The Zoist

    The Editors of this Journal will endeavour to furnish a medium
for the freest expression of thought on questions of social, moral,
and intellectual progress. In giving an opinion on important questions,
they will not be: influenced by external movements, either popular
or the reverse. They claim perfect independence of thought, but will
be guided in the expression of it by the unerring principles of their
science. They aim to be truth-seekers, and they consider it to be
their duty to promulgate the "truth of facts", impelled by the con-
viction that all truths arc subservient to the happiness of mankind.
    The Editors of this Journal … will bestow great attention upon
the practical department of the two sciences [Cerebral Physiology
and Mesmerism] which they have undertaken to cultivate, but at the
same time will not be regardless of their vivifying power. They will
not forget that man, Eternal Man, is the theme; and, while they sur-
vey his past history and point out how his best interests have been
neglected, they will indicate the manner in which these two sciences
may be made subservient to the great end in view — the progress-
ive improvement and increasing happiness of the race.
    The work, being equally devoted to Cerebral Physiology and
Mesmerism, will contain original communications of facts and views
in both sciences — analyses of the best works upon them — and the
proceedings of those engaged in their cultivation and dissemination.