Show I S So Albert Ed Edward Wiggam D. D Se Lets Let's L et s Explore E I ore Your Y our Mind Md M- M m d j A Pastime With rhe Author 1 01 il The nO Fruit of the tho Family TroD Tree J I fl i I I 2 JJ I Ie IT Ii TRU TRUE v 1 T T GENIUS J 1 IG A FORM ORM 41 4 T j of N t INSANITY r fv k rj t I I I W NO s 3 DILLE JOHN Co a 43 WILL L LAg TEACHING C CHILDREN I f INITIATIVE N ITI AND WILL WILLPOWER OWER I IN N VI PLAY THEM I GENERAL Ag ARE NOT T THE ATTRACTIONS BETWEEN A AND 0 THE EASED BASED LARGELY ON WILL roWER POWER CUSTOM IN IN N LIFE FOR EXAMPLE NOT A MAN 4 FALL I IN IOV WI WITH fE Hl IG TE I IF HE WA WAG UNAWARE OF TH THE A RELATIONSHIP YE YEi OR NO 1 Authors Author's Note These Note These answers are arc given from the scientific point of view Not all nIl moral questions can be answered with absolute scientific accuracy but no decision as to what is morally right Is possible I without science Science puts the rf right ht of or organized society above the rights of individuals 1 He I-He He not only might but would be quite likely to do so merely because because be be- cause she would probably be like himIn himin him in Iii intelligence tastes habits and physique In ancient times especially Egypt brother and sister marr marriages were common especially among the royal families It was in this way that the kept their enormous enor enor- I mans genius for culture and art arUn in their family for more than years The Incas did the same thing for thousands of years ears in South Amer Amer- ica lea It is purely a matter of ot custom and repugnant to ours 2 2 No Max Nordau and Lombroso maintained this the theory ry but both selected se Sc special instances You can prove most anything in this way Havelock Ellis one of the greatest living studied carefully carefully care care care- fully the lives of one tho thousand and and thirty of the greatest geniuses of British British Brit ish history and found only a slightly higher percentage 0 of Insanity among them than among ordinary people Dr Catherine Cox Yale university studied three hundred and one of ot the great grent modern geniuses and found them above average in nervous de de- de- de Many other studies confirm this We should reflect that nearly anything an extraordinary person does docs is extraordinary and often to the avern average e person appears crazy II 3 3 This idea goes back to the old theory that our minds are arc made up of separate faculties such as initiative initia intia tive will power imagination I etc Scientists now believe that training training train train- ing ourselves in one set of habits such as s determination in playing football does not Increase greatly our grit in sticking to our lessons or or work Science now knows that training will willpower willpower willpower power is in some ways easier and in inmany inmany inmany many ways was a harder proposition than we had thought thought but but one can greatly Improve himself if he goes at it in the right wa way |