New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-08-22
PROFEssOR GROTEs ADDREss.

SCIENCE AIDED BY TIE Newspapers.
The subject OF Professor A. r. GrOJes address at ST.
LOUIS last evening was Education and the Succession
Of Experienees." The main points are given follows:
Education may he primarily conceived the process
of storing sense Impressions ~ the am ana the tOhl
condition aud amount Of the BRAIN pictures We might
cali knowledge Tue faculty for receiving certain class
Of brain pictures ntncr tuau another toe bent OF the
mimi Inn certain direction follows with the color OF the
haIr and eyes and the shape OF the skull. Bat this
faculty exist, and az the same time an absence OF
the brain pictures which would satisfy and I'LL lt may
cause it, ubteIatOn In the child from disease. We
must then clearly distinguish the iaetUr OF hefedity as
L,ctnz the senaOr nerves aud the brain, Whe We con
slider Tue total mental condition Of the individual
/ may refer 10 our pre-ent knowledge win regard
fossil man. In late address Dr. NlrchOW mas seen
M To dispute the value OF TINS evidence as bearing upon
mans evolution from lower tNpe Of animal ue 10 ef-
extent nIradictory. But wish 10 point out that tue
capacity OF the skuii j. no absolute criterion OF Tue IN
teligeuce between certain uulls OF As
fact the heaviest BRAINS yet not Dtongto pee
OF the greatest mental power CouoOoNllIe eyi,
deuce al the Development Of man Hum lO"tI type O'
animal hfe 10 far his physical developments con
cerned, mud In the iact tnI ior every bone musee
organ In man there j. Correspondents Ohe IN ,s III
thrOpOid IL must MOI be iet out ui sgAt t1 any
specia distinctions OF this kind betwrcL man aud Ger
tain apes have been fon!d totally wanting, Az tnS ni
iercuces recognized, including that OF the cuDca
contents OF the braucase, have been FOUND 20 possess
only comparative value rom hell rAnsy Vi & ~
IN different apes and III different men inns much We
can therefore clearly SHOW that the difference between
man and certain lower anmaA Is qualitative, not
qualitative with this and The arguments from en-
bryoOgy mental evolution the case OF the total de
yriopent stands, we must thlnk, on very htlh
ground. without the assistance OF the analOSes TO
without dra WING the possible future discoveries OF
pneontologsts the character Of which might be Justly
inferred from what been already presented. :
Those who have brought together the story or tho
ancient civilization OF Greece have agreed Win una
uIty that the separation the OF The peO-
pic aud tue intellectual portion became at length lnsnf
inOuDable ana finally led 10 national destruction ms
makes for our view tha II 10 defect or lncUmplete-
ness IN the machinery for the dissemination OF Know
edge that must asCriDo the dying out OF tue OueT
States. To understand the new CIVILIZATION, we murt
remember tInt 10 rests ON Larger average lhtchlsehct
brought directly about by the discovery OF tbe art OF
printing. There Is then distinct reason stichunc
grouu opinion that our present CIVILIZATION rrsts
upOn sursr basis than did those which preceded IT,
aud this we may safely hung forward IN Tue cause
OF truth Ia danger always OF being re-
garded as the enemy OF the STATE because u tehds eo
stauty TO modify existing ideas. But II We can snow
the necessity constant modification OF our lueas,
arising OUT constitution then may DO seen
TO DO unreasonable 70 defame those VINO lOuOW the
search for truth. Aud it being undoubtedly true, as
Locke says OF all the men we meet win nine out OF
their Education we can wdereachlng the eject
of our Improved basis Of civilization must he upon Us as
a people, and how mpOrtunt Is 10 understand TUG Ie
direction in which 10 works.