by Joseph R. Buchanan
About this book
Buchanan's Journal of Man, March 1887 Volume 1, Number 2 by Joseph R. Buchanan delivers a vivid, historically rich crossroads of early brain science and Victorian spiritualism. This psychology and essay/short nonfiction volume gathers essays, critiques, and reports—from a "General Plan of Brain" and a synopsis of cerebral science to spirited debates on psychometry, spirit writing, mind reading, and contemporary spiritualist figures like Abram James and Eglinton.
The collection captures late 19th-century intellectual life: responses to critics, discussions of anthropology’s role in reshaping literature and philosophy, and miscellanea on craniology, medical discoveries, religious trends, and social reform. Buchanan frames psychical research and cerebral inquiry as forces reshaping art, education, and government, offering readers direct access to the debates that shaped modern views of mind and society.
Ideal for historians of psychology, students of Victorian thought, and anyone curious about the origins of psychical research and neuroscience, this audiobook is a primary-source window into an era when science and spirit were still negotiating boundaries. Listen to understand how nineteenth-century ideas about brain and mind influenced an emerging cultural revolution.
