urnal.

A proper understanding of this subject will show what method of life
and thought tends toward insanity, and by what methods we escape it.
It will show also the relation of disease to insanity, and the proper
methods of moral and physical treatment.

MISCELLANY.

OUR NARROW LIMITS AND FUTURE TASKS.--As the Journal goes to press I
realize vividly how utterly inadequate a dollar monthly is for the
expression of the new philosophy, even in the most condensed form, and
for the periscope of progress that it should contain. A large amount
of desirable matter is necessarily excluded. Nevertheless a modest
beginning is prudent; for the vitality of a young journal, whether
daily, weekly, or monthly, is as delicate as that of an infant. It is
to be hoped that the friends of progress will secure patronage enough
to the Journal this year to justify its enlargement in 1888. Meantime
the minister whose circuit embraces many stations cannot visit them
all each week. In like manner the JOURNAL OF MAN has too large a
circuit to approach each of its themes every month. The science of man
being the highest and most comprehensive of themes, occupies the chief
position in the first number. Hereafter we must consider in succession
such themes as

1. PSYCHOMETRY and its revelations; SPIRITUAL science and philosophy.
2. MEDICAL progress and reform; HYGIENE and temperance.
3. EDUCATIONAL principles and progress; PROGRESS in science and
invention.
4. The truth in RELIGION; the prevention of WAR.
5. LAND AND LABOR questions; the extinction of MONOPOLIES.
6. WOMAN'S rights and progress; the condition of the WORLD.

And a score of other important themes. It may be two years before they
can all be reached. Those who preserve their Journals will in time
have a small library, embodying the knowledge that progressive minds
would cherish.

PALMISTRY.--Mr. E. Heron-Allen, a very intelligent gentleman from
England, with a fashionable prestige, has been interesting the
fashionables of New York and Boston in palmistry, or, as he calls it,
cheirosophy, with considerable profit to himself. The human
constitution is so unitary in itself that every portion reveals much
of the whole. Physicians learn a great deal from the globules of the
blood, others draw many inferences from the excretions. The amount of
study given to the hand renders it probable that palmistry may have
considerable value as a physiognomic scienc