THE ARENA ADVERTISER. Publishers' Announcements. SCIENCE AND INVENTION. iii While keeping its readers fully abreast of the progress of scientific discovery and invention, THE ARENA will not hestitate to leave the beaten track in these lines to bring before the world early intelligence of the fruits of certain study and experiment, likely, indeed, to revolutionize the world's thought and the world's industry in certain directions. For obvious reasons, the precise nature of these discoveries cannot as yet be more than hinted; it will suffice now to suggest that they have to do with an investigation of the properties of our atmosphere and of the possibilities of etheric vibration, going far beyond anything heretofore dreamed of. Another branch of the new science with whose advance THE ARENA is in close touch is that "psychological physiology," so called, already developed to such an extent as to demand urgent consideration in all sociological work especially in the education of the young and in the treatment of the defective and delinquent classes. Several articles on psychometry particularly suggestive of that fascinating borderland where the psychic and the physical meet, the work of Charles B. Newcomb, the gifted author of "All's Right with the World," will appear early in the year, to be followed by similarly interesting articles from the pens of others. PHILOSOPHY AND METAPHYSICS. In the pages of THE ARENA the newest development of metaphysical thought which carries it beyond a small and privileged class and makes it the possession of the people at large, will find peculiarly fitting expression. No longer the mysterious plaything of the theologian or the scholar, the Science of Being is now made the sure and solid basis for a new art of living-of living in the wholeness and balance that means life indeed; healing diseases of the body politic, as of the body corporeal; raising individuals and nations out of weakness into strength; not merely alleviating or patching up evil, but eradicating it and uplifting the race in character, power, and happiness. The claims of the New Thought, to which both the editor and his associate have given so much attention in the past, will in the future receive such fairness and fulness of attention in the right relation which THE ARENA'S broad scope makes possible, that all interested in the metaphysical movement, from whatever standpoint, will find the review indispensable. FICTION AND POETRY. 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