Herald of Truth [Cincinnati] [IAPSOP]

Periodical:	*Herald of Truth [Cincinnati]*

Summary:	From Pat Deveney's database: Herald of Truth, The. A Monthly Periodical, Devoted to the Interests of Religion, Philosophy, Literature, Science and Art Philosophy Governs the World, and True Philosophy Alone Can Govern it Rightly: It Has Power to Redeem Every Human Being 1847—1848 Monthly Cincinnati, OH. Language: English. Publisher: John White, Printer. Editor: Lucius Alonzo Hine. Succeeds: Western Literary Journal and Monthly Magazine->Quarterly Journal and Review 1/1, July 1847-4/1, July 1848. 88 pp., $3.00. John Calvin Spurlock, Free Love: Marriage and Middle-Class Radicalism in America, 1825-1860 (UMI, 1987), 389, says that this was the organ of a Cincinnati brotherhood and was proto-spiritualist. This last seems to have been expressed only in the journal's reviews of the claims of J.R. Buchanan and La Roy Sunderland, and in interminable discourses on "Spiritual Philosophy" and Mesmerism and its phenomena. Hine ( -1909) was a labor radical and a center for radicalism of all sorts in the Ohio Valley. Articles on "Pathetism."
Other Sources:	NYPL; CUNY; Columbia University; NY State Library; NY University; SUNY, Buffalo and Oneonta; Syracuse University; University of Rochester; US Military Academy.
Issues:	Herald Of Truth V1 1847
	Herald Of Truth V2 1847
	Herald Of Truth V3 1848
	Herald Of Truth V4 1848
Claude-Generated Themes:	The Herald of Truth was a Cincinnati reform miscellany of 1847 and 1848, a general improvement paper of the kind that flourished in the Ohio valley in the decade before the Civil War. Its contents range across frontier history and the perils of river navigation, verse, moral and civic reflection on tyranny and the basis of human institutions, religious controversy, and the hygienic enthusiasms of the reform press. Running through it is a working interest in phrenology, taken as the practical science of character its readers believed it to be: the paper reasons from the presence and the development of the faculties to the question of what work a man is fit for, which is phrenology applied rather than expounded. The mesmerism and clairvoyance of the same reform culture appear alongside it. Its frequent talk of success and prosperity is ordinary 1840s usage and has nothing to do with the mind-power movements that arrived half a century later — a caution worth carrying to any American periodical of this decade. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:	Anarchism and Radical Individualism \| Phrenology and Physiognomy \| Spiritualism