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Show NOT MANY FEEBLE-MINDED Authority Shows T.hat Only Two Per Cent of the Population Can Be So Classed. The idea that we are menaced as a j nation by Illiterates and feeble-minded is all wrong. We have Illiterates and feeble-minded In our mldt, bu they are a relatively negligible force numerically.. numer-ically.. The reverse idea, or idea in the reverse, that we are short on genius, also Is wrong, according to Dr. George ; G. Chambers, director of admissions at the University of Pennsylvania, and the educators who co-operate with him. Doctor Chambers says genius as " a national crop Is: statistically as j strong as the more discussed feeble- , minded and , that each represents a mere 2 per cent of the population. But genius, says Dr. Chambers, Is ! not the mere pos-lon of a talent Bwollen to phenomenal degree, perhaps so hypertrophied that It is useless. He denies genius to the man, however great his talents, who cannot and does not exercise them. Genius In his definition defi-nition Is high Intelligence followed by actual use of that Intelligence In life. I And intelligence is the ability to adapt j one's self to new circumstances, to j one's surroundings In a word, to be able to know something and make use . ! of one's knowledge. Under this definition defi-nition It is surprising that the adapt- j able Yankee should not hold a higher I record for genius than 2 per cent. j Pittsburgh Dispatch. " . ! |