stand unimpeached
to-day, sustained by every complete investigation, and not refuted or
contradicted by the innumerable experiments of medical scientists. The
labors of Ferrier, Fritsch, Hitzig and Charcot, become a part of the
new system, as they lend corroboration; and the annals of pathology
furnish numerous corroborative facts. These are not barren, abstract
sciences, but bear upon all departments of human life--upon education,
medical practice, hygiene, the study of character, the selection of
public officers, of partners, friends, and conjugal companions,--upon
religion and morals, the administration of justice and government,
penal and reformatory law, the exploration of antiquity, the
philosophy of art and eloquence, and the cultivation of all sciences
except the mathematical. Anthropology must, therefore, become the
guide and guardian of humanity, and, as such, will be illustrated by
the "Journal of Man." It will indulge in no rash ultraism or
antagonism, but will kindly appreciate truth even when mingled with
error. There is, to-day, a vast amount of established science to be
respected and preserved, as well as a vast amount of rubbish in
metaphysical, theological, sociological, and educational opinions,
that requires to be buried in the grave of the obsolete. The greatness
of our themes forbids their illustration in a prospectus, which can
but promise an unfailing supply of the novel and wonderful, the
philanthropic and important, the interesting and useful, presented in
that spirit of love and hope which sees that earth may be changed into
the likeness of heaven, and that such progress is a part of our
world's remote but inevitable destiny.

Let it be remembered that science, philosophy, and religion are false
and worthless when they do not contribute to the happiness and
elevation of mankind, and that the chief factor in human elevation is
that wise adaptation of measures to human nature which is utterly
impossible without a thorough understanding of man,--in other words,
without the science of anthropology, for the lack of which all
national and individual life has been filled with a succession of
blunders and calamities. It is especially in the most brilliant
portion of anthropology, the science of psychometry, that we shall
find access to the reconstructive wisdom which leads to a nobler life
in accordance with the laws of heaven, as well as the prosperity and
success which come from the fulness of prac