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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:   Read across 1847–1848, the Herald of Truth (Cincinnati) is a late-1840s reform miscellany — general improvement, moral and civic reflection (the excerpt turns to Roman history), carrying a real phrenological interest in the era's science-of-mind. A methodological caution travels with this one: its high 'success/prosperity/demonstration' probe scores are 1840s ordinary usage, NOT the New Thought idiom, which lay decades in the future. Read rightly, it is a reform-and-phrenology paper of its moment, not a mind-power organ.

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