The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-04-10

because the executioner slapped her face
and il is reported that at recent execution
in Paris the executed criminal opened his
eyes after he had been decapitated in aston
ishment at the unpleasant position in which
he found himself. We have now shown that
THE BRAIN DOMINATES
the nervous system. Now, what is this
mind? consider 1t force divided by nerv-
Gus action, How does the nerve act so that
il Is divided? | can answer this question by
saying that do not know. We do not know
why the candle creates light. We can estab-
fish the relations of the mind TO q certain
extent, and we may say that the brain
Celebrates the mind Just as the candle pro-
duces light. The brain is a force by which
man Is enabled to maintain his relations
and to originate ideas and to have will. We
do not know exactly what il is. Brain force
is simply a moving mass just as life o. gal
yanIsm; but that it Is not the same thing we
have very distinct evidence. We can, il is
true, move a mans muscle By galvanism
we can expose his nerve, and every muscle
will be brought into action but we have Ger
tain evidence which establishes the fact that
the mind is not galvanism. Thus, the mind { Z
man does not travel over eighty feet a sec
ond. Electricity will travel through a
divided nerve with much greater velocity;
1t will traverse substances which the ner-
vous forces are incapable of traversing.
Although we do not know exactly what the
mind is, we have better knowledge OF it
than Plato Snd others had in ancient times.
la the modern system we began with the
brains. We elaborate them as much as we
can, and then We try to find out what the
mind is. Philosophers, such as Aristotle,
Sir William Hamilton, Dugald Stewart and
o hers OF the Scottish school, know nothing
about the mind. We study the mind from
our experiments which we perform on ami
mals and men. We perform these expert
ments on men through disease ana accident,
and thereby get at very exact idea OF Ger
tain portions of a mans brains and mind,
for, although we can not say exactly what
the mind IS, We able TO study it and
divide it into various divisions
The speaker here went on 10 talk about
perception, smell, taste and hearing. Per-
ception, he thought, might be regarded as
the most important of all the mental at
tributes for 1t was by that we acquire all of
our education.
THE EMOTIONS
are the most troublesome of all OF our mental
attributes. They always get Us into trouble
By them we lose our hearts Then we have
the intellect, and it is by the intellect that
we are enabled TO form our ideas and to
judge of the qualities of objects. Our sense
Of justice and our appreciation Of all the
delicate qualities belong 10 our intellect.
Then we have our will, which Is the great
organ by which we act. The lecturer here
illustrated the faculties and showed that
under certain circumstances one family
would precede another. But as a rule, the
will is only set in motion by toe emotions of
the intellect. A man who acts by his per
ceptions is q worthless individual, and a
man who acts by his emotions is even wore
than that. This is not true, however, as re-
CARDS the female sex. Women are more
prone to act by their emotions than by their
intellects. They are moved by their emo
tons, as rule and in her feelings and
emotions woman occupies a higher scale
than man. From what | have said you will
understand that the excess of abuse of a
mans mind must tend 10 an excessive decay
of the brain.
DR.. Hammond, as the lesson deduced from
his preceding remarks, said that people were
using their brains too much at present,
especially in this country.
TOO MUCH THOUGHT on ONE SUBJECT
would lead to bankruptcy of the brain.
Mans brain was made TO be used and is
capable OF doing very hard work, but IT is
not iron or stone; there is limit to it. He
supposed that a man could use his brain
about eight or ten hours day, and one.third
Of his time should be given 10 sleep. It was
during sleep that recuperatlon taxes place.
and it is during sleep that the brain sub.
stance is produced to greater extent than
it is used up. l suppose that ten hours day
is as much as man ought TO really spendin
mental work; the rest of the time should be
used in amusement and bodily exercise. ]
think as a nation we don't pay sufficient
attention 10 our mind. We don't recreate
ourselves enough. DR.. Hammond spoke of
the excellent effect of theatrical amusements
upon the mind, ana urged bis hearers not
to abandon themselves entirely to business
He spoke of the close application to business
that some men had, and illustrated the evils
of it by several examples. In conclusion he
said: Try and control your emotions as
much as you possibly can. Do not let them
get the ascendency over you. Re governed
by your intellect in preference TO your feel
ings. and you may get your mind up 10 a
good, sound and enduring basis