To be "non-committal" is very proper for the judge and jury at the outset of a trial. But there comes a time when they are expected to have and to pronounce a verdict and an opinion. So there are times and connections for us all to be non-committal; and there are times when to be so were a crime, or the basest of sins. It is not therefore necessarily either a merit or a demerit for a journal to lie able to say that it is devoted to no isms; but it is a fault for it to imagine that it may try to make capital out of it as if it were a merit. Still, for those to whom the "find" is nothing and the search everything, this deprecation of isms will be a natural recommendation, and a good advertisement.
But we cannot all be content with that. To most of us it is the discovery, anticipated or realized, which gives to the search its chief importance; and the discovery of a great truth, or set of truths, or supposed truths, constitute an ism, which we feel bound to propagate for the welfare of mankind. On this account it is that we are unable to boast that we are devoted to no psychical ism. We are devoted to a psychical ism, strictly, rigorously, and absolutely so devoted. That psychical ism is that there is no matter, that all is Mind; and that this being thoroughly understood would speedily introduce a golden age of a higher order than any of which the poets ever sung. For this reason we cannot vacate our place, nor lower our tone and claims, nor be lukewarm in our zeal. God speed the work.
