INTELLIGENT PUBLIC OPINION. “The consensus of the competent.”
Buchanan’s “Journal of Man.” “Perhaps no journal published in the world is so far in advance of the age.”—Plain Dealer, Cleveland.
“His method is strictly scientific; he proceeds on the sure ground of observation and experiment; he admits no phenomena as reality which he has not thoroughly tested, and is evidently more desirous to arrive at a correct understanding of nature than to establish a system…. We rejoice that they are in the hands of one who is so well qualified as the editor of the Journal to do them justice, both by his indomitable spirit of research, his cautious analysis of facts, and his power of exact and vigorous expression.”—New York Tribune.
“This sterling publication is always welcome to our table. Many of its articles evince marked ability and striking originality.”—National Era, Washington City.
“It is truly refreshing to take up this monthly…. When we drop anchor and sit down to commune with philosophy as taught by Buchanan, the fogs and mists of the day clear up.”—Capital City Fact.
“This work is a pioneer in the progress of science.”—Louisville Democrat.
“After a thorough perusal of its pages, we unhesitatingly pronounce it one of the ablest publications in America.”—Brandon Post.
“To hear these subjects discussed by ordinary men, and then to read Buchanan, there is as much difference as in listening to a novice performing on a piano, and then to a Chevalier Gluck or a Thalberg.”—Democrat Transcript.
Buchanan’s “System of Anthropology.” “We have no hesitation in asserting the great superiority of the form in which it is presented by Dr. Buchanan, whether we regard its practical accuracy or its philosophical excellence.”—American Magazine of Homœopathy.
“The author has long been known as a distinguished Professor of Physiology, whose name is identified with one of the most remarkable discoveries of the age, the impressibility of the brain…. We are confident Buchanan’s ‘Anthropology’ will soon supersede the fragmentary systems of Gall and Spurzheim, the metaphysicians and phrenologists.”—Daily Times, Cincinnati.
“Beyond all doubt it is a most extraordinary work, exhibiting the working of a mind of no common stamp. Close students and hard thinkers will find in it a rich treat, a deep and rich mine of thought.”—Gospel Herald, Cincinnati.
“They have had sufficient evidence to satisfy them that Dr. Buchanan’s views have a rational, experimental foundation, and that the subject opens a field of investigation second to no other in immediate interest, and in the promise of important future results to science and humanity.”—Report of New York Committee (Wm. Cullen Bryant, Chairman).
“If he has made a single discovery in physiology, he has made more than any previous explorer of that science, in furnishing us this key to the whole of its principles, by his cerebral and corporeal experiments.”—Report of the Faculty of Indiana University.
“No person of common discernment who has read Dr. Buchanan’s writings or conversed with him in relation to the topics which they treat, can have failed to recognize in him one of the very foremost thinkers of the day. He is certainly one of the most charming and instructive men to whom anybody with a thirst for high speculation ever listened.”—Louisville Journal (edited by Prentice and Shipman).
“To Dr. Buchanan is due the distinguished honor of being the first individual to excite the organs of the brain by agencies applied externally directly over them, before which the discoveries of Gall, Spurzheim, or Sir Charles Bell—men who have been justly regarded as benefactors of their race—dwindle into comparative insignificance. This important discovery has given us a key to man’s nature, moral, intellectual, and physical.”—Democratic Review, New York.
“Therapeutic Sarcognomy.” “In this work we have the rich results of half a century of original thought, investigation, and discovery. Upon the psychic functions of the brain, Professor Buchanan is the highest living authority, being the only investigator of nature who has done anything important for that neglected realm of science, to which the world was introduced by the genius of Gall and Spurzheim. This work is really a complete exposition of the great mystery, the united operation and structural plan of soul, brain, and body.”—Medical Advocate, New York.
“Of the very highest importance in the healing art, is a work just issued by the venerable Professor Buchanan. We have read the book from cover to cover with unabated attention; and it is replete with ideas, suggestions, and practical hints, and conclusions of eminent value to every practitioner who is himself enough of a natural physician to appreciate and apply them…. Having been cognizant of the very valuable and original work accomplished by Professor Buchanan in physiology, and having seen him demonstrate many times, on persons of all grades of intellectual and physical health, the truths he here affirms, the subject has lost the sense of novelty to us, and is accepted as undoubtedly proven.”—American Homœopathist, New York.
“Manual of Psychometry: The Dawn of a New Civilization.” (2d edition.) “The like of this work is not to be found in the whole literature of the past…. His name stands honorably among those who have extended the real boundaries of knowledge.”—Home Journal, New York.
“As an experimental science it is likely to make its way to universal recognition. But the recognition of psychometry involves a tremendous change in the opinions of the world, the teachings of colleges, and the prevalent doctrines of science and philosophy.”—Health Monthly, New York.
“The friends of Professor Buchanan have been waiting now thirty years for him to make a proper public presentation of his greatest discovery,—psychometry, a discovery which the future historian must place among the noblest and greatest of this great epoch of human thought…. Every branch of the Theosophical Society should have a copy, and study the book carefully.”—Theosophist, Madras, India.
The above works may be obtained from the author, 6 James Street, Boston. The price should be remitted by postal order—for the “Manual of Psychometry,” $2.16; for the “New Education,” $1.50; for “Therapeutic Sarcognomy,” (2d edition to be published, 1887,) “Journal of Man,” $1 per annum. “Anthropology” was exhausted thirty years ago. Its place will be occupied by “Cerebral Psychology,” not before the winter of 1887-88.