demonstrates the
existence of the soul, and demonstrates that heaven is not a morbid
dream but a splendid reality,--the religious sentiment will recognize
such science as its friend; and when science goes farther, and
interprets the Divine laws as written by omnipotent wisdom in the
constitution of man, more plainly and far more fully than they have
ever been expressed in religious writings, then will religion perceive
that such science is the Divine messenger before whom it should bow in
reverence, and whose every utterance should be held sacred.

It is thus the mission of anthropology to enlighten religion, to
interpret the Divine law, and to reign in the kingdom of heaven, to
which it is to lead us; and it is the mission of the JOURNAL OF MAN to
present and keep before the enlightened few the guiding wisdom of
anthropology.

THE PHRENOLOGICAL DOCTRINES OF DR. GALL.

THEIR PAST AND PRESENT STATUS.

Science ought to emancipate mankind from the control of the animal
instincts, and in the purely physical and mathematical sciences it
does. In mathematics, dynamics, optics, acoustics, astronomy,
electricity, engineering, and mechanics, the dictates of pure
intellect are seldom interfered with by any blind impulse, attraction,
or prejudice. But it is very different in the realm of opinion--in
matters in which reason should be supreme, with as absolute authority
as number and form have in mathematics.

A thousand can measure and calculate, and can obey implicitly in
thought the mathematical laws, for one that can reason and obey
implicitly the dictates of pure reason. If an error is made in the
construction of a bridge, erection of a house, or financial report of
a bank, thousands may at once detect the error, and by clear
exposition compel its recognition. But in matters of opinion
controlled by reason, there is no such ready detection and recognition
of error, even by the best educated classes. The realm of opinion is
ever in chaos. Contradictory opinions are ever clashing; no supreme
arbiter is known; no law of reason, like the laws of mathematics,
comes in to dissipate error and delusion.

Why is this? Anthropology replies that reason is as positive, clear,
and imperative as mathematical principles, but that men have not been
educated to exercise and to obey the faculty of reason, as they have
been to measure and to count. In matters of opinion, feeling and
impulse are allowed to dominate over reason, an