Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-12
HEADS.

Hedi1nS, seeing, GaStlnS ana SMeuings
And Webster remarks that it also con-
tains the brain, (which is supposed to
be the seat of the intellectual powers
and of sensation" Under the latter
definition the brain might be "sup-
posed" to be the seat Of life. But Bal
FAC says: T" In great crises the constitu-
tion is attacked in that part where tenn
permanent has placed, in that particular
individual, the seat of lifc weak people
have the colo Napoleon goes to Sleep"
Ii this theory be correct the scat of life
must be in the stomach. 1t was Beecher
who said that people often mistook a
bilious attack for religion, and as relig-
Ion is sentiment it might be argued
that the liver is the scat of the senti-
ments.
We know that the heart is the seat of
the passion love, since the young man
suffering from a violent attack OF that
tender emotion invariably feels ;sheart
thump against his ribs when in the pres
ence of his beloved mistress. towards
In battle feel sinking at the stomach
and sometimes faint dead away, and the
phrase, "He has no stomach for the
fight, has passed into proverb. 1t
follows that valor resides in the stomach
rather than the head, and depends more
on the quality of roast beef the man has
consumed than on the lofty sentiments
instilled into his mind. This tends to
upset the theory that the mans eyes
photograph pictures on his brain, and
that through his ears he receives brain
impressions. It is plain that the COM
munication between the eyes and ears
and the stomach is much more intimate
than with the brain.
A misconception as to the true func-
tons of the stomach, its controlling in
fuence over the human organism, has
often led not only to disastrous results,
but to grossly unjust discrimination in
favor of one class and against another
class of individuals. Napoleon ex-
claimed: "Good God! How rare men
are! There are $4,000. 900 in Italy, and
have with difficulty found two-Dandolo
and Melzi."
Undoubtedly Napoleon sought men by
the commonly accepted sign of great
ness-a large, good or fine head. Now,
the modern Italian head is neither fine
nor handsome, as rule, and Napoleon
found only Two good heads in several
millions brought under his observation.
He was hence amazed at the assumed
low grade of intelligence of the italian
people. Il is 10 be regretted that the
biographies OF DAndolo and Melzi fail to
describe Their stomachs, but there is
little doubt that they were splendidly
developed in that region, and that to
that fact rather than to their fine heads
they owed their greatness. Dandolo,
at least, was descended from very old
family, and it is known fact that the
stomachs of members of old families
are much better developed and stocked
than their heads. Hence the aphorism,
"Blood will tell"
Nearly all monarchs are large-stom-
ached men, while Presidents of the
United States have been notcriorsly
small stomached. The reason of this
difference is plain, and supports our
theory: the Monarchs of Europe are re-
quired to think for all their subjects
millions of people-while the millions Of
free citizens of the United States think
for their Presidents, they merely execut.
ing their wishes. Does not this show
conclusively that thinking develops the
stomach? If Napoleon had judged men
by their stomachs instead of their heads
he might have formed juster Judgment
of the italian people.
That the stomach controls the head is
demonstrated by the fact that more than
nine-tenths of all the people in the world
are compelled to labor from day to day
six days in week-to obtain suf-
ficient supply of food to keep the stom-
ach from open rebellion, as it were.
When Tanner announced his purpose to
neglect and defy his stomach for forty
consecutive days he was regarded with
amazement But the announcement Of
a purpose to refuse all nourlshment To
the brain forty days, or forty years,
would cause neither surprise nor TO
mark. It is doubtless this necessity
which is said to be the mother of inyen.
ton, that has stimulated the stomach to
reduce the head to state of yassalage.
The brain may go hungry with perfect
impunity, and having no necessities it has
ceased to have ambition. But the ston,.
ach must have nourishment or die
hence its necessities have impelled it TO
become tyrant. * Chicago Tribune.
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