The Vanguard [Wisconsin] [IAPSOP]

Periodical:	*The Vanguard [Wisconsin]*

Summary:	From Pat Deveney's database: Vanguard, The. A High-Class Monthly. A Leading Exponent of Constructive Socialism and Rational Religion / Devoted to the Best Things in Life and Literature. They must upward still and onward who would keep abreast of Truth 1902-1905? Monthly Milwaukee, then Green Bay, WI. Language: English. Publisher: Milwaukee Social-Democratic Publishing Company; Vanguard Press. Editor: J.M.A. Spence. 1/1, November 1902. Fifty Cents; 32 pp. Advertisement in Henry Edward Lane, Diagnosis of the Eye (1904), in Banner of Light 98/12 (November 11, 1905): 3, and in Self-Culture, January 1904, which calls it “an independent and vigorous exponent of Rational Religion, Scientific Socialism, and Practical Psychology." The last category broadly included all that is encompassed by the terms New Thought and the Metaphysical Movement, and the journal featured contributions by Ella Wheeler Wilcox ("Who is a Socialist?"-"Who on the Golden Rule shall dare insist, Behold in him the modern Socialist") and Herbert A. Parkyn and excerpts from Gerald Massey. The journal proclaimed in its first issue: “We Believe in the Fatherhood of God; in the Brotherhood of Man; in the Co-operative Commonwealth; in Continuous Inspiration; in Progressive Revelation; in Spiritual Unfoldment; in Mental Harmony; in Physical Health; and in the Kingdom of God, Here and Now and Everywhere and Always."
Other Sources:	University of , Chapel Hill
Issues:	Vanguard V1 N1 Nov 1902
	Vanguard V1 Nov 1902-jun 1903
	Vanguard V2 Sep 1903-aug 1904
	Vanguard V3 Sep 1904-sep 1905
	Vanguard V4 Oct 1905-oct 1906
	Vanguard V5 Nov 1906-oct 1907
	Vanguard V6 Nov 1907-oct 1908
Claude-Generated Themes:	The Vanguard was a New Thought and mental-science paper with an unusually sharp social conscience. Its staple vocabulary of success, prosperity, and mental demonstration sits beside a labor-radical polemic in the 'Appeal to Reason' vein, denouncing wage exploitation and the hollowness of merely formal equal opportunity for the 'disinherited.' The magazine also carried genuine suggestive-psychology material — suggestion, hypnotism, the Braid and Charcot lineage — and a strand of vegetarian health reform with dietary cure-testimonials. Where the panel's spiritualism score looks high, it is the New-Thought language of self-control rather than the seance room. The Vanguard thus reads as mental-science self-culture harnessed to socialist and reform ends. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:	Gnosticism \| New Thought \| Socialism and Labor Reform