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 Familistere 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 Caesar. 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.