Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-11-02
MEN rAL LtZtSgeS.
suppoted Inability To learn SerisIa Sub
.cls Due On. I SIots IA. Rsbila

Suppoted Inability To learn CerfsIl Sub
j.c,s Dus Gal. u SIosI IA! Habits
We doubt i, even thoughtful E1g,!sh-
men, apart always from I'm I'd class
Inexperienced snd obserVtEt ;eschers,
are az ali aware OF tee * emit to which
many men and more wo9len are sWsysd
By Whist is really nothing but meGtsl
lsziness, says the Loacoa Spacta:or.
Mum oeTs OF t5em positively will not sp
ply their minds Ct al, preierlIpg sRy con-
sequences which EsY resalg ,r3m igGor~
erce, and emerge from school as ignorant
IS fishes, while Il! !srgef Classes, posi-
by even maj Dirty, betray the same i'm
pulse ss regards particular sue1acts
Men are hesrd Constantly to ,fti;m
10 confidential moments tns. they itersl-
ly "csnnot" soq1lre this or inst ordi
nary branch CT knowledge, while they co
learn st the verv same time rhllg5
much more diff Ut acd rsq1iT!rg
precisely the same ki2d CT mental Csesci
ties. Hundreds Of men viii profess POSI-
tive inability to learn the comnonest
facts relht.ng to any sc.ence hu. their
own, even when taslr own IS kindred 10
the enc discu sec; while thousands OF
women will calculate accurately all the
Measurements Necessary for drees, 5
reslly difficult process if accuracy is 10 be
attained, and then 6sclaTe unbushiugiy
that they cannot, no they cannot under
stand rule-ofthree, or calculste Mr..
Goschen's in'ereet in their own fortunes.
e slf the man 10 the world who are not
sensitive to music think it an in
possibility for them 70 Learn to
read musical notation; and We
have hesrd man, not without power CT
reasoning and Win special aptitude for
mental arithmetic, declare 1000 years OF
tuition would not enable him to cJmpre
bend 6 quadratic equstion. Indeed,
1t is one CT the phe1cmeHa OF
mental lazness inst it often TeYskis
itseli in It's scuIest form In the DatlrS!ly
shle, spd thst 1t Is tbs resgoltr woo Is
mos; dsun!ed By particular aat 9;
syiiogisms, not ore viii. more difii :U:l
Than those he has slreadJ mastered. Tbs
| inability is not positive, out cplV rcla
tive, ind is produced eiheE By What We
call "WSnt Of interest" n the sui ct
which may be either iDs!inctiVe nr n,lur
a., or by sense CT pail II the for:
that, like the pain TO the arms in swim
mirg, can De overcome only by fre'
QnenI and continuous practice.
the necessity is peremptory, the iusbilitI
spGedily disappears, and that Ctten ii
a way which AZ once indicates its source
Il does not disappear gradually; It lsstP
apparently, 80 insupe Table SIS ever, up u
a dehneble moment; and then, presto
1t is gone never to return. The tFuti
Ii, enough has been learned TO swakei
unconsciously the faculty CT atten
ton, or, in otner words, &c take away tn,
pain CT l., end then the natursl powe
has It's full swing. Thst is, We believ
the unvarying experience of ever
man who learns chess-~hich d
man ever forgot-lnd of all ex
cept the few with Natural heni'
who study tny abstract science whatso
ever. In men possessed OF the "na.ure
bent" there Is, Of course, 10 isz.nesR
because there IL Do seoss Of psil; the
learn without ef}It percep!ibl
to themselves, as the say
sge lsarps the wilddrnes
OF natural facts necessary 10 eDEble bio
TO hunt or fish fer food with success
A savage "4ever knows anything a5ou
the torest"-except the myriad OF minu.
indicstious necessary to tel! tim where I
find the great msggots which he cate
he is compelled 10 lean that. aad III
mental lazlpess, Therefore, d0es Mt etc
him IS it would il Sir J Lubbock were L
try 70 teach him tee anatomy OF lesi
He could learn that anatomy Il 1t wer
equally essentisl 20 his existence.