Published from 1849 to 1856 at Cincinnati, is to be re-established at Boston inFebruary, 1887. When published formerly it was in its character and merits entirelyunique, and, notwithstanding the progress of thirty-five years, its positionis still unique, and in its essential characteristics different from all nineteenthcentury literature, and not in competition with any other publication. It wasneeded in 1849, and it is still more needed now. It represents an entirely newschool of thought, based upon the establishment of the new science of Anthropology,which is a revelation of the anatomical, physiological, and psychic unionof soul, brain, and body, and a complete portrait of man and the laws of his life,from which arise many forms of psychological, ethical, physiological, pathological,and therapeutic science, all of which are eminently practical and philanthropicin their results.
One of these applications has been given in the volume entitled, “The NewEducation,” of which Edward Howland says, “Its results cannot fail of beingof even more influence upon the culture and the virtue of society than the introductionof steam into industrial methods has had in the distribution of theproducts of skilled labor.”*
*Rev. B. F. BARRETT, one of the most eminent writers of his church, says:
“We are perfectly charmed with your book. I regard it by far as the most valuable work oneducation ever published. You have herein formulated the very wisdom of heaven on the highestand most momentous of all themes. Your work is destined, in my judgment, to inaugurate a newera in popular education. It contains more and higher wisdom on the subject of which it treatsthan all the other books ever written on education.”
To watch and to assist the progress of humanity has been the pleasure of theeditor for half a century, and it will be the task of the “Journal of Man,” asfar as practicable, to present a periscope of progress in all that interests thephilanthropist. Almost innumerable questions are arising concerning humanrights, opinions, and interests, such as, the new education, the new theology,theosophy, occultism, spiritualism, materialism, agnosticism, evolution,paleontology, ethnology, ancient religions, systems of ethics, sociology, politicaleconomy, labor and wages, co-operation, socialism, woman’s progress andrights, intemperance and social evils of every grade, modern literature, thephilosophy of art and oratory, revolutions in medicine, sanitary and hygienicscience, democracy, public men and women, prison reform, the land question,and questions of war or peace, and national policy; upon all of which the“Journal of Man” must necessarily occupy an independent position, andpresent peculiar views, in the light of the new sciences of which it is theexponent,—views not derived from the past, not in harmony with the orthodoxliterature of the day, nor tinged by any credulous fanaticism, but resultingfrom a half century of earnest and scientific search for truth.
Another important function for a philanthropic and progressive journal isto assist in the diffusion of liberal literature, and to keep an eye upon the prolificpress of to-day, for the benefit of its readers, calling their attention to themeritorious works, which are often neglected, and warning against pretentiousfolly and sciolism. But it is not supposed that the programme of the Journal canb