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Title: Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888
Volume 1, Number 12

Author: Various

Editor: J. R. Buchanan

Release Date: January 15, 2009 [EBook #27812]

Language: English

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BUCHANAN'S
JOURNAL OF MAN.

VOL. I. JANUARY, 1888. NO. 12.

CONTENTS OF JOURNAL OF MAN.

The Pursuit of Truth
Occultism defined
Psychic Phenomena
The Ancient Iberians
The Star Dust of the Universe
MISCELLANEOUS--Bright Literature; The Two Worlds; Foote's Health
Monthly; Psychic Theories; Twentieth Century Science, Dawning at
the end of the Nineteenth; Comparative Speed of Light and
Electricity; Wonderful Photography; Wooden Cloth; The
Phylloxera; Falling Rents; Boston Civilization; Psychic
Blundering; Beecher's Mediumship; A Scientific Cataract;
Obstreperous and Pragmatic Vulgarity; Hygiene; Quinine; Life and
Death; Dorothea L. Dix; The Drift of Catholicism; Juggernaut
The Principal Methods of Studying the Brain
Responses of Readers--Medical Orthodoxy

THE PURSUIT OF TRUTH.

"To be loyal to the truth is of more account than to be merely
successful in formulating it."--_Popular Science Monthly_ for
December.

Indeed it is; for loyalty to truth is the prior condition of success
in formulating or stating it, and that loyalty not only precedes the
special success in formulating it, but is the prior cause of
_universal success_ in its attainment. Special perceptive powers and
favorable opportunities may enable scientists to ascertain certain
truths, as a lamp may enable them to discover a few objects near them
which darkness hides from others, but loyalty to truth reveals, like
daylight, all that lies within our horizon, for it opens widely all
the avenues between the mind and universal nature, and prevents our
mental t