Visit to our Cemetery.
Sad are the words, “It might have been,” sad the recollection of lives untimely ended, and equally sad the lives that perished unborn. We have been looking among the latter, the spirit life that might have gone forth to bless society, but perished ere its birth.
The Journal of Man has brought forth many a bright, strong thought that will have its career among men, but the other bright, strong thoughts that could not be forced through its narrow limits must be buried and lost to its readers, and they have been interred with sorrow. The following is a list of our early dead–perhaps for some of them there may be a resurrection when a larger Journal is issued, but perhaps the majority are interred forever.
1. Career of Mohammedanism in Africa. 2. The True History of Buddha. 3. Influence of Christianity in history. 4. Startling Calculations for the Future. 6. The Snake Charmers in Tunis. 6. Mesmerism in China before the Christian Era. 7. Dr. Montgomery on the Cell Theory. 8. A Race of Dwarfs in the Pyrenees. 9. Religious Hallucination in the Bahamas. 10. Philosophy of Death. 11. The Delsarte System of Elocution and Acting. 12. Why Should the Chinese go? an eloquent argument by a learned Mandarin. 13. An Organic Index of Human Longevity–the Doctrine of Powell. 15. Anthropological Laws of Longevity. 16. Psychometry and Thought Transference in India. 17. Prof. Dana on Evolution. 18. Statistics of Heads and Brains. 19. Cures by Prayer. 20. Indian Witchcraft. 21. Hypnotism among Turkish Dervishes. 22. Discussion of Heredity and Temperaments. 23. Theory and Practice of the Divining Rod. 24. Mrs. Stanton on Sleep. 25. Cures for Insomnia, and Singular Case of Night-sweats. 26. A Modern Samson. 27. Transactions in Psychic Research. 28. A Critique of Unreason–a Caustic Review of the Psychic Society. 29. Scientific View of the Antiquity of Man. 30. Phrenological Quackery. 31. English and German Industrial Education. 32. Training of Viennese Girls. 33. Revolutions in Medicine. 34. History and Progress of Russian Nihilists. 35. The Paradise of Labor–the Familistère at Guise in France. 36. Exhibition of the Keeley Motor. 37. A New Element in the Blood. 38. Reform of the Lunacy Laws. 39. Marvellous Dreams. 40. Byron’s Spiritual Belief. 41. How to Deal with Drunkards and Medical Treatment of Intemperance. 42. Combination of Electricity and Medicine. 43. Meynert’s Psychiatry, a Treatise on Diseases of the Fore-brain. 44. A Mesmerized Detective. 45. Wonderful Spirit Telegraphy. 46. Discovery of Dead Bodies by Intuition. 47. How Clouds are formed. 48. Psychometric Reports on Simon of Samaria, Henry George, Dr. McGlynn, Lucretia Mott, Dr. Gall, Charlemagne and Julius Cæsar. 49. The Puget Sound Colony. 50. English Rule in Ireland. 51. Dr. Eadon on Memory. 52. Harrison on Mysticism. 53. Progress in Many Parts of the World. 54. Communications from various correspondents, etc., etc. This is not one half, but it is needless to prolong the catalogue of the buried innocents,–the interesting narratives, discussions and expositions of rare knowledge which the limited area of the Journal has compelled me to exclude.
Let us hope that in our enlarged Journal next year, there may be room to review the most important features of social and scientific progress as well as to present gradually the elements of that world-embracing science which is called Anthropology,–the presentation of which will require at least ten years. I am making every effort at present to prepare the improved and enlarged edition of the Therapeutic Sarcognomy for the coming winter.
From Buchanan’s Journal of Man, September 1887.