ed, in my judgment, to inaugurate a new era in
popular education. It contains more and higher wisdom on
the subject of which it treats _than all the other books
ever written on education_."

To watch and to assist the progress of humanity has been the pleasure
of the editor for half a century, and it will be the task of the
"Journal of Man," as far as practicable, to present a periscope of
progress in all that interests the philanthropist. Almost innumerable
questions are arising concerning human rights, 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, political economy, labor and wages, co-operation,
socialism, woman's progress and rights, intemperance and social evils
of every grade, modern literature, the philosophy of art and oratory,
revolutions in medicine, sanitary and hygienic science, 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, and present
peculiar views, in the light of the new sciences of which it is the
exponent,--views not derived from the past, not in harmony with the
orthodox literature of the day, nor tinged by any credulous
fanaticism, but resulting from a half century of earnest and
scientific search for truth.

Another important function for a philanthropic and progressive journal
is to assist in the diffusion of liberal literature, and to keep an
eye upon the prolific press of to-day, for the benefit of its readers,
calling their attention to the meritorious works, which are often
neglected, and warning against pretentious folly and sciolism. But it
is not supposed that the programme of the Journal can be fully carried
out until the completion of certain works now in hand will permit its
enlargement.

The existence and diffusion of such a science as psychometry--"the
dawn of a new civilization," as it is considered by its adepts and its
friends,--is alone an imperative demand for a journal to assist the
diffusion and illustration of a science, which no honorable and
logical thinker, after accepting its well-established facts, can
regard as anything less than the beginning of an intellectual
revolution, the magnitude of which is astounding to a con