s from the
Mexican government, and opened a field in which his democratic ideas
of human rights, of land, labor, finance, hygiene, freedom, and
general reform, can have full scope.

Mr. Owen's ideas and plans are stated in a book of two hundred pages,
published by Jno. W. Lovell, 14 Vesey Street, New York, and sent by
mail for thirty cents. It is not a systematic treatise, but a
miscellaneous collection of documents which give a good deal of
information.

The Topolobampo scheme is one requiring great skill and executive
ability in the directors, as well as a harmonious and energetic spirit
in the colonists. The climate, soil, and opportunities are no doubt
the best that have ever been accorded to a scheme of co-operation, and
when its success has been realized, it may be accounted the most
important social event of the century, for it will be the dawn of
peace to a warring world, the promise of harmony between all the
restless and convulsive elements of civilized society.

HEALTH AND LONGEVITY.

Upon these subjects the JOURNAL OF MAN has a new physiological
doctrine to present, which may be stated in the initial number, and
will be illustrated hereafter.

In the volume of "Therapeutic Sarcognomy," which was so speedily and
entirely sold upon its publication, it was clearly demonstrated that
the doctrine of vitality taught at this time in all medical colleges
is essentially erroneous, and that human life is not a mere aggregate
of the properties of the tissues of the human body, as a house is an
aggregate of the physical properties of bricks and wood, but is an
influx, of which the body is but the channel and recipient.

That demonstration need not be repeated just now, as my object is
merely to state the _position_ of the JOURNAL. Life is an influx from
the world of invisible power, aided by various forms of influx from
the material world, without which it would promptly cease. If this
naked statement should seem fanciful or erroneous to any reader, he
may be just to himself by suspending his opinions until he shall have
received the demonstration. We have all been educated into false
opinions on this subject, and it is almost as difficult for the
American scholar to release himself from the influence of education
and habit in such matters, as for the Arab to release his mind from
the influence of the Koran.

It has been only within the last ten years, and as the sequel of
investigations of the seat of