BUCHANAN’S
JOURNAL OF MAN.
Vol. I.
September, 1887.
No. 8.
CONTENTS.
- [Concord Symposium]
- [Rectification of Cerebral Science]
- [Human Longevity]
- [Miscellaneous Intelligence]—[An important Discovery]; [Jennie Collins]; [Greek Philosophy]; [Symposiums]; [Literature of the Past]; [The Concord School]; [New Books]; [Solar Biology]; [Dr. Franz Hartmann]; [Progress of Chemistry]; [Astronomy]; [Geology Illustrated]; [A Mathematical Prodigy]; [Astrology in England]; [Primogeniture Abolished]; [Medical Intolerance and Cunning]; [Negro Turning White]; [The Cure of Hydrophobia]; [John Swinton’s Paper]; [Women’s Rights and Progress]; [Co-Education]; [Spirit writing]; [Progress of the Marvellous]
- [Chapter VII.—Practical Utility of Anthropology (Concluded)]
- [Chapter VIII.—The Origin and Foundation of the New Anthropology]
The Concord Symposium and their Greatest Contribution to Philosophy.
Let no one accuse the critic of irreverence, who doubts the wisdom of universities, and of pedantic scholars who burrow like moles in the mouldering remnants of antiquity, but see nothing of the glorious sky overhead. While I have no reverence for barren or wasted intellect, I have the profoundest respect for the fruitful intellect which produces valuable results—for the vast energy of the lower class of intellectual powers, which have developed our immense wealth of the physical sciences and their useful applications. Indescribably grand they are. The mathematicians, chemists, geologists, astronomers, botanists, zoologists, anatomists, and the numerous masters of dynamic sciences and arts, have lifted the world out of the ruder elements of barbarism and suffering.
But, as for the class of speculative talkers, whose self-sufficiency prompts them to assume the name of philosophers, to which they have no right, what have they ever done either to promote human welfare, or to assist human enlightenment and reveal the mysteries of life? Have they not always been as blind as owls, bats, and moles, to daylight progress? Are they not at this time utterly and unconsciously blind to the progress of spiritual sciences, to the revelations of psychometry and anthropology—placing themselves, indeed, in that hopeless class who are too ignorant to know their ignorance, too far in the dark to know or suspect that there is any light?