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diff --git a/27796.txt b/27796.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4195561 --- /dev/null +++ b/27796.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2411 @@ +Project Gutenberg's Buchanan's Journal of Man, December 1887, by Various + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Buchanan's Journal of Man, December 1887 + Volume 1, Number 11 + +Author: Various + +Editor: J. R. Buchanan + +Release Date: January 13, 2009 [EBook #27796] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BUCHANAN'S JOURNAL OF MAN *** + + + + +Produced by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + BUCHANAN'S + JOURNAL OF MAN. + + VOL. I. DECEMBER, 1887. NO. 11. + + + + +CONTENTS OF JOURNAL OF MAN. + + + The World's Neglected or Forgotten Leaders and Pioneers + Social Conditions--Expenses at Harvard; European Wages; India as a + Wheat Producer; Increase of Insanity; Temperance; Flamboyant + Animalism + Transcendental Hash + Just Criticism + Progress of discovery and Improvement--Autotelegraphy; Edison's + Phonograph; Type-setting Eclipsed; Printing in Colors; Steam + Wagon; Fruit Preserving; Napoleon's Manuscript; Peace; Capital + Punishment; Antarctic Explorations; The Desert shall Blossom as + the Rose + Life and Death--Marvellous Examples + Outlines of Anthropology (continued) Chapter X.--The Law of + Location in Organology + + + + +THE WORLD'S NEGLECTED OR FORGOTTEN LEADERS AND PIONEERS. + + +Leif Ericson, the long-forgotten Scandinavian discoverer of North +America, nearly five hundred years before Columbus, has at last +received American justice, and a statue in his honor has been erected, +which was unveiled in Boston, on Commonwealth Avenue, before a +distinguished assemblage, on the 29th of October. + +The history of the Scandinavian discovery and settlement was related +on this occasion by Prof. E. Horsford, from whose address the +following passages are extracted: + + "What is the great fact that is sustained by such an array of + authority? It is this: that somewhere to the southwest of + Greenland, at least a fortnight's sail, there were, for 300 + years after the beginning of the 11th century, Norse colonies on + the coast of America, with which colonies the home country + maintained commercial intercourse. The country to which the + merchant vessels sailed was Vinland. + + "The fact next in importance that this history establishes is, + that the first of the Northmen to set foot on the shores of + Vinland was Leif Ericson. The story is a simple one, and most + happily told by Prof. Mitchell, who for forty years was + connected with the coast survey of the United States in the + latitudes which include the region between Hatteras and Cape + Ann. Leif, says Prof. Mitchell, never passed to the south of the + peninsula of Cape Cod. He was succeeded by Thorwald, Leif's + brother. He came in Leif's ship in 1002 to Leif's headquarters + in Massachusetts Bay and passed the winter. In the spring, he + manned his ship and sailed eastward from Leif's house, and, + unluckily running against a neck of land, broke the stem of the + ship. He grounded the ship in high water at a place where the + tide receded with the ebb to a great distance, and permitted the + men to careen her in the intervals of the tide, to repair her. + When she was ready to sail again, the old stem or nose of the + ship was set up in the sand. Thorwald remained a couple of years + in the neighboring bay, examining sandy shores and islands, but + not going around the point on or near which he had set up his + ship's nose. In a battle with the Indians he was wounded and + died, and was buried in Vinland, and his crew returned to + Greenland. A few years later, Thorfinn and his wife, Gudrid, set + out with a fleet of three ships and 160 persons, of whom seven + were women, to go to Vinland, and in two days' sail beyond + Markland they came to the ship's nose set upon the shore, and, + keeping that upon the starboard, they sailed along a sandy + shore, which they called Wunderstrandir, and also + Furderstrandir. One of the captains, evidently satisfied that + they were not in the region visited by Leif and Thorwald, turned + his vessel to the north to find Vinland. Thorfinn and Gudrid + went further south and trafficked, and gathered great wealth of + furs and woods, and then returned to Greenland and Norway." + +Prof. Horsford refers next to various geographic names on the New +England coast which are of Scandinavian origin. + + "What do all these names mean? They are certainly not Algonquin + or Iroquois names. They are not names bestowed by the Plymouth + or Massachusetts Bay colonies. Of most of them is there any + conceivable source other than the memories lingering among a + people whose ancestors were familiar with them? Are they, for + the most part, relics of names imposed by Northmen once residing + here? + + "I have told you something of the evidence that Leif Ericson was + the first European to tread the great land southwest of + Greenland. His ancestry was of the early Pilgrims, or Puritans, + who, to escape oppression, emigrated, 50,000 of them in sixty + years, from Norway to Iceland, as the early Pilgrims came to + Plymouth. They established and maintained a republican form of + government, which exists to this day, with nominal sovereignty + in the King of Denmark, and the flag, like our own, bears an + eagle in its fold. Toward the close of the 10th century a + colony, of whom Leif's father and family were members, went out + from Iceland to Greenland. In about 999, Leif, a lad at the time + of his father's immigration, went to Norway, and King Olaf, + impressed with his grand elements of character, gave him a + commission to carry the Christianity to which, he had become a + convert to Greenland. He set out at once, and, with his soul on + fire with the grandeur of his message, within a year + accomplished the conversion and baptism of the whole colony, + including his father. + + "To Leif a monument has been erected. In thus fulfilling the + duty we owe to the first European navigator who trod our shores, + we do no injustice to the mighty achievement of the Genoese + discoverer under the flags of Ferdinand and Isabella, who, + inspired by the idea of the rotundity of the earth, and with the + certainty of reaching Asia by sailing westward sufficiently + long, set out on a new and entirely distinct enterprise, having + a daring and a conception and an intellectual train of research + and deduction as its foundation quite his own. How welcome to + Boston will be the proposition to set up in 1892, a fit statue + to Columbus. + + "We unveil to-day the statue in which Anne Whitney has expressed + so vividly her conception of this leader, who, almost nine + centuries ago, first trod our shores." + +The statue, however, is purely fanciful, and gives no idea either of +the personal appearance or costume of the great sailor, who has waited +for this justice to his memory much longer than Bruno and many other +heroes of human progress. + +Columbus may have been original in his ideas, but it was the Northmen +who led in exploration. It was they who changed the old flat-bottomed +ships of the Roman Empire to the deep keels which made the exploration +of the Atlantic ocean possible. + +This act of justice has been prompted by the appreciative sentiments +of the late Ole Bull, and the efforts of Miss Marie Brown, who has +lectured on the subject. Miss Brown says that Columbus learned of the +discovery of America at Rome, and also at Iceland, which he visited in +1477. Indeed, Columbus was not seeking the America of the Norsemen, +but was sailing to find the Indies. + +But now that historic justice is done, we realize that as Bryant +expressed it of Truth, "the eternal years of God are hers," and she +needs a good many centuries to recover her stolen sceptre. The triumph +of truth follows battles in which there are many defeats that seem +almost fatal. What is the loss of five centuries in geographic truth +to the loss of a thousand years in astronomic science? It was for more +than a thousand years that the heliocentric theory of the universe, +developed by the genius of PYTHAGORAS, was ignored, denied, and +forgotten, until the honest scholar, COPERNICUS, revived it by a +mathematical demonstration, which he did not live long enough to see +trampled on; for the great astronomer that next appeared, Tycho Brahe, +denied it, and the Catholic Church attempted to suppress it in the +person of Galileo, who is said to have been forced by imprisonment and +torture to succumb to authority (the torture may not be positively +known, but is believed with good reason). Even Luther joined in the +theological warfare against science, saying, "I am now advised that a +new astrologer is risen, who presumeth to prove that the earth moveth +and goeth about, not the firmament, the sun and moon--not the +stars--like as when one sitteth on a coach, or in a ship that is +moved, thinketh he sitteth still and resteth, but the earth and trees +do move and run themselves. Thus it goeth; we give ourselves up to our +own foolish fancies and conceits. This fool (Copernicus) will turn the +whole art of astronomy upside down; but the Scripture showeth and +teacheth another lesson, when Joshua commandeth the sun to stand +still, and not the earth." + +The attitude of Luther in this matter was the attitude of the Church +generally, in opposition to science, for it assumed its position in an +age of dense ignorance, and claimed too much infallibility to admit of +enlightenment. Nevertheless, the Church feels the spirit of the age +and slowly moves. At the present time it is being _slowly_ permeated +by the modern spirit of agnostic scepticism, which is another form of +ignorance. + +Mankind generally occupy the intrenched camp of ignorance within which +they know all its walls embrace; outside of which they look upon all +that exists with feelings of suspicion and hostility, and alas, this +is as true of the educated as of the uneducated classes. It was the +French Academy that laughed at Harvey's discovery and at Fulton's plan +of propelling steamboats, and even at Arago's suggestion of the +electric telegraph, as the Royal Society laughed at Franklin's +proposed lightning rods. It was Bonaparte who treated both Fulton and +Dr. Gall with contempt. It was the medical Faculty that arrayed itself +against the introduction of Peruvian bark, which they have since made +their hobby; and it was the same Edinburgh Review which poured its +ridicule upon Gall, that advised the public to put Thomas Gray in a +straight-jacket for advocating the introduction of railroads. Equally +great was the stupidity of the French. The first railroad was +constructed in France fifty years ago. Emil Periere had to make the +line at his own expense, and it took three years to obtain the consent +of the authorities. Their leading statesman, Thiers, contended that +railroads could be nothing more than toys. We remember that a +committee of the New York Legislature was equally stupid, and +endeavored to prove in their report that railways were entirely +impracticable. English opposition was still more stupidly absurd. Both +Lords and Commons in Parliament were entirely opposed. "The engineers +and surveyors as they went about their work were molested by mobs. +George Stephenson was ridiculed and denounced as a maniac, and all +those who supported him as lunatics and fools." "George Stephenson +although bantered and wearied on all sides stood steadfastly by his +project, in spite of the declarations that the smoke from the engine +would kill the birds and destroy the cattle along the route, that the +fields would be ruined, and people be driven mad by noise and +excitement." + +Nothing is better established in history than the hostility of +colleges and the professional classes to all great innovations. "Truly +(says Dr. Stille in his Materia Medica) nearly every medicine has +become a popular remedy before being adopted or even tried by +physicians," and the famous author Dr. Pereira declares that "nux +vomica is one of the few remedies the discovery of which is not the +effect of mere chance." + +The spirit of bigotry, in former times, jealously watched every +innovation. Telescopes and microscopes were denounced as atheistic, +winnowing machines were denounced in Scotland as impious, and even +forks when first introduced were denounced by preachers as "an insult +on Providence not to eat our meat with our fingers." + +It is not strange that the last fifty years have sufficed to cover +with a cloud of collegiate ignorance and bigotry the discoveries of +the illustrious Gall, for whom I am doing a similar service, to that +of Copernicus for Pythagoras. + +This is nothing unusual in the progress of Science. There was no +brighter genius in physical science at the beginning of this century +than Dr. Thomas Young, who died in 1829, whose discoveries fell into +obscurity until they were revived by more recent investigation. He had +that intuitive genius which is most rare among scientists. + +He was a great thinker and discoverer, who knew how to utilize in +philosophy discovered facts, and was not busy like many modern +scientists in the monotonous repetition of experiments which had +already been performed. + + "At no period of his life was he fond of repeating experiments + or even of originating new ones. He considered that however + necessary to the advancement of science, they demanded a great + sacrifice of time, and that when a fact was once established, + time was better employed in considering the purposes to which it + might be applied, or the principles which it might tend to + elucidate." + +He says, in his Bakerian lecture, "Nor is it absolutely necessary in +this instance to produce a single new experiment; for of experiments +there is already an ample store." + +In a letter to his sister-in-law, Mrs. Earle, he says, "Acute +suggestion was then, and indeed always, more in the line of my +ambition than experimental illustration," and on another occasion, +referring to the Wollaston fund for experimental inquiries, he said, +"For my part, it is my pride and pleasure, as far as I am able, to +supersede the necessity of experiments, and more especially of +expensive ones." The famous Prof. Helmholtz said of Young: + + "The theory of colors with all their marvellous and complicated + relations, was a riddle which Goethe in vain attempted to solve, + nor were we physicists and physiologists more successful. I + include myself in the number, for I long toiled at the task + without getting any nearer my object, until I at last discovered + that a wonderfully simple solution had been discovered at the + beginning of this century, and had been in print ever since for + any one to read who chose. This solution was found and published + by the same Thomas Young, who first showed the right method of + arriving at the interpretation of Egyptian hieroglyphics." + + "He was one of the most acute men who ever lived, but had the + misfortune to be _too far in advance of his contemporaries_. + They looked on him with astonishment, but could not follow his + bold speculations, and thus a mass of his most important + thoughts remained buried and forgotten in the 'Transactions of + the Royal Society,' until a later generation by slow degrees + arrived at the re-discovery of his discoveries, and came to + appreciate the force of his argument and the accuracy of his + conclusions." + +This half century of passive resistance to science, in the case of Dr. +Young and Dr. Gall, is nothing unusual. It was 286 years from the day +when Bruno, the eloquent philosopher, was burned at the stake by the +Catholic Church, before a statue was prepared to honor his memory in +Italy. + +What was the reception of the illustrious surgeon, physiologist, and +physician, John Hunter? While he lived, "most of his contemporaries +looked upon him as little better than an enthusiast and an innovator," +according to his biographer; and when, in 1859, it was decided to +inter his remains in Westminster Abbey, it was hard to find his body, +which was at last discovered in a vault along with 2000 others piled +upon it. + +Harvey's discoveries were generally ignored during his life, and +Meibomius of Lubeck rejected his discovery in a book published after +Harvey's death. + +When Newton's investigations of light and colors were first published, +"A host of enemies appeared (says Playfair), each eager to obtain the +unfortunate pre-eminence of being the first to attack conclusions +which the unanimous voice of posterity was to confirm." Some, like +Mariotte, professed to repeat his experiments, and succeeded in making +a failure, which was published; like certain professors who at +different times have undertaken to make unsuccessful experiments in +mesmerism and spiritualism, and have always succeeded in making the +failure they desired. + +Voltaire remarks, and Playfair confirms it as a fact, "that though the +author of the _Principia_ survived the publication of that great work +nearly forty years, he had not at the time of his death, twenty +followers out of England." + +If educated bigotry could thus resist the mathematical demonstrations +of Newton, and the physical demonstrations of Harvey, has human nature +sufficiently advanced to induce us to expect much better results from +the colleges of to-day--from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and the rest? +If such a change has occurred, I have not discovered it. + +Neglect and opposition has ever been the lot of the original explorer +of nature. Kepler, the greatest astronomical genius of his time, +continually struggled with poverty, and earned a scanty subsistence by +casting astrological nativities. + +Eustachius, who in the 16th century discovered the Eustachian tube and +the valves of the heart, was about 200 years in advance of his time, +but was unable, from poverty, to publish his anatomical tables, which +were published by Lancisi 140 years later, in 1714. + +Not only in science do we find this stolid indifference or active +hostility to new ideas, but in matters of the simplest character and +most obvious utility. For example, this country is now enjoying the +benefits of fish culture, but why did we not enjoy it a hundred years +ago? The process was discovered by the Count De Goldstein in the last +century, and was published by the Academy of Sciences, and also fully +illustrated by a German named Jacobi, who applied it to breeding trout +and salmon. This seems to have been forgotten until in 1842 two +obscure and illiterate fishermen rediscovered and practised this +process. The French government was attracted by the success of these +fisherman, Gehin and Remy, and thus the lost art was revived. + +Even so simple an invention as the percussion cap, invented in 1807, +was not introduced in the British army until after the lapse of thirty +years. + +The founder of the kindergarten system, Friedrich FROEBEL, is one of +the benefactors of humanity. How narrowly did he escape from total +failure and oblivion. + +The "Reminiscences of Frederich Froebel," translated from the German +of the late Mrs. Mary Mann, gives an interesting account of his life +and labors, upon which the following notice is based: + + "Froebel died in 1852, and it is possible that his system of + education would have died with him--to be resurrected and + reapplied by somebody else centuries later--only for a friend + and interpreter who remained to give his teachings to the world. + This friend, disciple, and interpreter was Madame Von Marenholz. + His system of education had this peculiarity which made it + different from any other plan of teaching ever given to the + world--it was first grasped in its full significance by women. + They, sooner than men, saw its truth to nature, and its grand, + far-reaching meaning, and became at once its enthusiastic + disciples. But the German women are in a bondage almost unknown + to their sisters of the other civilized races, therefore + Froebel's reform progressed only slowly. Had his principles been + given to the world in the midst of American or English women, + they would most likely have been popularly known and adopted + long ago. + + "Froebel did not see any very magnificent practical results flow + from the "new education" in his time. While he lived the + ungrateful tribe of humanity abused, misrepresented, and laughed + him to scorn, as it has done everybody who ever conferred any + great and lasting benefit on it. A touching illustration of this + is given in the anecdote narrating Frau Von Marenholz's first + meeting with the founder of kindergartens. The anecdote begins + the book, and it is the key-note of the sorrowful undertone + throughout. + + "In 1849 Frau Von Marenholz went to the baths of Liebenstein. + She happened to ask her landlady what was going on in the place, + and in answer the landlady said that a few weeks before a man + had settled down near the springs who danced and played with the + village children, and was called by people "the old fool." A few + days afterwards Madame Von M. was walking out, and met "the old + fool." He was an old man, with long gray hair, who was marching + a troop of village children two and two up a hill. He was + teaching them a play, and was singing with them a song belonging + to it. There was something about the gray-haired old man, as he + played with the children, which brought tears into the eyes of + both Madame Von M. and her companion. She watched him awhile, + and said to her companion: + + "'This man is called 'old fool' by these people. Perhaps he is + one of those men who are ridiculed or stoned by contemporaries, + and to whom future generations build monuments.'" + + "I knew," says Madame Von M., "that I had to do with a true + man--with an original and unfalsified nature. When one of his + pupils called him Mr. Froebel, I remembered having once heard of + a man of that name who wished to educate children by play, and + that it had seemed to me a very perverted view, for I had only + thought of empty play, without any serious purpose." + + "Froebel met with violent opposition and ridicule all his life, + and just when at last he thought he had successfully planted his + ideas, there came a sudden death-blow to his hopes, which was + also a death-blow to the good and great man. The Prussian + Government was and is as tyrannical as William the Conqueror, + who made the English people put their lights out at dark, and + suddenly, in August, 1851, the Prussian Government immortalized + itself by passing a decree forbidding the establishment of any + kindergartens within the Prussian dominions. In unguarded + moments, Froebel had used the expression "education for + freedom," in referring to his beloved plans, and that was enough + for Prussia, in the ferment of fear in which she has been ever + since 1848. Kindergartens in Germany have not yet recovered from + this blow, and Froebel himself sunk under it and died. But a + little time before he died, he said: "If 300 years after my + death, my method of education shall be completely established + according to its idea, I shall rejoice in heaven." + + "Froebel's life was full of strange vicissitudes and + disappointments. The few friends who understood him, and the + children whom he taught, and who, perhaps, understood him better + than anybody else, reverenced him, and loved him as father, + prophet, and teacher. + + "On his seventieth birthday, two months before his death, his + beloved pupils gave him a festival, which is beautiful to read + about. It must have gladdened the pure-hearted old man + immeasurably. Froebel was wakened at sun-rise by the festal song + of the children, and as he stepped out of his chamber to the + lecture-room, he saw that it had been splendidly adorned with + flowers, festoons, and wreaths of all kinds. The day was + celebrated with songs and rejoicing, and gifts were received + from pupils and friends in various parts of the world, and in + the evening, after a song, a pupil placed a green wreath upon + the master's head. + + "Two months after this he died peacefully. One of his strongest + peculiarities was his passionate love for flowers, and during + his illness he repeatedly commended the care of his flowers to + his friends. He had the window opened frequently, so he could + gaze once more on the out-door scenes he loved so well. Almost + his last words were: 'Nature, pure, vigorous Nature!'" + +JOHN FITCH, the inventor of steamboats, was even less fortunate than +Froebel. No patron took him by the hand, and although his invention +was successfully demonstrated at Philadelphia in 1787, by a small +steamboat, the trial being witnessed by the members of the convention +that formed the Federal constitution, he could not obtain sufficient +co-operation to introduce the invention, and finally left his boat to +rot on the shores of the Hudson and returned to his home at Bardstown, +Ky., where he died in 1798. The unsuccessful struggles of Fitch make a +melancholy history. In his last appeal he used this language: "But why +those earnest solicitations to disturb my nightly repose, and fill me +with the most excruciating anxieties; and why not act the part for +myself, and retire under the shady elms on the fair banks of the Ohio, +and eat my coarse but sweet bread of industry and content, and when I +have done, to have my body laid in the soft, warm, and loamy soil of +the banks, with my name inscribed on a neighboring poplar, that future +generations when traversing the mighty waters of the West, _in the +manner that I have pointed out_, may find my grassy turf." + +IN the lives of Pythagoras, Copernicus, Galileo, Ericson, Bruno, +Harvey, Kepler, Newton, Hunter, Gall, Young, Froebel, Gray, Fitch, +Stephenson, and _many_ others, we learn that he who assails the +Gibraltar of conservative and authoritative ignorance must expect to +conduct a very long siege, to maintain a resolute battle, and perhaps +to die in his camp, leaving to his posterity to receive the +predestined surrender of the citadels of Falsehood and Darkness, for +the eternal law of the universe declares that all darkness shall +disappear, and Light and Peace shall cover the earth, as they already +fill the souls of the lovers of wisdom. + + + + +SOCIAL CONDITIONS. + + +UNDERGRADUATE EXPENSES AT HARVARD.--A physician has written me to know +what the annual expense is for an undergraduate at Harvard College. +The inquiry is made that he (the querist) may know somewhere near what +it will cost to send his son to that institution. Thinking that others +of the _Journal's_ readers might like to know what a literary (or +liberal) education costs at a first-class college, I have looked up +the present cost, and by comparing it with my own, thirty-five years +ago, I find that expense has increased from year to year, until now it +requires about $550 to $600 annually to cover tuition, room-rent, +board, and common running expenses. A boy might squeeze through for +$400 a year, but he would have to pinch and be niggardly, if not mean. +The $550 or $600 would not cover vacation expenses and society dues, +therefore the larger sum ought to be reckoned as the cost annually for +a Harvard undergraduate at the present time. And upon inquiry, I find +that about the same amount of money is required by an undergraduate of +Yale. Board in New Haven is the same in price as in Cambridge. For the +four years' course, then, there should be provision for $2,500. Rich +students spend a $1000 or more each year, but they do not embrace ten +per cent. of the classes. The average student when I was in Harvard +expended $350 to $400 a year--a cost which did not cover vacation +expenses and society matters. I will venture the remark that as high +an order of scholarship can be obtained at "Western" colleges as in +Harvard or Yale; and that the expense of student life would not be +two-thirds as much. Why, then, take the extravagant course? The _name_ +and _fame_ of an institution count for something. A recently founded +college may not live long; it has to be tested by time before +_prestige_ can be attained. Universities have to be endowed before +they can command the best talent of the world in teachers. The fees +obtained from students will not pay the expenses of a first-class +literary institution. + +Lastly, an education of a high order does not insure success in life, +but, other things being equal, the man of learning has the best chance +to win in the race we are running.--_Eclectic Medical Journal_. + + +EUROPEAN WAGES.--Senator Frye said in a public address in Boston: "I +say from all my observations made there, and they were made as +carefully as I could make them, and in all honesty of purpose, there +is only one country in Europe that comes within half of our wages, and +that is England, and the rest are not one-third, and some not within +one-quarter, of our wages." + + +INDIA AS A WHEAT PRODUCER.--"Consul-General Bonham says she is a +dangerous competitor of the United States. The report of Consul-General +Bonham at Calcutta, British India, treats at length of the wheat +interests of that country. The area devoted to wheat in 1886 was about +27,500,000 acres, and the total yield 289,000,000 bushels. As compared +with the wheat of the Pacific coast, the Indian wheat is inferior, but +when exported to Europe it is mixed and ground with wheat of a +superior quality, by which process a fair marketable grade of flour is +obtained. The method of cultivating the soil is in the main the same +as it was centuries ago, and there seems to be great difficulty in +inducing the farmer to invest in modern agricultural implements, and +yet, with all the simple and primitive methods, the Indian farmers +can, in the opinion of the Consul-General, successfully compete with +those of the United States in the production of wheat. This is due to +the fact that the Indian farmer's outfit represents a capital of not +more than $40 or $50, and his hired help works, feeds, and clothes +himself on about $2.50 a month. The export of wheat from British India +has increased from 300,000 cwt. in 1868, to 21,000,000 cwt. in 1886, +and the increase of 1886 over 1885 amounts to about 5,000,000 cwt. + + "The Consul-General says that some of his predecessors have + claimed that the United States has nothing to fear from India as + a competitor in the production of wheat. In this view he does + not concur, and believes that to-day India is second only to the + United States in wheat-growing. Furthermore, wheat-growing in + India is yet in its infancy, and its further development depends + principally upon the means of transportation to the sea-board. + He fears that with the cheap native labor of India and the + constantly growing facilities for transportation, the United + States will find her a formidable competitor as a producer of + wheat." + + +INCREASE OF INSANITY.--I have repeatedly referred to the increase of +insanity and crime under our heartless system of education. It is +illustrated by every collection of statistics. The increase between +1872 and 1885 was, in Maine, with five per cent. increase in +population, in ten years, 23 per cent. increase in insanity. In New +Hampshire, 13 per cent. in population, 55 in insanity. In these two +States insanity increases four times as fast as population. In +Massachusetts, population 33 per cent., insanity 91 per cent. In Rhode +Island, population 40 per cent., insanity 94 per cent. In Connecticut, +population 23 per cent., insanity 194 per cent. The total number of +insane in New England has increased from 4,033, in 1872, to 7,232, in +1885,--an increase of 3,199 in 13 years. Such are the estimates +prepared from official reports by E. P. Augur, of Middletown, Conn. Is +it possible by the repetition of such statements as these to rouse the +torpid conscience of the leaders of public opinion to the necessity of +a NEW EDUCATION? + + +TEMPERANCE.--According to the National Bureau of Statistics, the +annual consumption of liquors per capita in the United States, from +1840 to 1886, shows a reduction in the consumption of distilled +spirits to less than one-half of the average between 1840 and 1870. +The most marked decrease was between 1870 and 1872. The consumption of +wine has averaged, from 1840 to 1870, about one-eighth as much--since +1870, from 30 to 40 per cent. as much, but the consumption of malt +liquors, which in 1840 and 1850 was little over half that of spirits, +has rapidly risen until, in 1886, it was nine times as great, the +number of gallons per capita being of spirits, 1.24; wines, 0.38; malt +liquors, 11.18. The total consumption of liquors of all sorts has +risen from 4.17 gallons per capita in 1840, to 12.62 in 1886. The +consumption of malt liquors per capita has increased fifty per cent. +in the last seven years. + +The tax collected on whiskey for 1886-87 was $3,262,945 less than for +the previous year, and the tax on beer was $2,245,456 more than for +the previous year. + + "Chevalier Max Proskowetz de Proskow Marstorn states that in + Austria inebriety is increasing everywhere on a dangerous scale. + The consumption of alcohol (taken as at 10 per cent.) was 6.7 + litres a head in a population of 39,000,000; but in some + districts 15-1/2 litres was the average (4-1/2 litres go to a + gallon). In all Austro-Hungary there was an increase of nearly + 4,000,000 florins in the cost of alcohol in 1884-85 over + 1883-84. In 1885 there were 195,665 different places (stations, + gin-shops, and subordinate retails) where liquors were sold. In + districts where the most spirits are used there were fewer fit + recruits." + + +FLAMBOYANT ANIMALISM.--In Boston, which sometimes calls itself our +American Athens, the highest truths of psychic science are daily +neglected by the more influential classes, while races, games, and +pugilism occupy the largest space in the daily papers, and a leading +daily boasts of its more perfect descriptive and statistical record of +all base-ballism as a strong claim to public support. + +The pugilist Sullivan is the hero of Boston; he received a splendid +ovation in the Boston Theatre, with the mayor and other dignitaries to +honor him, and a belt covered with gold and diamonds, worth $8,000, +was presented, besides a large cash benefit. His departure for England +was honored like that of a prince by accompanying boats, booming +cannon, and tooting whistles, and he is said to swing a $2000 cane +presented by his admirers. How far have we risen in eighteen centuries +above the barbarism of Rome? There is no heathen country to-day that +worships pugilism. Perhaps when the saloon is abolished, we may take +another step forward in civilization. London has rivalled Boston, +giving Sullivan a popular reception by crowds which blocked up the +principal streets. + + + + +TRANSCENDENTAL HASH + + +The _Winsted (Conn.) Press_ published an article on Buddhism in +America which is interesting as a specimen of the rosy-tinted fog of +some intellectual atmospheres, and the singular jumble of crude +thought in this country. As an intellectual hash it may interest the +curious. The following is the article: + + +BUDDHISM IN AMERICA. + +While sectarian Christianity is, at great expense, with much ado, +making a few hundred converts in Asia among the ignorant, Buddhism is +spreading rapidly in the United States, and is reaching our most +intelligent people, without any propaganda of missionaries or force. +There are already thousands of Buddhists in this country, and their +number is augmenting more rapidly perhaps than that of any other +faith, but of these probably comparatively few know that they are +following the Buddhistic lines of thought and have adopted the +principles of Buddhistic faith. Theosophy, mental science (sometimes +called "Christian science"), esoteric Christianity and Buddhistic +metaphysics are, we believe, substantially one and the same thing, and +we may also include their intimate relative, known here as Modern +Spiritualism, the difference between them being no greater than that +which invariably arises from different interpretations of the same +idea by different individuals under differing environment. To compare +these differences with the differences of the Protestant sects would +be exalting the sects, for sectarian Christianity is hardly worthy of +association with the exalted teachings of Buddha, the theosophists, +and the finer conceptions of our modern metaphysicians and +Spiritualists, yet we make the comparison for the sake of +illustration. + +Counting the philosophical modern Spiritualists we may say that the +number of people in this country who, without knowing it, perhaps, are +reasoning themselves into acceptance of Buddhistic teachings, may be +placed in the hundreds of thousands. A modified, spiritualized, and +improved form of Buddhism is, we suppose, likely to unite the +liberalized minds of this country (normal Christians and Infidels +alike) into a common and highly intellectual and spiritual faith, +opposed to which will be the less advanced people under the leadership +of the Roman Catholic church, representing the temporal power of +Christian priestcraft and the mythological superstitions which have +attached themselves to the precepts and teachings of the Christ man of +1800 years ago. + +Certainly no intelligent observer can look out upon the tremendous +upheaval of religious thought which is now taking place in this +country, without seeing that a new era has dawned in the spiritual +life of the American people and foreseeing a readjustment of religious +lines on a more elevated, less dogmatic and less antagonistic plane. +We have been passing through the very same experiences that preceded a +downfall of the polytheistic mythology, followed by the new era of +Christian mythology in one part of the world and Buddhistic mythology +in another. Jesus and Buddha both came to deliver exalted teachings +which would lift the world out of bondage to an older faith and its +more cruel superstitions and the corruptions of priestcraft and gross +ceremonials; both were reformers of substantially the same abuses; +both suffered for humanity, both lived humble and inspired lives, both +were interpreters of the same truths to different peoples, both were +good men, and both have come down to us with their greatness +exaggerated by their followers beyond anything they claimed for +themselves, while the personal existence of each is shrouded in the +same mystery and covered with the same doubt. That these two men did +exist as men we may well believe, but that as personages they were +incarnated on earth is a matter of small importance compared with the +consequences which have followed their supposed embodiment. + +The decline of faith in the old theology and the silent acceptance of +new ideas by the church people of America, the rapid spread of +infidelity and aggressive agnosticism, and the hold which Modern +Spiritualism under various disguises now has upon the people, premise +tremendous changes, and indicate a new era of spiritual thought--an +era of better and sweeter life for mankind we trust. + +Men and women who think alike will act together when prejudices born +of old names, partisan rivalries and personal animosities are +outgrown. A new philosophy with a new name, made up of the old truths +with new refinements and elaborations, will unite the liberal-minded +in a fraternity of thought based on a better understanding of +spiritual truths, and clearer comprehension of the importance to +humanity, of liberty, justice and love. + +This new religion, if we mistake not the signs of the times, will or +does partake largely of theosophic and Buddhistic metaphysics and is +not, therefore, to be despised by our best thinkers. Buddhism +corrupted by Brahmic theocracy--as Christianity by Mosaic rites, by +papistic theology and sectarian piety--has come to us as a morbid +asceticism or worse, delighting in self-inflicted individual tortures +and revelling in unthinkable contradictions. This conception of it is +probably false and due more to deficiencies of language and +unreceptive habit of metaphysical thought than to perversity of ideas. +A system of highest ethics, and a religion without a personal God, +Buddhism deifies the soul of man and exalts the individual through +countless experiences of physical embodiment into a position of +apparently infinite wisdom--a condition beyond phenomenal existence +and of course indescribable. It neither annihilates life in nirvana +nor admits immortal existence as we understand existence--i.e., in a +perpetually objective form of some sort. It is better in some +respects, though older, than Christism. Buddhas and Christs alike, we +are taught, are only men sent from celestial congress to direct their +fellow men into higher paths leading to incomprehensible perfections, +and they are not more "gods" than other men, save in their greater +experience. + +Theosophy is to Buddhism what Modern Spiritualism is to +Christianity--an acceptance of fundamental truths and rejection of +priestly ceremonials; an adoption of the spirit and denial of the +letter; an application of principles and ideas to real life and +claiming not only to have new light but to be ever progressive. It is +highly and intensely spiritual, and develops in some most marvellous +powers over natural forces. Its spirituality, however, does not leave +the earth untouched and mortal needs unrecognized. It is an advance +movement in the East, bringing substance and actuality to much that in +Buddhism is but vaporous ideality and bewildering prefiguration. It +claims that intervening land or water is no barrier to close personal +association of its brotherhood, and that they are confined to no land +or clime. Here in America it has followers who walk by its light, we +are told, without knowing it, and many students trying to encompass +the mysteries of the occult science, which claims only to be like +other science, the fruit of study and discovery, giving mastery over +subtle forces of nature which physical scientists fail to recognize. +Its ethics are the highest conceivable, and the individual existence +of the soul apart from the body a matter of commonest demonstration +among the adepts. + +Mental science so closely resembles theosophy, as we understand it, +that we hardly know the difference, save that of immaturity. It is +theosophy in its infancy, adapted to the status of American thought in +the psychological direction. Confined though it is at present chiefly +to the curing of the sick it is by no means admitted that this is the +limit or more than the beginning of its adaptation to human needs. It +is spending in this country with amazing rapidity, and though yet a +child is certain to bring about a great change in the ideas of many +regarding mind, its power over and priority to matter. So far as its +students devote their attention to other than such comprehension of +its postulates as is necessary to become healers, they are Buddhistic +in thought and expression, and some even accept a modified theory of +metempsychosis known as reincarnation. Still they reject the +philosophy of Spiritualism respecting spirit life, and appear to be +all at sea as regards the immediate future of the individual. In their +utterances on this they are more Buddhist than Christian, as in other +respects. They doubt or deny individual existence of the soul. The +Spiritualist believes that his soul will have for all time a body of +some sort, spiritual or physical, and his spirit-world and life are +filled with very human occupations, thoughts and desires, carried on +amid familiar scenery in a very substantial and earth-like manner. He +believes in progress eternal, and the possibility of final mergement +of his individual self into the All-Self is so remote as to give him +no concern. But the mental scientist, as near as we can express his +notion, rejects the idea of spiritual embodiment, regards his +personality as purely mortal and his soul one with indivisible God, +now and forever. Personality is not an attribute of his soul; spirit +or astral body he does not understand as ever existing to preserve +individuality after physical dissolution--in this differing as much +from the theosophist as from the Spiritualist. + +When these modernized Buddhists, Spiritualists and Christians, and +liberal thinkers, generally, unite--as they easily may, for they have +now no irreconcilable disagreement--they will form a powerful body of +thinking and progressive religionists. And their religion will be a +better Buddhism than Buddha taught, a broader Christianity than Christ +revealed, a deeper Spiritual philosophy than Swedenborg or Davis +heralded. Of course we welcome the opening day and its new light and +promise, for the old theologies are wearisome emptiness and humbug, +and the new isms cold and repellant or insufficient in their +testimony. We do not expect that a new church will arise and a new +sectarianism follow. But a new conception of life, its origin, purpose +and destiny may come to lift the people of America out of the old +religious rut. And in consequence the old depressing question, "Is +life worth living?" answered once by Buddha's No, may be answered anew +by Humanity's Yes. + + * * * * * + +The observations of this writer refer more to certain progressive and +restless classes in this Northeastern region than to the United States +generally. The churches are not diminishing in the number of their +members, but steadily gaining in numbers and also in liberality. The +new religion and philosophy of the future will be luminous, scientific +and philanthropic--not a conglomeration of vague speculations. True, +reverential religion is not a dreamy or speculative impulse, but an +earnest love of mankind and of duty, which does not waste itself in +unprofitable speculations, but eagerly pursues the positive knowledge +of this life and the next, which gives practical wisdom and diffuses +happiness. All systems of religion talk about love and recommend it, +but their followers seldom realize it in their lives. The religion of +the future will _realize_ it. Apropos to this subject, Col. Van Horn, +of the _Kansas City Journal_, says: + + "And as another result of missionary work, there are now in the + United States, in England and on the continent, missionaries of + Buddhism sent by the schools of the East, to convert us to the + philosophy of Gautama. This may sound startling to the general + reader, but it is not only a fact, but they have made converts + and are making them with a rapidity that is remarkable, making + more from us than we are from them. And they are from the very + best and brightest intellects among us--not the illiterate, but + the most cultured of the educated classes. It will not do to + suppress this fact in the discussion--for this is an age when + facts must be looked in the face." + + + + +JUST CRITICISM. + + +The intellectual editor of the _Kansas City Journal_ has made some +very philosophic remarks on the materialistic philosophy of +fashionable Scientists, which with some abridgment are here presented: + + "As an illustration of its methods of dealing with so subtle a + thing as human intelligence, we have a recent singular example + in Paris, by the eminent physician Charcot, and others, which + illustrates how great men in special departments walk blindfold + over things that afford no mystery to common minds. We allude to + certain experiments in hypnotism--the professional name for + mesmerism. The medical profession for more than half a century + sneered at the discoveries of Mesmer, until now compelled to + recognize them, they have not the manliness to acknowledge the + fact, but invent a new and inaccurate nomenclature to conceal + their change of front. To make a long story short these + gentlemen have put a subject under the influence one day, + enjoined him to commit a theft or a murder at a given hour the + next day, and despite every effort of will on the part of the + subject, the crimes have been attempted, and the victim only + saved from himself by the interposition of the operator, who was + present to remove the influence--or through the understanding of + the party against whom the offence was to be committed, in the + form of the robbery actually carried out. + + "But what does science do with this fact? Nothing but announce + it, and then proceed to dig among molecules and their related + agitations for the solution of the mystery." + +[This is what certain scientists do, but their follies are not +chargeable to _Science_, nor to the whole body of Scientists. The +ablest thinkers to-day, the deepest inquirers, look to the powers of +the soul, and the new anthropology traces these powers to their +localities in the brain.--ED. OF JOURNAL.] + + "How old is this fact? As old as the race. At one time it was + called necromancy, at another witchcraft, at another the + inspiration of God, at a subsequent time animal magnetism, at + another called after one of its more modern + discoverers,--mesmerism--now hypnotism--which is only another + name for magnetic sleep--if anybody knows what that is--or for + somnambulism. Common sense tells common people that it is only + an abnormal manifestation of the power that gives one person + control over another, or enables one person to influence + another. The simple every-day habit of exacting a promise from + your neighbor to do a certain thing, or for you to make a like + promise, and execute it. Sickness is a partial compliance with + the conditions of mortality--death being the complete process. + So the hypnotic experiences are the completed illustrations of + the common power which we call personal influence. That is all. + But that is not mysterious enough for learned people--it is not + scientific enough--as everybody can understand it. + + "Then, too, it suggests another thing that is fatal to it in the + estimation of the teacher--it suggests that what we call the + human mind or soul is a potential thing, that acts through the + every-day machinery of our bodies, and may be more or less + within the grasp of the common mind. There is a higher plane of + knowledge than that of mere physical science, and if the + theologian mistook its teaching, it is no reason why the pursuit + of that knowledge on this higher plane should be ignored. Hence + it is that this discovery by Charcot and others, to which we + allude, has as yet been barren of fruit, because the methods of + science to which the discoverers are wedded forbid the admission + of the psychic problem that underlies the remarkable phenomena. + + "And just here, it may as well be said first as last,--that the + profession to which these eminent men belong, nor any one school + of applied science, will ever read the lesson of these + experiments, nor will any of the so-called regular schools of + learning. The riddle will be read by some thinker outside, and + when the bread-and-butter purveyors of theology, science and the + schools have become indoctrinated, and prefer to pay their money + for the new instead of the old--then these self-constituted + teachers of humanity will all know that the cow was to eat the + grindstone--and teach the fact. We simply state a fact, known to + history, that the progress of the world is due to the inventor + and discoverer, and not to the schools. Every single thing, from + the advent of modern astronomy to the electric light, has been + from the ranks of the people by discovery or invention, and had + to fight its way against the teaching class, from time + immemorial. The circulation of the blood, which every + pig-sticker knew since knives were invented, had to be forced + upon medical science by a quack. And now, although the phenomena + we refer to have been before the teaching class since history + records anything, and although Mesmer taught it experimentally + eighty years ago, science has now only got so far as to admit + the existence of the phenomena. + + "Why have not the professions given these things more attention, + and why have they in these modern days for three quarters of a + century practically denied their existence? That question is a + legitimate one. And at the risk of being charged with + unfriendliness, it must be said that it was either from an + inability to think or from a narrow creedism that will not + accept a truth from outside discovery. The effect of this, and + what constitutes a crime in the teaching class, is, that it has + for all these long years shut out this now accepted knowledge + from the masses of humanity who look to this teaching class as + authority,--and to use a business form of speech,--pay them for + finding and teaching the truth. And so the learning of the world + and the common mass of mind has, after nearly a century, to + begin where the ostracised Mesmer left off--a long, dark, weary + denial of the truth by the simple refusal to investigate. This + is a serious arraignment, but it is admitted to-day by the + scientific world to be but the simple truth. + + "And what do we find now? Why, these same men who, for more than + eighty years, have been denying this truth, now whistle down the + wind as fanatics, dreamers and cranks, those who all the time + have recognized the truth, and been seeking the law underlying + its remarkable phenomena." + +[This strictly just arraignment applies to the entire body of the +old-fashioned and so-called regular medical and clerical professions, +all of whom have been educated into ignorance on these subjects by the +colleges, which are the chief criminals in this warfare against +science and progress. It was impossible to teach the true science of +man in any college but the one of which I was one of the founders and +the presiding officer; to obtain the necessary freedom in teaching the +highest forms of science, I have been compelled to establish the +College of Therapeutics in Boston.--ED. OF JOURNAL.] + +And this class holds simply that the human being is a living soul, +that, for the time being, acts through the organism we call the human +body, and that these living beings have an affinity of conditions by +which they act and react one upon another, the manifestation of which +we call society or social life. That is all there is to this seeming +mystery when reduced to simple terms. It is a question that chemistry +cannot deal with because analysis is not the method. Molecules, to use +a homely phrase, are a good thing, but molecules don't think, and this +thing we are considering does think. Molecules are amenable to +chemical affinities, and their condition one instant is not and cannot +be their condition the next instant. So, if to-day at twelve o'clock +the molecules are in combination, chemically, to suggest a theft, they +may undergo, and we see do undergo, billions of changes before the +hour of meridian arrives to-morrow--and not at all likely at that +exact moment to be in the stealing combination again. Or, if so, it is +not likely to be for stealing exactly the same article it was combined +on the day previous. Yet this infinite series of impossibilities must +be possible to have the experiments we refer to come true--on the +theory of molecular action. This is one of those absurdities that men +call the marvellous discoveries of science. _No crank in Christendom +ever conceived anything so utterly absurd._ + +Common sense comes to our help here, and tells us that this power is +from an intelligence that controls molecules, and that this molecular +activity is but the motor force which this intelligence uses to +execute its purpose; that this purpose is, or may be, continuous, +because this intelligence is continuous. And as it is thus paramount, +and controlling as to this motor force, which to us is the phenomena +of what we call life, it must be thus paramount, be persistent--or in +other words, immortal. And it must be immortal because it has been the +agent of conception and growth--or antecedent. And if it had the +antecedent potency, its potentiality cannot cease when it becomes +consequent--or when the machinery which is propelled by this motor +force is worn out, or broken, and its use destroyed. + + + + +PROGRESS OF DISCOVERY AND IMPROVEMENT. + + +WONDERFUL INVENTIONS.--Prof. Elisha Gray's new discovery is called +_autotelegraphy_, and it is claimed that it will be possible with its +use to write upon a sheet of paper and have an autographic facsimile +of the writing reproduced by telegraph 300 miles away, and probably a +much greater distance.--_Phil. Press._ + +A Washington special in the New York _News_ says: The company owning +the _type-setting machine_ has arranged to put up fifty of these +machines for the transaction of business. They will be put up at once +in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Cincinnati, Chicago +and other leading cities. The company claims that the machine is now +perfect, and that each machine will perform as much work in setting +type as ten average compositors. + + +EDISON'S PHONOGRAPH.--New York, October 21. Edison gives additional +particulars concerning his perfected phonograph. He finished his first +phonograph about ten years ago. "That," he says, "was more or less a +toy. The germ of something wonderful was perfectly distinct, but I +tried the impossible with it, and when the electric light business +assumed commercial importance, I threw everything overboard for that. +Nevertheless, the phonograph has been more or less constantly in mind +ever since. When resting from prolonged work upon light, my brain was +found to revert almost automatically to the old idea. Since the light +has been finished, I have taken up the phonograph, and after eight +months of steady work have made it a commercial invention. My +phonograph I expect to see in every business office. The first 500 +will, I hope, be ready for distribution about the end of January. +Their operation is simplicity itself, and cannot fail. The merchant or +clerk who wishes to send a letter has only to set the machine in +motion, and to talk in his natural voice, and at the usual rate of +speed, into a receiver. When he has finished the sheet, or +'Phonogram,' as I call it, it is ready for putting into a little box +made on purpose for mails. We are making sheets in three sizes--one +for letters of from 800 to 1,000 words, another size for 2,000 words, +and another size for 4,000 words. + +"I expect that an agreement may be made with the post-office +authorities enabling phonogram boxes to be sent at the same rate as a +letter. The receiver of the phonogram will put it into his apparatus +and the message will be given out more clearly and distinctly than the +best telephone message ever sent. The tones of the voice in the two +phonographs which I have finished are so perfectly rendered that one +can distinguish between twenty different persons, each one of whom has +said a few words. One tremendous advantage is that the letter may be +repeated a thousand times. The phonogram does not wear out by use. +Moreover, it may be filed away for a hundred years and be ready for +the instant it is needed. If a man dictates his will to a phonograph, +there will be no disputing the authenticity of the document with those +who knew the tones of his voice in life. The cost of making the +phonograph will be scarcely more than the cost of ordinary letter +paper. The machine will read out a letter or message at the same speed +with which it was dictated." + +Edison also has experimented with a device to enable printers to set +type directly from the dictation of the phonograph. He claims great +precision in repeating orchestral performances, so that the +characteristic tones of all the instruments may be distinguished. + + +_Type-setting Eclipsed_.--A new machine has been invented at +Minneapolis which supersedes type-setting. By this machine, which is +no larger than a small type-writer and operates on the same plan, a +plate or matrix is produced, which is easily stereotyped, thus +attaining the same result which is ordinarily reached by preparing a +form of type for the foundry which has to be stereotyped and then +distributed. The speed of the new machine will be from five to ten +times as great as that of type-setting, and if successful it will +enable an author to send his work to the stereotyper more easily than +he can write it with the pen. When all ambitious would-be authors are +let loose upon the world in this manner, what a flood of superfluous +literature we shall have and what will become of the superfluous +printers? + + +"_Printing in Colors_ has taken a potent move forward. By the new +process a thousand shades can be printed at once. Instead of using +engraved rollers or stones, as in the case of colored advertisements, +the designs or pictures are 'built up' in a case of solid colors +specially prepared, somewhat after the style of mosaic work. A portion +is then cut or sliced off, about an inch in thickness, and this is +wrapped round a cylinder, and the composition has only to be kept +moist, and any number of impressions can be printed. This will cause +an extraordinary revolution in art work, also in manufactures." + + +Mr. Edwin F. Field, of Lewiston, Me., has invented a substantial +_steam wagon_ for common roads. There is no reason why such wagons +should not come into use. When first proposed in England they were put +down by jealousy and opposition, but I have always contended that the +steam engine should have superseded the horse fifty years ago. + + +FRUIT PRESERVING.--About Christmas time in 1885 people in San +Francisco were astonished to see fresh peaches, pears, and grapes, +with all their natural bloom, and looking plump and juicy, on +exhibition in the windows of confectionery stores on Kearny and Sutter +streets. These fruits attracted great attention, and remained on +exhibition several weeks, showing the preservative agent employed, +whatever it might be, was singularly powerful in resisting the natural +decay. When tasted or smelled of, the fruit showed no peculiarity that +could lead to a discovery of the secret of the mysterious process. + +It appears now that the invention is at last to be made a practical +success on a large scale. The Allegretti Green Fruit Treatment and +Storage System Company, with the main storehouse at West Berkeley, +announce that they are now ready to store and treat all kinds of green +articles, by the week or month, and for shipment East. I. Allegretti, +the inventor of this system, stated that he had been experimenting +with various processes for preserving green fruit for twenty-six +years, and had succeeded in discovering this system, whose success has +been demonstrated to the fruit-growers of this State. + +The building in use at present is a frame structure, capable of +storing some fifty tons of fruit. The inner lining of the walls is +galvanized iron. There is no machinery used, and the only thing +visible is a large tank, supposed to contain the chemical preparation. +The arrangements are so made as to give an even temperature of 35 +degrees.--_Oakland Enquirer._ + + +NAPOLEON'S MANUSCRIPT.--"A manuscript by Napoleon I. has been sold in +Paris for five thousand five hundred francs. It was written by +Napoleon at Ajaccio in 1790, and the language and orthography are said +to be those of an uneducated person. In this manuscript he speaks with +enthusiasm of Robespierre." + + +PEACE.--Long and impatiently have I waited for the dawning of true +civilization and practical religion. It is coming now in the form of +an international movement in favor of peace by arbitration. The +British deputation which has visited this country to urge the +necessity of a treaty for arbitration, was entertained, Nov. 10th, +just before their return, by the Commercial Club at the Vendome Hotel, +in Boston, and many appropriate remarks were made by the distinguished +gentlemen present, including Gov. Ames, and Mayor O'Brien. The +deputation consisted of W. R. Cremer, M.P., the most persistent +advocate of arbitration, Sir George Campbell, M.P., Andrew Provard, +M.P., Halley Stewart, M.P., Benj. Pickard and John Wilson, who +represent the workingmen of Great Britain. William Whitman of the +Club, who presided at the entertainment, remarked, "It is an inspiring +fact, as well as indisputable evidence of social growth, that this +appeal for arbitration as a permanent policy has come, not so much +from kings, from rulers, or from statesmen, as from workingmen.... It +would create an epoch in human history second only in influence to the +birth of Christ, and be such a practical exemplification of religion +as would awake the conscience and touch the heart of all peoples." + + +CAPITAL PUNISHMENT is a relic of barbarism which society has not yet +outgrown. It tends to cultivate vindictive sentiments, and, at the +same time, to generate a morbid sympathy for criminals. The execution +of the Chicago Anarchists, as they are called, has had these effects. +They were not properly Anarchists in any philosophic sense, but rather +revolutionists, bent on destroying government and the republican rule +of the majority by dynamite and assassination. Their death gives +satisfaction to the vast majority of the people, but their incendiary +language has done incalculable mischief, and greatly interfered with +all rational and practicable measures of reform, as carried on by the +Knights of Labor, co-operative banks and building societies, +co-operative associations and schools of industrial education for both +sexes. Just as we have a prospect of getting rid of international war, +this revolutionary communism proposes to introduce a social war that +has no definite purpose, but the indulgence of the angry passions +which have been generated abroad by tyranny and poverty. + + +ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION.--The Australian colony of Victoria has +appropriated $50,000 for two ships to make a voyage of scientific +exploration in the Antarctic circle. + + +"THE DESERT SHALL BLOSSOM AS THE ROSE."--"The 'Great American Desert' +was long ago found out to be a myth; and now some of the remotest +corners which were once supposed to be included in it are proving to +offer the largest promises of value for agricultural and grazing +purposes. In New Mexico, for example, it has long been thought that +certain immense areas must always be comparatively useless because of +their natural aridity. But engineers have just completed plans for +tapping the Rio Grande with a canal and thus bringing under irrigation +a tract some ten miles wide and a hundred and fifty long, containing +nearly a million acres. The addition of so vast an area to the arable +land of the Territory means, of course, a large increase in the +productive resources of that section. Other canals may possibly do as +much. The work of sinking artesian wells is also going on there +extensively, while the project of constructing great storage +reservoirs, in which the rainfall of the wet season may be collected +and from thence gradually distributed through the dry season, is +already in serious contemplation by private enterprise. Modern +scientific irrigation has already accomplished wonders for the +agriculture of Utah; it seems likely to do even more for New Mexico." + + + + +LIFE AND DEATH. + + +122 YEARS.--The great-grandfather of the dramatist Steele Mackaye, +named John Morrison, was an old Covenanter and preached in the same +parish a hundred years. He lived to be 122. His name, written in the +old Bible after he was a centenarian, looks like a copperplate. + + +154 YEARS.--The Cincinnati _Evening Telegram_ recently published a +special from San Antonio, Tex., which says: News has just reached +here, from a most reliable source, of the recent death in the State of +Vera Cruz, Mex., of Jesus Valdonado, a farmer and ranchman of +considerable possessions. This man's age at the time of death was +indisputably 154 years. At Valdonado's funeral the pall-bearers were +his three sons, aged respectively 140, 120, and 109 years. They were +white-haired, but strong and hearty, and in full possession of all +their faculties. + + +AMERICUS, Ga., Sept. 25.--Edmond Montgomery died on Nick Jordan's +place, near the county line of Schley, aged 102 years. He was an +African chief of the Askari tribe, and was taken to Virginia from +Africa in 1807, when he was a young man. He had a large family in +Virginia, and when he died he left his third wife and 25 children in +Georgia. His grandchildren and great-grandchildren are unknown and +unnumbered. He had remarkably good eyesight and health, and never took +a dose of medicine in his life. + + +THIRTY-THREE CHILDREN.--A West Virginian named Brown recently visited +Washington to furnish evidence in a pension claim. Inquiry showed that +his mother had borne thirty-three children in all. Twenty of this +number were boys, sixteen of whom had served in the Union army. Two +were killed. The others survived. The death of the two boys entitles +the mother to a pension. General Black says the files of the office +fail to show another record where the sixteen sons of one father and +mother served as soldiers in the late war. + + +EFFECT OF POVERTY.--"M. Delerme, a distinguished Parisian physician, +found that in France the death rate of persons between the ages of +forty and forty-five, when in easy circumstances, was only 8.3 per one +thousand per annum, while the poorer classes of similar age died at +the rate of 18.7. That was two and one-half times as many of the poor +as the rich died in France at these ages out of a given number +living." + + +JENNY LIND GOLDSCHMIDT, the famous Swedish singer, died at London Nov. +1st at the age of 69. She was born of poor parents and made her first +appearance on the stage at nine years of age. + + +"MRS. RACHEL STILLWAGON, of Flushing, claims to be the oldest woman on +Long Island. She has just celebrated her 102d birthday, surrounded by +descendants to even the fifth generation. Three-quarters of a century +ago the fame of Mrs. Stillwagon's beauty extended as far south as +Baltimore." + + + + +CHAP. X.--THE LAW OF LOCATION IN ORGANOLOGY. + + + The primal laws applied to the brain--The four directions--The + elements of good and evil--The horizontal line of + division--Frontal and occipital organs and vertical dividing + line--Preponderance of the front in certain heads--Gall, + Spurzheim, and Powell--Contrast of frontal and + occipital--Latitude, longitude, and antagonism--Location of + Health and Disease, of Benevolence, Conscientiousness, + Acquisitiveness and Baseness, Energy and Relaxation or + Indolence, Patience and Irritability--Duality of the brain and + its important consequences--Errors of old system--Self-respect + and Humility--Modesty and Ostentation--Combativeness and + Harmony--Love and Hate--Adhesiveness and Intellect, median and + lateral--Religion and Profligacy--Laws of arrangement and + Pathognomy--Physiological influences of basilar and coronal + regions--Insanity--beneficial influence of coronal region. + +To feeble minds, that excel only in memory, an arbitrary statement of +facts to be recollected may be satisfactory, but to those who are +capable of fully understanding such a science as Anthropology, +arbitrary details, void of principle and reason, are repulsive. A +chart of the human brain, without explanation of its philosophic basis +and relations, embarrasses even the memory, for the memory of a +philosophic mind retains principles rather than details. + +After many years of experimental investigation, I have long since +fully demonstrated that the human constitution is developed in +accordance with the universal plan of animal life, and the human brain +is organized functionally in accordance with those higher laws of +life, which control all the relations of the spiritual and material +worlds,--all interaction between mind and matter. These primal laws +are easily comprehended, and their application to the brain removes +all the perplexing complexity of organology. + +Their application to the brain may be stated as follows: The upper +legions of the brain, pointing upwards, relate to that which is +above,--to the spiritual realm, to love, religion, duty, hope, +firmness, and all that lifts us to a higher life. The lower regions +point downwards, and expend their energy upon the body, rousing the +heart and all the muscles and viscera, developing the excitements, +passions, and appetites. + +The maximum upward tendency is at the middle of the superior region, +and the maximum downward tendency at the middle of the basilar region, +while organs half-way between them are neutral between these opposite +tendencies. Hence every faculty or impulse has a location in the +brain, higher or lower, as it has a more spiritual or material +tendency, and as its influence on the character inclines to virtue or +vice. The better the faculty, the higher its location,--the more +capable of evil results, the lower it is placed. The higher position +given to the nobler faculties accords with their right to rule the +inferior nature, the predominance of which is evidently abnormal, and +the effects of which, in this abnormal predominance, are expressed by +terms full of evil, although their functions in due subordination are +useful and absolutely necessary. + +In applying this principle, we realize that such a faculty as +Conscientiousness must be near the very summit, and that propensities +to theft and murder must belong to the base. That such propensities +exist in many, we know, and it is an absurd optimism which would +ignore such facts because they are abnormal. The world is full of +human abnormality, because it is not yet above the juvenile age of its +growth, which is the age of feebleness and folly, disease and crime. +The imperfect organism of childhood is incapable of resisting either +temptation or disease. The twenty-five millions destroyed by the black +death, in the fourteenth century, and the countless millions destroyed +by war in all centuries, including the present, show how little we +have advanced beyond the spirit of savage life. The ferocity of +nations is as much the product of their cerebral organization, as the +ferocity of the tiger, and springs from the same region of the +brain,--lying on the ridge of the temporal bone,--a region that +delights in fierce destruction, and is large in all the carnivora. It +would be contrary to the spirit of science to ignore the fact that man +has an element of ferocity similar to that of the tiger, because in +the fully developed man that fierce element is overruled by the higher +powers and confined to the destruction of that which does not suffer. +The unwillingness to recognize anything evil comes not from the spirit +of science, but from the _a priori_ assumptions of sentimental +theology, which presumes that it thoroughly comprehends the Deity (who +is beyond all human comprehension), and, out of its imaginative +ignorance, fabricates _a priori_ philosophies and doctrines that +everything in man is good, or that everything in man is evil. +Anthropology has not thus been evolved from _a priori_ speculation, +but presents its systematic doctrines as generalizations of the facts +and experiments which have been carefully acquired and studied through +the last half-century. The facts and experiments are too numerous to +be recorded and published now, and had no channel for publication when +they occurred. + +Everything in the lower half of the brain has a tendency to evil, in +proportion to its over-ruling power, and everything in the upper half +operates in proportion to its elevation with that controlling +influence against evil, which uplifts him toward angelic or divine +superiority. + +The brain may be divided by a horizontal line from the center of the +forehead into its coronal and basilar halves, and by a vertical line +from the cavity of the ear, into its frontal and occipital halves. + +The vertical line separates the more passive and the more active +faculties. The posterior half of the brain is the source of the +backward forces by which the body is advanced, as the anterior half is +the source of the forward movements by which our progress is checked. +The posterior half would make blind, unceasing, irrepressible +action--the anterior half would produce a state of relaxed and feeble +tranquillity and sensibility--the condition of a helpless victim. The +concurrence of the two is indispensable to human life, and the +necessity of their more or less symmetrical balance is so great that +nature balances the head upon the condyles of the occipital bone, at +the summit of the neck, which are so located as to correspond very +nearly with the opening of the ear. + +The contour of the head is very nearly that of a semicircle, with its +center an inch or more above the cavity of the ear. Thus wisely has +nature arranged in well-balanced individuals the symmetrical +proportion between the active and passive elements of life. In the +head of the writer there is a preponderance of the passive over the +active elements, which gives him the attraction to a studious, rather +than active or ambitious life.[1] In nations or races of ambitious +character, the head is long, or _Dolico-cephalic_, and the occipital +measurement is larger than the frontal, but in those of peaceful, +unambitious character, like the ancient Peruvian and the Choctaws of +the United States, the occipital measurement is less than the frontal. + + [1] The head of Dr. Gall shows the same frontal preponderance, + which led him to the pursuits of intellect instead of + ambition, but also shows an immense force of character + derived from its extreme breadth and basilar depth. The head + of Spurzheim, whose skull I have often examined, shows even + a greater preponderance of the front, and a predominance of + the coronal over the basilar region, producing his marked + amiability, with sufficient basilar breadth to give him + physical force. + + Each had a large brain. In Dr. Wm. Byrd Powell, who had a + long head, and who was a man of restless ambition and fiery + energy, the occipital predominated over the frontal + development decidedly, producing, although the frontal + development was not large, much activity and force, or + brilliancy of mind, but not the calm temperament most + favorable to philosophy. His opinions were more bold and + striking than accurate. Dr. P. made a valuable collection of + crania, and was almost the only American scientist who gave + much attention to the _cultivation_ of phrenology. + +From these remarks the reader will understand that force belongs to +the occiput and gentleness to the front. The occipital region is +associated with the spinal column and the limbs, in which regions the +vital forces reside. Hence the occipital action of the brain generates +vital force and diffuses it in the body, while the frontal region, in +its aggregate tendency, expends the vital force--the greatest tendency +to expenditure being in the most extreme frontal region. Both the +front lobe and the anterior extremity of the middle lobe tend to the +expenditure of vital force and destruction of health, and it is +absolutely necessary to life that the action of the front lobe should +be suspended one-third of our time by sleep, without which it would +exhaust vitality. + +We shall therefore find that organs are located farther backward in +proportion to the energy and impelling power of the faculty, and farther +forward in proportion to their delicacy and intellectuality--the +extreme front being the region of maximum intelligence. + +With these two rules, giving the latitude by the ethical quality and +the longitude by the active energy, I have been accustomed to require +my pupils to determine the location of the various elements of human +nature, bearing in mind that organs of analogous functions are located +near together, and organs of opposite or antagonistic functions occupy +opposite locations in the brain; and thus in proportion as one is +above the horizontal line the other is below it, and in proportion as +one is forward the other is backward,--in proportion as one is +interior or near the median line, the other is exterior or toward the +lateral surface. + +With this introductory explanation, I begin by asking, Where should we +locate the faculty which has the maximum degree of healthy influence, +and is therefore called Health? They will readily decide that it +belongs to the posterior half of the head, but not the most posterior, +as it is not of restless or impulsive character. Then as to its +latitude they readily decide that it must be considerably above the +middle zone and in the upper posterior region where, after comparing +locations, they generally agree that its position corresponds to the +spot marked by the letters He. + +[Illustration] + +We then inquire where the faculties should be located which give us +the least capacity to resist disease, the least buoyant health, and +the greatest liability to succumb to injuries. This being opposite to +the last faculty must be located diametrically opposite, in a position +anterior and inferior, which would bring it to the anterior end of the +middle lobe. As this organ gives so great a sensitive liability to +disease, it is not improper to call it the organ of Disease, if we +recollect that that is its abnormal action, as murder is the abnormal +action of Destructiveness. Its normal action gives a very acute +interior sensibility by means of which we understand our physical +condition and are warned of every departure from health. + +The pupils generally locate this organ very nearly as is shown by the +letters Di. + +We have now gained an additional rule for guiding the location, viz., +that in proportion as a faculty is of healthy tendency it is located +nearer to Health, and in proportion as it is of morbid tendency it +must be located nearer to Disease. + +Let us now take two such faculties as Benevolence or good will and +Integrity or Conscientiousness. They will readily decide that +Benevolence must be in the superior anterior region, as it is a virtue +of the weak or yielding class, and that Conscientiousness, which makes +us just and honest, must be among the highest organs, much farther +back than Benevolence but not so far back as Health. There is no +difficulty in agreeing upon the locations, shown by the letters Be. +and Con. + +If now we seek for the opposite faculties, which lead to selfish and +dishonorable action, the antagonist of Benevolence will be unanimously +located below and behind the centre, where it is represented by the +letters Ac., as Avarice or Acquisitiveness is the leading +manifestation of the selfish faculty. + +As the faculty of Conscientiousness gives us the control of our +impulses and selfish or sensual inclinations to qualify for the +performance of duty, its antagonist gives the vigor to the sensual, +violent and selfish passions, and prompts to the utter disregard of +duty. The one being vertically above the centre of the brain, the +other must be vertically below it; one being on the upper the other +must be on the basilar surface. This brings it below the margin of the +middle lobe, which is above the cavity of the ear. Hence through the +cavity of the ear we reach underneath the basis of the middle lobe, +where it rests on the petrous ridge of the temporal bone, and the +external marking would correspond to the cavity of the ear or meatus +auditorius. For this organ and faculty, the name which would express +its unrestrained action is Baseness, as it would lead to the +commission of many crimes and the violation of all honesty and +justice. For its moderate and restrained activity, the term +Selfishness would be sufficient as it induces us to heed our selfish +appetites, interests, and passions, in opposition to the voice of +duty. Its more normal activity is to invigorate our animal life +generally and prevent us from going too far in the line of duty, +patience, forbearance and benevolence. Let it be marked Ba. Its +position will be recognized on the vertical line between the frontal +and occipital, as it is not an element of energy and success, nor of +debility, but simply an element of debasing animalism, which is not +destitute of force. + +There are in the human constitution the opposite elements of untiring +energy or industry, and of indolent relaxation. To the former we must +give an exalted position, as it is the sustaining power of all the +virtues; and it must evidently be farther back than conscientiousness +as it is of a more vigorous character. It is favorable to health and +therefore near that organ, and being free from selfishness it is not +far behind Conscientiousness. The letters En. show its location. +Energy being thus behind Conscientiousness, its antagonist Relaxation, +the source of indolence, must be anterior to Baseness, where we locate +the letters Re. + +The opposite elements of Serenity or Patience, and Irritability are +easily located; the former is obviously entitled to a high position. +From its quiet nature it cannot be assigned to the occiput, and from +its steady, unyielding and supporting strength, it cannot be assigned +to the frontal region. It must, therefore, be in the middle superior +region, where the letters Pa. locate it. Irritability must be on the +median line of the basilar range (and antagonizes Patience on the +middle line above), but not as low as Baseness, for one may be +honorable though irritable and high-tempered, but such temper is not +compatible with very strict conscientiousness. + +In locating organs we are to remember that the brain is not a single +but a double apparatus--a right and a left brain, each complete in all +the organs; consequently, we are in this instance locating our organs +in the left hemisphere alone, in which the median line where it meets +the other hemisphere is on its right side, and the exterior surface is +on its left. An organ located at the median line, or inner surface, as +Patience, must have its antagonist at the external or lateral surface, +as Irritability. + +The right hemisphere has the organs of the left side along the median +line, and the organs of its right side on the exterior surface. The +left hemisphere has the reverse arrangement. Consequently, the right +side of each hemisphere and the left side of the other are identical +in function. How then does the right side of one compare with the +right side of the other, and the left side with the left? Dr. Gall and +his followers have overlooked these questions, and fallen into very +great errors in consequence. Gall, for this reason, was mistaken in +the natural language of the organs, as will be hereafter shown, having +spoken of it as if we had a single brain, and also mistaken in many of +the organs concerning which a knowledge of the relations of the two +hemispheres to each other would have corrected the errors. There is a +striking analogy, or coincidence of function between the two right +sides and between the two left sides never suspected prior to my +investigations and experiments. + +Let us next look for the sentiment of Pride, or Self-respect, which +has been called Self-esteem. It is a sentiment of conscious ability. +Its character is dignity, rather than selfishness. We readily perceive +that it must be in the upper region, but considerably behind the +vertical line, where we place the letters S.R. + +The question may now arise whether it should be nearer to the right or +the left side of the hemisphere, its inner or outer surface. The law +governing this matter is that organs of external manifestation are at +the median line, but those of more interior and spiritual character +are generally at the lateral or exterior surface. Self-respect, or +Pride, is an organ of strong exterior manifestation, and is, +therefore, at the median line between the hemispheres. Its antagonist +must, therefore, be sought at the external or lateral surface, as far +below the horizontal division, as Self-respect is above it, and as far +forward as Self-respect is backward. Hence we find Humility where the +letters Hu. are located. + +The idea of a specific antagonist to Self-esteem was never entertained +in the phrenological school, but it is obviously indispensable, for +Humility, which gives an humble or servile character, and disqualifies +for any high position, is as positive an element as the opposite, and +is very common in the dependent and humble classes of society. This +organ diminishes our psychic energy in proportion to its distance in +front of the ear and qualifies for submission instead of command. + +If we look for the seat of Modesty, we should look in front of the +ear, but not so far forward as for Intellect. We would look near the +horizontal line, not to the upper surface, and would see the propriety +of locating it in the temples at the letters Mo. For its antagonism in +Ostentation we should look to the occiput. That species of modesty +which produces a bashful and yielding character will be found just +below the horizontal line, while that form of modest sentiment which +produces the highest refinement rises into connection with love at the +upper surface. The organ thus runs obliquely upward, corresponding to +the position of the convolutions. The antagonist, Ostentation, extends +above and below the letters Ost. on the occiput. + +If we seek the organs that impel to contention and combat, we would +naturally look to the lower posterior region, but not the lowest. We +find Combativeness behind the ear, marked Com. Its antagonist, which +shuns strife and seeks harmony, must evidently be in the superior +anterior region, and near the intellectual organs which it resembles +in function by facilitating a mutual understanding, and giving a +spirit of concession. The location is marked Har. for Harmony. It +embraces a group of organs of harmonious tendency, such as Friendship, +Politeness, Imitation, Humor, Pliability and Admiration, as the +Combative group is hostile, stubborn, morose and censorious. + +For the sentiment of Love we look to the upper surface of the brain as +the seat of the nobler sentiments. Being a stronger sentiment than +Harmony, it should be located farther back where we place the letters +Love. Its antagonism must be on the basilar surface, and a little +behind the vertical line, as Love is before it. This antagonistic +faculty would domineer and crush. Its extremest action would result in +Hatred. Its location is marked by the letters Ha. and Do. + +Upon the principles already stated, the intellect occupies the extreme +front of the brain--the anterior surface of the front lobe. Its +general character will be represented by its middle--the region of +Consciousness and of Memory (Memory). The faculties that relate to +physical objects, the intellect common to animals, would necessarily +occupy the lower stratum along the brow (Perception), while the higher +species of intellect would occupy a higher position at the summit of +the forehead. Sagacity, Reason, and other similar forms of intellect, +marked Understanding, are above--physical conceptions below--Memory, +which retains both, lying between them. + +The perceptive power, with the widest exterior range, is at the median +line, where we find clairvoyance; and the interior meditative power, +such as Invention, Composition, Calculation, and Planning, belongs to +the lateral or exterior surface of the forehead, according to the +principles just stated. Adhesiveness (Adh.) is the centre of the +antagonism to the intellect. + +Religion, which relates to the infinite exterior, to the universe and +its loftiest power, must evidently be upon the median line and in the +higher portion of the brain, farther back than Benevolence, as it is a +stronger sentiment, but not so far back as Patience and Firmness. + +Its antagonism must be at the lower external surface, behind +Irritability, (as Religion is before Patience,) but before +Acquisitiveness. The tendency of such a faculty must be toward a +lawless defiance of everything sacred, a passionate, impulsive +self-will and selfishness, resulting in lawless profligacy. Profligacy +would, therefore, be the name for its predominance (Pr.), while +executive independence and energy for selfish purposes would be its +more normal manifestation. + +Thus we might go over the entire brain, showing that all the locations +of functions which have been learned from comparison of crania with +character, and which have been absolutely demonstrated by experiments +upon intelligent persons, are arranged in accordance with general laws +which are easily understood. The perfection of divine wisdom is made +fully apparent when we see the vast complexity of the psychic +phenomena of man. + + "A MIGHTY MAZE BUT NOT WITHOUT A PLAN," + +subjected to laws of arrangement and harmony that make it so clearly +intelligible. Far more do we realize this when we master the science +of PATHOGNOMY, and discover that all the attributes or faculties of +the human soul, and all its complex relations with the body, are +demonstrably subject to mathematical laws. + +I do not propose in this sketch to go through all the details of the +localities as I might with the anatomical models before a class, but +would refer, in conclusion, to the location of the physiological +functions of the brain. + +Its basilar surfaces, pointing downwards, have their normal influence +upon the body. Behind the ear they act upon the spinal cord and +muscular system. Hence basilar depth produces vital force and muscular +power. But as the basilar functions, which use the body, are opposite +to the coronal functions which sustain our higher nature, it follows +that excessive use of the body, either for exertion or for sensual +pleasure, is destructive to our higher faculties, operating in many +respects like the indulgence of the lower passions. Hence mankind are +imbruted by excessive toil as well as by excessive sensuality and +violence. + +While the basilar region behind the ear operates upon the posterior +part of the trunk, that portion in front of the ear operates more +anteriorly, affecting the viscera, in which there is no muscular +vigor, and the tendency of which is toward indolence. Thus the +vertical line separates the indolent from the energetic basilar +functions, and all the enfeebling, sensitive, morbid faculties that +impair our energies are in the anterior basilar region. + +The normal action of these organs, however, is necessary to life, and +sustains the visceral system in the reception of food and expulsion of +waste. But as it is the region of sensibility to all influences, it +renders us liable to all derangements of body and mind, unless we are +strongly fortified by our occipital strength. The tendency to bodily +disorder has been explained by reference to the organs of Disease and +Health. Insanity, or derangement of the mind and nervous system, +belongs to a basilar and anterior location, which we reach through the +junction of the neck and jaw (marked Ins.). It is more interior, but +not lower than Disease, in the brain. Its antagonism is above on the +temporal arch, between the lateral and upper surfaces of the brain, +marked San. for Sanity. It gives a mental firmness which resists +disturbing influences. + +The coronal region or upper surface of the brain has the opposite +influence to that of the basilar organs in all respects, withdrawing +the nervous energy from the body, tranquillizing its excitements, and +attracting all vital energy to the brain, especially in its upper +region. By sustaining the brain, which is the chief seat of life, and +by restraining the passions, the coronal region is more beneficial to +health and longevity than any other portion. In the posterior part it +not only has this happy effect, but by sustaining the occipital half +of the brain, gives a normal and healthy energy to all the powers of +life. Such is the influence of the group of organs in which Health is +the centre. + +[Illustration] + +It is obvious, therefore, that the study of the brain reveals laws +which give us the strongest inducement to an honorable life as the +only road to success and happiness. + +To show the facility with which organs may be located upon general +principles, I present herewith the locations actually made by a small +class of pupils when I first proposed to have them determine locations +according to the general laws of organology. None of these locations +would be called erroneous, the most incorrect of all being +Adhesiveness, located a little too high. They are Be. Benevolence, Ac. +Acquisitiveness, Phi. Philanthropy, Des. Destructiveness, Lo. Love, +Ha. Hate, Hu. Humor, Mod. Modesty, Os. Ostentation, Con. +Conscientiousness, Ba. Baseness, Pa. Patience, Irr. Irritability, For. +Fortitude, Al. Alimentiveness, Her. Heroism, Sen. Sensibility, Hea. +Health, Dis. Disease, Ad. Adhesiveness, Co. Combativeness, Ar. +Arrogance, Rev. Reverence, Ca. Cautiousness, Ra. Rashness. + +The suggestion cannot be too often repeated that the nomenclature of +cerebral organology can never adequately express the functions of the +organs. The brain has in all its organs physiological and psychic +powers, which no one word can ever express fully. Sometimes a good +psychic term, such as Firmness, suggests to the intelligent mind a +corresponding influence on the physiological constitution, but in the +present state of mental science the conception of such a +correspondence is very vague. + +Moreover, even the psychic functions are not adequately represented by +the words already coined in the English language for other purposes, +and I do not think it expedient at present to coin new terms which +would embarrass the student. The word Sanity, for example, answers its +purpose by signifying a mental condition so firm and substantial as to +defy the depressing and disturbing influences that derange the mind. +It produces not the mere negative state, or absence of insanity, but a +positive firmness, and self-control, which is the interior expression +of firmness. The cheerful, stable, manly, and well-regulated character +which it produces, disciplines alike the intellect and the emotions, +and shows itself in children by an early maturity of character and +deportment, and freedom from childish folly and passion. + +If a new word should be introduced to express this function, the Greek +word SOPHROSYNE would be a very good one, as it signifies a +self-controlled and reasonable nature. The verb ANDRISO, signifying to +render hardy, manly, strong, to display vigor, and make a manly effort +of self-control, would be equally appropriate in the adjective form, +ANDRIKOS, and still more in the noun ANDRIA, which signifies manhood +or manly sentiments and conduct. It would not, however, be preferable +to the English word, MANLINESS, which is as appropriate a term as +Sanity or ANDRIA. + + + + +TO YOU PERSONALLY. + + +The JOURNAL OF MAN acknowledges with pleasure your co-operation during +the past year, its trial trip. It presumes from your co-operation, +that you are one of the very few truly progressive and large-minded +mortals who really wish to lift mankind into a better condition, and +who have that practical sagacity (which is rare among the educated) by +which you recognize great truths in their first presentation before +they have the support of the leaders of society. If among our readers +there are _any_ of a different class, they are not expected to +continue. 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"The JOURNAL OF MAN is +certainly the most valuable truth-giver I ever saw."--J. T. J. "It is +the only journal of the kind, and the most needed of any kind."--O. K. +K. "I will sustain the Journal of Man as long as I have a dollar."--P. +C. M. "I do not see how I could get along without it."--G. B. N. +"Enlarge the JOURNAL five-fold."--G. B. R. "I shall want it as long as +I remain in this life."--Mrs. M. J. R. "Among progressive minds and +deep thinkers, it is considered solid gold."--W. E. S. "Count on me as +a life subscriber."--N. J. S. "I hope you will keep your pen moving, +as the world has need of your thoughts."--S. C. W. "I wish you could +make it a four-dollar publication."--A. W. "I think it the most +advanced publication extant."--H. W. W. "The rectification of cerebral +science is to me a demonstration."--L. W. H. "It accords with my views +of man, and leads by going beyond me."--J. W. I. "The most scientific +publication that I have ever read, and far in advance of all +others."--S. J. W. "The JOURNAL OF MAN is just what I want."--C. L. A. +"To say I like the JOURNAL, and am much interested in it, is a meagre +way of expressing myself."--H. F. B. "I hope you will be able to +extend it broadcast over the land."--Dr. W. W. B. "It has filled a +long-felt want in my mind."--E. C. B., M. D. "I wish that every editor +in the world was actuated by the same spirit that seems to actuate +you. As long as I can see to read, I shall endeavor to make it my +companion."--W. B. "More than pleased."--A. E. C. "I know of nothing +printed that equals it."--J. E. P. C. "I regard the JOURNAL as +important to mankind the world over."--E. E. C. "I am in receipt of +several medical journals and several newspapers; I think your JOURNAL +OF MAN contains more common sense than all the others."--S. F. D., +M.D. "I bid you God speed in your dissemination of truth."--Rev. D. D. +"The more it is enlarged the better I am pleased."--A. F., M.D. "I +perceive fully its important mission."--M. F. "I admire your thought +and expression."--L. G. "I will take the JOURNAL under all +circumstances, and at any price."--L. I. G. "I admired the manner in +which you bombarded military unchristianity."--A. J. H. + + +PUBLICATION OF THE JOURNAL. + +It is not yet decided that the JOURNAL shall be enlarged. The +flattering responses already received are not sufficient in number to +justify enlargement. Unless the remainder of the readers of the +JOURNAL shall express themselves in favor of enlargement it will not +be attempted. The editor is willing to toil without reward, but not to +take up a pecuniary burden in addition. + + * * * * * + +PSYCHOMETRIC PRACTICE. + +Mrs. C. H. Buchanan continues to apply her skill in the description of +character and disease, with general impressions as to past and future. +Her numerous correspondents express much gratification and surprise at +the correctness of her delineations. The fee for a personal interview +is $2; for a written description $3; for a more comprehensive review +and statement of life periods, with directions for the cultivation of +Psychometry, $5. + + * * * * * + +MAYO'S ANAESTHETIC. + +The suspension of pain, under dangerous surgical operations, is the +greatest triumph of Therapeutic Science in the present century. It +came first by mesmeric hypnotism, which was applicable only to a few, +and was restricted by the jealous hostility of the old medical +profession. Then came the nitrous oxide, introduced by Dr. Wells, of +Hartford, and promptly discountenanced by the enlightened (?) medical +profession of Boston, and set aside for the next candidate, ether, +discovered in the United States also, but far inferior to the nitrous +oxide as a safe and pleasant agent. This was largely superseded by +chloroform, discovered much earlier by Liebig and others, but +introduced as an anaesthetic in 1847, by Prof. Simpson. This proved to +be the most powerful and dangerous of all. Thus the whole policy of +the medical profession was to discourage the safe, and encourage the +more dangerous agents. The magnetic sleep, the most perfect of all +anaesthetic agents, was expelled from the realm of college authority; +ether was substituted for nitrous oxide, and chloroform preferred to +ether, until frequent deaths gave warning. + +Nitrous oxide, much the safest of the three, has not been the +favorite, but has held its ground, especially with dentists. But even +nitrous oxide is not perfect. It is not equal to the magnetic sleep, +when the latter is practicable, but fortunately it is applicable to +all. To perfect the nitrous oxide, making it universally safe and +pleasant, Dr. U. K. Mayo, of Boston, has combined it with certain +harmless vegetable nervines, which appear to control the fatal +tendency which belongs to all anaesthetics when carried too far. The +success of Dr. Mayo, in perfecting our best anaesthetic, is amply +attested by those who have used it. Dr. Thorndike, than whom Boston +had no better surgeon, pronounced it "the safest the world has yet +seen." It has been administered to children and to patients in extreme +debility. Drs. Frizzell and Williams say they have given it +"repeatedly in heart disease, severe lung diseases, Bright's disease, +etc., where the patients were so feeble as to require assistance in +walking, many of them under medical treatment, and the results have +been all that we could ask--no irritation, suffocation, nor +depression. We heartily commend it to all as the anaesthetic of the +age." Dr. Morrill, of Boston, administered Mayo's anaesthetic to his +wife with delightful results when "her lungs were so badly +disorganized, that the administration of ether or gas would be +entirely unsafe." The reputation of this anaesthetic is now well +established; in fact, it is not only safe and harmless, but has great +medical virtue for daily use in many diseases, and is coming into use +for such purposes. In a paper before the Georgia State Dental Society, +Dr. E. Parsons testified strongly to its superiority. "The nitrous +oxide (says Dr. P.) causes the patient when fully under its influence +to have very like the appearance of a corpse," but under this new +anaesthetic "the patient appears like one in a natural sleep." The +language of the press generally has been highly commendatory, and if +Dr. Mayo had occupied so conspicuous a rank as Prof. Simpson, of +Edinburgh, his new anaesthetic would have been adopted at once in every +college of America and Europe. + + * * * * * + + THE OPEN COURT. + + PUBLISHED BY + + The Open Court Publishing Company, + + Rooms 41 and 42, + 169-175 LA SALLE STREET, + CHICAGO. + + B. F. UNDERWOOD, SARA A. 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