. The education of the intellect for the purpose of
attaining selfish interests is made of paramount interest and the
heart is neglected and left to starve.[1] The life-energy which ought
to be employed to educate the heart and to render the will good and
pure, is wasted in the top story of the temple of man in idle
speculations about external and worthless things, in scientific
quarrels and dogmatic disputations, which have usually no other object
but to tickle personal vanity and to give to ignorance an external
coat of learning. Many of our modern scientific authorities resemble
ants, which crawl over a leaf which fell from a tree: they know all
about the veins and cells of that leaf, but they know nothing whatever
of the living tree, which produces such leaves, and moreover flowers
and fruits. Likewise the rational medicine based upon reason and
understanding, the science springing from a true knowledge of man will
forever remain an enigma to the legally-authorized guardians of the
health of humanity, as long as they know nothing of man except his
external form and refuse to open their eyes and to see the eternal
internal power, of which the external form is merely an evanescent
image, a transient manifestation.

[1] There is no higher gift of Divinity than the gift of
intelligence, which, if pervaded by the light of Divine
love, constitutes the Christ, and those who are thus gifted
are indeed the "favorites of God." But if such a people kill
the Christ-principle in their hearts, and use their
intellectual powers merely for selfish purposes, they will
become _accursed_. A system of medicine or theology which is
based upon self-interests of the privileged class of doctors
and priests is a curse to humanity.

Hoping that with the appearance of the JOURNAL OF MAN a new era of
truly rational medicine will begin in progressive America,

I am yours truly and fraternally,
FRANZ HARTMANN, M.D.

KEMPTEN, BAVARIA, April 7, 1887.

[While reaching my conclusions in a different manner by careful
and prolonged experimental investigation, and expressing them
differently, I agree with Dr. Hartmann in his most important
principle,--the importance of love as the best element of life,
in sustaining health and intelligence, and the necessity of its
culture in