ground of equal size on the\nAmerican continent has so much been done and suffered which can\ninterest the curious, touch the sensibilities, or kindle the\nimagination and fan it into flame.\n\n\"There is reason to think that before the Christ was born the old\nIberian ships were here; and their descendants, the Basques, continued\nthe commerce which their progenitors had established and which\nrendezvoused here 1,500 years after the Galilean name had conquered\nkingdoms and empires. The Norsemen were here, we know, a thousand\nyears ago, and many a night the old sea kings of the north drank out\nof their mighty drinking horns good health to distant ones and honors\nto Thor and Odin. Then, late enough to have his coming known to\nletters, and hence recorded, Jacques Cartier came, himself a Breton,\nand hence cousin in blood to the Basque whalers, whom he found here\nengaged in a pursuit which their race had followed before Rome was\nfounded or Greece was born, before Jerusalem was builded, or even\nEgypt, perhaps, planted as a colony. St. Augustine, Plymouth rock,\nQuebec--these are mushroom growths, creations of yesterday,\ntraditionless, without a legend and without a fame, beside this harbor\nof Tadousac, whose history, along a thin but strong cord of sequence,\ncan be traced backward for a thousand years, and whose connection with\nEurope is older than the name!\"\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nPSYCHOMETRY AND ARCHAEOLOGY.\n\nWhether \"the thin but strong cord\" by which Mr. Murray pulls the old\nIberians to these shores be mainly historical or imaginative, I have\nnot attempted to decide; but as to the old races of Southern Europe\nthere are relics already sufficient to evoke their history by\npsychometric exploration.\n\nThe _Popular Science News_ of Boston gives a sketch of some old relics\nfrom \"La Nature\" which I quote as follows:\n\n    \"Recent explorations in Spain by two Belgian scientists, the\n    Messrs. Siret, have resulted in some very interesting\n    discoveries. Relics of a prehistoric race have been found in\n    great abundance, ranging from the stone age to that of bronze\n    and metals. These people buried their dead not only in stone\n    graves or cells, but also in great jars of burnt clay,\n    accompanied by pieces of pottery and other articles of use and\n    value. This form of jar-burial is very widespread, and examples\n    have been found from Japan to Peru. These relics are supposed to\n    belong to that ancient race which lived in Europe previous to\n    the Aryan immigration, the various branches of which are known\n    as Iberians, Pelasgians, Ligurians, etc., according to the\n    country in which they lived.\n\n    \"Several skeletons were found adorned with silver and gold\n    ornaments. One of the most remarkable is illustrated here. It is\n    a female skull encircled by a band of silver, to which is\n    attached a thin plate of the same metal. It is not known whether\n    it was originally worn in the position as when found, or, as is\n    most likely, had been accidentally displaced after burial. This\n    skull was found in a cave near the station of Fuente-Alamo,\n    where gold and silver are found in small quantities in the soil;\n    and it is quite possible that in those ancient times the mining\n    of the precious metals was a regular occupation of the\n    inhabitants.\"\n\n[Illustration]\n\nPSYCHOMETRIC DESCRIPTION.--Mrs. Buchanan, describing the subject from\nthis engraving, without seeing it or knowing what it represented,\nspoke as follows:\n\n    \"This is far away; it is remains of some kind; remains of a\n    human being, of a very remote type of female. Her surroundings\n    were very rude. She was of a race of strong animal instincts--a\n    large people. She seems something like a squaw. (What of their\n    habitations?) They were very rude, as much like caves as\n    anything. I think they lived in caves and rocks. They hunted and\n    fished. Their weapons were of stones, but they had some kind of\n    metal which they could hammer out. They dried their food in the\n    sun--fishes and meats. They had very little agriculture. They\n    had a process for making things they wanted for domestic use,\n    and for weapons, as well as stone implements. They may have used\n    the precious metals, not as money but for ornaments. It was not\n    a numerous race, did not propagate fast. They have all died out.\n    There is no vestige of them on the earth. They were a brown,\n    dark colored race. Their heads were low and faces large; jaws\n    prominent.\"\n\nEvidently this is not the race of which Mr. Murray speaks--neither\nIberian nor Basque.\n\n\n\n\nTHE STAR-DUST OF THE UNIVERSE.\n\n\nThe distinguished astronomer, Norman Lockyer, has lately read a paper\nbefore the Royal Society (London) under the title of a \"Preliminary\nNote on the Spectra of the Meteorites,\" which advances some of the\nboldest theories and suggestions ever offered concerning the Universe,\nwhich cannot fail to interest the readers of the JOURNAL OF MAN.\n\nAccording to Mr. Lockyer the meteors which we have been accustomed to\nconsider trivial or incidental matters in planetary and stellar\nsystems, no more important than the dust which the housewife raises\nfrom parlor and chamber, are really fundamental and basic elements of\nthe Universe, capable of generating comets, planets, suns and stars.\n\nIf this idea can be entertained, meteors must be vastly more numerous\nthan the world has supposed. Cosmical space, according to Mr. Lockyer,\nis filled with meteorites of various sizes, flying in many directions\nwith enormous velocities and moving in certain orbits like larger\nbodies. Many observations have been made to determine the number of\nthese meteorites. Dr. Schmidt, of Athens, in seventeen years of\nobservation concluded that in a clear dark night an observer would see\non an average fourteen an hour at one station. Other astronomers have\ncalculated that if observations were made over the whole earth, ten\nthousand times as many would be seen as could be seen by a single\nobserver. Calculating thus, it has been inferred that about 20,000,000\nluminous meteors fall on the earth every twenty-four hours, besides\nthe innumerable amount of minute bodies too small to be seen by\ntelescopes--which some suppose to be twenty times as numerous as the\nvisible.\n\nProf. H. A. Newton makes some astounding estimates on this\nsubject--that the orbit of the earth is filled with meteorites, about\n250 miles apart, making a group of about 30,000 in a space equal to\nthat of the earth. If such calculations are reliable, the query must\narise, How much effect can such a meteoric shower every day in the\nyear exert on the orbital motion of the earth, in retarding its\nvelocity? The effect must be greatly increased if, according to Prof.\nNewton, the velocity of meteors striking the earth is about thirty\nmiles a second, varying from ten to forty.\n\nFrom such a basis as this rises the grand hypothesis of Mr. Lockyer,\nwho is a courageous theorist, that all cosmic space is filled with\nmeteorites, that they go in swarms, and that not only comets but stars\nare formed by conglomerate aggregations of meteorites.\n\nSchiaparelli, in 1866, demonstrated that the orbit of the August\nmeteors was the same as that of the comet of that year. It is in\nAugust and November of each year that we have the most brilliant\ndisplay of meteors in two distinct groups, or orbits. Those of August\ncome from a point in the constellation of Perseus and those in\nNovember from a point in the constellation Leo. They are believed to\nfill two distinct orbits or rings making an elliptical orbit round the\nsun. In such orbits, comets are believed by astronomers to be formed\nby a concentrated swarm of incandescent meteorites rendered luminous\nby collisions. But this hypothesis of innumerable collisions between\nmeteorites travelling in the same orbits does not appear very\nplausible.\n\nThis doctrine of the genesis of comets, advanced by Schiaparelli, is\nextended by Mr. Lockyer to the genesis of all great luminous bodies.\nNebulae, comets, stars, variable and temporary stars, are all thus\nbrought under a general law and method of genesis. The increasing\napproximation and condensation of the meteorites is seen in different\nclasses of stars. Stars of the class iii.a are not so far advanced as\nothers.\n\nThe next step in the hypothesis is that in the extreme approximation\nand condensation of the meteorites a degree of heat is generated which\nconverts the whole into a mass of incandescent vapor, at a\n\"transcendental temperature.\" The maximum temperature being thus\nattained, a cooling process begins, which is seen in our sun and other\nstars of the second class. Other stars, according to Mr. Lockyer, of\nclass iii.b exhibit spectra which show that their temperature is not\nso high, and the last stage is attained by stars and other bodies\nwhich have ceased to be luminous, and, therefore, are not seen, but\nmay be recognized by the perturbations which they produce in the\nmovements of other bodies.\n\nAccording to this hypothesis our solar system was once but a mighty\nswarm of meteorites, extending as far as the farthest planet at\npresent. We may as well suppose its materials to have been a swarm of\nmeteorites as to suppose a chaotic fire-mist. Mr. Lockyer supposes the\nclash of meteor swarms to have produced new stars, and suggests the\npossibility of stellar or planetary bodies coming into collision,\nthough no observations ever made yet give an example.\n\nThe destroyed planet, Sideros, discovered by Prof. Denton, illustrates\nthat the universe has its disorder and tragedy as well as our own\nsphere. The time is coming when all these mysteries are to be cleared\nup--it will be when Psychometry is added to our telescopic and\nspectroscopic methods. Then will astronomy and all other sciences\nreceive their grandest enlargement. In this task I cannot at present\nengage, for the limitless field of Anthropology alone is too much for\na solitary scientist laboring for the advent of \"THE NEW\nCIVILIZATION.\"\n\n\n\n\nMISCELLANEOUS.\n\n\nBRIGHT LITERATURE.--New publications have just been received which\nexpress the bright mental activity of the present time. The first\nnumber of _The New Christianity_, which has just appeared, bears the\neditorial names of B. F. Barrett and S. H. Spencer, and is issued by\nthe Swedenborg Publishing Association, Philadelphia, published every\nThursday in sixteen large pages, at $2 per annum. At so moderate a\nprice it should have a large circulation. The name of Rev. B. F.\nBARRETT is a sufficient guarantee of the literary excellence, profound\nthought and liberal aims of this weekly. The Association, of which Mr.\nBarrett is president, holds \"the good of life to be paramount to the\ntruth of doctrine; charity superior to faith; doctrine (though it be\nfrom the Lord out of heaven) to be of no value save as a _means_ to\nthis divine end--purity of heart and righteousness of life.\" Hence,\nthey have been more intent on diffusing their principles than building\nup a religious establishment. The Association has condensed\nSwedenborg's writings into ten small volumes, in about one-tenth of\nthe compass of the unabridged works, and has sold about 37,000\nvolumes, besides many thousands given away.\n\nThe Boston _Herald_ says of this publication that it \"deserves a\ncordial welcome as an attempt to express, through the religious press,\na wider interest in the things of this world than most of the New\nChurch papers have aimed at, ... a broader treatment of what concerns\nour common Christianity than has been heretofore attempted in this\nreligious connection, and thus satisfy the New Church people, who\nrealize that they are still in the world, as well as the no-church\npeople, who prefer smaller doses from the abstract writings of\nSwedenborg, and more of the thought of New Churchmen about what all\nmen are thinking of.\"\n\n\nTHE TWO WORLDS, published weekly, at 61 George Street, Chatham Hill,\nManchester, England, at 2d. a number, 2s., 2d. for thirteen weeks, or\n8s., 8d. per annum in advance, is under the editorial control of _Mrs.\nEmma Hardinge Britten_ and _E. M. Wallis_. The first number is dated\nNov. 18, 1887. The names of its editors are a sufficient guarantee of\nits ability and its noble aims. They are admired and honored in\nAmerica as well as Europe, and have thousands of friends. The first\nnumber fully sustains the expectations raised by their names. There is\na brightness, vigor, independence and eloquence in the editorials\nwhich are refreshing. The salutatory says: \"We do not propose to\ninflict on readers searching for light from the higher world matter\n_beneath_ instead of beyond the reader's previous status of thought\nand education. The spiritual rostrum should be the sphere of\ninstruction alike to listener and reader,--not the school in which\nunfledged and half-developed mediums seek to entertain their audiences\nby practicing the A B C of the oratorical art.\"\n\nThey say, also, \"That the scope of this journal may not be\nmisunderstood, we desire to state at once, and in advance of our\nfuture issues, that we propose to traverse, as far as possible, the\nwide and varied fields of human interests that might be vitalized and\nexalted by that knowledge of the life hereafter, which spirits alone\ncan demonstrate. Instead of confining ourselves, therefore, to the\nrelation of phenomenal facts and speculative philosophy, we shall\nendeavor to show how beneficially the spiritualistic revelations of\nthe nineteenth century might operate through such departments of earth\nlife as reform, science, theology, politics, occultism and the only\ntrue and practical religion, viz.: goodness and truth in the life here\nas a preparation for heaven and happiness in the life hereafter.\" As\nto Occultism and Theosophy, they say: \"Every article that will appear\nin these columns will be written by _one who knows_, and who will deal\nwith those subjects from the standpoint of practical experience.\" The\narticle on this subject in the first number is extremely interesting\nand instructive, in fact, the first clear and satisfactory statement\nthat has been published. Among other facts it mentions that \"Lord\nLytton, the Earl of Stanhope, and Lieut. Morrison (better known as\nZadkiel), and the author of Art Magic, belonged to this society,\"--a\nsecret Occult society in England, successor to the ancient societies\nof Egypt, Greece and India.\n\nThere is no reason to doubt that the _Two Worlds_ will have a\nbrilliant career, and do much to elevate the tone and enhance the\nreputation of spiritual science. The inspiration of Emma Hardinge\nBritten is of a high order, and flows into a mind which has also a\nstrong grasp on external life. Either on the rostrum or through the\npress she is a distinguished leader in the spiritual movement. Mr.\nWallis has also earned a high rank as an exponent of Spiritualism on\nits highest ethical plane.\n\n\nFOOTE'S HEALTH MONTHLY.--If any of my readers are not already\nacquainted with _Foote's Health Monthly_, published at New York, at 50\ncents a year, they will find it worthy of their attention. Dr. E. B.\nFoote is one of the most conspicuous and worthy of America's medical\nreformers. His \"Plain Home Talk,\" when first issued on a smaller scale\nas \"Medical Common Sense,\" sold to the amount of 250,000 copies, now\nunder the title of \"Plain Home Talk,\" containing 935 pages, with 200\nillustrations, the publishing company say that they issue 2000 or more\ncopies every month. Its vast circulation is not surprising when we\nconsider that it is almost a cyclopedia of medical information for the\npeople at the amazingly low price of $1.50. Copies of this valuable\nwork may be obtained from the editor of the JOURNAL OF MAN, or from\nDr. E. B. Foote, 120 Lexington Avenue, New York. The people need\nmedical information, and Dr. Foote has for many years been the leader\nin popular medical enlightenment.\n\n\nPSYCHIC THEORIES.--An esteemed correspondent says, \"I trust you will\nsoon have space and time in which to fully discuss theosophy, and its\nbold assertion that Spiritualism is but the manifestation of dangerous\nelementals or of the souls of those sent untimely from this life as\nsuicides and executed criminals, who until their selfish desires are\ngratified, make use of 'astral shells' of the real spirits of our dead\nfriends, in order to wickedly deceive us, a discouraging view.\"\nTheosophy or divine wisdom does not make such assertions. They are but\ntraditional dogmas which did not originate in scientific\ninvestigation. Those who make such assertions may call themselves\ntheosophists, but they have no exclusive right to such a name, which\nbelongs to all seekers of divine wisdom. American theosophy as\nrepresented by the JOURNAL OF MAN makes no such assertions, and relies\nupon investigation, never receiving the speculative notions of darker\nages without evidence, whether they relate to Metempsychosis, or the\ngarden of Eden, the burning hell, the purgatory, or the various\npictures of the infernal and supernal regions which had been current\nin the old world before such realms were ever investigated.\n\nWhen my readers hear any such theories advanced, let them quietly ask\nfor the evidence, _what are the facts_ on which such opinions are\nbased, when were they discovered, who were the investigators, and what\nwas their method of investigation? If such questions cannot be\nanswered, the theories deserve little attention.\n\n\nTWENTIETH CENTURY SCIENCE, DAWNING AT THE END OF THE NINETEENTH.--In\nthe 20th century, Psychometry will become the guide of the nations.\nThe world will understand itself. Every mile on the surface of the\nglobe will be familiarly known.\n\nAn important event anywhere will be immediately known everywhere. The\nplanets and their inhabitants will be known, and much more known that\nneed not be mentioned at present. The healing art will approximate\nperfection. Criminals will be reformed. Their number will be\ndiminished. The juvenile nations of the earth will be more or less\nunder the care of the adolescent and peace will be maintained.\n\nThese are not psychometric forecasts, but rational inferences, from\nour increasing rate of progress.\n\n\nCOMPARATIVE SPEED OF LIGHT AND ELECTRICITY.--The French physicist\nFizeau calculated the velocity of light at 185,157 miles a second;\nCornu, another Frenchman, calculated it at 185,420, and Michelson\nobtained 186,380 as the result of his calculation. Wheatstone, the\nEnglish electrician, found that free electricity travelled 288,000\nmiles a second; Kirchoff concluded, from theoretical considerations,\nthat an electrical current sent through a wire in which it meets no\nresistance has the velocity of 192,924 miles a second. The velocity of\nan electric current sent through iron wire is 62,100 miles a second;\nthrough copper wire, 111,780 miles. We think justice will be done by\ndeciding that electricity is the faster.--_N. Y. Sun_.\n\nYet practically speaking, electricity in wires is much slower. Prof.\nGould found that telegraph wires at a moderate height, transmit\nsignals at the rate of 12,000 miles a second; but if the wires are\nsuspended high enough, the velocity may be raised to 16,000 or even\n24,000 feet a second. Subterranean wires and submarine cables transmit\nslowly. Wheatstone's experiments were made fifty-four years ago, and\nhave not since been confirmed. I would say light is the faster, for\nelectric currents are always retarded by the medium.\n\n\nWONDERFUL PHOTOGRAPHY.--Dr. H. G. Piffard exhibited in New York to a\nsociety of amateur photographers a new method of taking instantaneous\nphotographs by means of a brilliant light made by sprinkling ten or\nfifteen grains of magnesium powder on about six grains of gun-cotton.\nWhen this is flashed in a dark apartment it gives light enough to take\na good photograph. It will do the same if flashed out of a pistol; so\nthat a citizen may have his revolver with a small camera on the barrel\nand by flashing the gun-cotton out of his pistol he can make a\nphotograph of any burglar or robber in the dark before he fires a\nbullet.\n\n\nWOODEN CLOTH.--An Austrian has patented a process for boiling wood and\ncleaving it into fibres that may be spun into threads which may be\nwoven.\n\n\nTHE PHYLLOXERA pest, which has wrought such havoc among vineyards\nthroughout Europe, has invaded California also. France has lost many\nmillions, and has offered a reward of 300,000 francs for the discovery\nof a remedy. A Turkish farmer is said to have discovered accidentally\nthat the remedy is to plant Sorghum or sugar-cane between the vines,\nwhich draws the phylloxera from the grapevines. It is said to have\nbeen successfully adopted already in Turkey, Croatia, Dalmatia and\nEastern Italy.\n\n\nFALLING RENTS, in England.--While landlords are battling for rents\nforeign rivalry is destroying rent, and it is still going down. Large\nestates have a difficulty in getting either tenants or purchasers. The\nfall in prices and rents extends all over England. On a farm of 2,700\nacres, in Lancashire, the tenant had been paying five dollars an acre,\nbut he refused to take it for 1887 at two dollars and a half. Lands in\n1876 were commonly valued at $260 per acre; but they would not bring\nover $150 to-day. The Court Journal says:\n\nThe depreciation in the value of English land is witnessed by one or\ntwo statements published last week. We are, in the first place, told\nthat within a radius of twelve miles around Louth, in Lincolnshire,\nthere are now 22,400 acres of land without tenants. In the same shire\nthe largest farm in England has been thrown on the owner's hands. It\nis 2,700 acres in extent and the tenant paid L1 per acre. This year a\nreduction of 50 per cent was made to him, but finding that although an\nexperienced and energetic farmer, that even at this reduction he could\nnot make two ends meet, he has thrown up his farm.\n\n\nBOSTON CIVILIZATION.--During the four years ending Sept. 30, 1884,\nthere were 971 liquor sellers condemned for violating the law, who\nappealed to the superior court. Of the entire number, only 19 were\nfined, and 729 were allowed to escape by dropping the prosecution. But\nthe law against preaching on the Boston Common is enforced with\nfaithful severity, and Rev. W. F. Davis has been sentenced to a year's\nimprisonment for preaching without a permit. Evidently rum-selling is\nmore popular than Protestant preaching, and pugilism is more popular\nthan either, as the mayor and some councilmen participated in putting\na $10,000 belt on John L. Sullivan, the slugger, before the largest\naudience the Boston Theatre would hold, on the 9th of August, 1887.\nBut perhaps other cities are no better. Cincinnati has one\nliquor-selling shop to every twenty voters. The cities will not\ntolerate prohibition, but it is successful elsewhere.\n\n\nPSYCHIC BLUNDERING.--The Psychical Research Society held a meeting a\nfew weeks since in Boston. Their first communication was on Thought\nTransferrence, by Dr. H. B. Bowditch.\n\n\"It was stated that a large number of experiments had been made, but\nthe results were of a negative value. The attempt to establish the\nreality of thought transferrence had not been very successful.\" What\nelse but negative results are to be expected from negative\npeople,--people who have been in this matter mere negations for\nforty-five years, during which discoveries have been in progress all\naround them, which they have refused to look at, and refused to test\nby experiment. Still, if the march of mind for half a century can\nfinally rouse the sluggard class, it is well. For \"while the lamp\nholds out to burn,\" etc. It was a Dr. Bowditch who, in 1843, certified\nas secretary of a committee to the facts which demonstrate the science\nof Anthropology, and then relapsed into an agnostic slumber and forgot\nall about it.\n\n\nBEECHER'S MEDIUMSHIP.--It has been generally believed in spiritual\ncircles that Henry Ward Beecher had the inspiration which belongs to\nmediumship. This quality appears to have been inherited from his\nmother. On one occasion she was suddenly impelled to leave her\napartment and rush out to an old carriage house, where she arrived in\ntime to save the life of her youngest child, which had fallen through\na carriage top and was caught in such a way that if she had not\narrived then he would have been strangled.\n\n\nA SCIENTIFIC CATARACT.--The blindness of the old school medical\nprofession to modern progress is due to what may be called a cataract\nformed by medical bigotry. It will require half a century to remove\nthis cataract. We are reminded of its existence by a paragraph in the\nBoston Herald speaking of the cancer in the throat of the crown prince\nof Germany, which the faculty expect to prove fatal, which it calls \"a\nphysical disorder for which medical science has yet to discover a\nremedy; it is not at all likely that this fortunate discovery will\noccur soon enough to be of service to the heir-apparent.\" This flat\ndenial of the curability of cancer is in the same columns in which an\nenlightened correspondent gave ample proof of cures with names and\ndates. Such denials are published in a city where a diligent inquiry\nwould reveal about three hundred cases of successful cure of cancer\nwell attested. But alas! these cures were not made under the authority\nor by the disciplined followers of the old school American Medical\nAssociation and therefore they cannot be recognized or heard of. There\nis a dignity which cannot see or feel anything it does not wish to see\nor feel; which reminds us of a story of two ladies. Said Madam F., a\nSwiss lady, to Madam R., a French woman, \"I was surprised to see you\nwalking with Col. M. yesterday. Do you not know that he was publicly\nhorsewhipped by Capt. D. of the Infantry?\" \"I do not mind such remarks\nat all (said Madam R.,) for I know that Col. M. is a man of honor and\ntoo dignified a gentleman to notice anything going on behind his\nback.\"\n\nSpeaking of cancer, the press and the political world are greatly\nconcerned at the probable fate of the crown prince of Germany,\nattacked with cancer in the larynx, and with little or no hope of\nsurviving. They announce as the result of the great scientific\ninvestigation prompted by this fact, a \"_great discovery concerning\ncancer_.\" Is it a discovery of a cure--oh no, they think they have\ndiscovered the _cancer bacillus_. That is science, but as for\ndestroying the cancer bacillus they leave that to the physicians whom\nthey call quacks for curing what the professors cannot cure.\n\n\nOBSTREPEROUS AND PRAGMATIC VULGARITY.--The house of Knoedler & Co.,\nleading art dealers in New York, has been arrested by Comstock for\nselling photographs of celebrated paintings from the art galleries of\nParis. It is a foul mind which sees obscenity in that which cultivated\npeople admire, and the Hoboken Evening News says very appropriately,\n\"Of all the cranky Pharisees allowed to run at large, Anthony Comstock\nis the chief. He is a most unmitigated nuisance and requires most\nemphatic and summary suppression.\"\n\nThe N. Y. _Home Journal_, in a well considered editorial, says:\n\n    \"The need of a revision of the law regarding immoral\n    publications in literature and art becomes every day more\n    manifest. There is required especially a precise definition of\n    what the statute is designed to prohibit. At present there is no\n    uniform criterion. It is just what the local Dogberry and the\n    scratch jury happen to find. Books that have had an established\n    place in literature for generations and are found in all the\n    great libraries of the world; pictures that represent the\n    highest skill attained in the leading schools of Europe;\n    reproductions of works that adorn the national and royal\n    galleries cherished as monuments of genius to reflect the glory\n    of the time,--these are quite likely to be brought up and\n    solemnly condemned by our tribunals as unfit for the\n    contemplation of our superior American virtue. But the real\n    injustice of the proceeding follows in the infliction of fines\n    or imprisonment on the unsuspecting vendors of the works, who\n    naturally imagine that merchandise current in all the other\n    markets of the civilized world would be current also here. The\n    most respectable houses, known throughout the length and breadth\n    of the country for their honorable dealings, are exposed to\n    legal prosecution any moment that an officious fanatic or\n    jealous rival pleases to bring a charge that certain works in\n    their store have an immoral tendency.\"\n\nJudge Brady, of the Supreme Court, says, \"If I had been a legislator I\nwould never have voted for this law.... It is evident that mere nudity\nin painting and sculpture is not obscenity. It is a false delicacy and\nmere prudery which would condemn and banish from sight all such\nobjects.\" Public opinion should be directed against the vice society\nwhich employs and pays such a tool as Comstock. The prosecution which\nhe instigated against Mrs. Elmina Slenker, of Virginia, resulted in\nher acquittal.\n\nThe _N. Y. Evening Post_ says, \"If there is to be a prosecution in\nthis Knoedler case, and these prints should send some one to jail, we\nfor our part think Anthony Comstock should be the man.\"\n\n\nHYGIENE.--Sir Spencer Wells, in an address to the Medico-Chirurgical\nSociety of Nottingham, England, referred to sanitary improvements\nwhich had reduced the annual death rate from twenty-nine in a thousand\nto nineteen, and said that it ought to be reduced to fifteen or\ntwelve. He then said, \"And if we have--as we really have--seen the\naverage duration of human life in Great Britain advance from thirty\nyears (which it was half a century ago) to forty-nine years (which it\nis now, according to life tables), why may we not witness a still\nfurther advance? Why should seventy or eighty years remain as the\nusual limit of human life? Why should its natural duration under\nperfectly healthy surrounding conditions not be at least 100 years,\nwith an occasional extension of some ten or fifteen years more?\"\n\n\"When people are made to understand that at least nine-tenths of the\ndeaths in England are premature, the representatives of the most\nparsimonious rate payers will be compelled by the criticism of the\npublic to remember that they also represent the more sacred interests\nof human life and happiness, and that resistance to sanitary\nimprovements is punished by preventable disease and premature death.\nHigh local mortality is largely due to want of local information. For\nthe tens or hundreds who are killed by murder or manslaughter, or by\naccident, or in battles on land or sea, thousands and millions are\nvictims of preventable disease. When this is fully understood, no\nimperial Government, no local authority, will dare to incur the\nresponsibility of such a national disgrace.\"\n\nDr. Wells then forcibly illustrated the dangerous and pestilential\nresults of our system of burying the dead, planting the germs of\ndiseases in the ground to come forth again, and corrupting the water\nsupply. London alone uses 2,200 acres of land for cemeteries, and\nEngland and Wales have 11,000 cemeteries, costing for the land over\n$600 per acre, all dangerous to health, while about $25,000,000 are\nannually expended on funerals. For all this cremation was the remedy.\n\nA distinguished English physician, addressing the International\nHygiene Society at Vienna, said that the gain to England in the last\nfifty years from improvement in health was equal to $1,500,000,000.\n\n\nQUININE.--This famous drug, which was once as high as $5 an ounce, has\nbecome very cheap by preserving the trees which were formerly\ndestroyed in gathering \"Peruvian Bark.\" The drug may now be purchased\nin quantities at half a dollar an ounce. The trees now yield a crop of\nbark every year. The fashionable sulphate of quinine, which is most\nextensively used, I consider the most objectionable form of the drug.\nMy favorite form is the dextro-quinine, made by Keasby & Matteson,\nPhiladelphia. But quinine is not at all a necessity. It could be\nsatisfactorily replaced by Declat's syrup of Phenic Acid, a French\npreparation, which is free from the objectionable qualities of\nquinine. But even that is not _necessary_, for we have in the willow,\nthe dogwood, and the apple tree, three American barks, which might\nwell replace Peruvian bark by their fluid extracts and alkaloids. To\nthese we may add Gnaphalium (or Life Everlasting), an admirable remedy\nin fever, and other medicines and combinations of value. Our slavish\ndependence on Peruvian bark has been due to our ignorance.\n\n\nLIFE AND DEATH.--Perilous is the fisherman's life. In the past year,\nending October, 1887, Gloucester, Mass., has lost 17 vessels and 127\nlives of fishermen, leaving 60 widows and 61 fatherless children.\n\nThe Mayville family of Wakefield, Mass., begin small. Mrs. Mayville\nweighed but two pounds when born. Her son of 17 years, weighing 160\npounds, weighed but 24 ounces when born, and she has lately had a male\nbaby, weighing only eight ounces. It was born Nov. 13, and appeared\ndead, but was revived. It was ten inches long and measured eight\ninches round the head and was perfectly formed. It died in two weeks,\nfrom irritation of the bowels.\n\nMrs. Charlotte Tubbs of Caroline County, Md., recently gave birth to\nfour babies, all of whom are alive. This addition to her family makes\nher the mother of nine children, all of whom were born within five\nyears. Among the older children are two pairs of twins.--_Cin. Enq._\n\nMrs. Wm. Wright, of New Castle, Ind., recently gave birth to four\nchildren, making in all a family of fourteen children, including five\npairs of twins. Who was it said that he'd rather be Wright than be\nPresident? We wouldn't.--_Norristown Herald_.\n\n\nDOROTHEA L. DIX.--This noted philanthropist, whose labors in\nestablishing asylums for the insane in America and Europe were never\nequalled, died last summer in New Jersey. An interesting tribute to\nher memory was delivered in Boston by the Rev. JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE,\nand I regret that the limited space of the Journal forbids its full\nrepublication. I can only quote this. \"Being asked how she achieved\nsuch noble results in her work, she answered that she went to those\nwhose duty it was to aid in any particular work, and was always sure\nthat though at first they might refuse to do what they were asked,\nthey would gradually become interested and _end by doing whatever was\nneeded_.\" May her example in this be followed by all friends of\nprogress.\n\n\nTHE DRIFT OF CATHOLICISM.--The purpose of the Catholic party to break\nup our unsectarian school system has been realized in Stearns Co.,\nMinnesota, where their church property exceeds a million of dollars.\nThe Catholic catechism is taught daily in nearly three-fourths of the\npublic schools. Many of the schools are conducted in the German\nlanguage, and some of the schools taught by the Benedictine sisters.\n\n\nJUGGERNAUT.--It is a singular fact that at the late procession of the\nidol Juggernaut in India, instead of the thousand devotees who used to\ndrag at the ropes to haul his chariot from the temple to the river,\nhired coolies had to be substituted, and the victims who willingly\nthrew themselves under the ponderous wheels to be crushed to death,\nwere entirely wanting.--_Commonwealth_.\n\n\n\n\nCHAP. XI.--THE PRINCIPAL METHODS OF STUDYING THE BRAIN.\n\n    Cranioscopy, Pathology, and Vivisection, their failures\n    recognized--Limitations of Craniology and its stationary\n    condition--Human Impressibility explained--Its prevalence in\n    different climates--Method of testing it.\n\n\nIn what manner shall we proceed to study the brain? All must admit the\nnecessity of a thorough study of its anatomy; yet, unless we learn\nsomething of its functions, this anatomy is profitless and\nuninteresting; hence cerebral anatomy was crude and erroneous until,\nrevolutionized by Gall and Spurzheim, it assumed a philosophical\ncharacter and became connected with a doctrine of the cerebral\nfunctions.\n\nFor the study of these functions three principal methods have been\nadopted by eminent scientists: 1st. The method of Cranioscopy,\npracticed by Gall and his followers. 2d. The study of Pathological\nAnatomy. 3d. The mutilation of the brains of living animals. But\nneither Cranioscopy, Pathology, nor Vivisection has given satisfactory\ndemonstrations, nor does the whole scope of the alleged results of all\nembrace more than half of the cerebral functions.\n\nThe results of Vivisection have been unsatisfactory. But it has shown\nthat slicing away the anterior and upper parts of the brain of an\nanimal produces a state of partial stupor--a loss of its intelligence\nand mental characteristics, without producing any great detriment to\nits muscular and physiological functions; while injuries inflicted\nupon the basilar parts of the brain produce evident derangements of\nmuscular action, and are more dangerous to life. Vivisection has been\nalmost entirely fruitless for the discovery of psychic functions, but\nin the hands of Prof. Ferrier and the continental vivisectors it has\nthrown much light upon cerebral psychology, and as I shall hereafter\nshow, has confirmed my own discoveries.\n\nPathological Anatomy, too, has been extremely unprofitable. \"The\nresults of Pathological Anatomy (says Muller) can, however, never have\nmore than a limited application to the physiology of the brain. We are\nunacquainted with the laws according to which the different parts of\nthe organ participate in the functions of each other, and we can only,\nin a general way, regard as certain that organic diseases in one part\nof the brain may induce changes in the function of other parts; but\nfrom these facts and the results of Pathological Anatomy, we cannot\nalways draw certain conclusions.\" Mr. Solly, after commenting on the\ngeneral failure of Vivisection, remarks, \"From pathology we might\nnaturally expect surer evidence; but even here the physiologist who\ncarefully examines its records is doomed to disappointment. As will be\nproved hereafter, no certain light has yet shone on physiology from\nthis source.\" Cerebral pathology will not continue to be so barren a\nstudy when we have a true cerebral physiology to guide us. I find all\npathological cases instructive as confirmations and illustrations of\ntrue cerebral science.\n\nThe method of Dr. Gall--studying the growth and development of the\ndifferent parts of the brain, as indicated by the cranium--is the most\nsimple, rational and successful of all the methods adopted up to the\npresent time. In his hands it has elicited a valuable and practical,\nthough rude, system of phrenology. But Craniology or skull-study\ncannot perfect, nor can it positively demonstrate, the science.\n\nThe observations of the craniologist are continually liable to error.\nThe irregular thickness of the skull constitutes a great difficulty in\nthe way of exact observations. By great expertness and accuracy of\nobservation, he may overcome this difficulty in a great degree, but\nwhenever the brain is subject to any remarkable influence, increasing\nor diminishing the activity and size of particular organs, the\nexternal form fails to indicate the internal condition, because it can\nchange but slightly, and with slowness, after the skull is fully\ndeveloped and ossified. Were the skull composed of more pliable\nmaterials, cranioscopy would be more accurate in its facts, but while\nit preserves a uniform exterior, the interior often undergoes\nremarkable changes. Convolutions that are frequently called into\naction become better supplied with arterial blood, expand and grow,\nwhile the adjacent portion of the inner plate of the skull becomes\nabsorbed, and presents a remarkable indentation. Convolutions that are\nseldom in action shrink in size, and the adjacent bone grows in upon\nthem. Thus the skull becomes thinner at the site of every active\norgan, and thicker over every convolution that is inactive. The\ntranslucency or opacity of the different parts of the skull, when a\nlight is placed in its interior, generally indicates the active and\ninactive organs. Hence, many skulls of fine exterior reveal, upon\ninterior examination, a degenerate character. Criminal heads generally\npresent remarkable opacity and thickness in the region of the moral\norgans, with distinct digital impressions from the convolutions of the\nlower organs.\n\nThus all craniological observations are liable to inaccuracy, even as\nregards development, and much more in regard to functional power. The\nactivity, power and predominance of an organ may be essentially\nchanged, without making any perceptible impression upon the interior\nof the skull, for an indefinite period. Changes in excitement and\ncirculation, that revolutionize the character, may leave but a slight\nimpression upon the interior, and none upon the exterior of the\ncranium. The external configuration of the skull is therefore not a\ntrue criterion of character when the influences of education, society,\nfood, drink and disease have greatly changed the natural bias,\nalthough reliable in a strictly normal condition of brain and cranium.\n\nOrgans which easily expand laterally by encroachment upon their\nneighbors, which is a common effect of local excitement, must be slow\nto make any impression upon the superjacent bone of the cranium.\nCranioscopy, moreover, is incompetent to indicate the development of\nsmall regions or portions of a convolution; it gives but a rude survey\nof development. Being thus incapable of minuteness, accuracy and\ncertainty, it cannot be considered a proper and sufficient basis for\ncerebral science. In the hands of Gall and Spurzheim, it had already\nvery nearly attained its limits as regards the subdivision of organs,\nand the progress of their followers in discovery has been unimportant\nor fallacious.\n\nTo what, then, can we resort, when the failures of Pathology and\nVivisection are admitted, and we perceive the limited extent of the\nuncertain results of Craniology? Shall we not be compelled to resort\nto the same methods of investigation in the brain, which have been so\nsuccessful in establishing the physiology of the nerves, viz.: direct\nexperiment in exciting and arresting the action of the various masses\nof nervous fibre. Every sound physiologist must perceive that we are\ncompelled to resort to experiment, or else to rest contented in\nignorance of the true cerebral physiology. Muller, perceiving this,\nremarks, \"The principle for the advancement of the physiology of the\nnerves then remains the same, viz.: experiment on the living nerves.\"\n\nWe therefore experiment on the living brain in that class of persons\nwho are susceptible of being thus influenced; hence arises the last\nand most perfect method of cultivating Anthropology, by means of HUMAN\nIMPRESSIBILITY.\n\nOur system of Anthropology relies, for its demonstration, upon human\nimpressibility. Impressibility in its general sense, or the power of\nbeing affected by external agents, is proportional to the development\nof life. Inorganic matter is affected only mechanically or\nchemically--vegetation is powerfully affected by causes which would\nhave no perceptible influence on stones or metals, and animals are\naffected by remote objects, by sounds, by the voice, and by other\ninfluences which do not affect vegetables. Animals of a higher grade\nare affected by many moral influences which produce no effect on the\ninferior classes, and man, having the fullest development of all, is\ncontinually receiving a variety of influences from nature and society,\nto which animals are wholly insensible. As man is superior to animals\nin impressibility, so is the man of genius or the man of superior\nmoral sentiments more easily affected by everything that addresses the\nintellect or the sentiments, than the ignorant and selfish classes of\nsociety. Superior impressibility is then the result of a superior\ndevelopment of the organs which feel the various impressions. In the\nhighest order of genius capacities exist which recognize a thousand\nsubtle influences and beauties in Nature of which common minds are\nunconscious, and the psychic influence of a human being is instantly\nand thoroughly recognized.\n\nFor the purpose of analytical experiments upon the human functions, we\nrequire the development of a faculty which shall feel the influences\nwe use. We look to the various forms of Sensibility. The organ of\nphysical sensibility is situated in the temples, immediately over the\ncheek bone. It feels the influences of the various objects which\naffect the sense of feeling in all its modifications. Heat and cold,\nmoisture and dryness, sound, light, and all the imponderable fluids\nproduce their effects upon this region, and the more it is developed,\nthe more powerfully are we affected by such agencies.\n\nThe portion of Sensibility which feels the influences of the human\nnervaura, is the highest portion of the organ, where it connects with\nModesty, Somnolence, and Ideality. This we regard as the special organ\nof Nervauric Impressibility, because it renders the system so\nsensitive to the nervaura, as to be strongly affected whenever it is\napplied.\n\nMental impressibility is dependent upon intellectual organs, which\nfeel the influences of mind. The power of recognizing mental action is\ndependent upon the internal part of the front lobe, located just above\nthe root of the nose. This organ gives physiognomical talent, and a\nready tact in appreciating the expression of mind through the eye,\ncountenance, and gestures. It is a channel of mental sympathy, as\ndisplayed in the intercourse of society, and in the experiments of\nanimal magnetism. By means of this organ, a general relation is\nestablished between the mind of the operator and that of the subject,\nwhich may exist without the capacity for local impressions, which\nwould develop particular organs. It is devoted, however, to active\nperception rather than to passive impression. The faculty of being\nmentally impressed depends also upon the region of Spirituality and\nMarvellousness.\n\nMental and nervous impressibility being dependent upon these organs,\nit follows that a large development of the front lobe favors\nImpressibility, and that the occipital organs tend to diminish it.\nImpressibility lies in a group of organs which sustain it, and may be\nexpected to accompany its development. Sensibility, Somnolence,\nDreaming, Ideality, Modesty, Humility, Organic Sensibility,\nRelaxation, etc., are its natural accompaniments; hence it will be\nfound most abundantly in those classes of society which are most\nremarkable for refinement, sensitiveness, modesty, diffidence,\nhumility, or submissiveness, disease, languor, debility, and\nintellectual excitement. Religious excitement, love, mirthfulness,\nthoughtfulness, imagination, benevolence, sympathy, sincerity, faith,\nphilanthropy, hope, epicurism, intemperance, ardor, spirituality,\neffeminacy, imitation, romance and, in short, all amiable, sensitive,\nintellectual, refining, relaxing influences may be regarded as\npromotive of impressibility, and their opposites as calculated to\ndestroy it.\n\nIt is fortunate that disease promotes impressibility, for it enables\nthe sick to be relieved by manipulation, and it causes medicines to\noperate more efficiently upon morbid constitutions or organs, which\nhas been fully demonstrated by the Homoeopathic School of\ntherapeutics. But impressibility does not imply disease, although it\nmay make the system more accessible to slight morbific agencies. We\nfind individuals occasionally, of the highest tone of health and\nbodily vigor, who are highly impressible. Nor does it imply mental\nweakness, for it is highly congenial to intellectuality, and is\noccasionally found among the strongest and most cultivated minds.\nNervous Impressibility is that condition in which the nervaura has a\npowerful influence--in which the action of the brain and all the vital\nfunctions of the constitution may be controlled and indefinitely\nchanged by the application of the hands of another individual--in\nwhich we are susceptible of being totally revolutionized in character\nby application of the fingers to the various organs, so as to become,\nfor the time being, miserable or gay, philosophical, felonious,\nmurderous, angry, stupid, insane, idiotic, drowsy, hot, cold,\ncredulous, sceptical, timid, courageous, vain, indolent, sensual,\nhungry, diffident, haughty, avaricious, etc.; and in which the\nmuscular strength, secretions, circulation, pulse, respiration,\nsenses, and morbid or healthy conditions of the frame may be changed\nor controlled by the nervaura emitted from the hand of the operator\nacting upon the brain of the subject.\n\nThe number of individuals who can be thus affected is different in\ndifferent places. In southern climates they are more numerous than in\nnorthern--in the pleasant weather of summer more than in winter--in\nlecture rooms, ball rooms and places of fervid religious worship, more\nthan in the street and market place, where the intellectual and moral\nfaculties are less predominant. In the Southern States of the Union,\nthirty or forty per cent. of the population will give at once distinct\nevidence of impressibility. In the more northern, about ten per cent.\nwill give indications of an influence from the hand. A moderate degree\nof impressibility which is almost universal in the South, belongs to\nmore than half in the North.\n\nImpressible subjects may be selected by the development of the organs\nof Impressibility, and the general predominance of the frontal and\ncoronal regions of the brain over the occipital. The qualities already\nmentioned as favoring impressibility may be studied in the character,\nor observed in the development, as they occupy the entire anterior\nhalf of the head, giving _breadth to the temples_, with height and\nprojection to the forehead. An enlarged pupil of the eye will be one\nof the best symptoms, and, in connection with a calm, spiritual,\ngentle expression of countenance rarely fails to indicate\nimpressibility.\n\nTo test impressibility apply the fingers upon the organ of Somnolence,\nan inch horizontally behind the brow, with a very gentle contact; your\nsubject, after a few minutes, will manifest a sensitiveness of the\neye, and will wink oftener than usual--his winking will be repeated\nand prolonged, until his eyelids droop or remain closed--he is now\nsomnolent and dreamy; and this condition may be prolonged until it\nbecomes the Mesmeric Somnolence, or may be promptly removed by\nbrushing the excitement off with the fingers.\n\nA very simple test of impressibility consists in passing the ends of\nthe fingers over the palm of the hand of the subject, within one or\nmore inches, and ascertaining whether he can recognize its passage by\nany impression. If impressible he will perceive a cooling sensation as\nthe fingers pass. A more perfect demonstration is to let your subject\nstand erect before you, and apply both hands gently over the forehead\nand moral organs, or upon the temples; then very slowly withdraw them,\nand continue this process until you perceive that as your hand is\nwithdrawn, the head seems inclined to follow it as if attracted; some\nwill move thus but an inch or two, others will be drawn forward and\ncompelled to follow you wherever you go, or may be drawn down and\nprostrated upon the floor. You may accomplish the same upon the back\nof the head or body--the hand or any other part which is free to move;\nbut the forehead is the best region, because the front lobe is the\nseat of Impressibility, and the operation cultivates that quality, by\ndrawing excitement into the brain, and especially the front lobe, thus\ndebilitating the muscular system and power of resistance.\n\nApply the fingers upon the organ of Relaxation, below the cheek bone,\nand your subject, if standing, will become enfeebled, unsteady in\nattitude, and incapable of supporting as great weight as before in his\nextended hand. This will be counteracted by touching the region of\nEnergy.\n\nThe most painful experiments may be made by placing the hands upon the\ntemples and face, so as to cover the regions of Sensibility, Disease,\nRelaxation, and Irritability--the effect of which would be to produce\nbodily weakness, sickness, pain, distress and general prostration; a\ncondition, which if not relieved, might result in severe disease, but\nwhich may be counteracted by dispersing the excitement upward and\nbackward, and by stimulating Health, Energy and Hardihood.\n\nBy grasping a metallic rod firmly in the hand while the other end of\nit rests in the relaxed hand of an impressible person, you may\ntransmit a current of nervaura, which he will recognize gradually\nentering his arm at the hand, passing slowly up to the shoulder, and\nthen diffusing itself over the body.\n\nOne may test his own impressibility by placing the palm of the hand in\ncontact with any portion of the head or body of a vigorous\nconstitution for about twenty minutes, and observing the different\nimpressions imparted by different localities. If the hand be held in\ncontact with an individual suffering from some active form of disease,\nresting upon the forehead or the pit of the stomach, the morbid\nsymptoms will be very perceptibly transferred to any one of an\nimpressible constitution; but I would not recommend the experiment to\nany but those who are embarrassed by a constitutional scepticism,\nwhich hinders their believing anything which is not impressed upon\ntheir own senses.\n\nAn easy method of testing our susceptibility is by holding some active\nmedicinal substance between the hands while sitting at ease (without\nknowing what the properties of the substance are), and holding other\nactive substances at different times, to compare the effects which\nthey produce upon the constitution. 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To all the popular journals\nof the day the JOURNAL OF MAN is as the electric light is to the oil\nlamp or tallow dip.--J. V. M. S. More than pleased.--B. I. T. I hope\nthe day is not distant when the truths you present will permeate and\nmould society everywhere.--E. A. M. The article on \"The World's\nNeglected or Forgotten Leaders\" is alone worth more than the whole\nyear's subscription.--J. H.\n\n\nBUSINESS NOTICE.\n\nThe January Number ends the first volume of the JOURNAL OF MAN. Back\nnumbers can be supplied to new subscribers who do not delay too long.\nNumber 1, Volume 2, for February, will be sent to all subscribers, but\na remittance will be expected before the March number is sent.\n\n\nPSYCHOMETRIC PRACTICE.\n\nMrs. C. H. Buchanan continues to apply her skill in the description of\ncharacter and disease, with general impressions as to past and future.\nHer numerous correspondents express much gratification and surprise at\nthe correctness of her delineations. The fee for a personal interview\nis $2; for a written description $3; for a more comprehensive review\nand statement of life periods, with directions for the cultivation of\nPsychometry, $5.\n\n\nMEDICAL ORTHODOXY\n\nIs realizing the reaction of public opinion against all forms of\nmonopoly. There is some plausibility in the demand that all who heal\nshould educate themselves, if we had a true system of education, which\nwe have not. But there is no justice in the demand that those whom\nnature has gifted with great healing powers should be prohibited from\nexercising their natural gifts, or giving advice to their neighbors,\nwhenever they happen to know anything that is useful. To interfere\nwith such acts of benevolence, which are really the performance of a\nreligious duty, is a crime, and it is none the less criminal when it\nis the act of legislators, who are careless enough to allow themselves\nto be made the tools of an avaricious monopoly, which would make it a\ncrime for a farmer's wife to give her neighbor's children a blackberry\ncordial or hoarhound syrup. When the law makes benevolence a crime,\nlaws and legislators become objects of contempt, and a dangerous\nspirit of rebellion is fostered.\n\nIn Illinois a law has been obtained from a careless and unthinking\nlegislature, which makes all healing a crime, when not performed by\ngraduated, licensed and registered practitioners, but the law is so\nodious that it is not enforced against those who are not administering\nmedicines. In Iowa an equally disgraceful law has been obtained,\ndesigned to establish a similar monopoly, but the prosecution against\na lady for assisting a patient with her prayers resulted in her\nacquittal, and the medical societies have been paralyzed as to its\nenforcement. Dr. R. C. Flower, of Boston, has made several addresses\nto large audiences in that State, in opposition to medical\nlegislation, and the report of his very spirited and effective lecture\nin the Des Moines _Register_ shows that he carried his audiences with\nhim, and roused enthusiasm in opposition to the law. Dr. F. related\nsome terrific cases of malpractice by eminent physicians, and\nportrayed the horrible effects of the law in upholding quackery.\n\nThe present law of Mississippi is a disgrace to the civilization of\nthat State. It would authorize the prosecution of any one who helped\nthe sick, even by prayer, if the benevolent party was not protected by\na medical license.\n\nIn Alabama the law gives to the old school State medical association\nthe entire control of medical practice, and the power to examine and\nlicense every one who does any practice. Under this law graduates of\nEclectic colleges who are outside of the medical ring, have been\nprosecuted for non-compliance with the law, but the prosecution was\ndefeated. Mississippi and Alabama need to be Americanized. Medical\nbigotry has carried them back to the dark ages, for there is not a\ncountry in Europe to-day which is not more enlightened and liberal in\nits medical legislation than these two States.\n\nMonopoly is one of the most formidable enemies of American liberty. It\nis now assuming the form of \"Trust\" combinations to raise prices, but\nthere is no monopoly so grasping as the medical,--none which assumes\nto suppress competition by law.\n\nThe plea of promoting education is as false as a proposal to elevate\nthe pulpit by compelling every clergyman to pass through a Roman\nCatholic college. The existing medical colleges hold the same relation\nto the practice of the healing art as the Sectarian Theological\nSeminary to the practice of Christianity. One may be a very good\nChristian without the help of a theological seminary, or a very good\ndoctor without the help of a medical college, but no one can be a\nfirst-class physician who goes through a medical college and adheres\nstrictly to all the knowledge and all the ignorance administered by\nprofessors, without learning anything from other sources.\n\n\nMAYO'S ANAESTHETIC.\n\nThe suspension of pain, under dangerous surgical operations, is the\ngreatest triumph of Therapeutic Science in the present century. It\ncame first by mesmeric hypnotism, which was applicable only to a few,\nand was restricted, by the jealous hostility of the old medical\nprofession. Then came the nitrous oxide, introduced by Dr. Wells, of\nHartford, and promptly discountenanced by the enlightened (?) medical\nprofession of Boston, and set aside for the next candidate, ether,\ndiscovered in the United States also, but far inferior to the nitrous\noxide as a safe and pleasant agent. This was largely superseded by\nchloroform, discovered much earlier by Liebig and others, but\nintroduced as an anaesthetic in 1847, by Prof. Simpson. This proved to\nbe the most powerful and dangerous of all. Thus the whole policy of\nthe medical profession was to discourage the safe, and encourage the\nmore dangerous agents. The magnetic sleep, the most perfect of all\nanaesthetic agents, was expelled from the realm of college authority;\nether was substituted for nitrous oxide, and chloroform preferred to\nether, until frequent deaths gave warning.\n\nNitrous oxide, much the safest of the three, has not been the\nfavorite, but has held its ground, especially with dentists. But even\nnitrous oxide is not perfect. It is not equal to the magnetic sleep,\nwhen the latter is practicable, but fortunately it is applicable to\nall. To perfect the nitrous oxide, making it universally safe and\npleasant, Dr. U. K. Mayo, of Boston, has combined it with certain\nharmless vegetable nervines, which appear to control the fatal\ntendency which belongs to all anaesthetics when carried too far. The\nsuccess of Dr. Mayo, in perfecting our best anaesthetic, is amply\nattested by those who have used it. Dr. Thorndike, than whom Boston\nhad no better surgeon, pronounced it \"the safest the world has yet\nseen.\" It has been administered to children and to patients in extreme\ndebility. Drs. Frizzell and Williams say they have given it\n\"repeatedly in heart disease, severe lung diseases, Bright's disease,\netc., where the patients were so feeble as to require assistance in\nwalking, many of them under medical treatment, and the results have\nbeen all that we could ask--no irritation, suffocation, nor\ndepression. We heartily commend it to all as the anaesthetic of the\nage.\" Dr. Morrill, of Boston, administered Mayo's anaesthetic to his\nwife with delightful results when \"her lungs were so badly\ndisorganized, that the administration of ether or gas would be\nentirely unsafe.\" The reputation of this anaesthetic is now well\nestablished; in fact, it is not only safe and harmless, but has great\nmedical virtue for daily use in many diseases, and is coming into use\nfor such purposes. In a paper before the Georgia State Dental Society,\nDr. E. Parsons testified strongly to its superiority. \"The nitrous\noxide (says Dr. P.) causes the patient when fully under its influence\nto have very like the appearance of a corpse,\" but under this new\nanaesthetic \"the patient appears like one in a natural sleep.\" The\nlanguage of the press generally has been highly commendatory, and if\nDr. Mayo had occupied so conspicuous a rank as Prof. Simpson, of\nEdinburgh, his new anaesthetic would have been adopted at once in every\ncollege of America and Europe.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n                     Mayo's Vegetable Anaesthetic.\n\nA perfectly safe and pleasant substitute for chloroform, ether,\nnitrous oxide gas, and all other anaesthetics. Discovered by Dr. U. K.\nMayo, April, 1883, and since administered by him and others in over\n300,000 cases successfully. The youngest child, the most sensitive\nlady, and those having heart disease, and lung complaint, inhale this\nvapor with impunity. It stimulates the circulation of the blood and\nbuilds up the tissues. Indorsed by the highest authority in the\nprofessions, recommended in midwifery and all cases of nervous\nprostration. Physicians, surgeons, dentists and private families\nsupplied with this vapor, liquefied, in cylinders of various\ncapacities. It should be administered the same as Nitrous Oxide, but\nit does not produce headache and nausea as that sometimes does. For\nfurther information pamphlets, testimonials, etc., apply to\n\n                                      DR. U. K. MAYO, Dentist,\n                                        378 Tremont St., Boston, Mass.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n                           THE OPEN COURT.\n\n                             PUBLISHED BY\n\n                  The Open Court Publishing Company,\n\n                           Rooms 41 and 42,\n                       169-175 LA SALLE STREET,\n                               CHICAGO.\n\n    B. F. 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Address: Mrs. HELEN WILMANS, Douglasville,\nGeorgia.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\n    Transcriber's Note: The Table of Contents came from the first\n    issue of the volume.","title":"Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888: Volume 1, Number 12","tradition":"philosophy-ethics","translated_text":null,"word_count":18247}