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Show Use Only Half Our Brain. ' Further and mine decisivo evidence that the sie of tho brain bears no necessary lelatiou to mental capacity is tho fact i that, strictly speaking, all id' us .UW ii) tbiuking only, one-half of the btaiu we have. I'W the fact is that the brain is a' pair oigan consist iutr of twti iwifuctly niatchud hemispliore, but only .que of them liecouics a human bruin, that is a btaiu with tho sieciiil mental endowments that ate human, while the othor to-mains to-mains thoughtless for life. Indeed, In-deed, cases have been reiortcd by eminent nomologist who had made post-mortem examinations, of persons who had lived for years after the destruction of ono entire heinispheie, without showing show-ing any mental defect. Hut in each eiifco it was the thoughtless homisplioithatlpid been ruined. Dr. William Hanna Thomson, in July Everybody's. n. i. |