he
time, lulled by the softly solemn platitudes of the pulpit and the
soulless system of education, rebels not against the old social order.
In full view of the past twenty-five centuries, may we not exclaim
with Shakespeare's Macbeth:

"To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow
Creeps on this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The dusty way to death."

But not to the end of time shall it be. The nineteenth century has
seen the glimmering dawn of the true civilization. How it came, what
it is, and what it is destined to realize, the JOURNAL OF MAN will
attempt to show.

SYNOPSIS OF CEREBRAL SCIENCE.[1]

[1] Copyrighted, 1887, by Joseph Rodes Buchanan.

CHAPTER I.

GENERAL PLAN OF THE BRAIN.

The brain the centre of life--Its organs not distinctly
separated--Its double functions and degrees of
energy--Difficulty of nomenclature, chiefly basilar--The
pathognomic law--Its application to the brain--The four
cardinal directions and four divisions, the coronal, basilar,
anterior, and occipital--Their effects on the character and
constitution--The method of locating organs--The four
groups--The law of antagonism--Its certainty and
necessity--Difficulty of expressing it--Correspondence of the
English language and the brain--Its limits--Radiating groups
of organs--Contrasts of development.

The details of cerebral science will be much more easily understood if
we begin with a comprehensive view of the entire plan of the functions
and structure.

The brain is distinguished from all other organs by being the source
of commands which all other organs obey, and being the immediate seat
of the soul, which has no knowledge of anything occurring in the body,
until a message or impression has reached it through nervous channels.
The compression of all the nerves before they enter the cranium and
connect with the brain would deprive us of all knowledge of the body,
and of all sensations or perceptions; and the compression of the brain
itself would render us totally unconscious, as if dead,--incapable of
either thought or action. Manifestly, therefore, all the powers of the
soul are lodged in and exercised through the brain; and as all
distinct nerve structures have essentially different functions, and
every different function requires a different structure, it is obvious
that the vast