If the science of man, the being in whom the spiritual and materialworlds are fully represented, and in whom both can be studiedin their relations, has been fully (though not completely orfinally) developed by the revelation through experiments, of the functionsof the brain, then from the establishment of anthropologythere necessarily begins a literary revolution, which not onlychanges all philosophy, but extends through all the realms of literature.There is no realm which can escape the modifying influenceof ideas which are at the basis of all conceptions of man, of society,of duty, of religion, of art, of social institutions, of the healing art,education, and government, and the new light which psychometricillumination throws upon all sciences.
The literature of the future will therefore differ widely from theliterature of the past, and millions of volumes which still hold theirplaces on the shelves of libraries will in the ne