Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-06-16

things, 1t has discovered that bad and I'M
pleasant feelings create harmful chemical
products in the body, which are physically
injurious.
Good. pleasant, benevolent and cheerful
feelings create beneficial chemical products,
which are physically healthful.
These products may be detected by chem
tcal analysis in the perspiration and urine
Of the individual Prof. Gates has discov-
cred more than forty OF the bad and as
many of the good. He is at present organ
izing laboratory in a private way to con-
tue his experiments.
Suppose half a dozen men in a ROOM
One feels depressed, another remorseful
another ill-tempered. another Jealous. an
other cheerful and another benevolent 1t
is a warm day: they perspire. Samples Of
their perspiration are placed in the hands
of the psycho-physcist. Under his exami-
nation they reveal all these emotional con-
ditions distinctly and Enthusiastically
Each unpleasant or bad emotion produces
its own peculiar poison, which has an ILL
effect upon the individual physically. Let
us see If there is not a familiar case for
the purpose of ilustration-one that will
fall under everybodyS observation? Ger
tainly every one knows that great grief
will poison a mothers milk. In fact. 1t
generates an injurious chemical product
so intense in character as to sicken the in
FAINT that draws its nourishment from the
ma ternal fount.
Here is an Illustration more obvious and
more familiar yet: When a man feels great
ly depressed he cannot work. Bad ideas
and memories kill energy. They affect the
physical being Immediately. On the other
hand, happy feelings create energy and
make one feel like exerting himself. There
is nobody who has not felt these things
who has not benefited by them and suffer-
ed by them.
OF all the chemical products of emotions
that of guilt is the worst. If a small guam
tity of the perspiration of a person suffer
ing from feelings of that kind be placed
in glass tube and exposed to contact with
selenic acid IL will turn pink None Of the
other poisons similarly generated exhibits
the same phenomenon. Accordingly, pink
would appear to be the characteristic color
of wrong-doing. How appropriate, then,
| that the wicked person should blush for his
evil acts? 1t is a question whether he
does so very often. however.
Analysing the Precipitation.
Prof. Gates has identified his poisons and
beneficial chemical products by exciting
definite emotions i'll individuals and analyz-
ing their Preparations, etc Persons suffer-
| ing from guilt Will not be likely to send
SO mpes OF their own to him for examina-
that the ignorant will make a mistake IL
they imagine that this new science invades
the domain of the visionary. Its conclusions
are not based on theory. but on facts.
To sum up, 1t is found that for each bad
emotion there is a corresponding chemical
change in the tissues of the body which Is
llife-depress!ng and poisonous. Contrariwise,
every good emotion makes a lfe-promotinC
change. Thus it follows that it pays to be
good and to do good, for ones own sake
A noble and generous action blesses the
doer as we'll as the beneficiary.
Prof. Gates has made some very remark
able experiments with dogs. For example.
Re took three puppies of the same litter
No. l ne permitted to lead the normal life
of a young dog. No 2 he kept in a dark
room, covering its eyes with binders so
that not ray of light could enter them
from birth. No. he allowed all privileges
good for puppies. and. in addition, devoted
seN eral hours day to educating its sense
Of sight The animal thus trained learned
to discriminate colors unknown to ordinary
dogs. He could distinguish fifteen different
shades OF any color except purple and red. AS
to red and purple it would appear that the
canine race is hopelessiy color-bInd
After a while the three dogs were killed
and examined. The parts of the brain
which have to 10 with the function Of sight
We're wholly undeveloped in the pup that
had been blinded. In the educated pup they
were twenty-five times better DEVELOPED
than In the ordinary dog, as represented by
No. 1. being, in fact, nearly equal to the
same portions of a mans brain. Those por-
lions of the brain substance were more
dense, were supplied by more blood vessels
contained more cells and had more highly
| developed cells than the corresponding
structures in the normal dog.
| Dogs prevented from hearing exhibit
similar differences in respect to sound per-
| ception. Like results were obtained with
kittens and other animals
The important inference is that what Is
accomplished with puppies and cats can be
done with human beings. Just as the brain
| of the young dog Is developed by such train
| ing as has been described, so the child g
mind may be built up. The structures can
actually be put into the brain by similar
methods so systematically as to leave no
| parts Of the mind machinery incomplete
| This plan. adapted to teaching, produces re-
| suits very different from those obtained by
| the hit-or-miss processes Of common-school
| instruction.
Brain building is,par excellence. the science
of the future. Mind is the most important
thing in the world. for without 1t all else
| might as well be formless and void. How is
man to get more mind? Upon the answer
to that question the prospects Of the race
depend. Who can doubt that the human
brain of 10000 years hence will produce
ideas far beyond the capacity of the best
piece of thought mechanism of today?
The psycho-physcist states 1t as an axiom
that the mind can only be educated through
the senses Let child be blind from birth.
and the part of the brain that records the
Impressions Of vision will remain rudi-
nIentary. Suppose the same infant to have
been born deaf. and the areas of hearing
Will be likewise undeveloped. If the baby
were born without any senses whatever
and acquired none. 1t would have absolutely
no mind.
The Mind a Piece of Mechanism.
People think of the mind as II 1t were
something purely spiritual In truth 1t is
piece of physical mechanism Like any
other machine it may be built up. Begin
ming with child, it may be put together
bit by bit. To the young human being the
puppy-dog plan is applied on an extended
scale. No brain areas are left undeveloped
Thus the organ of thought, by the time
maturity is reached, Is complete and per-
feet in all it's parts.
When one speaks Of educating the mind
through the senses 1t is worth while to
consider that human beings have more
senses than they are accustomed to credit
themselves with. The normal man or
woman has not only five senses, but at
least dozen. Touch alone includes three
distinct senses. First of them is the tactile
sense, by which one determines whether an
object felt is rough or smooth. Then there
are the two senses of heat and cold. Per-
ceptions of cold and heat are registered by
totally different nerve organs. Look at the
end of your finger. You will notice little
ridges running over 1t symmetrically. In
these lie the eXtremities of the nerves re-
ferred to. If any kind of stimulus Is ap-
piled to one Of the nerves of cold, a sensa-
ton of cold will be felt and similarly with
nerve of heat.