,,buchanan',s                           
,,journal ,,of ,,man4                   
,,vol4 ,i4        ,,august1 #ahhg4      
,,no4 #g4     ,,contents ,,of ,,journal 
,,of ,,man4     ,creation's ,mysteries  
,a ,true ,poet--,the ,poetry of ,peace  
and the ,practice of ,war   ,the ,volapk
 ,language   ,progress of the           
,marvellous   ,glances ,round the ,world
   ,,miscellaneous                      
,,intelligence--,photography ,perfected2
 ,the ,cannon ,king2     ,land          
,monopoly2 ,the ,grand ,canals2 ,the    
,survival of ,barbarism2     ,concord   
,philosophy2 ,the ,andover ,war2 ,the   
,catholic ,rebellion2     ,stupidity of 
,colleges2 ,cremation2 ,col4 ,henry ,s4 
,olcott2 ,jesse     ,shepard2           
,prohibition2 ,longevity2 ,increase of  
insanity2     ,extraordinary ,fasting2  
,spiritual ,papers   ,cranioscopy       
7,continued7   ,practical ,utility of   
,anthropology in its ,psychic           
,department    ,,creation',s ,,mysteries
   ,dr4 ,b4 ,cyriax1 editor of the      

,spiritualistische ,bltter1 published at
 ,liepsic1 ,ger41 has given in the issue
 of ,march #cast the following          
communications from ,dr4 ,hahnemann and 
,dr4 ,spurzheim1 delivered through a    
trance medium4 ,they are valuable       
essays1 whatever may be their source1   
and the reader will not fail to observe 
their general coincidence with the      
doctrine presented by myself in the ,may
 number of the ,,journal ,,of ,,man in  
the article on the ,genesis of the      
,brain4  ,wishing to have a psychometric
 test1 ,i placed in the hands of ,mrs4  
,buchanan a portion of the manuscript of
 ,spurzheim1 who died fifty-five years  
ago1 to see if her conception of his    
thought would coincide with the report  
from the trance medium4 ,her nervous    
system being somewhat disturbed at the  
time1 she was unable to go as far as ,i 
wished1 but she gave the following      
impressions3      ,this has been written
 sixty or seventy years ago1 written by 
a     person of very broad1 elevated    

mind1 progressive1 a teacher or         
writer--perhaps both4 ,he had a great   
deal of will power1 strong1     and     
decisive1 was very independent1 not     
afraid to give his     views1 but had a 
great deal of opposition to his         
sentiments4 ,he     was of a scientific 
cast of mind1 was acquainted with       
medical     science1 and was more       
interested in the brain than anything   
else4 ,he would talk1 lecture1 and write
 about the brain1 and had     very      
correct views in advance of others4 ,he 
is in spirit life     now4 ,there is a  
warmth and nearness in the impression as
 though     he would be attracted to the
 science you are engaged in4 ,his       
mind broadens out into different lines  
of thought in spirit     life--things   
appertaining to what he was interested  
in here1 and     kindred subjects4 ,he  
thinks you are developing in the right  
direction4 ,i think he has communicated 
with you4 ,i think he has     an        
overshadowing approval of your work4 ,he

 feels that you are in     an original  
line of thought1 not dominated by any   
other minds4     ,there seems an        
overshadowing influence that stimulates 
you4  ,as to his having communicated    
with me1 it is true that over thirty    
years ago ,i received some remarkable   
communications from him1 through a      
rapping medium1 the messages being      
spelled out by the alphabet1 and his    
suggestions entirely in consonance with 
my teachings4  ,i then asked1 ,what     
views does he have of the process of    
creation and development of life on the 
globe8 ,which was answered ,his views   
are such as have been expressed by the  
believers in evolution1 from the lower  
to the higher orders of creation4 ,i    
feel a pressure of intellectual         
conceptions1 but my nervous system is   
not in a state to express it4  ,i then  
read through the statement of           
,spurzheim's views 7his name being still
 unknown to ,mrs4 ,b471 and asked how   
they coincided with the sentiments she  

perceived in the person she described4  
,she replied1 ,i think he accepts or    
approves it generally4 ,he would        
certainly sanction such ideas4 ,i think 
he has communicated1 and that he would1 
in control of a medium1 express such    
ideas4  ,the messages of ,hahnemann and 
,spurzheim have been so well translated 
by a correspondent of the ,golden ,gate1
 that ,i reproduce them as given in that
 journal1 as follows3      ,if you      
consider the high development of the    
,caucasian race1 it     is repulsive to 
your sentiments to believe that man     
belongs to     the animal kingdom as its
 highest link1 and springs from this    
kingdom4 ,yet this feeling is false1 and
 must be destroyed1 since     it        
originates only in self-conceit and it  
is not so very     difficult to arrive  
at a juster view4 ,only go back to the  
time     of ,charlemagne or to that of  
,augustus1 and observe the great        
mass of your forefathers1 and you will  
find so great a     difference1 that you

 will be as much alarmed as if in the   
presence of ,indians1 when such a tribe 
of ,germans is brought     before you4  
,then go still further back into the    
pre-historic     times1 and form an     
image of the pile-builders and their    
mode of     life1 and of the            
cave-dwellers and their imperfect       
weapons and     tools1 and you will have
 to confess that these are separated    
from the present ,europeans by a greater
 gap than are the     uncultured        
inhabitants of the earth of to-day4 ,and
 yet these     cave-dwellers and        
pile-builders had already reached a high
     degree of culture in comparison    
with those who had preceded them     by 
thousands of years2 and if we thus join 
link to link in the     chain backwards1
 we must come to the conclusion that the
     original men were but little       
distinguished in form and bodily        
structure1 as well as in intellectual   
capacity1 and at first     hardly at    
all1 from the animals standing next     

them1 the     four-handed ones4         
,the assumption that ,god has created   
man perfect1 i4 e41 in     body1 but    
without power of judgment1 and that he  
obtained this     only by transgressing 
a command and a prohibition1 and thus by
 a     crime1 so that he first began to 
degenerate upon the awakening     in him
 of the divine intellect and reason1 we 
leave wholly one     side as absolutely 
contradicted by positive science1 and   
only     inquire1 how1 then1 did man    
originate in so low a form8 ,there      
are but two answers to this question4   
,the one is1 that man was     placed    
upon the earth by an outside power in   
full size1 rudeness     and stupidity1  
in order to be left to his fate there in
 an     unknown land1 and to struggle   
for his existence with unknown          
animals4 ,or1 on the other hand1 that   
man was developed in a     quite natural
 way1 according to the law of evolution1
 out of the     class of animals        
standing next below him4 ,you are aware 

that we     do not favor the first view1
 but so much the more earnestly         
embrace the latter4 ,according to the   
law of evolution and     adaptation the 
talents and capacities of animals were  
steadily     changed in the course of   
thousands of years1 following the       
changed relations of climate and soil1  
so as to fit themselves     for the new 
conditions of sustenance and existence4 
,in     proportion as all nature became 
changed1 so that at the end of a        
so-called geological period no          
comparison could be made with the       
beginning of the next preceding one1 in 
that same proportion and     measure the
 plants and animals had also changed1 so
 that     scarcely any more resemblance 
existed between these and those     from
 which they originated4 ,it is          
self-evident that amid such     changes 
only those specimens continued to exist1
 which had     adapted themselves in    
their progressive development in their  
organs and capacities in the best way to

 the new conditions of     their        
existence4 ,all those which had not thus
 changed lost the     conditions of     
their existence and died out4 ,but where
 did these     organs and capacities1   
fitted to the newer relations1 gain     
their     form and development8 ,in the 
mother-pouch of the female1             
undoubtedly6 ,and of course this        
improvement advanced with each          
succeeding generation1 so that animals  
which originally only     lived in      
water1 through gradual efforts to go on 
dry land also1     to which1 perhaps1   
they were forced to preserve their      
species1     thereby changed the        
original fins into legs and later into  
web-feet by which they were adapted to  
live in water as well as     on land    
7amphibia74      ,now likewise there was
 developed in the gigantic four-handed  
,saurians such a change in the          
mother-pouch of the female animals      
as the ever finer organized brain       
created1 so that in the course     of   

thousands of years1 a creature was      
gradually developed which               
overstepped the last stage of the       
sense-developed understanding     and   
comprehension1 and was in a position1   
through the putting     into activity of
 the upper and front brain1 to          
distinguish evil     from good and to   
think independently4 ,of these          
creatures1     likewise1 only those     
survive that had in themselves the      
capacity     for further development1   
while the rest perished4 ,the survivors 
were the original men2 those that       
perished formed the     intermediate    
link between man and the brute4 ,thus1  
out of the     infinite efforts of      
nature to create a finer organized      
species     from the four-handed        
,saurians1 came forth not only men1 but 
the     failures1 the apes4 ,so man does
 not descend from the ape1 but     both 
have only one stock1 which is the       
four-handed animals     sprung from the 
flesh-devouring ,saurians4      ,thus we

 can settle whence man comes and how he 
arose1 but that     does not solve the  
problem whence comes life or how it     
arose1     yet on this point ,i will    
give place to friend ,spurzheim4        
,dr4 ,spurzheim then took control and   
spoke over half an hour in     his      
peculiarly striking1 logical and        
convincing way1 yet it is     quite     
impossible to repeat this discourse as  
it was given4 ,it     ran about as      
follows3      ,worthy friends1 friend   
,hahnemann has just given you an        
explanation of the origin of man to     
which ,i have nothing to add4     ,the  
question whether the egg existed before 
the hen or the hen     before the egg   
has often been called an idle one1 and  
yet it     obtrudes itself upon         
everybody4 ,our eyesight teaches that   
the     egg comes from the hen1 but at  
the same time also that the hen     is  
developed from the egg1 and if we go    
farther back we are lost     in         
infinity4 ,the theological view that    

,god put into the world     all that    
exists1 all animals from the smallest   
seen by the     microscope to the       
largest gigantic creatures in pairs and 
fully     grown1 seems to solve the     
problem of the egg and the hen1 but     
has long since been refuted by science1 
so that we need not     further meddle  
with it1 and so much the less as thereby
 the     question of the origin of life 
is not even touched4 ,let us now        
make a violent leap from man out into   
infinite space and back     millions of 
years before the origin of man upon the 
earth4 ,what     do we see there8       
,unnumbered worlds1 all which1 like the 
sun1     have brought forth other worlds
 dependent on them1 and these by        
their development taking place according
 to like uniform laws in     their      
infinite differences in size and        
specific gravity1 yet     ever striving 
after the same great end1 the production
 of beings     endowed with reason1     
offer the most glorious picture of      

,godlike     power and harmony4 ,the    
worlds born of these suns 7planets7 all 
originated in like manner1 since the    
parts lying along the     circumference 
of the suns1 by their motion in space   
cooled off     the sooner1 broke away in
 irregular masses1 and while            
contracting into globular shapes and    
revolving upon their own     axis1 yet  
by the force of attraction and their    
original motion     bound to the bodies1
 whirl around these and with these move 
on     in space4 ,and though these balls
 of glowing gas1 as the earth     for   
example in its origin1 in contrast with 
the mother-body     7sun7 are somewhat  
cooled off1 yet is the heat of the same 
still     so great 7some reckoning it at
 two or six thousand degrees while      
others hold it incomputable7 that       
absolutely no life can exist     within 
such balls of fire4 ,but after the more 
solid parts are     formed 7granite1    
porphyry1 etc417 gradually by cooling   
off and     contracting1 and these are  

fused together into larger masses1      
then begin the ribs of the              
earth-structure1 the rocky              
foundations of the super-structure1 and 
as soon as the     development of the   
earth is so far advanced that oxygen and
     hydrogen can be formed into water1 
which falls down in frightful     masses
 upon the hot rocks and dissolves them  
on the surface1     then begins the     
condition productive of cells and carbon
     entering into the connection1 and  
the first plants are brought     forth2 
the alg first1 then the lichens and     
ferns1 which are     developed into     
gigantic dimensions4 ,prior to and      
simultaneous     with the formation of  
cells went on the production of crystals
     and the mineral as well as the     
vegetable kingdoms were further     and 
further developed4 ,contemporary with   
the first plant-cells     the conditions
 were plainly offered for the formation 
of the     first life-cells4 ,and now   
the question arises1 ,what is life8     

,whence comes it8 ,although it is       
certain that in the process of          
development of the earth after its      
separation from the sun no     life was 
present4      ,it is asserted that life 
is motion and is an attribute of        
matter2 yet that is something wholly    
different from what is     understood by
 the term4 ,thus far science has pointed
 out no     distinction between dead and
 living protoplasm1 and the             
affirmation that the primordial cells   
are the source of life is     not       
tenable1 since the cell is an           
organization that presupposes     life1 
and so1 at most1 the original cell could
 be designated as     but the first     
expression of life4 ,for a short time it
 was     assumed that life came to the  
earth through meteors or parts of       
worlds that had gone to pieces1 but this
 idea was soon given up1     because    
neither the manifold nature of life nor 
the origin of     the same could thereby
 be explained or determined1 and thus   

the     question was only pushed farther
 back1 since what was desired to     be 
known1 was1 how life originated on the  
world that was     destroyed4           
,when1 and under what circumstances1    
life began on the earth can     not be  
accurately fixed1 yet it is clear that  
at the time when     the ocean still    
covered nearly all the earth and was so 
hot that     not a single one of the now
 existing plants and living beings      
could then exist1 the life in that ocean
 and on its bottom was     so infinitely
 grand in its proportions that men can  
now form no     adequate conception of  
the same4 ,the force of growth as well  
as     of decay was immense1 and all    
that was grown or made by its     decay 
only increased the mass of              
life-producing substance4      ,there   
are three theories as to the origin of  
living beings3      #a4 ,god made all   
animals1 including man1 in pairs and of 
full     size4      #b4 ,the elements of
 physical nature and the forces dwelling

 in     matter by a lucky arrangement of
 atoms developing living organs     out 
of matter4      #c4 ,an intelligent1    
intellectual force permeates matter1 and
     wherever this in its development   
attains the conditions for the          
maintenance of life 7and so a higher    
manifestation of force than     in the  
mineral7 it brings forth the            
intellectual life in the                
protoplasmic germ for the finest        
organism4 ,through the laws of          
inheritance1 of change1 of the          
multiplication of progressive           
development1 of natural selection and of
 the persistence of the     most gifted 
individuals1 living beings are developed
 through all     classes and species up 
to man4      ,with the first theory we  
need not concern ourselves further1 as  
we have already branded it as hostile to
 reason and knowledge1     although     
theologians have sought to maintain that
 ,almighty ,god     has made the earth  
with all that is in it and upon it1 just

 as     it now exists1 and have even    
gone so far as to affirm in             
opposition to the effect of geological  
discoveries1 that ,god     himself had  
created or deposited the fossil remains 
of animals     found under the bed of   
the ,euphrates 7the spot where paradise 
is     said to have been7 exactly there 
and in a petrified condition4      ,the 
second theory seems more probable2 it   
assumes that force     and matter are   
one and the same1 matter possessing     
force as a     quality2 but overlooks   
the fact that what is called matter     
first     came forth as a product out of
 the glowing mass of primary gas     or 
world-material1 and hence that matter1  
or world-material1 to     which the     
life-producing force is attached1 is to 
be sought away     back before the time 
when began the formations of worlds in  
their incandescent state1 whereby it is1
 of course1 conceded     that life in   
the ordinary sense was destroyed1 if it 
really     subsisted before the heating 

of the particles of matter4             
,another objection to this theory is    
this1 that if organizations     spring  
from the favorable union of atoms1 this 
surrenders the     rule to chance and   
excludes a unitary order of the world1  
while     failing to explain the origin 
of thinking1 moral and     reason-gifted
 beings2 since1 if thinking1 reason and 
moral     sentiment spring from matter1 
they must be attributes of the     same2
 and since the product is always less   
than the producer1 it     follows that  
intelligence1 reason and ethics must be 
present     somewhere in matter in a    
concentrated form2 and this reflection  
brings us quite naturally to the third  
theory4      ,the intellectual1 divine  
principle penetrates matter as the      
positive element1 which under definite  
conditions steadily works     upon the  
negative element of the original        
substance and forces     the same under 
constant changing of form and combining 
parts1 to     realize definite1         

universally similar ideas1 and to attain
     definite aims2 and wherever matter 
in the process of development     offers
 certain conditions1 there the          
intellectual element     produces what  
is called life4 ,and this takes for     
granted that     life may spring up     
spontaneously there where there was no  
life     before2 and this fact has been 
established beyond all reasonable       
doubt4 ,the juice of mutton1 beef and a 
mixture of gelatine and     sugar have  
been put in separate vessels1 these made
 air-tight     and exposed for a long   
time to a heat of as much as three      
hundred degrees of ,fahrenheit1 so as to
 be quite sure that all     living germs
 were destroyed4 ,yet after the lapse of
 weeks in     some cases and of months  
in others1 living beings were developed 
in the vessels4      ,under the relation
 of the earth as existing to-day1 life  
would     again be developed1 if we were
 in a condition instantaneously to      
annihilate all life2 yet the same       

results would not be produced     as in 
the original period1 because the needed 
materials are no     longer present in  
the mighty masses1 nor in the requisite 
fluid     and gaseous conditions to     
attain so powerful effects1 to which    
belong also as necessary conditions the 
far higher temperature     and the      
greater humidity of the atmosphere of   
that epoch4 ,in the     first creative  
period the force as well as the material
 were     present in colossal measure   
and then arose those gigantic plants    
and animals1 which laid the foundation  
for all later organisms4     ,without   
the colossal ferns and lichens and      
palm-like growths of     the early ages1
 the plants of to-day would have been   
impossible1     and without the         
monstrous giant creatures of old1 which 
became     more and more refined through
 gradual adaptation to altered          
relations1 the modern animal kingdom    
could not have arisen4 ,this            
adaptation is one of the most wonderful 

phenomena in the history     of the     
development of the earth and is found as
 well in the     realm of plants as in  
that of animals4 ,originally there were 
only aquatic animals1 but as the        
relations changed so that it     became 
necessary1 partly for the procuring of  
food and partly     for the safety of   
the offspring1 that animals should go on
 land1     their attempts constantly    
repeated to do so1 gradually produced   
a change in the limbs fitted for motion1
 and so came about the                  
transformation of fins into wings in the
 creatures that wanted     to rise out  
of the water into the air1 which then   
had far more     carrying power than at 
the present day4      ,whatever may be  
said about the qualities of matter and  
the     force united with it 7more truly
 the force manifesting itself           
therein71 it cannot be denied1 that the 
plan of creation is a     unitary one1  
moving on according to definite laws and
 striving     towards definite final    

results4 ,this presupposes that a       
conscious idea lies at the basis of the 
creative plan1 and this     implies an  
original consciousness which we call    
,god4 ,god and     nature are one1 just 
as intellect and body are one in man4   
,nature1 i4 e41 substance1 changes      
according to the impulses     that go   
out from ,god1 but ,god remains         
unchanged4 ,all that     possesses form1
 all organization must be destroyed in  
the     incandescent process of forming 
world-bodies1 but the divine1     the   
intellectual principle is               
indestructible2 and when matter         
under the impulses that went forth from 
,god1 has reached the     grade of      
development at which organization is    
possible1 then the     divine principle 
steps into force as the positive        
element1 and     that is life4 ,this    
positive element works on and on1       
steadily     producing higher forms and 
higher organizations1 until in man it   
fashions itself into a self-recognizing1

 conscious and     individual essence1  
which1 as derived from ,god1 is         
indestructible1 and after the           
consummation of its earthly             
organism1 is capable1 as an individual1 
intellectual being1 of     an infinitely
 progressive development4      ,so far  
man can attain by a chain of logical    
deductions2 but to     define the idea  
that lies at the basis of the           
world-order is     impossible2 just as  
also a man will never be in a condition 
to     find out or to comprehend how the
 working of the intellectual            
element1 upon the substance capable of  
change1 is made possible4     ,life is  
the self-manifested working of the      
intellectual element     upon matter4   
,man never understands the laws of life1
 though he     can understand the laws  
necessary for the preservation of life1 
since he can deduce them from the       
outward manifestations of     life4 ,man
 must be contented with this2 he can    
never understand     ,god2 and since    

life is the expression of the divine    
activity1     its origin must ever      
remain a mystery to him4  ,though       
concurring generally in the foregoing   
views 7which may have been materially   
modified by their channel7 ,i do not    
accept them as a finality4 ,that a      
brooding spiritual power has to do with 
all development and progress ,i do not  
doubt4 ,but this power is not           
necessarily a monotonous and universal  
influence like gravitation or caloric4  
,there is no reason to forbid special   
acts of the creative spiritual energy1  
for we observe to-day the production of 
plants and of beautiful fabrics by      
spiritual power where the necessary     
conditions exist4 ,moreover1 the        
greatest potency of spiritual power is  
at the beginnings in the most plasmic   
conditions of matter4 ,it is in the     
animal germ and the vegetable seed that 
the invisible world is most potential1  
and ,i am inclined to think that        
naturalists have attached too much      

importance to the exterior environment1 
and too little to the interior          
conditions in which the higher potencies
 of organization are to be found1 and in
 which alone we may find the entrance of
 life from the true world of life4  ,the
 hasty conclusions of naturalists as to 
evolution do not explain the evolution  
and the vast variety of the vegetable   
kingdom4 ,to attribute this to any power
 of modification by environment1 when we
 see how little environment can do to   
make any essential change in vegetation1
 would require more credulity than ,i   
would consider justifiable in the       
pursuit of scientific truths4 ,so in the
 evolution of the animal kingdom1 ,i    
believe the power of the physical       
environment has been greatly overrated4 
,a ,,true ,,poet--,,the ,,poetry ,,of   
,,peace ,,and ,,the ,,practice ,,of     
,,war4   ,it is nearly thirty years     
since ,i met the ,english poet1 ,charles
 ,mackay1 at ,louisville1 on his travels
 in ,america4 ,at that time he gave me  

the following poem suggested by our     
conversation4 ,i do not think that he   
has ever published it3    ,why1 this    
longing1 clay-clad spirit8     ,why this
 fluttering of wings8   ,why this       
striving to discover     ,hidden and    
transcendent things8    ,thou wouldst   
fathom ,life and ,being1     ,thou      
wouldst see through ,birth and ,death4  
,thou wouldst solve the eternal ,riddle1
     ,thou1 a speck1 a ray1 a breath6   
,be at peace1 thou struggling spirit1   
,great ,eternity denies   ,the unfolding
 of its secrets     ,in the circle of   
thine eyes4                             
,,charles ,,mackay1                     
,louisville1 ,kentucky1 ,jan4 #ca1      
#aheh4  ,it is the function of the poet 
to realize and revere the mystery1 but  
it is the duty of philosophy to explore 
and dissipate it1 as far as possible1   
for mystery is the foe of human         
progress4  ,mackay1 though not the poet 
of psychic science1 is profoundly the   
poet of practical1 humanitarian         

progress1 as was shown in his sublime   
poem1 beginning1    ,the man is thought 
a knave or fool1     ,or bigot plotting 
crime1   ,who for the advancement of his
 kind     ,is wiser than his time4  ,the
 psychometric impression from the       
manuscript of the foregoing poem was as 
follows3      ,this seems like a        
poetical influence4 ,i think the person 
who     wrote this1 was adapted to      
intellectual pursuits1--a man of fine   
powers of mind1 but not fully progressed
 in thought4 ,as far as     he knew1 at 
the time of this writing1 he was        
appreciative of     your suggestions1   
and of scientific progress4 ,he was a   
cool-headed man1--not a light or        
superficial thinker1 but     thought on 
deep subjects4 ,he was a brain worker2  
it makes my     brain tired4 ,i think he
 published books--poems4 ,i think he was
     more a poet than a prose writer4   
,he was not like ,tom     ,moore--there 
was nothing light or superficial--his   
poetry was     grand1 solid1 deep1      

stirring4 ,he could write upon warlike  
scenes1 vividly and descriptively1 but  
was not in favor of war4     ,he would  
deplore any appearance of war1 but he   
had a patriotic     spirit1 a proud     
spirit1 and would defend the right and  
assail     the wrong4  ,this description
 was verified in his numerous volumes of
 poetry1 such as ,legends of the        
,islands1 ,poetry of the ,english       
,lakes1 ,the ,battle1 ,town ,lyrics1    
etc4 ,he also published three volumes of
 ,memoirs of ,popular ,delusions1 edited
 the ,london ,review1 and was the war   
correspondent of the ,london ,times from
 this country during the rebellion4     
,his opposition to war is shown in the  
following admirable poem1 the reading of
 which revived my recollection of its   
author4   ,,freedom',s ,,warfare4 ,,by  
,,charles ,,mackay4    ,we want no flag1
 no flaunting rag1     ,for ,liberty to 
fight2   ,we want no blaze of murderous 
guns     ,to struggle for the right4    
,our spears and swords are printed words

     ,the mind our battle plain2        
,we've won such victories before1       
,and so we shall again4    ,we love no  
triumphs sprung of force--     ,they    
stain the brightest cause2   ',tis not  
in blood that ,liberty     ,inscribes   
her civil laws4   ,she writes them on   
the peoples' hearts     ,in language    
clear and plain2   ,true thoughts have  
moved the world before     ,and so they 
shall again4    ,we yield to none in    
earnest love     ,of ,freedom's cause   
sublime2   ,we join the cry ,fraternity6
     ,we keep the march of ,time4   ,and
 yet we grasp not pike nor spear1       
,our vict'ries to obtain2   ,we've won  
without their aid before1     ,and so we
 shall again4    ,we want no aid of     
barricades1     ,to show a front to     
wrong2   ,we have a citadel in truth1   
,more durable and strong4   ,calm words1
 great thoughts1 unflinching faith      
,have never striv'n in vain2   ,they've 
won our battles many a time1     ,and so
 they will again4    ,peace1 ,progress1 

,knowledge1 ,brotherhood2     ,the      
ignorant may sneer1   ,the bad deny2 but
 we rely     ,to see their triumphs     
near4   ,no widow's groans shall load   
our cause1     ,nor blood of brethren   
slain2   ,we've won without such aid    
before1     ,and so we shall again4     
,this poem expresses the sentiment and  
policy of the ,,journal ,,of ,,man4     
,but1 ah1 how utterly antagonistic to   
these noble sentiments is the way of the
 world at present1 and the policy of the
 world's strong governments1 upheld as  
they are by the so-called church of     
,christ1 which is not the church of     
,christ but the church of ,athanasius4  
,everywhere men are trained with skill  
and perseverance for the work of        
homicide1 as if murder were the most    
glorious work in which man could be     
employed4  ,every ,frenchman in his     
twenty-first year is held by the        
government 7with very few exceptions7 to
 five years service in the active army1 
four years in the reserve of the active 

army1 five years in the territorial     
army1 and four in the reserve of the    
territorial army--eighteen years        
altogether6 ,could his ,satanic ,majesty
 have devised any better plan for       
destroying the moral distinction between
 men and carnivorous beasts8 ,the only  
mitigation of this horror is that       
college students are allowed to pass by 
one year's service1 and a lottery of    
long and short terms allows a large     
number to escape with terms of abridged 
length4  ,germany1 like ,france1 forces 
everybody through the army1 and it is   
but five months since the continental   
governments were buying in ,england     
millions of cartridges for the expected 
war which psychometry pronounced a      
terrible delusion4  ,all governments are
 busy in preparing the deadliest        
possible weapons4 ,european nations have
 generally adopted magazine guns for    
their soldiers4 ,france has adopted the 
,kropatochek magazine rifle1 ,germany   
the ,manser rifle1 ,austria the         

,mannlicher magazine rifle1 ,italy the  
,bertoldo magazine rifle1 ,russia the   
,berdan breechloader1 ,turkey the       
,american rifle4 ,the magazine guns seem
 to have almost unlimited               
capacities--firing #cj to #ej shots per 
minute which are fatal at a mile        
distance4 ,the only mitigation of these 
horrors is that of a ,german chemist's  
invention--an ansthetic bullet which is 
claimed to produce complete             
insensibility1 lasting for hours4       
,explosive shells of melinite are the   
leading idea in ,france4 ,it is         
manufactured at ,bourges and is said to 
be a hundred times as powerful as       
gunpowder1 or ten times nitroglycerine1 
and reduces what it strikes to a fine   
powder4 ,they have also a new rifle     
powder which explodes without smoke4    
,russia has a new explosive1 fifteen    
times as strong as any gunpowder1 which 
produces no smoke4  ,america is not     
behind in explosives4 ,lieut4 ,graydon  
has been giving exhibitions near        

,washington of a new patent shell said  
to be seven times more powerful than    
dynamite1 and yet so safe that it can be
 fired with powder from a common gun4   
,mr4 ,bernard ,fannon of ,westboro1     
,mass41 has invented and patented a     
shell of terrific power4 ,it is made of 
iron1 three inches thick1 and weighs    
#edj pounds4 ,the effects of its        
explosion in a swamp near ,westboro were
 wonderful4 ,it is also said to be      
perfectly safe4  ,the rivalry of cannon 
and armor plates is going on1 the       
development of torpedoes and shells is  
reaching its maximum1 and the power of  
taking a nation to the edge of          
starvation1 for the building of monster 
ships1 costing each millions of dollars1
 is the study of ,,christian 7667       
governments4  ,thirty years ago1 the    
largest ,british cannon was a           
sixty-eight pounder1 costing #efa1 which
 might be fired for #bge4 ,now they have
 a #aaj-ton gun costing #ig1ejj to      
manufacture1 and #ice to fire once4     

,the ,british government has gone into  
such matters deeply1 paying ,mr4        
,brennan over half a million dollars for
 his torpedo invention4  ,the ,british  
ship ,victoria uses #ijj pounds of      
powder to one of its #aaj-ton guns which
 send a missile of #a1hjj pounds4       
,nelson's flag ship ,victory used no    
larger powder charge than eight pounds1 
and its heaviest shot was only          
sixty-eight pounds4 ,a broadside upon   
the ,victoria consumes #c1jjj pounds of 
powder4 ,its #aaj-ton gun is moved by   
hydraulic machinery4 ,such a metallic   
monster would seem almost incredible1   
but ,krupp has constructed a still      
larger gun for ,italy1 #df feet long and
 weighing over #aah tons4  ,it could not
 be sent overland by railway1 but was   
sent to ,antwerp for shipping on a      
specially constructed carriage #aje feet
 long1 running on #cb wheels4  ,the     
,american steel cruiser ,atlanta has two
 guns of eight-inch bore1 #bd feet long1
 sending out a projectile of #cjj pounds

 which explodes on striking1--firing    
correctly five miles4 ,it costs #aej to 
to fire once4  ,lieut4 ,zalinski is     
using a light steel tube1 sixty feet    
long and one foot in diameter1 to fire  
explosive shells by air pressure4 ,great
 results are expected from it1 and it   
would save us from the enormous cost of 
modern cannon4  ,fortunately1 ,america1 
being out of the great maelstrom of war1
 can cultivate humane sentiments and    
abolish the barbarism of dueling1 which 
still holds its ground in ,france and   
,germany in the highest ranks of        
society4  ,we have had one terrible war 
to demoralize our nation1 but now peace 
is secure and the old ,federal and      
,confederate soldiers are active in     
exchanging visits and generous          
hospitalities ,north and ,south in a    
permanent and peaceful ,union4    ,no   
vision of the morrow's strife     ,the  
warrior's dream alarms1   ,no braying   
horn1 nor screaming fife1     ,at dawn  
shall call to arms4  ,a re-established  

,union saves us from the wars and the   
military despotism in which other       
republics have perished1 and all can    
unite now in the following beautiful    
tribute to the dead heroes3    ,by the  
flow of the inland river1     ,whence   
the fleets of iron have fled1   ,where  
blades of the green grass quiver1       
,asleep are the ranks of the dead2      
,under the sod and the dew1     ,waiting
 the judgment day2   ,under the one1 the
 blue1     ,under the other1 the gray4  
,these1 in the robings of glory1        
,those in the gloom of defeat2   ,all   
with the battle-blood gory1     ,in the 
dusk of eternity meet4    ,from the     
silence of sorrowful hours     ,the     
desolate mourners go1   ,lovingly laden 
with flowers1     ,alike for the friend 
and the foe4    ,so1 when the summer    
calleth1     ,on forest and field of    
grain1   ,with an equal murmur falleth  
,the cooling drip of the rain4          
,sadly1 but not with upbraiding1        
,the generous deed was done2   ,in the  

storm of the years that are fading1     
,no braver battle was won4    ,no more  
shall the war-cry sever1     ,or the    
winding rivers be red2   ,they banish   
our anger forever1     ,when they laurel
 the graves of our dead4   ,under the   
sod and the dew1     ,waiting the       
judgment day2   ,love and tears for the 
blue1     ,tears and love for the       
gray4--,f4 ,m4 ,finch4  ,,the ,,gospel  
,,of ,,peace has been illustrated in a  
,chattanooga ,journal by a beautiful    
incident1 the meeting of the blue and   
gray in church1 during the war as       
follows3      ,at the bar banquet given 
,saturday night in honor of ,judges ,key
     and ,trewhitt1 ,mr4 ,templeton of  
,knoxville related an incident     which
 occurred during the war at a revival   
service held by his     father in ,north
 ,georgia4      ,about the time that    
,sherman was driving ,johnson toward    
,atlanta1 said he1 some time in the     
early part of ,august1 #ahfd1     my    
father was conducting a revival at a    

little house called ,pine     ,log      
,creek ,church1 about ten miles from    
,calhoun4 ,the times were     most      
terrible about then2 murder1 robbery and
 rapine were of     daily occurrence1   
and the whole country was subject to    
visitations by marauding parties from   
both armies4 ,one day the     old       
gentleman was preaching a sermon of     
unusual power1 and     before he had    
gotten well under way a gang of         
,confederate     soldiers rode up1 and1 
dismounting out back of the church1     
asked     if they might be admitted to  
the church4 ,of course they were        
cordially invited in1 and took prominent
 seats in the church4      ,not long    
afterward a cloud of dust was seen in   
the road from     the opposite direction
 to what the rebels had come1 and pretty
     soon the tramp of horses' hoofs was
 heard1 and it was soon     discovered  
that it was a squad of ,federal troops1 
and before the     ,confederates in the 
church could be apprised of the         

approach1     they had ridden up to the 
door4 ,perceiving that religious        
services were being held1 they alighted 
and asked to be     admitted4 ,they were
 told that there were ,confederate      
soldiers in     the church1 but they    
insisted on going in1 and they were     
admitted4      ,naturally the strange   
spectacle created some consternation in 
the congregation1 and for a time it     
seemed as if the confusion     would    
break up the meeting4 ,but my father    
raised his voice and     began most     
fervently to plead a better life1       
beseeching his     soldier hearers to   
become religious and abandon their sins4
 ,he     preached with unusual force and
 power1 the strange scene lending       
him inspiration4 ,when he had concluded 
his sermon1 as was the     custom then1 
he invited those who were converted to  
come forward     to the mourner's bench 
and pray and talk with him on the       
all-important subject4      ,then it was
 that one of the grandest sights ever   

witnessed     occurred4 ,those soldiers1
 enemies to each other1 engaged in a    
bloody war1 arose as one man1 friend and
 foe together1 and     marched to the   
front of the church and kneeled         
together1     ,confederate by ,federal1 
their muskets joining and crossing each 
other2 their revolvers touching each    
other as they kneeled2     their heads  
bowed upon the same altar1 and their    
tears mingling     almost in their deep 
contrition and profound feeling4 ,all   
animosities were forgotten1 all strife  
forgotten--they were     together as    
brothers around a common altar4         
,after the service they met on the      
outside of the church1 shook     hands1 
pledged fraternity1 and each party went 
off1 taking     opposite directions4    
,they had been looking for each other1  
perhaps with murderous intent4 ,they    
found each other1 but they     separated
 with love instead of hate1 friendly    
instead of angry4     ,,the ,,volap,k   
,,language4   ,in the attempt to form a 

universal language1 no one has proceeded
 more philosophically than the late     
,stephen ,pearl ,andrews1 who attempted 
to construct a language in which all the
 sounds should be selected in accordance
 with nature1 being such as are         
naturally associated with the ideas they
 are used to express4  ,mr4 ,andrews1 by
 his personal amiability1 enthusiasm1   
and lucid intelligence1 interested a    
number of disciples who have studied his
 language called the ,alwato1 and it may
 be hoped will not allow it to disappear
 with the life of its highly gifted and 
philosophic teacher4  ,the ,volapk      
language which has no such pretention to
 philosophic construction1 is coming    
into such prominence as to deserve the  
attention of the readers of this        
,,journal1 hence ,i present the         
following sketch which has been abridged
 from an article in the ,american       
,magazine for ,june1 written by ,richard
 ,walker3      ,,volap,k is the         
invention of the ,rev4 ,father ,johann  

,martin     ,schleyer1 of ,constance1   
,baden1 ,germany4 ,he is an accomplished
     linguist1 having for forty-six     
years been interested in the     study  
of language4 ,he can speak and write    
twenty-eight tongues1     including the 
,chinese and three ,african languages1  
and is also     eminent as a priest1    
hymnologist and religious editor4 ,he   
invented his universal language in      
#ahgh1 announced it in #ahgi1     and   
had so far perfected it in #ahha as to  
publish in that year a     small book1  
entitled ,entwurf einer ,weltsprache fr 
alle     gebildte ,erdbewohner 7,plan of
 a ,universal ,language for all the     
,civilized ,inhabitants of the ,earth74 
,thus the name1 ,volapk2     vola       
meaning of the world1 and pk language4  
,schleyer does not propose that ,volapk 
shall supercede any     living language4
 ,he has attempted to make it so        
scientific and     natural1 so regular  
in all the rules of construction1 and   
therefore so easy to learn1 that every  

educated person will     acquire it next
 after the mother tongue2 and he hopes  
that it     will thus become the        
accepted medium for all international   
communications4 ,with this end in view1 
he has formed it on the     general     
model of the ,aryan family of languages2
 that is1 its     signs represent       
letters and words1 and not ideas2 and   
the root     words of which it is       
constructed1 instead of being arbitrary 
sounds and signs1 as in ,bishop         
,wilkin's philosophical language1     or
 sounds that have a real or fancied     
natural meaning1 as in     ,stephen     
,pearl ,andrews' ,alwato1 are taken     
principally from     living languages1  
the ,english being more largely drawn   
upon than     any other4      ,the      
alphabet employed is the ,roman with    
some of the ,german     dotted letters  
added1 and the continental sounds are   
given to     the letters4 ,all words are
 phonetically spelled1 so that there    
are none of the difficulties of         

orthography and pronunciation to     be 
encountered which are so formidable in  
most natural     languages4  ,in making 
his ,volapk vocabulary1 ,father         
,schleyer has sought first for the      
simplest words now in use4 ,if such     
words are to be found in the ,english   
language1 he has adopted them2 if not1  
then he has drawn upon the ,latin1      
,german1 ,french1 and ,spanish languages
 in the order named4 ,for example1 the  
word man in ,english1 is a sufficiently 
simple root1 and1 therefore1 man1 with  
the same spelling and the continental   
pronunciation1 is made to signify a man1
 or the man in ,volapk--for the articles
 a and the are discarded4 ,but house in 
,english is inconveniently long and ends
 with a silent letter1 and therefore the
 word dom1 from the ,latin word domus1  
is taken4 ,in some instances neither of 
the languages named contains a root     
sufficiently simple1 and then the       
inventor constructs a new one4 ,but1 so 
rich is the ,english language in simple 

,anglo-,saxon roots1 that more than     
one-half of the words in ,volapk are    
derived from them1 and the number of new
 words whose roots are not to be found  
in any living language is comparatively 
very small4  ,to the suggestion that1 if
 the ,english language was to be drawn  
upon so largely it would have been      
better to have adopted that1 and induce 
all educated persons to learn it1 the   
advocates of ,volapk reply1 first1 that 
its irregularities of construction1     
orthography1 and pronunciation make it  
too difficult to acquire2 and secondly1 
international prejudice would prevent it
 from being universally adopted4 ,the   
use of so many ,english roots1 however1 
makes ,volapk much easier to learn by   
one whose mother tongue is ,english1 and
 thus bring it within reach of the      
largest number of people speaking a     
common language1 while it eliminates    
irregularities and does not arouse      
national prejudices4  ,the names of the 
cardinal numbers follow the vowels in   

their regular order1 a denoting the     
first1 e the second1 etc4 ,thus3 ,bal1  
#a2 tel1 #b2 kil1 #c2 fol1 #d2 lul1 #e2 
ml1 #f2 vel1 #g2 jl1 #h2 zl1 #i2 bals1  
#aj2 tels1 #bj2 kils1 #cj2 tum1 #ajj2   
mil1 #a1jjj1 etc4 ,the year #ahhg1      
written out in ,volapk1 is ,balmil jltum
 jlsevel4 ,the ,arabic numerals are used
 as in ,english4  ,s added to any word  
forms the plural1 which is never formed 
in any other way4 ,the first three      
vowels 7a1 e1 i7 added to any noun1 form
 respectively its genitive1 dative1 and 
accusative2 s added to these forms makes
 the plurals of the same cases4 ,man is 
therefore declined as follows3          
,singular4                     ,plural4 
,,nom    man1 the man2       mans1 the  
men2     ,,gen    mana1 of the man2     
manas1 of the men2     ,,dat    mane1 to
 the man2   manes1 to the men2     ,,acc
    mani1 the man2      manis1 the men4 
,every noun in the language is declined 
in the same way1 so that all declensions
 may be learned in one minute4  ,the    

verbs in ,volapk are all regular1 and   
there is only one conjunction4 ,the     
tenses are denoted by the vowels a1 1 e1
 i1 o1 u1 placed before the verbs4 ,when
 these vowels are preceded by p1 it     
shows that the verb is in the passive   
voice4 ,the personal pronouns are3 ob1  
,i2 ol1 thou2 om1 he2 of1 she2 os1 it2  
ok1 one's self4 ,s added makes the      
plurals4 ,lf1 meaning love1 lfb1 means  
,i love2 lfl1 thou lovest1 etc42 lfb1 ,i
 loved2 ilfm1 he had loved2 ulfs1 it    
will have loved1 etc42 palfms1 they are 
loved2 pulffs1 they will have been      
loved1 etc4 ,as it is only necessary to 
remember the few particulars named1 all 
conjugation may be acquired in five     
minutes4  ,enough has been given--and   
there is very little more of it--to show
 the extreme simplicity of the ,volapk  
grammar4 ,it can be learned in an hour1 
and1 as the variations of the nouns and 
verbs are indicated by the vowels taken 
in their regular order1 they are not    
easily forgotten4 ,the principal labor  

necessary to acquire the language       
consists1 therefore1 in memorizing the  
vocabulary4 ,since more than one-half   
the roots are ,english1 a person        
speaking that language can naturally    
acquire the new one in less than        
one-half the time required for any      
foreign language1 and the better        
knowledge he has of ,latin1 ,french and 
,spanish1 the faster will be his        
progress4  ,after ,father ,schleyer     
published his first book1 in #ahha1 he  
was soon able to interest a few persons 
in ,germany in ,volapk4 ,it next got a  
foothold in ,switzerland1 and then in   
,paris4 ,english linguists are just     
beginning to give attention to it1 the  
only publication in ,english until very 
recently having been a bad adaptation of
 an abridged grammar4 ,but on the       
,continent it has gained in popularity  
very rapidly during the last two or     
three years1 so that there are now at   
least ten thousand persons who are      
familiar with and use it4 ,more than    

three hundred and fifty have received   
diplomas as adepts4 ,there are eight    
monthly periodicals printed wholly in   
,volapk1 or partly in ,volapk and partly
 in other languages4  ,in the ,united   
,states not more than twenty persons    
have studied ,volapk1 and only about    
half a dozen can read and write it4 ,mr4
 ,charles ,e4 ,sprague1 of ,new ,york1  
who holds the diploma of ,volapkatidel1 
reads and writes it with ease1 and to   
him ,i am under obligations for         
assistance in preparing this article4   
,there are no ,volapkese clubs or       
periodicals published in the language or
 in its interest either in this country 
or in ,england4 ,a large number of books
 in ,volapk1 or about it1 have appeared 
in ,germany1 including grammars in      
eighteen languages1 a ,german-,volapk   
dictionary containing twelve thousand   
words1 a biography of the inventor1     
,father ,schleyer1 pamphlets1 etc4      
,,progress ,,of ,,the ,,marvellous4     
,mrs4 ,l4 ,c4 ,moulton1 ,london         

correspondent of the ,boston ,herald1   
sends the following1 published ,july    
#ag3      ,like every body else1 in     
,london they are interested in          
hypnotism1 spiritualism1                
etc4--interested1 ,i mean1 as inquirers1
     not as believers1 and ,i saw a     
table move round briskly under the      
pretty fingers of ,mrs4 ,hunt and a     
young lady cousin of hers4      ,the    
latest feminine sensation is ,miss      
,ramsey1 the ,girton girl     of twenty1
 who beat all the men at ,cambridge this
 year in ,greek2     and what makes her 
success still more triumphant1 is that  
the     pretty little creature had only 
learned her ,greek alphabet four        
years ago1 while the men had all been   
pegging away at the     language for ten
 years4      ,prof4 ,stainton-,moses of 
,university ,college1 ,london1 is       
certainly a trained scientist1 and a man
 accustomed to weigh     evidence1 and  
tells me that with him spiritualism is  
not a     matter of mere belief1 but of 

actual1 personal knowledge4 ,a     great
 deal of spiritual writing has been done
 through his own     hand2 not          
professionally1 but for his own         
satisfaction4 ,holding     ,zoroaster or
 ,aristotle in his left hand1 and       
reading     attentively1 he has written 
out most extraordinary things with      
his right4 ,for instance1 one day--in   
answer1 he thinks to a wish     on his  
part for an especially strong test--his 
hand wrote of the     death of a woman  
of whom he had never heard1 giving her  
name and     the time and manner of her 
passing away1 etc4 ',but1' he said1 as  
he read it over1 ',i don't see that this
 is a test4 ,i could find     it in a   
newspaper2 ,i may have read it1 and     
unconsciously     remembered it4'       
,instantly it was written1 ',no1 that   
cannot be2     she died but an hour ago1
 and when you see it in the paper you   
will have had your test4' ,the next day 
he searched the papers in     vain1 but 
on the second morning1 there1 in the    

death column1 he     found the          
announcement of the death1 corresponding
 with what had     been written through 
him1 in every particular of name1 date1 
and     disease4 ,also he has seen      
spirits in friendly                     
converse--entertained them at his own   
fireside4      ,i went1 by invitation of
 ,prof4 ,stainton-,moses1 to a festal   
reunion of the ',spiritual ,alliance1'  
of which he is president1     and ,i am 
bound to say that ,i met there men and  
women who seemed     to me as sincere   
and earnest1 and intelligent as one     
finds     anywhere4 ,oh1 and ,i saw     
,eglinton--the medium who is now what   
,home was--though he told me last night 
he meant soon to get out     of the     
professional part of spiritualism4 ,he  
is a singularly     agreeable man1      
handsome1 and with a look in his dark   
eyes as if     they might easily see    
visions4 ,i am told that he has lately  
married a very rich wife1 and this may  
account for his intention     to        

withdraw from spiritualism as a         
profession4  ,mr4 ,eglinton has         
published in the ,london ,medium a very 
interesting narrative of his seances    
with the ,emperor and ,empress of       
,russia1 the royal family and nobility4 
,in the first royal seance1 the ,grand  
,duchess ,vladimir proved to be a       
medium1 and was lifted in the air1      
screaming the while4 ',as she continued 
to ascend1' says ,mr4 ,eglinton1 ',i was
 compelled to leave her hand1 and on    
returning to her seat1 she declared that
 she had been floated over the table    
without anything having been in contact 
with her4'  ,the ,grand ,duke ,vladimir 
brought a new bank-note in an envelope  
to have its number told1 which he did   
not know4 ,the number was correctly     
written by the spirits1 between slates1 
#gaf1iij4  ,at the seance with the      
emperor there were present a party of   
ten1 the empress1 ,grand ,duke and      
,duchess of ,oldenburg1 ,grand ,duke and
 ,duchess ,sergius1 ,grand ,duke        

,vladimir1 ,prince ,alexander1 and ,gen4
 ,richter4 ,all hands being joined1 a   
spirit voice conversed with the empress 
in ,russian4 ,a female form materialized
 near the ,princess ,oldenburg4 ,a      
music-box weighing about forty pounds1  
was carried around and placed on the    
emperor's hand4 ,other phenomena        
occurred1 but the chief incident was the
 levitation4 ,mr4 ,eglinton was lifted  
in the air1 the empress and ,prince     
,oldenburg holding his hands and        
standing on their chairs1 until his feet
 rested on the shoulders of the emperor 
and the ,grand ,duke ,oldenburg4  ,mr4  
,eglinton was overwhelmed with          
invitations from the nobility and       
professors4 ,m4 de ,giers the great     
,foreign ,minister and his two sons     
7mediums7 were spiritualists of many    
years standing4  ,the ,,journal could   
not contain half the marvellous things  
that are happening4  ,the ,louisville   
,courier-,journal reports that in       
,bracken ,county1 ,ky41 7on the ,ohio   

river1 between ,louisville and          
,cincinnati73      ,excitement is at    
fever heat in the ,milford neighborhood1
 in the     southern portion of this    
county1 over the mysterious appearance  
of the most wonderful faces and figures 
upon the window glass of     the houses 
in that section4 ,the first appearance  
of these     singular and most          
extraordinary pictures on the glass was 
at the     residence of ,william        
,showalter1 where the window panes all  
at     once showed the colors of the    
rainbow1 on which two days later     the
 heads of people and animals were       
clearly visible4 ,on the     glass of   
another house a head and face resembling
 ,president     ,lincoln's were to be   
seen4 ,on another the form of a young   
girl     bending over an infant1 the    
body of a lion1 the figures             
twenty-two1 and a landscape were all    
visible1 as distinctly     outlined as  
any artist could have drawn them4 ,some 
of the most     striking pictures are on

 the windows of the ,milford ,baptist   
,church1 which are protected with       
shutters that are kept tightly          
closed4 ,the people of ,bracken county  
have not in years been more     worked  
up over anything than they now are over 
these pictures4     ,,glances ,,round   
,,the ,,world4   ,the contempt with     
which ,comte and many other             
philosophizers have treated the press   
which tells of the progress of mankind  
is an example for all good men to avoid4
 ,if we recognize the brotherhood of    
humanity1 we cannot be indifferent to   
the passing lives1 the joys and         
misfortunes of our brothers4 ,let       
pedants and philosophasters bury        
themselves in the writings of the dead1 
the good man prefers to know something  
of the living1 and he finds it in the   
daily1 weekly1 and monthly press4  ,at  
our first outward glance1 we are struck 
with the elevation of our standpoint4   
,this great republic has attained an    
elevation in intelligence1 wealth1 and  

power1 which enables it to look down on 
the lands that are overshadowed by the  
darkness of the past1 and to anticipate 
the time when ,american pre-eminence    
shall be universally acknowledged4 ,the 
condition already attained was          
eloquently stated by ,chauncey ,m4      
,depew1 in a recent address at ,new     
,york1 which gave a startling view of   
,,american ,,progress4      ,last summer
 ,i stood upon the ,white ,hill at      
,prague1 in ,bohemia1     where the     
thirty years war began and ended4 ,there
 is no more     suggestive spot in      
,europe4 ,it recalled a picture of the  
horrors     and desolation of war       
unequalled in history4 ,the contest     
began     when the continent was        
dominated by the ,german empire1 and    
ended     with the magnificent creation 
of ,charles ,v4 broken into             
numberless petty principalities4 ,like  
the contest of the #agth     century1   
ours was both a civil and religious war4
 ,but the     country came out of the   

conflict not like the old ,german       
empire1     but a mighty nation4        
,vapid sentimentalists and timid souls  
deprecate these annual     reunions1    
fearing they may arouse old strifes and 
sectional     animosities4 ,but a war in
 which #ejj1jjj men were killed1 and    
#b1jjj1jjj were wounded1 in which states
 were devastated and     money spent    
equal to twice ,england's gigantic debt1
 has a     meaning1 a lesson and results
 which are to the people a liberal      
education4 ,we cheerfully admit that the
 ,confederate1 equally     with the     
,federal soldier1 believed he was       
fighting for the     right1 and         
maintained his faith with a valor which 
fully     sustained the reputation of   
,americans for courage and constancy4   
,the best and bravest thinkers of the   
,south gladly proclaim that     the     
superb development which has been the   
outgrowth of their     defeat is worth  
all its losses1 its sacrifices1 and     
humiliations4      ,in #ahfj the        

developed and assessable property of the
 ,united     ,states was valued at      
#af1jjj1jjj1jjj4 ,one-half of this      
enormous     sum was destroyed by the   
civil war1 and yet so prodigious has    
been the growth of wealth that the      
estimate now surpasses the     imperial 
figure of #fj1jjj1jjj1jjj1 and the      
growth at the rate     of nearly        
#g1jjj1jjj a day4 ,our wealth           
approximates one-half of     that of all
 ,europe4      ,these unparalleled      
results can be protected and continued  
only     by the spirit of patriotism4   
,this is a republic1 and neither        
,mammon nor anarchy shall be king4 ,the 
ranks of anarchy and riot     number no 
,americans4  ,we realize more fully the 
future magnitude of our country1 when we
 look at the wealth of its soil and     
mines1 already developed1 and the       
magnitude of its still untouched        
resources4 ,according to the estimates  
of ,dr4 ,a4 ,b4 ,hart1 of ,harvard      
,university1 as laid before the         

,american ,statistical ,association at  
their last meeting in the ,boston       
,institute of ,technology1 the total    
territory of the ,united ,states        
contains #c1eja1dji square miles4 ,of   
this entire amount ,dr4 ,hart believes  
there remains unsold in the hands of the
 government1 public lands amounting to  
#a1faf1aja square miles1 or             
#a1jcd1ccj1hdb acres1 which is almost   
one-half of our entire territory4 ,such 
a realm as we have could comfortably    
sustain between two and three thousand  
millions of inhabitants1 while the      
entire population of the globe is at    
present less than fifteen hundred       
millions4  ,our present population is   
over #fj1jjj1jjj1 and if it goes on     
duplicating every thirty years1 it will 
be in #aiag1 #abj1jjj1jjj2 in #aidg1    
#bdj1jjj1jjj2 in #aigg1 #dhj1jjj1jjj2 in
 #b1jjg1 #ifj1jjj1jjj2 in #b1jcg1       
#a1ibj1jjj1jjj2 #b1jfg1 #c1hdj1jjj1jjj4 
,thus in #ahj years we shall have       
reached the limit where population1     

being over #a1jjj to the square mile1   
must emigrate or be arrested by the     
difficulty of obtaining food1 and the   
absolute necessity of reducing to a     
small number our stock of horses1       
cattle1 and hogs1 that human beings may 
have food1--vegetarian diet thus        
becoming a necessity1 and bringing with 
it a great diminution of intemperance1  
and the crimes produced by the animal   
passions2 for it is well established    
that vegetarianism restrains            
intemperance4   ,,bright ,,prospects4   
,among the bright indications for the   
future are the increase of industrial   
education1 the beginning of cooperation 
between capitalists and employes1 the   
increasing intelligence and combined    
strength of the laboring class1 which   
give assurance of good wages1 and the   
subdivision of the land into smaller    
farms1 which substitutes an independent 
yeomanry for the landlord and tenant    
relation4 ,thus1 in the thirteen        
,states1 formerly slave-holding1 the    

average size of farms in #ahfj was #cdf 
acres1 but in #ahhj it was #adf4  ,we   
have vast mineral resources as yet      
untouched1 of coal1 iron1 and other     
metals far exceeding all that has yet   
been reached in the old as well as new  
regions4 ,the marbles of ,inyo1         
,california1 are more than twice as     
strong as the best marbles of ,italy4   
,astonishing as the statement may       
appear1 says the ,denver ,news1 it is   
nevertheless a fact that there are here1
 within the borders of ,colorado1 the   
wealth in coal of two or even three     
,states like ,pennsylvania4 ,for the    
vast trans-,missouri country1 eastward1 
even to the valley of the ,mississippi1 
,colorado is the great present and      
future storehouse of the fuel which the 
demands and necessities of its varied   
commercial and industrial life will     
require4 ,many generations hence1 when  
,colorado shall have become an old      
,state1 when the frontier days shall    
have been forgotten1 when gold and      

silver mining shall have ceased to be   
profitable1 even then will the coal     
fields of ,colorado be yielding their   
hidden treasures of fuel to supply the  
demand4  ,we have no territory which    
sanitary science may not render a       
healthful home1 and we have millions of 
acres of elevated territory1 where the  
highest conditions of human health and  
happiness may be attained in connection 
with the highest spiritual development4 
,but these regions are not on the       
,eastern coast1 chilled by the icy      
currents from the ,north4 ,westward the 
star of empire wends its way1 and the   
,pacific ,coast is destined to witness  
the development of the highest          
civilization on the globe4 ,of the      
health and beauty of ,california all its
 residents can speak1 but physicians can
 give decisive facts4 ,dr4 ,king1 of    
,banning1 ,cal41 says1 ,out here we     
scarcely know what storms are4 ,all     
winter long my front yard has been green
 and beautiful--roses blooming in       

,january1 and callas in ,march4 ,during 
three and a half years there have been  
but two cases of acute disease of the   
chest within six miles of my office4 ,i 
do not know of any death having occurred
 in this village or vicinity from an    
acute disease1 since ,i came here nearly
 four years ago4 ,what are the lauded   
climates of ,italy and ,greece compared 
to such a record as this8   ,,dark      
,,clouds4  ,but what are the clouds that
 dim the brightness of our coming glory1
 and already overshadow us8 ,the        
greatest of all is the curse of         
intemperance4 ,secretary ,windom said1  
in his address at the ,cooper ,union    
meeting in ,new ,york1 7,may #be73      
,i do not think ,i overstate the case   
when ,i say that the #bjj1jjj           
saloons in this country have been       
instrumental in destroying     more     
human life in the last five years than  
the #b1jjj1jjj of     armed men during  
the four years of the ,rebellion4 ,there
 is an     irrepressible conflict upon  

us4 ,this nation cannot endure half     
drunk and half sober any more than it   
could endure half slave     and half    
free4  ,gov4 ,st4 ,john1 late candidate 
for the presidency1 said1 in his ,new1  
,york address3      ,there are about    
#bae1jjj retail liquor houses in this   
nation4     ,allowing #bj feet to each1 
it gives us an unbroken liquor front    
of about #gha miles4 ,just think of it6 
,seven hundred and     eighty-one miles 
of profanity and vulgarity4 ,seven      
hundred and     eighty-one miles of     
,sabbath-breaking4 ,seven hundred and   
eighty-one miles of drunkard-making4    
,seven hundred and     eighty-one miles 
of filth1 debauchery1 anarchy1 dynamite 
and     bombs4 ,applause4 ,seven hundred
 and eighty-one miles of     political  
corruption2 seven hundred and eighty-one
 miles of     hot-beds for the          
propagation of counterfeiters1          
wife-beaters1     gamblers1 thieves1 and
 murderers4      ,in the ,high ,license 
,city of ,chicago1 in the great         

,republican     ,state of ,illinois1    
there are1 within five blocks of        
,halstead     ,street ,mission1 #cbe    
saloons1 #abi bawdy houses1 #ajj other  
houses     of doubtful repute1 theatres1
 museums and bad hotels1 and only       
two places for the worship of ,almighty 
,god4 7,cries of ',shame6'7  ,st4 ,john 
should have added that intemperance was 
the most powerful agency for the        
propagation of intellectual and moral   
idiocy in offspring4  ,the increase of  
insanity in spite of our defective      
systems of education is universally     
recognized4 ,the ,new ,york ,sun says3  
,the very rapid increase of insanity in 
the ,united ,states during     the last 
two or three decades continues to be the
 subject of     much discussion among   
alienists1 and all those who are        
concerned     in public charities4 ,that
 a prime cause of this alarming state   
of things is the shipment to our shores 
of the enfeebled and     defective of   
other countries1 is now beginning to be 

understood1     and both our own ,state 
,board of ,charities and the ,national  
,conference of ,charities and           
,correction have called on ,congress    
to protect our society against the      
introduction of these     depraved      
specimens of humanity1 who speedily     
become a charge on     the public1 or   
transmit their weakness to their        
posterity4      ,the statistics of      
insanity show that1 in general1 the     
proportion of the insane is greatest in 
the older ,states1 where     the foreign
 population is most numerous1 and it is 
least where     the communities are new1
 as1 for instance1 in the pioneer       
counties of ,wisconsin4 ,the ,south1    
which has drawn comparatively     little
 from immigration1 suffers from insanity
 to a much less     extent than ,new    
,england and ,new ,york2 and it is an   
established     fact that the ,negro    
race is much less liable to insanity    
than     the white4 ,the average of     
insanity in ,new ,england is #a to every

     #cei of the population2 in ,new    
,york1 ,new ,jersey1 and                
,pennsylvania1 #a to every #dbd2 while  
in the extreme ,southern     ,states the
 average is only #a to #ice4      ,the  
,west1 like the ,south1 is more free    
from insanity than the     ,northern    
seaboard ,states1 the average being #a  
to every #faj in     the interior       
,states1 and #a to #gej for the         
,northwestern ,states4     ,in the far  
,western ,states and ,territories it is 
only #a out of     #a1bfc1 they being   
settled by a picked population1 whose   
energy     and soundness make them      
pioneers4 ,it is note-worthy1 however1  
that insanity is as frequent in the     
,pacific ,states as in ,new             
,england1 the explanation being that    
vice and indulgence prevail     to an   
exceptional extent among the population 
drawn to the     ,pacific by the mania  
for gold4 ,the average in               
,massachusetts1 for     instance1 is #a 
to #cdh2 in ,california #a to #cde4 ,it 

is also     remarkable that the ratio of
 insanity decreases as we go west       
and south of ,new ,england1 as these    
averages will show3 ,new     ,england1  
#a to #cei2 ,middle ,states1 #a to #dbd2
 interior ,states1 #a     to #faj2      
,northwestern ,states1 #a to #gej2      
,southern ,states #a to #fbi4      ,the 
,state where the proportion is highest  
is ,vermont1 #a to #cbg2     and ,new   
,hampshire comes next1 with #a to #cbi4 
,we are at a loss to     understand why 
insanity is so frequent in the ,district
 of     ,columbia1 the average given    
being #a to #ahi2 but perhaps the       
large average in ,vermont and ,new      
,hampshire may1 in part1 be due     to  
the circumstance that those ,states     
receive the refuse of     ,canadian     
poor-houses1 they having a much better  
organized system     of charitable      
relief than the ,dominion can boast of2 
and it is     undeniable that some of   
the very worst of our immigration comes 
from over the ,canadian border4 ,that   

immigration1 too1 is now     great1 and 
there are factory towns in ,new ,england
 where the     population is largely    
made up of ,french ,canadians4  ,there  
is a disturbing element in the influx of
 a foreign population reared under very 
unfavorable social conditions4 ,in #ahhb
 the immigration was #hjj1jjj4 ,on a    
single day1 in ,may last1 nearly ten    
thousand arrived in ,castle ,garden4    
,the steamships are overburdened1 and   
the ,cunard and ,white ,star lines      
employ extra ships to accommodate the   
emigrants4 ,oppression in ,ireland1 and 
oppression all over ,europe1 drives the 
people into emigration2 but a large     
portion of the emigration consists of a 
substantial population2 yet we have     
enough of the turbulent and debased     
element to make a serious danger in our 
large cities1 and a formidable          
competition with native ,american labor4
 ,the more laborers1 and the fewer      
employers1 the worse it is for labor4   
,but perhaps ,american wealth and       

enterprise will find something          
satisfactory for all to do4             
,,defective ,,education4  ,but there is 
nothing more unsatisfactory to the      
philanthropist than our meagre and      
inadequate system of education1--a      
system which aims to cram the memory    
with acquired knowledge1 which does not 
develop original thought1 and which does
 not elevate the moral nature4 ,such a  
system will never elevate society1 will 
never repress any vice or crime1 will   
never make the educated generation any  
happier for being educated4 ,in short1  
it utterly fails in that which should be
 its chief end and aim1 and simply leads
 society on as heretofore in the path of
 increasing intelligence1 increasing    
misery1 increasing crime1 increasing    
insanity4 ,what a commentary on our     
education and civilization is the common
 estimate that ,europe1 now1 with the   
most complete educational system ever   
known1 has #ej1jjj suicides a year4 ,in 
this1 ,paris1 ,vienna1 and ,berlin take 

the lead4   7,to be continued47         
,,miscellaneous ,,intelligence4         
,,photography ,,perfected4--,in #ahch ,i
 conceived it possible1 by chemical     
means1 to fix in permanency1 on a       
suitable ground1 the images of objects  
formed by the camera4 ,while speculating
 on this1 the discovery of ,daguerre was
 announced1 but ,i was disappointed1 as 
he had not photographed colors as well  
as forms4 ,i felt sure that it was      
possible1 and a half century has        
realized it4 ,mr4 ,j4 ,j4 ,e4 ,myall1 a 
,london photographer of great scientific
 skill1 has succeeded in photographing  
the colors as well as forms of objects  
and fixing a permanent picture4 ,more   
recent advices throw some doubt on this4
   ,,the ,,cannon ,,king4--,alfred      
,krupp1 the greatest cannon-maker of the
 world1 died at his works1 ,essen1      
,prussia1 on the #adth of ,july1        
seventy-five years old4 ,his works      
covered nearly a square mile1 while his 
fortune was about #dj1jjj1jjj4 ,he      

employed #aj1jjj men at ,essen1 and over
 #g1jjj at other places4 ,he owned      
nearly #fjj iron and coal mines1 #f     
smelting works1 #ad blast furnaces1 #e  
steamers1 and #adj steam-engines4 ,he   
was a plain1 industrious man1 shunned   
all ostentation1 refused titles1 and    
took good care of his workmen4 ,yet was 
his business an honorable one8 ,if the  
man who supplies alcoholic beverages to 
drunkards is condemned by the general   
sentiment of the temperate community1   
what should we think of one who supplies
 slung-shot1 poison1 and daggers to     
assassins8 ,but how little harm is there
 in such implements compared to the     
slaughtering work of the terrible cannon
 of ,krupp1 which are to be used only   
for wholesale homicide4 ,such questions 
must be considered by moralists4 ,the   
,boston ,herald in a sudden and         
unexpected flash of ethical sentiment1  
says1 ,herr ,krupp sold his guns to     
different governments for the purpose of
 enabling them to fight each other4     

,there is no code in modern ethics that 
would condemn an action of this kind1   
and yet it seems to us that the time may
 come when a man who made his fortune by
 supplying men with arms for the purpose
 of killing each other will be looked   
upon as one engaged in a highly immoral 
enterprise4 ,is it not a terrible       
indictment of the so-called ,christian  
church to say1 ,there is no code in     
modern ethics that would condemn war and
 its accessories8   ,,land              
,,monopoly4--,the ,united ,states       
government has squandered its rich      
domain with signal folly1 but ,mexico   
has been far more reckless4 ,it has     
recently given away #fj1jjj1jjj of acres
 in ,durango1 ,chihuahua1 and other     
regions to an ,american company         
represented by ,henry ,b4 ,clifford4 ,it
 is not stated that any very valuable   
consideration has been given for this   
grant4   ,,the ,,grand                  
,,canals4--,lesseps' ,panama ,canal has 
no bright prospect4 ,the enterprise has 

been badly managed1 has cost a great    
sacrifice of life1 and over             
#bjj1jjj1jjj4 ,it is employing from     
#ab1jjj to #ad1jjj men1 but its finances
 are nearly exhausted1 and an ,american 
engineer says it would take ten years   
for the present company to finish it1 if
 they could raise the money4 ,the       
,nicaragua ,canal1 if started now by    
,americans1 would be finished first1 and
 that would kill it entirely4 ,meantime 
,captain ,ead's ,ship ,railway at       
,tehuantepec is likely to make canals   
unnecessary1 for since his death his    
associate1 ,col4 ,james ,andrews1 has   
undertaken to finish it1 and #a1ejj1jjj 
more has been raised at ,pittsburg4     
,this will carry the ships over the     
,isthmus by the railroad method4 ,the   
,german government has just begun a     
grand canal at ,kiel1 to connect the    
,north ,sea with the ,baltic1 large     
enough to allow ships to pass1 drawing  
twenty-seven feet4 ,greece is slowly at 
work on a canal at the ,isthmus of      

,corinth1 and ,massachusetts on a canal 
to cut off ,cape ,cod4 ,russia has      
determined to build a grand railroad to 
the ,pacific ,ocean across ,asia1       
through ,siberia1 beginning next spring 
and finishing in five years4 ,when      
finished1 ,russians could travel from   
,st4 ,petersburg to the ,pacific in     
fifteen days4   ,,the ,,survival ,,of   
,,barbarism4--,amid the fussy pomposity 
of the ,queen's jubilee1 the voice of   
the thinkers has not been entirely      
silent4 ,the utter failure of her reign 
to present a single noble thought or    
impulse1 a single evidence of sympathy  
with the immense mass of suffering1 has 
been sharply commented on1 not only in  
prose1 but in the vigorous verse of     
,robert ,buchanan4  ,the scientific     
periodical ,nature suggests very        
appropriately that1 although the        
progress of the last half century has   
been due mainly to the labors of        
scientific men1 the leaders in science  
have been unknown to the head of the    

government1 and their labors prosecuted 
without aid or sympathy from the throne4
 ,the brain of the nation has been      
divorced from the head4  ,but why not8  
,has it not always been so2 did not the 
barons who once ruled boast of their    
illiteracy8 ,science and philanthropy   
produce wealth and elevate the people4  
,the rulers consume that wealth and keep
 the people down4 ,of course two classes
 so opposite are not in sympathy4 ,in   
the late jubilee1 the titled1 the       
wealthy1 and the hangers-on of          
government were given the prominent     
positions1 and the scientists ignored2  
as ,nature said3 ,england is not        
represented1 but only ,england's paid   
officials and nobodies4  ,but it is too 
soon for scientists to demand an        
honorable position4 ,they should be     
content to escape the prison and the    
ostracism which was once the reward for 
nobly doing their duty4   ,,concord     
,,philosophy4--,the summer school of    
7so-called7 philosophy still meets at   

,concord in ,july--the last survival of 
the speculative ignorance of the dark   
ages1 and the worship of ,greek         
literature4 ,the copious ridicule of the
 press has no effect upon this serious  
gathering4 ,its verbose platitudes and  
pretentious inanities continue to be    
repeated1 furnishing almost as good an  
antithesis to science and philosophy as 
,mrs4 ,eddy and her disciples4 ,there is
 no lack of fluency and ingenuity in the
 use of language1 and occasionally there
 are glimmering and flashes of common   
sense1 but to wander through the first  
report of the present session1 in       
pursuit of a correct philosophic idea1  
is as unprofitable as to wander all day 
through wintry snows to find a little   
game already dying of starvation4 ,the  
first lecture on ,aristotle is the most 
unmitigated rubbish that the year has   
produced4 ,i regret that ,i have not    
space to criticise the proceedings into 
which1 however1 ,dr4 ,montgomery of     
,texas has injected some bright         

thoughts1 and the displays of learning  
relieve the general monotony1 while     
considerable intellectual energy is     
displayed in the discussions2 but to see
 a conclave of learned professors       
devoting their time to the examination  
and discussion of ,aristotle's writings 
is about as edifying as to see a        
geographical society devoting its time  
to discussing the geography of ,ptolemy4
   ,,the ,,andover ,,war to enforce the 
damnation of the uninstructed heathen   
has been very unlucky4 ,it has not      
disturbed the teachings of the          
professors1 but it has shown the public 
very plainly that it was simply a       
malicious attack on the president1      
,professor ,smyth1 the other professors1
 who teach exactly the same doctrines1  
being entirely undisturbed1 although    
they presented themselves for trial4    
,the time is coming when intelligent men
 will be ashamed to confess a belief in 
the devil1 and the old-fashioned        
hell-fire1--indeed the time has already 

arrived among the most intelligent4     
,,the ,,catholic ,,rebellion4--,about   
five years ago it was predicted1 through
 ,mrs4 ,buchanan1 that ,catholicism in  
,new ,york would undergo a change1 as   
many spirits were actively at work to   
liberalize the minds of ,catholics1     
especially at the time of ,easter1 and  
to wean them from their attitude of     
abject submission4 ,there were no       
indications of such a tendency at that  
time1 and the movement of the ,catholic 
masses in sympathy with ,dr4 ,mc,glynn1 
who tells the ,pope that he shall not   
meddle with the politics of ,americans  
or dictate their political action has   
come like a sudden storm from a clear   
sky4 ,liberalized ,catholics may move in
 advance of ,protestants for they have  
preserved a more vivid spiritualism and 
religious faith4   ,,stupidity ,,of     
,,colleges4--,clairvoyance and spiritual
 phenomena have been in progress all    
over the world from periods beyond      
historic record1 but colleges have not  

yet learned of their existence4 ,they   
are now becoming familiar to millions1  
from the emperor to the beggar1 and     
still the colleges plod on in sanctified
 ignorance where the priest rules1 or in
 insolent dogmatism where the medical   
professor rules4 ,is there anything in  
the way of demonstration that can       
overcome this pachydermic               
stupidity8--doubtful6 ,clairvoyants have
 described diseases1 described distant  
places1 described things in public1     
while their eyes were bandaged--but the 
colleges learn nothing4 ,now there is   
another test of the collegiate          
amaurosis1 or cataract1 or whatever it  
may be1 which has lasted #gjj years1 and
 has thus attained its incurable        
character4 ,a blind man is clairvoyant  
and psychometric4 ,he travels about     
almost as well as those who have eyes4  
,his name is ,henry ,hendrickson4 ,the  
,chicago ,herald gives an interesting   
description4 ,he can find his way1 can  
skate well1 can read finger-language1   

and can describe objects with a cloth   
thrown over his head4 ,but this is only 
another demonstration of second sight   
which has been demonstrated a thousand  
times4 ,why should colleges recognize   
such facts8 have they not old ,greek    
books for oracles which were written    
before the dawn of science6 ,what are   
,gall and ,spurzheim1 ,darwin and       
,wallace1 ,crookes and ,de ,morgan1 to  
professors who can fluently read        
,aristotle in ,greek1 and can tell how  
,plato proved that a table is not a     
table but only a mental phantasy6       
,,cremation is making great progress in 
,europe4 ,it is an old idea1 not only   
among the ancients but in modern times4 
,in the last century it was advocated in
 a very artistic way by ,dr4 ,becker1 a 
physician of ,germany1 and ,guirand1 an 
architect in ,france4 ,these gentlemen  
proposed that the ashes of cremation    
should be fused into a glass and moulded
 into all sorts of ornamental designs1  
fit for trinkets1 monuments1 etc4 ,this 

has a very fantastic appearance4 ,what  
would we think of ,general ,washington's
 remains preserved in the ,capitol as a 
crystal globe of green glass8 or how    
should we like to have our own remains  
preserved in that brilliant manner8 ,a  
beautiful woman might thus be converted 
into some brilliant thing of beauty--a  
joy forever4   ,,col4 ,,henry ,s4       
,,olcott1--,president and founder of the
 ,theosophical ,society1 is travelling  
in ,india1 lecturing before the branches
 scattered in every part of the country4
 ,he has been for months on this tour1  
and spent last winter in ,ceylon1 where 
he was royally welcomed and entertained 
by the ,buddhists4 ,some years ago ,col4
 ,olcott joined the ,buddhist sect1 and 
has done it good service in publishing a
 ,buddhist catechism1 which has been    
widely circulated in the ,west4 ,he was1
 at last accounts1 at ,allahabad1 where 
the thermometer stood1 day after day1 at
 #aje1 and at nearly that night after   
night4 ,despite the heat his lecture    

rooms are crowded with interested       
listeners1 and his popularity was never 
so great as at present4 ,he will return 
to ,adyar1 the headquarters of the      
society in southern ,india1 in ,october4
 ,the report that he had returned to    
,europe this summer is incorrect1 and   
arose from the fact that ,mme4          
,blavatsky was on the ,continent very   
ill1 and her companions were several    
,theosophists who had been in ,india and
 had returned to ,europe4 ,she is at    
present in ,london4--,n4 ,y4 ,sun4      
,,jesse ,,shepard1--the musical genius  
has built himself a beautiful residence 
at ,san ,diego1 ,california4 ,he has    
evoked unbounded admiration and         
astonishment by giving one of his       
inspired performances in the service of 
,father ,ubach's ,catholic church1 at   
the morning mass4   ,,prohibition--has  
been very successful in ,atlanta1       
,georgia in the past #ah months4 ,it is 
well enforced4 ,the wealth of the city  
has increased2 property has advanced in 

value2 the laboring classes are more    
prosperous2 the schools are better      
attended2 gambling has been checked2    
crime has been checked1 and the criminal
 courts transact their business in      
one-seventh of the former time2 there   
are about half as many arrests1 and the 
streets on which it was unsafe for a    
lady to go alone1 have become orderly4  
,local option has established temperance
 in ,georgia4 ,out of #acg counties #aae
 are controlled by prohibition4 ,in     
,iowa under prohibition1 the ,fort      
,madison ,penitentiary is for the first 
time short of the supply of convicts    
sufficient to fulfil the usual          
contracts4 ,england now has a national  
prohibition party1 and ,mr4 ,axel       
,,gustafson is its leader4              
,,longevity4--,a news item from         
,columbia1 ,s4 ,c41 reports a case of   
great longevity as attested by family   
records3 that of ,amy ,avant1 a colored 
woman on the plantation of ,major ,james
 ,reeves1 in ,marion ,county1 who died  

,may #bdth1 of measles1 at the advanced 
age of #abb years4 ,she was remarkably  
well preserved and retained all her     
faculties up to the time of her fatal   
illness1 previous to which she claimed  
that she had never taken a dose of      
medicine4 ,during the last              
cotton-picking season she took her place
 regularly in the cotton fields and     
always performed a good day's work4     
,,st4 ,,thomas1 ,july #f4--,peter       
,barlow1 who took part in the ,american 
,revolution under ,washington1 died     
recently in ,demerara1 aged #acj years4 
,,rockland4--,john ,j4 ,whipple of this 
place was #ajj years old to-day1 and as 
he is in excellent health1 the old      
gentleman bids fair to live another     
decade at least4 ,mr4 ,whipple says he  
believes in the good old way of eating  
and drinking according to inclination1  
and though he has never indulged in     
intoxicants to excess he has never      
abstained entirely from either the use  
of tobacco or strong drink4 ,grandfather

 ,whipple is one of the authorities in  
the place where he lives1 and his memory
 is remarkable4 ,his eye has a merry    
twinkle1 and he can enjoy a joke and    
tell a good story with any of the       
boys4--,globe ,democrat4  ,,knoxville1  
,tenn41 ,july #bc4--;,henry ,cleggy of  
,meigs ,county1 ,tennessee1 is          
undoubtedly one of the oldest men in the
 ,state1 having recently celebrated his 
#ajeth birthday4 ,mr4 ,meigs takes      
pleasure in walking about his farm1 and 
has no idea of taking a trip from this  
world to the next for at least a decade4
 ,the old gentleman's memory is         
excellent and he remembers many         
incidents of long ago4--,globe ,dem4    
,,increase ,,of ,,insanity4--,louisiana1
 like ,new ,york1 ,massachusetts1 and   
all highly civilized countries1 is      
realizing the increase of insanity4 ,the
 ,state ,asylum has recently been       
greatly enlarged but now there are      
hundreds that it cannot receive4        
,,extraordinary ,,fasting1 ,jackson1    

,tenn41 ,june #ae4--,w4 ,m4 ,murchinson1
 whose long fast has been mentioned     
before1 died yesterday at ,medon in this
 county2 having lived ninety days       
without drink or food4 ,his record is   
probably without parallel in the history
 of the medical world4 ,he was a gallant
 soldier in the ,fourteenth ,tennessee  
,cavalry and followed the fortunes of   
that daring leader1 ,forrest1 through   
the ,civil war1 and lost an eye4 ,he was
 about #de years of age at the time of  
his death4 ,he had been in declining    
health for some months4 ,his throat     
became paralyzed one night three months 
ago while he was asleep1 and he could   
never swallow any nourishment after that
 time4 ,he was an honest1 brave man and 
an esteemed citizen4 ,he never married4 
,several citizens from ,jackson and     
surrounding country visited him during  
his fast1 and all were astonished that  
he could live so long without food and  
drink4   ,,spiritual ,,papers4--,the    
,spiritual ,offering1 ,light for        

,thinkers and ,light in the ,west1 have 
died and been succeeded by ,the ,better 
,way1 at ,cincinnati4     ,,cranioscopy4
  7,continued from page #cb47   ,i would
 not say that ,napoleon's brain was to  
any great degree abnormal1 but ,i am    
satisfied that criminal's brains are    
generally abnormal1 for there are many  
criminals whose heads do not1 by their  
exterior form1 indicate their depravity1
 but wherever ,i have examined the      
interior of the skull ,i have found the 
basilar organs active1 growing and      
imprinted upon the interior table of the
 skull1 while the superior region       
reveals the decline of the moral nature 
by the increased thickness of the bone  
which is growing inward and has not the 
digital impressions of the convolutions 
which are marked wherever the brain is  
in an active growing condition4 ,the    
criminal's skull must be studied by post
 mortem examination1 and the most       
effective method is by placing a taper  
through the foramen magnum at the bottom

 of the skull which will reveal the more
 active organs by the translucency and  
thinness of the bones1 while the        
inactive organs are indicated by their  
opacity and thickness1 as in the        
following convict skull4  ,illustration3
 ,a ,,rebellious ,,convict4  ,the sketch
 here presented exhibits the degrees of 
translucency and opacity in a skull     
which ,i obtained at ,baton ,rouge1     
,louisiana1 about fifty years ago4 ,it  
was the skull of a convict killed in the
 penitentiary while leading a rebellion 
in a desperate effort to escape4  ,the  
man was of a respectable family1 son of 
the sheriff of ,warren ,county1 ,ky4 ,he
 fell into bad company and bad habits at
 ,new ,orleans1 drinking and gaming1    
until for an act of highway robbery he  
was sent to the penitentiary4 ,the      
reader will observe the general activity
 of the intellect and the adjacent      
social sentiments indicated by the      
translucency1 and the general torpor1   
indicated by the opacity in the regions 

of ,religion1 ,hope1 ,reverence1 ,love1 
,conscientiousness1 ,industry1          
,cheerfulness1 ,love of ,approbation1   
,sense of ,honor1 and ,self-respect4    
,secretiveness shows opacity1 while     
,combativeness shows intense activity   
which extends into ,adhesiveness and    
cautiousness4  ,the translucency at     
,firmness1 ,irritability1 and           
,combativeness1 which were active to the
 last moments of his life1 is quite     
characteristic4 ,upon the whole1 the    
test by the inner light inserted at the 
foramen magnum in the base of the skull 
indicates a very low1 lawless1 desperate
 and unprincipled character1 with enough
 of adhesiveness to give him comrades in
 crime1 and enough of intelligence to   
give him some success4  ,the most       
extraordinary instance of this was in   
the skull of a negro woman which ,i     
examined in ,alabama1 which had only a  
slight translucency at ,firmness1 while 
the rest of the upper surface of the    
skull was so abnormally thick that in   

lifting it one was reminded of the      
weight of a block of wood4 ,she had1 in 
a fit of temper1 murdered her own child 
in the field1 chopping it down with an  
axe4     ,,chapter ,,vii4--,,practical  
,,utility ,,of ,,anthropology ,,in ,,its
 ,,psychic ,,department4      ,all      
science should be useful--,anthropology 
has the supreme     utility--,importance
 of self-knowledge and its              
rarity--,almost     impossible without  
the aid of ,anthropology--,its absence  
in the     college--,immense waste of   
labor in abortive                       
self-culture--,anthropology an exact    
guide--,the selfish do not     want     
it--,mistakes in education--,unbalanced 
characters     described--,possibility  
of reform--,conjugal reform most        
important--,the powerful agencies of    
,anthropology4   ,before commencing the 
study of the organs of the brain and    
faculties of the soul1 it is well to    
look to its results1 its practical      
utilities2 for the pursuit of science   

merely to gratify an intellectual       
curiosity is not the noblest employment 
of our time1 although it has been a     
favorite indulgence of the literary     
class1 and was regarded by the ancient  
philosopher1 ,empedocles1 as the noblest
 occupation of man4 ,from this opinion  
,i decidedly dissent1 regarding the     
lawless and excessive indulgence of the 
intellectual faculties as a species of  
erratic dissipation1 injurious to the   
manhood of the individual1 and          
pernicious to society by the misleading 
influence of a bad example4  ,not only  
does this extreme intellectual          
indulgence1 in a life the primary       
purpose of which is not meditation1 but 
action1 impair the individual as to his 
normal usefulness1 and thus diffuse by  
example a deteriorating influence upon  
the young1 and misleading influence upon
 all1 but it actually leads to false    
views of life1 and an unsound philosophy
 such as transcendental idealism1       
pessimism1 indolence1 and the pursuit of

 visionary falsehoods which a           
well-balanced mind would intuitively    
reject4 ,these follies are cultivated by
 a pedantic system of education1 and by 
the accumulated literature which such   
education in the past has developed1    
feeble and faulty in style1 superficial 
in conception1 and sadly misleading as  
to the principles and purposes of life4 
,though tempted to such indulgence by   
the ceaseless activity of my own mind1  
,i can say that ,i have never pursued   
any course of investigation1 or study1  
without a positive certainty of its     
beneficence and value4 ,no other course 
would be compatible with the demands of 
duty2 but it is obvious on the face of a
 large portion of our literature that   
the ethical sentiments were dormant when
 it was written4 ,pre-eminent above all 
other studies in practical value is the 
science of ,,anthropology1 so long      
neglected and unknown2 a science which  
places biology on a new basis1 rectifies
 therapeutics1 reforms education1       

develops ethics or religion1 and        
illuminates all spheres of knowledge by 
psychometry4  ,the psychic department of
 ,anthropology in which we are now      
entering the study of the faculties of  
the soul1 the organs of the brain1 and  
the effects of their varying development
 upon the characters of men and animals1
 is rich in very practical instruction  
for the guidance of life1 and the       
attainment not only of spiritual and    
physical health and success in this     
life1 but of that nobler and greater    
success1 which is chiefly realized in   
the coming centuries1 in which a grander
 realm is opened for our expanded powers
 in the higher life4  ,one of the most  
essential things for success in life is 
a correct self-knowledge4 ,a strong1    
well-balanced organization with a clear 
intuitive intellect1 generally gives    
this knowledge1 and leads to a correct  
course in life4 ,but how few are really 
well developed and well balanced1 with  
intuitive clearness of perception1 and  

again how many are there who1 in the    
unrestrained indulgence of all their    
passions and propensities1 care not     
whether their lives are right or wrong1 
according to a correct standard4 ,this  
class desire no admonition1 no          
explanation of their peculiarities1 and 
the causes of their failures or         
misfortunes4  ,selfish and narrow-minded
 men charge all their failures and      
misfortunes either to inevitable        
destiny1 or to the faults and misconduct
 of others4 ,but the truth which science
 enforces is that we should charge all  
our failures to ourselves4 ,other men   
have succeeded splendidly in life1      
winning wealth1 power1 renown and       
friendship4 ,if we have not1 it must be 
because we have not exercised the same  
faculties which made them successful1   
and we should study most diligently to  
learn wherein1 or how1 we have failed4  
,nearly all are disqualified for this   
task of self-inspection either by a     
selfish bias which is unwilling to      

recognize a fault1 or by the fault      
itself which biases the judgment4 ,the  
faculty1 or passion1 which misleads one 
becomes a part of his judging faculty1  
and cannot condemn itself4 ,the miser   
cannot realize the baseness of his      
avarice1 nor the mercenary soldier the  
enormity of war4 ,nor can a defective   
faculty assist in realizing the defect4 
,the color-blind cannot appreciate      
painting1 the thief cannot appreciate   
integrity1 the brutal wife-beater cannot
 appreciate love1 and a ,napoleon cannot
 appreciate disinterested friendship4   
,nor do they who fail to comprehend     
their own faults learn much from the    
admonition of friends1 for they are too 
desirous of maintaining a friendly      
relation to give entirely candid advice1
 and the criticisms of those who are not
 friends excite suspicion and anger4    
,fortunate is the man who can profit by 
the criticisms of his enemies4  ,how    
many are there who go through life with 
glaring defects of character1 injurious 

to their welfare1 who are never warned1 
either by kind friends or by conscience1
 and never realize the necessity of any 
higher wisdom than their own1 or the    
necessity of self-culture4  ,hence the  
imperative necessity of psychic science1
 not that barren abstraction called     
psychology in colleges1 but a science   
which1 like a faithful mirror1 reveals  
to us that which we cannot see4 ,as the 
gymnastic teacher reveals by a system of
 measurement 7anthropometry7 the        
defective muscles that need development1
 so should the psychologist discover in 
the conformation of the brain the       
special culture needed by defective     
faculties4  ,there is nothing of this   
kind in the universities at present4    
,glaring faults are seen everywhere1    
working out their disastrous results1   
with no preventive method4 ,we have     
orthopedic and orthopraxic institutions1
 and gymnastic halls to correct the     
defects of the body1 but no attempt to  
recognize or correct the far more       

important defects and deformities of the
 soul4 ,the orthopneumatic institution  
for the soul has not yet been conceived4
 ,the school or college should be such  
an institution1 and in ,,the ,,new      
,,education ,i have endeavored to show  
how it may perform this duty4 ,the      
pulpit should be a similar institution2 
but1 alas1 the pulpit itself1 has no    
adequate system of ethics--its theology 
has starved its ethics1 and it lifts its
 followers1 in the main1 no higher than 
the level of exterior respectability4   
,the task remains for some able critic  
to show how many of the important duties
 of life1 though plainly implied by the 
fundamental law of ,christianity1 are   
ignored by the pulpit4  ,anthropology   
alone reveals the ethical fulness and   
symmetry of character1 which all should 
seek2 and when science shall be advanced
 far beyond the barriers that           
circumscribe it at present1 men and     
women will seek the profound and        
intuitive anthropologist for            

consultation1 as they now seek the      
physician for the attainment of health4 
,it has been for the attainment of a    
possible superiority that millions have 
submitted to the discipline of          
collegiate education1 while others with 
nobler aims have sought in meditation1  
in prayer1 and in imitation of the      
illustrious1 for the ennoblement of     
their own lives4 ,no book has sold more 
largely than the ,imitation of ,christ4 
,but was it not often a blind struggle  
in the dark1 an attempt to reach a goal 
never clearly seen4 ,wandering in a     
labyrinth of fanaticism1 agonizing in   
the effort to distort nature1 the       
biographical record of religious        
aspiration serves to show how nearly    
multitudes may approach the boundary    
line of insanity in their protracted    
periods of causeless mental agony and in
 their fierce hostility to heresy and to
 science4 ,alike in ,brahmin1 ,buddhist1
 ,mohammedan1 and ,christian nations    
have we seen the vast expenditure of    

spiritual energy in the blind struggle  
of aspiring souls4  ,to all this1       
,anthropology will put an end1 for it   
will give to each a definite conception 
of the full normal development of       
humanity1 and of the organization or    
brain development by what it is         
sustained4 ,to those who fall far short 
of that development1 it gives the means 
of a definite measurement of the defect1
 and shows by cranioscopy and           
psychometry what is to be done in       
self-culture1 as clearly as we learn in 
the gymnasium what muscles need greater 
development4  ,the desire for such      
improvement is often absent when it is  
most needed4 ,a vast multitude of       
inferior people are perfectly content   
with themselves in a selfish life1      
wholly absorbed in providing for their  
own wants1 or1 if possessed of wealth1  
using it only in selfishness and        
ostentation1--content in believing      
themselves as good as their neighbors1  
doing nothing to benefit society1 unless

 under the coercion of public opinion1  
leading such lives that the world is    
certainly no better1 and perhaps a      
little worse1 for their advent4  ,a very
 different class1 who are more apt to   
profit by anthropology is composed of   
those in whom there is a decided        
predominance of good4 ,in some cases    
they are deficient in selfish and       
combative energy1 do not know how to    
assert their rights1 are credulous and  
confiding4 ,children of that character  
if reared by timid and over-fond        
parents1 are deprived of the rough      
contact with society that is necessary  
to their development4 ,there are many   
whom the lack of self-confidence1 the   
lack of ambition1 and lack of business  
energy condemn to an obscure life1 when 
their intellectual capacities would fit 
them for an influential position4 ,a    
kind but mistaken system of training    
confirms the defect1 and dooms them to  
an inefficient life1 or a stern system  
of repression deprives them of all      

self-confidence and energy4 ,millions of
 good women are victimized in this      
manner4 ,this amiable class are amenable
 to instruction1 but are often by their 
easy credulity1 induced to yield to     
unworthy teachers1 or to the guidance of
 unsound but pretentious or delusive    
literature4 ,they lack in the energy of 
criticism which might protect them from 
error4  ,throughout the whole course of 
education1 from infancy to manhood1     
,anthropology may be an ever-present    
monitor1 warning against excesses1      
against failures1 against errors of     
opinion1 while urging the cultivation of
 our feebler faculties as the gymnastic 
teacher urges the cultivation of the    
feebler muscles4  ,unaware of their     
errors1 many would resent all such      
criticism1 but the science which cannot 
help them1 because they will have none  
of it1 will enable us to understand them
 correctly and know how to deal with    
them4  ,there is an intense curiosity in
 the young to know their capacities1    

their adaptation to various pursuits1   
their merits and defects of character1  
to know what to cultivate1 what to      
repress1 and what estimate to put upon  
themselves4 ,in the age of adolescence  
such knowledge is very valuable1 and is 
generally willingly received4 ,moreover1
 it is very interesting to parents and  
guardians to know what estimate to form 
of their charge4 ,the thorough          
,psychologist 7,i prefer this word to   
,phrenologist1 which has a more limited 
meaning7 is therefore one of the most   
useful scientists1 and may render       
invaluable service in the period from   
ten to twenty years of age1 when a      
guiding wisdom is needed4  ,that wisdom1
 though seldom sought later in life1 is 
nevertheless a wisdom which all men     
need1 and especially for this reason1   
that1 with few exceptions1    ,,no ,,man
 ,,is ,,competent ,,to ,,be ,,his ,,own 
,,critic4  ,unless he is a profound     
,anthropologist he has no standard of   
humanity1 no absolute standard with     

which to compare himself1 and if he     
should attempt to form such a standard1 
his personal defects would vitiate the  
result4  ,i never go into society       
without witnessing examples of those who
 need earnest psychic admonition4 ,for  
example1 among public speakers1 ,i would
 mention certain defects3 ,a41 with a   
broad forehead and richly endowed       
intellect1 has not sufficient           
development of the highest regions of   
the brain to give him moral dignity or  
to enable him to discriminate well      
between the noble upright and the       
cunning selfish4 ,his superior intellect
 is shown not by impressive eloquence1  
but by energetic loquacity1 and hence   
fails to receive full recognition4 ,b4  
has the dignity and power in which ,a4  
is deficient1 but lacking in the organs 
of love1 sympathy and liberality1 he    
becomes harsh1 censorious and bitterly  
controversial1 making many enemies and  
leading a wretched home-life4 ,c4 has a 
grand oratorical energy and dignity1 but

 lacking in the organs of reverence and 
humility1 he overrates himself and      
becomes famous for his vanity4 ,d4 has  
the intellect1 wit1 humor1 and social   
qualities to shine in company1 but from 
lack of the organ of self-respect1 he   
fails to maintain the dignity of a      
gentleman and command proper respect in 
society4 ,e4 had the power and genius to
 rank among the most eloquent and       
distinguished men of the nation1 but the
 too broad base of his brain overcame   
all his nobler qualities1 and1 after    
becoming an object of general contempt1 
he ended his life a worthless sot4 ,f4  
had an intellectual genius of the       
highest order1 and ought to have left a 
name among the great scientists of the  
age1 but the regions of moral energy1   
cheerfulness1 and adhesiveness were     
lacking in his brain1 and hence he never
 attained any great success or retained 
any satisfactory position4 ,his life ran
 down into pessimism1 failure1 and      
premature decay4 ,g4 had another        

splendid intellect and made his mark on 
the times1 but lacking in the region of 
dignity and self-control1 he failed to  
reach his just position in political    
life and fell into premature mental     
decay from over-excitement4 ,h41 with   
much less of intellectual capacity1 but 
a better balanced organization rose to  
the highest rank in the esteem of his   
countrymen4 ,i41 with an intellect      
adapted to the exploration of the       
mysteries of science1 of which he gave  
good evidence1 but lacking in all the   
elements of strength of character lead a
 life of uniform failure1 obscurity and 
poverty1 and yet ,i felt assured that a 
different education in youth which would
 have developed his manhood and ambition
 and would have carried him to eminence4
 ,j4 is a man of superior intellect1    
benevolence and strength of character1  
but the organ of love is singularly     
defective in his head and his domestic  
life is therefore void of happiness4    
,neither the men nor the women in whom  

,i have observed the deficiency of the  
faculty of love1 ever seemed to be aware
 of the fact or to suspect that their   
intense antipathies were the product of 
a faulty organization1 and their        
discords chargeable to themselves4  ,k4 
and ,l4 are two gentlemen richly endowed
 in intellect and in the other virtues1 
but not in conscientiousness1 in which  
they are strangely deficient4 ,this is  
the only defective region in their heads
 and it is fully borne out in their     
lives1 which are void of integrity and  
truth1 though they have escaped the     
condemnation of the law4  ,m4 was a lady
 of intense ambition in whom the regions
 of love and religion were deficient4   
,aspiring to be a leader in             
philanthropic reform she had a limited  
following in an erratic course1 but     
ended her labors by obtaining a snug    
position for herself and repudiating all
 she had done4 ,n4 was another would-be 
leader in philanthropic reforms1 who was
 at one time quite conspicuous1 but     

while he had the ideal speculative      
intellect to appreciate theories1 he was
 lacking in love and religion4 ,his     
philanthropy did not pay1 and he        
abandoned it entirely for a life of     
selfish self-indulgence4  ,i might      
enumerate many more1 with whose organic 
development ,i was familiar1 whose lives
 displayed conspicuously their organic  
defects of brain1 but who never seemed  
to understand their own deficiencies or 
make any effort to correct them4 ,could 
they have been corrected in adult life8 
,much might have been done if they had  
understood and been admonished by       
,anthropology4 ,i know of one in whom an
 organic defect was pointed out1 in his 
first manhood1 who1 by persistent       
effort1 so far overcame it as to modify 
the form of his head1 and increase its  
fulness in the moral regions4 ,but1 as  
the world goes1 men are not admonished1 
and they cherish their defects1 refusing
 to believe that they are faults4  ,it  
is in childhood and youth that the work 

of reformation is to be accomplished1   
when parents and teachers shall have    
learned the methods4  ,but reformation  
must begin farther back1 with parents4  
,it must begin in the most faithful care
 and systematic loving culture during   
the nine months of unborn life1 which   
may do more than all subsequent         
education4  ,and it must begin still    
farther back1 in the refusal to         
propagate evil1 in the selection of     
mothers who are worthy and competent to 
bear good children1 and the selection of
 fathers whose characters are worth     
reproducing1 leaving an unchosen remnant
 to whom marriage should be denied4     
,,business ,,department4   ,,college    
,,of ,,therapeutics4  ,next ,session    
,begins ,november #a1 #ahhg4  ,this     
institution is the germ of what will be 
an immense revolution in education      
hereafter1 when the knowledge now given 
to small classes will hold a conspicuous
 place in every college1 and will be    
presented in every high school4  ,the   

mountain mass of inertia1 which opposes1
 passively1 all fundamental changes1    
cannot now resist scientific            
demonstration as it has in the past4    
,the instruction in the ,college of     
,therapeutics1 is thoroughly            
demonstrative1 leaving no room for      
doubt1 and it gives a species of        
knowledge which ought to be a part of   
every one's education--a knowledge of   
the constitution of man1 not obtainable 
to-day in any medical or literary       
college1 nor in our mammoth libraries4  
,it is not merely as a deep philosophy  
that this interests us1 but as a guide  
in the preservation of health1 and in   
the regulation of spiritual phenomena1  
which would1 to a very great extent1    
supersede our reliance on the medical   
profession by giving us the control of  
the vital powers1 by which we may       
protect ourselves1 and control the      
development of the young4  ,each student
 was made to feel the effects of local  
treatment on the body1 and the power of 

rapidly changing disease to health1 and 
was personally taught to perform the    
manipulations for this purpose1 and to  
investigate disease or portray character
 by the psychometric methods as well as 
to test the value of medicines4  ,the   
various uses and scientific application 
of electricity were shown1 and many     
things entirely unknown and unrecognized
 in works on ,electro-,therapeutics4    
,the entire class was placed under a    
medical influence simultaneously by the 
agency of electricity--an operation so  
marvelous that it would be considered   
incredible in medical colleges4 ,by     
these and other experiments and numerous
 illustrations and lucid explanations of
 the brain and nervous system1 the      
instruction was made deeply interesting1
 and students have attended more than   
one course to perfect themselves in the 
science4 ,the following declaration of  
sentiments shows how the course was     
regarded by the class3      ,the summer 
class of #ahhg in the ,college of       

,therapeutics1     feeling it their duty
 to add their testimony to that of many 
others in reference to the grand        
scientific discoveries which     they   
have seen thoroughly demonstrated by    
,prof4 ,j4 ,r4 ,buchanan1     would say 
to the public that no one can attend    
such a course of     instruction as we  
have recently been engaged in1 without  
realizing that ,therapeutic ,sarcognomy 
greatly enlarges the     practical      
resources of the healing art for the    
medical     practitioner1 magnetizer and
 electro-therapeutist1 while            
,psychometry1 whose positive truths we  
have tested and proven1     like the    
sun's rays1 illumines all the dark      
problems of medical     practice and of 
psycho-physiological sciences4          
,therapeutic ,sarcognomy explains the   
very intricate and     mysterious       
relations of the soul1 the brain and    
body1 which     prior to ,prof4         
,buchanan's discoveries were unknown to 
all     scientific teachers1 and are    

even now only known to his students     
and the readers of his works1      ,we  
feel that we have been very fortunate in
 finding so valuable     a source of    
knowledge1 whose future benefits to the 
human race1     in many ways1 cannot be 
briefly stated1 and we would assure all 
who may attend this college1 or read the
 published works of     ,prof4          
,buchanan1 and his monthly1 the ,journal
 of ,man1 that they     will1 when      
acquainted with the subject1 be ready to
 unite with     us in appreciating and  
honoring the greatest addition ever made
     to biological and psychological    
sciences4 ,hoping that the time     is  
not for distant when all students in    
medical colleges may     obtain access  
to this most important knowledge1 we    
give our     testimony to the public4   
,h4 ,c4 ,,aldrich1 ,m4 ,d41 ,d4 ,d4 ,s41
 ,chairman4                       ,,dr4 
,,jno4 ,c4 ,,schlarbaum1 ,secretary4    
,enlargement of the ,journal4  ,the     
requests of readers for the enlargement 

of the ,journal are already coming in4  
,it is a great disappointment to the    
editor to be compelled each month to    
exclude so much of interesting matter1  
important to human welfare1 which would 
be gratifying to its readers4 ,the      
second volume therefore will be enlarged
 to #fd pages at #b per annum4  ,the    
establishment of a new ,journal is a    
hazardous and expensive undertaking4    
,every reader of this volume receives   
what has cost more than he pays for it1 
and in addition receives the product of 
months of editorial1 and many years of  
scientific1 labor4 ,may ,i not therefore
 ask his aid in relieving me of this    
burden by increasing the circulation of 
the ,journal among his friends8  ,the   
establishment of the ,journal was a     
duty4 ,there was no other way           
effectively to reach the people with its
 new sphere of knowledge4 ,buckle has   
well said in his ,history of            
,civilization1 that ,no great political 
improvement1 no great reform1 either    

legislative or executive1 has ever been 
originated in any country by its ruling 
class4 ,the first suggestors of such    
steps have invariably been bold and able
 thinkers1 who discern the abuse1       
denounce it1 and point out the remedy4  
,this is equally true in science1       
philanthropy1 and religion4 ,when the   
advance of knowledge and enlightenment  
of conscience render reform or          
revolution necessary1 the ruling powers 
of college1 church1 government1 capital1
 and the press1 present a solid combined
 resistance which the teachers of novel 
truth cannot overcome without an appeal 
to the people4 ,the grandly             
revolutionary science of ,anthropology1 
which offers in one department          
7,psychometry7 the dawn of a new        
civilization1 and in other departments  
an entire revolution in social1 ethical1
 educational1 and medical philosophy1   
has experienced the same fate as all    
other great scientific and philanthropic
 innovations1 in being compelled to     

sustain itself against the mountain mass
 of established error by the power of   
truth alone4 ,the investigator whose    
life is devoted to the evolution of the 
truth cannot become its propagandist4 ,a
 whole century would be necessary to the
 full development of these sciences to  
which ,i can give but a portion of one  
life4 ,upon those to whom these truths  
are given1 who can intuitively perceive 
their value1 rests the task of          
sustaining and diffusing the truth4     
,mrs4 ,croly of ,new ,york remarked in  
her address to the ,women's ,press      
,association of ,boston4 ,the general   
public resents the advocacy of a cause  
and resists any attempt to commit it to 
special ideas4 ,a paper that starts to  
represent a cause must be maintained by 
individual effort1 and often at great   
sacrifice4  ,the circulation of the     
,journal is necessarily limited to the  
sphere of liberal minds and advanced    
thinkers1 but among these it has had a  
more warm and enthusiastic reception    

than was ever before given to any       
periodical4 ,there must be in the       
,united ,states twenty or thirty        
thousand of the class who would warmly  
appreciate the ,journal1 but they are   
scattered so widely it will be years    
before half of them can be reached      
without the active co-operation of my   
readers1 which ,i most earnestly        
request4  ,prospectuses and specimen    
numbers will be furnished to those who  
will use them1 and those who have       
liberal friends not in their own        
vicinity may confer a favor by sending  
their names that a prospectus or        
specimen may be sent them4 ,a liberal   
commission will be allowed to those who 
canvass for subscribers4   ,,mayo',s    
,,an,,sthetic4  ,the suspension of pain1
 under dangerous surgical operations1 is
 the greatest triumph of ,therapeutic   
,science in the present century4 ,it    
came first by mesmeric hypnotism1 which 
was applicable only to a few1 and was   
restricted by the jealous hostility of  

the old medical profession4 ,then came  
the nitrous oxide1 introduced by ,dr4   
,wells1 of ,hartford1 and promptly      
discountenanced by the enlightened 787  
medical profession of ,boston1 and set  
aside for the next candidate1 ether1    
discovered in the ,united ,states also1 
but far interior to the nitrous oxide as
 a safe and pleasant agent4 ,this was   
largely superseded by chloroform1       
discovered much earlier by ,liebig and  
others1 but introduced as an ansthetic  
in #ahdg1 by ,prof4 ,simpson4 ,this     
proved to be the most powerful and      
dangerous of all4 ,thus the whole policy
 of the medical profession was to       
discourage the safe1 and encourage the  
more dangerous agents4 ,the magnetic    
sleep1 the most perfect of all ansthetic
 agents1 was expelled from the realm of 
college authority2 ether was substituted
 for nitrous oxide1 and chloroform      
preferred to ether1 until frequent      
deaths gave warning4  ,nitrous oxide1   
much the safest of the three1 has not   

been the favorite1 but has held its     
ground1 especially with dentists4 ,but  
even nitrous oxide is not perfect4 ,it  
is not equal to the magnetic sleep1 when
 the latter is practicable1 but         
fortunately it is applicable to all4 ,to
 perfect the nitrous oxide1 making it   
universally safe and pleasant1 ,dr4 ,u4 
,k4 ,mayo1 of ,boston1 has combined it  
with certain harmless vegetable         
nervines1 which appear to control the   
fatal tendency which belongs to all     
ansthetics when carried too far4 ,the   
success of ,dr4 ,mayo1 in perfecting our
 best ansthetic1 is amply attested by   
those who have used it4 ,dr4 ,thorndike1
 than whom1 ,boston had no better       
surgeon1 pronounced it the safest the   
world has yet seen4 ,it has been        
administered to children and to patients
 in extreme debility4 ,drs4 ,frizzell   
and ,williams1 say they have given it   
repeatedly in heart disease1 severe lung
 diseases1 ,bright's disease1 etc41     
where the patients were so feeble as to 

require assistance in walking1 many of  
them under medical treatment1 and the   
results have been all that we could     
ask--no irritation1 suffocation1 nor    
depression4 ,we heartily commend it to  
all as the ansthetic of the age4 ,dr4   
,morrill1 of ,boston1 administered      
,mayo's ansthetic to his wife with      
delightful results when her lungs were  
so badly disorganized1 that the         
administration of ether or gas would be 
entirely unsafe4 ,the reputation of this
 ansthetic is now well established2 in  
fact1 it is not only safe and harmless1 
but has great medical virtue for daily  
use in many diseases1 and is coming into
 use for such purposes4 ,in a paper     
before the ,georgia ,state ,dental      
,society1 ,dr4 ,e4 ,parsons testified   
strongly to its superiority4 ,the       
nitrous oxide1 7says ,dr4 ,p47 causes   
the patient when fully under its        
influence to have very like the         
appearance of a corpse1 but under this  
new ansthetic the patient appears like  

one in a natural sleep4 ,the language of
 the press1 generally has been highly   
commendatory1 and if ,dr4 ,mayo had     
occupied so conspicuous a rank as ,prof4
 ,simpson1 of ,edinburgh1 his new       
ansthetic would have been adopted at    
once in every college of ,america and   
,europe4         99       99       99   
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,mayo's ,vegetable ,ansthetic4  ,a      
perfectly safe and pleasant substitute  
for chloroform1 ether1 nitrous oxide    
gas1 and all other ansthetics4          
,discovered by ,dr4 ,u4 ,k4 ,mayo1      
,april1 #ahhc1 and since administered by
 him and others in over #cjj1jjj cases  
successfully4 ,the youngest child1 the  
most sensitive lady1 and those having   
heart disease1 and lung complaint1      
inhale this vapor with impunity4 ,it    
stimulates the circulation of the blood 
and builds up the tissues4 ,indorsed by 
the highest authority in the            
professions1 recommended in midwifery   
and all cases of nervous prostration4   

,physicians1 surgeons1 dentists and     
private families supplied with this     
vapor1 liquefied1 in cylinders of       
various capacities4 ,it should be       
administered the same as ,nitrous       
,oxide1 but it does not produce headache
 and nausea as that sometimes does4 ,for
 further information pamphlets1         
testimonials1 etc41 apply to            
,,dr4 ,u4 ,k4 ,,mayo1 ,dentist1         
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