3. The cranial investigations of Dr. Buchanan,
from 1835 to 1841, confirmed nearly all the discover-
ies of Gall, and corrected their inaccuracies as to
anatomical location and psychic definition. He also
discovered the locations of the external senses, and
found the science thus corrected entirely reliable in
the study of character. In these results he had the
substantial concurrence of Dr. W. Byrd Powell, a
gentleman of brilliant talents, the only efficient
American cultivator of the science.
4. In 1841, Dr. Buchanan (having previously dis-
covered the organ of sensibility) investigated the
phenomena of sensitive constitutions, and found
that they were easily affected by contact with any
substance, and especially by contact with the hu-
man hand, so that the organic action of the brain
was modified by the nervaura from the fingers, and
every convolution could be made to manifest its
functions, whether psychic or physiological, and
whether intellectual, emotional, volitional, or pas-
sional, so as to make the subject of experiment
amiable, irritable, intellectual, stupid, drowsy,
hungry, restless, entranced, timid, courageous, sen-
sitive, hardy, morbid, insane, idiotic, or whatever
might be elicited from any region of the brain, and
also to control the physiological functions, modify-
ing the strength, sensibility, temperature, circula-
tion, and pulse.
5. These experiments have been continually
repeated from 1841 to 1887, and have commanded
unanimous assent to their truth from many com-
mittees of investigation, and have during sixteen
years been regularly presented and accepted in
medical colleges; hence it is not improper to treat
this demonstrated science of the brain as an estab-
lished science, since the establishment of science
depends not upon the opinions of the ignorant, but
upon the unanimous assent of its investigators or
students.
6. As the brain contains all the elements of hu
manity, their revelation constitutes a complete
ANTHROPOLOGY, the first that has ever been pre-
sented, and this science necessarily has its physio-
logical, psychic_or social, and supernal or spiritual
departments. In its physiological department it
constitutes a vast addition to the medical sciences,
and essentially changes all the philosophy of med-
ical science, while it initiates many fundamental
changes in practice, which have been adopted by
Dr. Buchanan's pupils. Hence it deserves the pro-
found attention of all medical schools.
7. In its psychic or social relations, anthropology
enables us to form correct estimates from develop-
ment of all vertebrate animals, of persons and of
nations, showing their merits and deficiencies, and
consequently the EDUCATION or legislation that is
needed. By showing the laws of correlation be-
tween persons, it establishes the scientific prin-
ciples of SOCIAL SCIENCE, and the possibilities of
human society. By explaining all the elements of
character and their operation, it establishes the
true MORAL PHILOSOPHY. By giving the laws of
development it formulates the true EDUCATION,
and by giving the laws of expression it establishes
the science of ORATORY and the PHILOSOPHY OF
ART, making a more complete and scientific
expression of what was empirically observed by Del-
sarte with remarkable success.
8. In its spiritual department, anthropology
shows the relation of human life to the divine, of
terrestrial to supernal existence, and the laws of
their intercourse; hence establishing scientific re-
ligion and destroying superstition. It gives the
scientific principles of animal magnetism, spiritual-
ism, trance, dreaming, insanity, and all extraor-
dinary conditions of human nature.
9. In the department of SARCOGNOMY, anthro-
pology fully explains the triune constitution of
man, the relations of soul, brain, and body, thus
modifying medical and psychic philosophy, and
establishing a new system of external therapeutics
for electric and nervauric practice, which have been
heretofore superficially empirical. It also gives us
new views of animal development and an entirely
new conception of statuesque conformation and ex-
pression.
10. The magnitude and complexity of the new
science thus introduced give an air of romance and
incredibility to the whole subject, for nothing so
comprehensive has ever before been scientifically
attempted, and its magnitude is repulsive to conser-
vative minds, to those who tolerate only slow
advances; but the marvellous character of an-
thropology has not prevented its acceptance by
all before whom it has been distinctly and fully
presented, for the singular ease and facility of the
demonstration is almost as marvellous as the all-
embracing character of the science, and the revolu-
tionary effects of its adoption upon every sphere of
human life. This marvellous character is most
extraordinary in its department of PSYCHOMETRY,
which teaches the existence of divine elements in
man, powers which may be developed in millions,
by means of which mankind may hold the key to
all knowledge, to the knowledge of the indi-
vidual characters of persons in any locality or any
age, of the history of nations and the geological his-
tory of the globe, the characters of all animals, the
properties of all substances, the nature of all dis
eases and mental conditions, the mysteries of
physiology, the hidden truths of astronomy, and
the hidden truths of the spirit world. Marvellous
as it is, psychometry is one of the most demon-
strable of sciences, and the evidence of its truth is
fully presented in the "Manual of Psychometry,"
while the statement and illustration of the doctrines
of anthropology were presented in the "System of
Anthropology," published in 1854, and will be
again presented in the forthcoming work, "Cere-
bral Psychology," which will show how the doc-
trines of anthropology are corroborated by the
labors of a score of the most eminent physiologists
and vivisecting anatomists of the present time.
If but one tenth part of the foregoing cautious
and exact statements were true in reference to an-
thropology, its claims upon the attention of all
clear, honest thinkers, and all philanthropists,
would be stronger than those of any doctrine,
science, or philanthropy now under investigation;
and as those claims are well-endorsed and have ever
challenged investigation, their consideration is an
imperative duty for all who recognize moral and
religious responsibility, and do not confess them-
selves helplessly enthralled by habit and prejudice.
Collegiate faculties may do themselves honor by
following the example of the Indiana State Univer-
sity in investigating and honoring this science be
fore the public, and thoughtful scholars may d
themselves honor by following the examples of De
ton, Pierpont, Caldwell, Gatchell, Forry, an
Robert Dale Owen.
The discoverer has ever been ready to co-operac
with honorable inquirers, and has satisfied all w
have met him as seekers of truth; a fact wh
justifies the tone of confidence with which
speaks. The only serious obstacles he has ever
encountered have been the mental inertia wh
shuns investigation, the cunning cowardice wh
avoids new and not yet popular truths, and d
moral torpor which is indifferent to the claim
truth and duty when not enforced by public of
ion. When standing at the head of the lea
medical college of Cincinnati, he taught, dei
strated, and proclaimed, during ten years, wit)
legiate sanction, for the medical profession
doctrines which he now brings before the Anie
people by scientific volumes (the "Manual of
cometry, Therapeutic Sarcognomy," and te
"New Education"), and by the JOURNAL OF
MAN, which, being devoted chiefly to the int da
tion of anthropology as the most effective form
of philanthropy, may justly claim the actie -
operation of the wise and good in promoting cir
culation as the herald of the grandest refor11 that
have ever been proposed in the name and
by the
authority of positive science.