The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-11-03
COIOR or SIN II PINh.
DIR. Elmer Gates Experiments Upset
Rhetorical Tradition.


Among the most interesting or the
scientific men who have made Phiiadei-
phia their home IS Or. Elmer Gates.
Doctor Gates was formerly connected
with the Bureau OF Ethnology OF the
Smithsonian Institution, Washington. ana
unon the failure OF Congress TO appro-
pirate sufficient money 10 maintain MS
laboratories ne came 20 Philadelphia ana
has been pursuing his original inyestga-
tions in his private laboratory here. HIS
researches have been OF such mover
character and their results have been 80
startling Chat in Few years DOCTOR
Gates has sprung to the 'front.' RANKS OF
original investigators, being ranked py
the officials of the smithsonian institu-
ton as among the greatest scientists or
the age.
Nor the least startling OF Or. Gates
conclusions il that one reached through
experiment 10 demonstrate that scarlet
is not the distinctive color OF sin and
that the Bible expression though your
sins be "a scarlet is simply a rhetorical
eNaggeration.
Doctor Gates has found in his study
OF the brain that each definite emotion
produces chemical products IN the secre-
tiOas and excretions which are chafac-
terstic of those emotions. Tho cVil emo
tons produce, for example, poisonous
product, while happy emotions produce
Ifo~promOtinB cont ounds IN otheF
words, every emotional experience cree
ates brain structure, the re-imctioninS
OF whfch reproduccs lts characteristic
good and bad chemical products. The
Precipitation, for example, he found 20
contain different yolatiye organic com
pounds under the influence OF different
emotions. These products may be detect
ell by chemical analysis In the perspira-
ton of an individual. Doctor Gates ma:
discovered more than forty Of the bad
and as many of the good.
DR. Gates theory that bad or unpleas-
ant emotions produce their own peculiar
poison. which has an effect upon the m
diyidual physically, Is not without its
familiar Illustrations. Ii is well known
that great relief generates an injurious
chemical product SO intense IN character
as 10 sicken the INFANT who draws IT'S
nourishments from the mother. \ more
obvious and familiar illustration is that
when one is depressed one cannot work
Bad ideas and memories, DR.. Gates holds,
Kill energy. They affect the physical be-
ing Immediately. On the other hand hap
Ply feelings create energy and make one
feel like exerting himself.
OF the chemical products wisch Dr.
Gates has found, that or guilt IS the worst.
IL a small quantity OF the perspiration
Of a person suffering from conscious guilt
be placed in a glass tube and exposed to
contact with selenfc acid & will turn pink.
No other poison similarly generated. ex-
hibits the same phenomenon According
ly. pink is apparently the characteristic
color OF sin. not scarlet.
DR.. Gates Investigations have been
principally in the direction Of physiologi-
cal psychology. He is not vivisection-
list. and, In order to avoid the cruel and
cal psychology. He IL not viyIsecton-
list is Obliged to employ. he adopted a
new method of research. He placed am
mails under varying conditions and under
special training. and In that way deyel-
oped certain brain areas. which were ex-
amined after the animal suffered pain
less death.
He found that animals deprived OF
Hight from birth by having been kept In
Z cAzk>aAd RON have - sla9e1 entire