The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-29
THE BRAIN.
What Constitutes Germs ana Whaf
IL Can Do.
From tho Medical Brief.

From the Medical Brief
The brain is the organ, the instrument.
through which the ego, the soul, call it
what you wiz, manifests itself to and re-
ceives Impressions from the external
world. II is a photograph recording ali
the various impressions made upon the
mind by education and environment for
the judgment of the soul
Upon the quality and DEVELOPMENT Of
this Instrument depend the Character OF
its manifestations The greatest Of music
clans can not bring melody from an instru-
ment out OF tune. II the brain is OF fair
quality and average development, the pro-
cess of passing judgment upon a subject
Is more or less slow, and we call Il reasons
ing; but when the brain, or any part there
OF. is ideally developed. this process IL
practically instantaneous and we call ir
Intuition. Genius is intuitive or instlnctive
knowledge Mozart could sit down ana
produce, without previous forethought or
study, the most enhancing melodies. He
had genius for music. His brain was so
perfectly developed in this respect that the
ego found no difficulty In manifesting its
knowledge. There we're no difficulties. ro
DISTRACTIONS to overcome. The physical
instrument was perfect and answered inn
mediately to the master touch.
And so 1t was with all the great re-
formers, from Confucius down. Jesus iz
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Possessing an ideal brain, he was unham-
pered by the restrictions common to the
majority of mankind and scared to nights
so lofty none could follow him. His
knowledge of the spiritual was instructive,
his judgment unerring While yet only a
boy, he taught his elders and worldly SUI
periors in the temples. He was the great
est moral genius the world has even seen.
and yet he antagoniZed the religious teach-
ings of his time and was put to death.
Mathematical prodigies who can give I'M
stantly the amount of long columns of fig
ures, the product in square or cube root.
regardless Of the length or difficulty of the
process involved. possess this instructive
knowledge of mathematics. The brain
works 50 rapidly, and with so little fric-
ton, that they claim to "see" the result
and to feel (know) 1t is right
Genius only manifests itself in special
lines. Instructive knowledge upon all sub
tects would make man approach to the
stature of God, and lift the vail between
the finite and infinite But there are cer-
tain instincts common to humanity and
given for mans consolation and welfare
The greatest of these is our intuitive be-
lief in Immortality 1t is not susceptible OF
proof. nor is II the result of religious edu-
cation. 1t has always prevailed among the
most savage and ignorant races equally
with the enlightened, and has resisted.
with wonderful tenacity, the onslaughts Of
agnostics and infidels
over the ego, the soul of man, we have
no influence. but we can tune the instru-
ment as well as our poor skill and the ma
teriai we have to work with will permit.
We can endeavor to nourish the brain with
pure blood by promoting physical health.
and improve its powers by the habitual ex-
ereise Of reason, the nearest approach
which most Of us possess to Instructive
consciousness.