Editorials

A new metaphysical school has been legally incorporated in Boston, under this title. A meeting of the six corporate members was held at 40 Water Street, June 26.

From Life: Its Nature, Origin, Development, by Salem Wilder, are taken the following pithy extracts:— If we assume that something is self-existent, or always existed, what is that something? Mind certainly exists, and matter certainly appears to exist. Did Mind precede the existence of matter? or have both Mind and matter existed eternally? or has Mind been evolved from matter, as some suppose? If so, by what process was this evolution accomplished? Or, on the other hand, did Mind, through its act or acts, cause matter to be spoken into existence? Our minds are so constituted that it is easier to conceive that both Mind and matter existed eternally, than to suppose that something material was created out of nothing.

Somebody has written these wise words:— A courtier once told Constantine that the mob had stoned the head from the imperial statue. The Emperor lifted his hands to his head, saying, "It is very surprising, but I don't feel hurt in the least.

That crimes have been accomplished by means of the peculiar influence possessed by certain minds over weaker minds, will scarcely be questioned by experienced legal practitioners. That persons have made statements, and even written solemn retractions of previous statements, under the influence of this subtle power, is as clearly demonstrable as any other fact in mental philosophy.

It is sometimes said, cynically, that Christian Scientists set themselves on pedestals, as so many petty deities; but there is no fairness or propriety in such an aspersion. Man is not equal with his Maker.

If the subscriber who returns his Journal every month,—with this endorsement thereon, "I don't want this any longer," —will kindly give his name, it will save the publisher the trouble of sending it, and himself the trouble of the inscription. S.

It is interesting to hear that Professor Coues, who has been so prominent in the Theosophical movement in this country, proposes giving up his connection with the society. He says—or is reported as saying—that he does not altogether like the company in which he finds himself, and that only his strong intellect has kept him from losing his reason in this pursuit of mystical lore.

I have called the oldest form of religion fetichism. The term is defined by Max Muller as "superstitious veneration, felt and testified for mere rubbish.

This book, published by Cupples, Upham & Co. , is translated by Louise Brooks, from the German of Johanna Spyri.

A very valuable Directory of Boston's Beneficent Organizations has been published by Cupples, Upham & Co. It was prepared originally for the Associated Charities, a society which has already done much to prevent fraud and pauperism, but still has a mountainous task before it.