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Title: Buchanan's Journal of Man, November 1887
Volume 1, Number 10

Author: Various

Editor: J. R. Buchanan

Release Date: January 9, 2009 [EBook #27758]

Language: English

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BUCHANAN'S
JOURNAL OF MAN.

VOL. I. NOVEMBER, 1887. NO. 10.

CONTENTS OF JOURNAL OF MAN.

The Slow Triumph of Truth
Old Industrial Education
An Incomparable "Medical Outlaw"
Educational.--Educational Reform in England; Dead Languages
Vanishing; Higher Education of Women; Bad Sunday-School Books;
Our Barbarous Orthography
Critical.--European Barbarism; Boston Civilization; Monopoly;
Woman's Drudgery; Christian Civilization; Walt Whitman;
Temperance
Scientific.--Extension of Astronomy; A New Basis for Chemistry;
Chloroform in Hydrophobia; The Water Question; Progress of
Homoeopathy; Round the World Quickly
Glances Round the World (concluded from August)
Rectification of Cerebral Science (illustrated)

THE SLOW TRIUMPH OF TRUTH.

THE JOURNAL OF MAN does not fear to perform its duty and use plain
language in reference to the obstructionists who hinder the acceptance
of demonstrable sciences and prevent all fair investigation, while
they occupy positions of influence and control in all collegiate
institutions.

It is not in scorn or bitterness that we should speak of this erring
class, a large number of whom are the victims of mis-education--of the
hereditary policy of the colleges, which is almost as difficult to
change as a national church, or a national despotism. The young men
who enter the maelstrom of college life are generally borne along as
helpless as rowing boats in a whirlpool. It is impossible for even the
strongest minds to be exposed for years, surrounded by the
contaminating influence of falsehood, and come forth uninjured. But