New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-08-07
BRAIN-BUILDING,

BRAIN-BUIIDING.
Unless men and women both have brains, she nation
will 60 down. As much brain IL needed to govern q
household as to command a ship as much to guide q
family Alright TO guide Congress Alright much to
do the least and the greatest OF womans work to do
the least and the greatest OF mans Moreover In
both the brain is the OF strength and
proonger OF life. II is not only the organ OF ntellec
ton voltion and spiritual power bu the force evolved
from IL, than the force evolved any other
organ enables men aud women to bear the burdens aud
perform the duties OF life and with its aid better than
with any surgery, can they overcome the Ills that
flesh is heir to-"
But the organs whose normal growth and evolution
lead up to the brain. not the same in men and
women Consequently their brains. though alike in mi
croscopic structure, have infused into them different
though equally excellent qualities II 1t not 80,
Emerson's lines would be absurd would be myth;
men and would no identical and 1t would be
folly to discuss the relation OF sex to education.
Poor brains. automatic ganglia will grow like weeds
without cultivation, any soil. The best brains, the
only sort the world needs built by education or cdu
Gated evolution accordance with working pauS that
Nature furnishes. Let endeavor thon, to get some
notion, however crude, of the way III which the divine
Architect, whom we know Natures Cod builds hui
man BRAIN BY 40 doing shall clear the way to cor
rect understanding tho relation OF sex to education
The building OF brain-this is to-days social prob
lem and teachers largely charged with It's solution
When is solved, all otner problems VIII De eashy
dsnosed o for human brain il the last the highest,
| " the consummmatc flower" of Natures Developments
this planet II canDOt be made except as the crown
of the rest OF the body and to large extent out 81 the
rest OF the body No perfect brain ever crowns an upper
feet body. When Michael Angelo reared st. Peters
dome in air made every Onebenelth contribute
only the and beauty ofthe part he pun IL Ill., Out
to the support power OF the dome Tue brain mast
be built connection with the building oil the rest Ol
the body remembering constantly that the impcriec-
i,Hfa 1raa
In one the process OF Dranbling Is alike FOR
the two sexes IN another sense it is different II Is the
for both, inasmlch as the process whch e'oNes
the best possible By OF appropriate brlln
exercise, including ccrebration, out of the underlying
organizations Is alike the two 1t Is different
for two in far there any organs or sets oil
organs the structure OF that are not IN the
structure of the other. Provided the organization or
both is normal, and all their functions normIly
performed, the sort of brain work vii! develop
the brain OF each. But if the methods OF education
render abnormal part of the body or interfere with
any function, that will not only be damage to the part
disturbed, and friction in its function, but the hrn VIII
suffer Just proportion to thc Importance OF tue organs
| Disturbed and the amount of the disturbance.
TIE RELATION OF BEAM To MIND.
Before going farther lei US have distinct notion OF
relation which, in this dscHsson brain is supposed
mind. Brain Is here used as the cOrredtiVc vi
mind not from materiastic point OF view, is II mind
cause we know and only can know the mind through
Che BRAIN The quantity and quality Of the latter de-
ermine for the quantity and quality OF the former
The development of the soul aud mnd-)f the ESO-re-
solves itself into development OF the brain. Tue
artist who builds fountain looks carefully after the
strength structure. the quality aud Orm OF what he
builds aud troubles himself little ABOUT the water
which is to animate his work. He knows that Jet ami
drop and spray will pour out Just as the fountain per
mis the flow. so with the brain. In proportion To the
character of its structure will be the manifestation OF
mind ana spirit through II. Build the brain Alright, ana
the Divine Spirit will nhabI and use it. Bald 1t
wrongly. and the devil will employ il. The development
of the mind then means practically the development 81
the brain and the building OF the brau Is part O
education A wise and appropriate system Of educa-
ton efforts build brain either for the male
the female organization, Will to aid aud initiate
the process by which nitsre performs the task.
Herein physiology render initiate educa
ton a that the latter cannot afford 10 refuse
| THoRoUH AND HARMONIOUS DEVELOPMENT.
asked a successful merchant and manufacturer,
who had accumulated largo fortune, ho@ he managed
TO make money time when all others who were Gu
gagged III the same losing ii. He replied
that he had practically learned every detail and branch
OF thoroughly that he could at any time,
il necessary take the place aud perform tho special
WORK OF any OF his workmen. In one and a most i'm
portant he made by and out OF his business
His efforts practically every detail had deve
opod Suppose his business branched into one hun
dred different directions terminating IN one hundred
different of abor each SOFT Of labor AT riding oc-
| cnpation for one or workmen. In becoming ac
1uailted with each OF These hundred details, and IN
supervising the wOrkmen that wrought them out, he
acquired "a knowledge which other experience or edu
cation could give him. SO far he made out or his
pusness-leveiOpcd by IT, ms preparatory train
ing he had learned only ninety or eighty or fty o! the
branches Of his business would have been, pro taO
less developed His business consisted of three great
observation-disclosures exporting and importing.
The mana cement OF these reelected itself back upon his
development and character. II he had neglected. ornot
ACQUAINTED himself with OF these departments-ex-
| porng for example-he would have been so much the
less developed would have lost the SPECIAL knowl-
edge and training that acquaintance with the export
ing mart OF his business would have given hin IAls
los, would, course, be prOpOrOnlelv greater than
| that resulting from nlttent0n to II soge one Oh the
hundred details which entered INTO tho great "hoe Vi
| his business.
This illustration presents IN rouCh some notion
OF Natures method OF brainbuidng Tie brain Is tho
axis central organ OF the body, which, Dy lntcrbuh-
cal hberselegraphic wres-lS connected WIN lhhu-
| mcraDe small centers, called ganga, aud with every
par of the system TIE gaua, separate cenIers OF
nervous power, act more or less aut0nltlcaly out are
resnonslbe TO- and IN constant communication WITH the
| brain. Calling mercantile friend the brain, MS
wofkmen ganglia his business the labor ol Tue h
man organization aud we shall get notion of Natures
WAY of ednca ting-that IL buidlngd brilu-suilcehtB
for present purpose. Just as the merchant
gre " out his business by becoming acquainted WIN
and supervising every detail OF NJ so Ihe nian Rro"s
by taking part and supervising the growth ana iahc
ton of every organ. II single organ Is WthtIhS OF
single function not perfOrmcd, just 50 uch IoSS pi"n
| development results.
| Pluck thread aud the web Je mar;
OF THOUSAND kers and the panng jar
Through all will rln"
Just as the merchant, by his practical acquaintance
with every detail OF his business. was able To manage
his workmen better aud obtain better tOhl result tuh
his competitors and also himself IL more 1uly ue-
veloped man in consequence thereof so the orain;