Buchanan's Journal of Man, April 1887

Buchanan's Journal of Man, April 1887 - Volume 1, Number 3

It is presumed that every reader of these pages has some knowledge of this subject, either by reading the Manual of Psychometry or otherwise, and has at least read the Introduction to the Journal of Man on our cover pages. In all human affairs, that takes the highest rank which has the greatest controlling and guiding power. The king, the statesman, the hero, the saintly founder of a religion, the philosopher that guides the course of human thought, and the scientist who gives us a greater command of nature, are the men whom we honor as the ministers of destiny. When we speak of science, we accord the highest rank to that which gives the greatest comprehension of the world as it isof its past and of its future. Geology and astronomy are the sciences which reach out into the illimitable alike in the present and past. Biology will do the same for the world of life when biology is completed by a knowledge of the centre of all life, the brain. But in its present acephalous condition it is but a fragment of sciencea headless corpse, unfit to rank among complete sciences. Theology claims the highest rank of all, but based as it has been on the conceptions current in the dark ages, it has become, in the light of modern science, a crumbling ruin. Does psychometry compare with astronomy and geology in its scientific rank, or does it compare with the acephalous biology, which occupies all medical colleges? ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 25890
Author: Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)
Release Date: Jun 24, 2008
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Editor: Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes), 1814-1899