Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-06-28

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duality ~ thes mind IN 10 marked
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not a single work of imagination Dor
tfaylng human character In which
th9 duality IL not exemplnod Bic
tiOnist and poet live upon Il. and
noticed recently that one Of The most
analytical and realistic writer's N
fiction IN France. and ono of tho most
popular, NJ Ouyot. recognizes not
only the art but The science of tho
method
In describing ono of his imaginary
characters, or more probably real
character transformed from the or
dinary daily life into his pages under
n false name, no explains duality on
the same principle that Wigan did
long before him He Is dealing with
man who has two brains brains
which are not Of the same mold, and
therefore not Of the same action
and he writes his character from this
standpoint with oil the vlgor Of a
master in literature and the precision
Of a man Of science.
Wigan was Of opinion that no single
person has the two brains exactly bal
anced. He considered the most power
full mind was that in which the two
brains, both being healthy were near
est to each other in capacity. But he
believed that that was also a good
condition in which one brain took the
leading part, and in which the other
brain, in accord with the stronger,
lent the stronger its assistance. A
mind sustained in this manner was
strong for endurance and one that
was able to undertake, with certainty
of successful work, the most difficult
and hazardous labors. The minds of
men like Cromwell, Washington,
Wellington, Franklin, would be of
this last named cast, while the minds
Of the giants of intellect, of Napoleon,
Newton, Columbus, would be con-
structed on two brains of equal pow
er, both in unison in their capacity
and will for action.
In common life the two brains act
together with sufficient unity to
maintain the mind in a fairly bal
anced state, but there are conditions
in which the divergence is SO consid-
cradle that balance is broken, and
then there is what we call insanity.
Wigan sums up the argument in
very clear manner. He says: II
think it may be assumed without
risk of contradiction that the fact Of
each brain being perfect and com
plete instrument of thought is abun-
dainty proved. That each, while in
health, corresponds in action with its
fellow is obvious from the fact that
this unison and correspondence give
only one result, as in the case of
two eyes producing single vision;
that when from any cause one
brain is disordered a discrepancy in
the two processes of thinking takes
place; that the healthy brain laid
ed by the action of such of the organs
Of its fellow as are not affected by
the disorder which disturbs the 9th
ers can in nearly 999 cases in 200,
according to the usual proportion in
this country, control all manifesto
tions of morbid emotion or judg.
ment, but that the thousandth case
is the madman." 81 -F4
The balance b sufficiently pre-,
served on the grand scale to prevent
the intrusion into the world of an
excess of insanity. At the same time
there is a wide range of diversion,
short of obvious destruction of bal.
ance. Heredity here plays leading
part.-Dr. Richardson in Asclepiad.