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Title: Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887
Volume 1, Number 5

Author: Various

Editor: J. R. Buchanan

Release Date: August 23, 2008 [EBook #26401]

Language: English

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BUCHANAN'S
JOURNAL OF MAN.

VOL. I. JUNE, 1887. NO. 5.

CONTENTS OF JOURNAL OF MAN.

The Most Marvellous Triumph of Educational Science
The Grand Symposium of the Wise Men
The Burning Question in Education
MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE--Bigotry and Liberality; Religious
News; Abolishing Slavery; Old Fogy Biography; Legal
Responsibility in Hypnotism; Pasteur's Cure for Hydrophobia;
Lulu Hurst; Land Monopoly; Marriage in Mexico; The Grand
Symposium; A New Mussulman Empire; Psychometric Imposture; Our
Tobacco Bill; Extinct Animals; Education
Genesis of the Brain (concluded)

THE MOST MARVELLOUS TRIUMPH OF EDUCATIONAL SCIENCE.

In the dull atmosphere which stagnates between the high walls of
colleges and churches wherein play the little eddies of fashionable
literature, which considers the authorship of an old play[1] more
interesting and important than the questions that involve the welfare
of all humanity or the destiny of a nation,--an atmosphere seldom
stirred by the strong, pure breezes of the mountain and the
ocean,--the best thought and impulse of which humanity is capable is
stifled in its birth, or if it comes forth feels the overshadowing
influence that chills its life.

[1] Mr. Lowell, having been minister to England, is profoundly
reverenced in Boston for his social position. His position
gives great weight to his suggestions. It is a moral power for
the use of which he is responsible, but with which he has
trifled. When a few earnest reformers thought that Mr.
Gladstone's grand statesmanship in preserving the peace of the
w