| Show SEIGHTF BRAIN DOES NOT DETERMINE INTEL LICENCE OF MAN h May De Defective In Part and Yet the Person May Become Noted for Mental Brilliancy I Brilli-ancy Other factors besides brain weigh i are known to inlluenco Intelligence It has long been known that the distill guished character of the human brain Is tho large number of connecting fibers by which Its cells lire tour ulnatetl In no other species arc they bo numerous or comiillcited The cell constitute but aVer > small part ot the weight says American Medicine There Is now considerable evidence that tho same rule applies among In dividual men and that those of great I Intelligence I have more connections so that their cells can do more and bet ter team work I Some Investigations have shown the corpus callosum to have a large cross section In men who had shown great ability It Is also known that the brains of able men are likely to present pre-sent more convolutions and deeper ones than the average as If there were more brain cells as well as more connections A few observations in the lower races point to the fact that their brains are essentially different In microscopic organizations partly accounting for less Intelligence All these facts will fully explain why men of Intelligence In the higher races may have brains not notably heavy but they do not disprove the general statement that as a class such men do possess brains heavier than the average The mistake arises from the failure fail-ure to recognize that noted men who have shown intellectual power not infrequently In-frequently were sharply limited to one or two directions being very defective In other directions Blind Tom was an Idot In tactan extreme case of what Is quite commoD At the other extreme was Gambetta who was not much more than an orator whose cerebral speech centers were found to be highly developed The rest of his brain was small and his general intellectual power and Judgments were decidedly defective Ability In one or two lines may make a man famous while he Is really very defective and his brain proves to be small Heavy brains are not necessarily intellectual In-tellectual ones or elephants would be in a class of geniuses The material might also be pathologic and the possessor pos-sessor an Imbecile It often happens that men of big brain and great ability suffer from early neglect and are found in lowly employments or may remain ignorant through life These few facts do not prove that large brains are worthless md not Indicative of mental power asa as-a rule Wo can not get away from the fact that man as an animal is supreme because of his large brain that among races tho brainiest are the highest and that in any case one race the most Intelligent as a rule are those who have the most brains Men of small brains are not tho leaders lead-ers and no statistics of the brain weight of a few exceptional men noted for limited abilities can reverse the rule Universities do not create brains but merely train what exist so that the owners are better fitted for the battle of life Many a man is sent to college who should be handling a pick and shovel and he never amounts to much even though he subsequently makes his living at some very limited specialty |
