INTELLLIGENT 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 lo 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 mys tery, 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.” (21 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,) "Jon" nal of Man," $1 per annum. Anthropology" was exhausted thirty years ago. 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In addition to the above, this princely volume contains an interesting biographical sketch of Dr. Flower's life and work, together with a remarkably fine portrait of the Doctor, engraved from a recent photograph by one of Boston's best artists. 4 This truly sumptuous volume is printed in blue-black ink, each page being bordered with carmine. The portrait of Dr. Flower is printed in fine photographic brown ink on plate paper. The binding is glazed plate paper, printed in gold, carmine, and black. The publishers' price is fifty cents per copy, but every reader will receive this book free, postpaid, by sending his name and address to THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR PUBLISHING CO., BOSTON, MASS. 3. The cranial investigations of Dr. Buchanan, from 1835 to 1841, confirmed nearly all the discover ies of Gall, and corrected their inaccuracies as to anatomical location and psychic definition. He also discovered the locations of the external senses, and found the science thus corrected entirely reliable in the study of character. In these results he had the substantial concurrence of Dr. W. Byrd Powell, a gentleman of brilliant talents, the only efficient American cultivator of the science. 4. In 1841, Dr. Buchanan (having previously discovered the organ of sensibility) investigated the phenomena of sensitive constitutions, and found that they were easily affected by contact with any substance, and especially by contact with the human hand, so that the organic action of the brain was modified by the nervaura from the fingers, and every convolution could be made to manifest its functions, whether psychic or physiological, and whether intellectual, emotional, volitional, or passional, so as to make the subject of experiment amiable, irritable, intellectual, stupid, drowsy, hungry, restless, entranced, timid, courageous, sensitive, hardy, morbid, insane, idiotic, or whatever might be elicited from any region of the brain, and also to control the physiological functions, modifying the strength, sensibility, temperature, circulation, and pulse. 5. These experiments have been continually repeated from 1841 to 1887, and have commanded unanimous assent to their truth from many committees of investigation, and have during sixteen years been regularly presented and accepted in medical colleges; hence it is not improper to treat this demonstrated science of the brain as an established science, since the establishment of science depends not upon the opinions of the ignorant, but upon the unanimous assent of its investigators or students. 6. As the brain contains all the elements of hu manity, their revelation constitutes a complete ANTHROPOLOGY, the first that has ever been presented, and this science necessarily has its physiological, psychic or social, and supernal or spiritual departments. In its physiological department it constitutes a vast addition to the medical sciences, and essentially changes all the philosophy of medical science, while it initiates many fundamental changes in practice, which have been adopted by Dr. Buchanan's pupils. Hence it deserves the profound attention of all medical schools. 7. In its psychic or social relations, anthropology enables us to form correct estimates from development of all vertebrate animals, of persons and of nations, showing their merits and deficiencies, and consequently the EDUCATION or legislation that is needed. By showing the laws of correlation between persons, it establishes the scientific principles of SOCIAL SCIENCE, and the possibilities of human society. By explaining all the elements of character and their operation, it establishes the true MORAL PHILOSOPHY. By giving the laws of development it formulates the true EDUCATION, and by giving the laws of expression it establishes the science of ORATORY and the PHILOSOPHY OF ART, making a more complete and scientific expression of what was empirically observed by Delsarte with remarkable success. 8. In its spiritual department, anthropology shows the relation of human life to the divine, of terrestrial to supernal existence, and the laws of their intercourse; hence establishing scientific religion and destroying superstition. It gives the scientific principles of animal magnetism, spiritualism, trance, dreaming, insanity, and all extraordinary conditions of human nature. 9. In the department of SARCOGNOMY, anthropology fully explains the triune constitution of man, the relations of soul, brain, and body, thus modifying medical and psychic philosophy, and establishing a new system of external therapeutics for electric and nervauric practice, which have been heretofore superficially empirical. It also gives us new views of animal development and an entirely new conception of statuesque conformation and expression. 10. The magnitude and complexity of the new science thus introduced give an air of romance and incredibility to the whole subject, for nothing so comprehensive has ever before been scientifically attempted, and its magnitude is repulsive to conservative minds, to those who tolerate only slow advances; but the marvellous character of anthropology has not prevented its acceptance by all before whom it has been distinctly and fully presented, for the singular ease and facility of the demonstration is almost as marvellous as the allembracing character of the science, and the revolutionary effects of its adoption upon every sphere of human life. This marvellous character is most extraordinary in its department of PSYCHOMETRY, which teaches the existence of divine elements in man, powers which may be developed in millions, by means of which mankind may hold the key to all knowledge, to the knowledge of the individual characters of persons in any locality or any age, of the history of nations and the geological history of the globe, the characters of all animals, the properties of all substances, the nature of all diseases and mental conditions, the mysteries of physiology, the hidden truths of astronomy, and the hidden truths of the spirit world. Marvellous as it is, psychometry is one of the most demonstrable of sciences, and the evidence of its truth is fully presented in the "Manual of Psychometry," while the statement and illustration of the doctrines of anthropology were presented in the "System of Anthropology," published in 1854, and will be again presented in the forthcoming work, "Cerebral Psychology," which will show how the doctrines of anthropology are corroborated by the labors of a score of the most eminent physiologists and vivisecting anatomists of the present time. If but one tenth part of the foregoing cautious and exact statements were true in reference to anthropology, its claims upon the attention of all clear, honest thinkers, and all philanthropists, would be stronger than those of any doctrine, science, or philanthropy now under investigation; and as those claims are well-endorsed and have ever challenged investigation, their consideration is an imperative duty for all who recognize moral and religious responsibility, and do not confess themselves helplessly enthralled by habit and prejudice. Collegiate faculties may do themselves honor by following the example of the Indiana State University in investigating and honoring this science before the public, and thoughtful scholars may do themselves honor by following the examples of Denton, Pierpont, Caldwell, Gatchell, Forry, and Robert Dale Owen. The discoverer has ever been ready to co-operate with honorable inquirers, and has satisfied all who have met him as seekers of truth; a fact which justifies the tone of confidence with which he speaks. The only serious obstacles he has ever encountered have been the mental inertia which shuns investigation, the cunning cowardice which avoids new and not yet popular truths, and the moral torpor which is indifferent to the claims of truth and duty when not enforced by public opinion. When standing at the head of the leading medical college of Cincinnati, he taught, demonstrated, and proclaimed, during ten years, with collegiate sanction, for the medical profession, the doctrines which he now brings before the American people by scientific volumes (the "Manual of Psycometry," "Therapeutic Sarcognomy," and the "New Education"), and by the JOURNAL OF MAN, which, being devoted chiefly to the introduction of anthropology as the most effective form of philanthropy, may justly claim the active cooperation of the wise and good in promoting its circulation as the herald of the grandest reforms that have ever been proposed in the name and by the authority of positive science. |