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Title: Buchanan's Journal of Man, September 1887
Volume 1, Number 8
Author: Various
Editor: J. R. Buchanan
Release Date: January 5, 2009 [EBook #27703]
Language: English
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BUCHANAN'S
JOURNAL OF MAN.
VOL. I. SEPTEMBER, 1887. NO. 8.
CONTENTS OF JOURNAL OF MAN.
Concord Symposium
Rectification of Cerebral Science
Human Longevity
MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE--An important Discovery; Jennie
Collins; Greek Philosophy; Symposiums; Literature of the Past;
The Concord School; New Books; Solar Biology; Dr. Franz
Hartmann; Progress of Chemistry; Astronomy; Geology Illustrated;
A Mathematical Prodigy; Astrology in England; Primogeniture
Abolished; Medical Intolerance and Cunning; Negro Turning White;
The Cure of Hydrophobia; John Swinton's Paper; Women's Rights
and Progress; Co-Education; Spirit writing; Progress of the
Marvellous
Chapter VII.--Practical Utility of Anthropology (Concluded)
Chapter VIII.--The Origin and Foundation of the New Anthropology
THE CONCORD SYMPOSIUM AND THEIR GREATEST CONTRIBUTION TO PHILOSOPHY.
Let no one accuse the critic of irreverence, who doubts the wisdom of
universities, and of pedantic scholars who burrow like moles in the
mouldering remnants of antiquity, but see nothing of the glorious sky
overhead. While I have no reverence for barren or wasted intellect, I
have the profoundest respect for the fruitful intellect which produces
valuable results--for the vast energy of the lower class of
intellectual powers, which have developed our immense wealth of the
physical sciences and their useful applications. Indescribably grand
they are. The mathematicians, chemists, geologists, astronomers,
botanists, zoologists, anatomists, and the numerous masters of dynamic
sciences and arts, ha
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