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                             BUCHANAN'S
                           JOURNAL OF MAN.

            VOL. I.        NOVEMBER, 1887.        NO. 10.




CONTENTS OF JOURNAL OF MAN.


  The Slow Triumph of Truth
  Old Industrial Education
  An Incomparable "Medical Outlaw"
  Educational.--Educational Reform in England; Dead Languages
    Vanishing; Higher Education of Women; Bad Sunday-School Books;
    Our Barbarous Orthography
  Critical.--European Barbarism; Boston Civilization; Monopoly;
    Woman's Drudgery; Christian Civilization; Walt Whitman;
    Temperance
  Scientific.--Extension of Astronomy; A New Basis for Chemistry;
    Chloroform in Hydrophobia; The Water Question; Progress of
    Homoeopathy; Round the World Quickly
  Glances Round the World (concluded from August)
  Rectification of Cerebral Science (illustrated)




THE SLOW TRIUMPH OF TRUTH.


THE JOURNAL OF MAN does not fear to perform its duty and use plain
language in reference to the obstructionists who hinder the acceptance
of demonstrable sciences and prevent all fair investigation, while
they occupy positions of influence and control in all collegiate
institutions.

It is not in scorn or bitterness that we should speak of this erring
class, a large number of whom are the victims of mis-education--of the
hereditary policy of the colleges, which is almost as difficult to
change as a national church, or a national despotism. The young men
who enter the maelstrom of college life are generally borne along as
helpless as rowing boats in a whirlpool. It is impossible for even the
strongest minds to be exposed for years, surrounded by the
contaminating influence of falsehood, and come forth uninjured. But
while we pity the victims of medical colleges and old-fashioned
universities, let us seek for our young friends institutions that have
imbibed the spirit of the present age.

Man is essentially a spiritual being, and, even in this life, he has
many of the spiritual capacities which are to be unfolded in the
higher life. Moreover, there are in every refined constitution a great
number of delicate sensibilities, which no college has ever
recognized.

There has been no concealment of these facts. They have always been
open to observation,--more open than the facts of Geology and
Chemistry. Ever since the earliest dawn of civilization in Egypt,
India, and Greece the facts have been conspicuous before the world,
and, in ancient times, have attracted the attention of imperial and
republican governments. And yet, the literary guild, the
_incorporated_ officials of education everywhere, have refused to
investigate such truths, and shaped their policy in accordance with
the lowest instincts of mammon,--in accordance with the policy of
kings, of priests, of soldiers, and of plutocrats; and this policy has
been so firmly maintained and transmitted, that there is