lize_ it. Apropos to this subject, Col. Van Horn,
of the _Kansas City Journal_, says:

"And as another result of missionary work, there are now in the
United States, in England and on the continent, missionaries of
Buddhism sent by the schools of the East, to convert us to the
philosophy of Gautama. This may sound startling to the general
reader, but it is not only a fact, but they have made converts
and are making them with a rapidity that is remarkable, making
more from us than we are from them. And they are from the very
best and brightest intellects among us--not the illiterate, but
the most cultured of the educated classes. It will not do to
suppress this fact in the discussion--for this is an age when
facts must be looked in the face."

JUST CRITICISM.

The intellectual editor of the _Kansas City Journal_ has made some
very philosophic remarks on the materialistic philosophy of
fashionable Scientists, which with some abridgment are here presented:

"As an illustration of its methods of dealing with so subtle a
thing as human intelligence, we have a recent singular example
in Paris, by the eminent physician Charcot, and others, which
illustrates how great men in special departments walk blindfold
over things that afford no mystery to common minds. We allude to
certain experiments in hypnotism--the professional name for
mesmerism. The medical profession for more than half a century
sneered at the discoveries of Mesmer, until now compelled to
recognize them, they have not the manliness to acknowledge the
fact, but invent a new and inaccurate nomenclature to conceal
their change of front. To make a long story short these
gentlemen have put a subject under the influence one day,
enjoined him to commit a theft or a murder at a given hour the
next day, and despite every effort of will on the part of the
subject, the crimes have been attempted, and the victim only
saved from himself by the interposition of the operator, who was
present to remove the influence--or through the understanding of
the party against whom the offence was to be committed, in the
form of the robbery actually carried out.

"But what does science do with this fact? Nothing but announce
it, and then proceed to dig among molecules and their related
agitations for the solution of the mystery."

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