724 Editors’ Table. [September, 
position according to his own count; yet for all that, the domini- 
cal letter of the year which follows does not fail to come up cor- 
ett 
This certainly is not to be understood, as has been supposed 
by M. de Charencey, who has made some excellent studies on 
this Codex, to mean that the year began with the day Ymix.’ 
The contrary is distinctly affirmed by Landa. The true explana- 
tion I take to be the following : 
Each period of 13 years began with the day 1 Kan, and, count 
ing 305 days to the year, ended on the day 13 Cauac. In each 
period there should be three intercalary days, every fourth year 
being properly a leap year. These three days are allowed for by 
beginning the next subsequent 13 year period, not on the day fol- 
lowing 13 Cauac in regular order, but by starting the almanac of 
the period with Ymix, thus allowing three days to elapse, which 
would bring 1 Kan of the new year in its proper astronomical 
position within about half an hour. 
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EDITORS’ TABLE. 
EDITORS: A. S. PACKARD, JR., AND E. D, COPE. 
It is refreshing to the ordinary plodding scientific mind, 
trammeled by the clogs and chains of the inductive method, to 
read the addresses of some (by no means the majority) of the 
metaphysicians of the Concord Summer School of Philosophy. 
Aiming his a priori gun.at the human soul, Dr. Jones brings it 
down at the first shot, stuffs it with the Platonic philosophy, and 
finds, after all, that “the soul exists only as odjectivation, manr 
festing itself out of itself.” We on the whole prefer this to the 
degrading conception of the materialists and nescientists who are 
said to teach that the soul is a function of the brain, as it is really 
a definition we can understand. We quoted Carlyle’s opinion of 
evolution in a recent number; here is Dr. Jones’ deliberate char- 
acterization of the evolution theory, doubtless the result of years 
of scientific research and philosophic induction: “Of the idea of 
evolution and of the origin of the species, we must think some 
worthier thought than that of a monkey or gorilla rubbing off a 
tail and otherwise improving his condition, until, through natu 
« Relacion de las Cosas de Yucatan,” p- 236. ‘ 
7«* Recherches sur le Codex Troano,” p. 10, 1876. 
