The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-10-18
BRAINS.

Facts are being constantly recorded
in evidence that mere size and weight
of brains means nothing of advantage
to the head that carries it. An Edin-
burg physician reports brain of sixty
five and one-quarter ounces taken from
man seventy years of age who had
been deaf, dumb, blind, delnented and
insane. DR.. j. A. Campbell, OF the
Cumberland Asy .um (Eng.and). reports
brains of sixty to seventy-one ounces
found In fifteen autopsies OF dement's"
"If genius is akin to nadness," and
If dementia. with all its allied evils, is
the result of big brain, then stopping |
just short of the danger line must be
the plane Of greatness. Two of the
most nota BILE characters the world has
ever produced, Cesar and Napolean
Bornaparte, were epileptics. Yet the
world stood amazed, aghast. at their
achievements as great warriors andd
statesmen. The idea that large
brain-because in some instances its
oversize has resulted in mental wreck
means nothing of advantage to the
head that carries it," is certainly not
only fallacious idea. but utterly at
variance with the working of nature,
as evidenced by our daily experiences
and observations in both the animal |
and vegetable kingdom as we'll as in
man. The Arabian horse is small yet
has for ages held the turf against all
corners for the one speciality. feetness,
whilst his antipode. the Clydsdale,
when powerful trial of physical
strength is required to move great
burdens is essential, performs with the
utmost ease the greater tasks, where
the racer would be powerless. So man
with small brain may be genius in
some special line, yet the brain of the
men who have made the deepest i'm
press upon the worlds history and left
have had large heads and capacious
brains. Look at the portraits OF the
worlds renowned statesmen. Authors,
inanciers. professional and CONNER
;ial giants, and you will see a large
lead as rule. 1t is physical impos-
,ibility for a small tree or shrub, to
'ield the fruit of large one; a COW
With a small udder cannot give the
milk of one with more capacious lac
cal apparatus, and just SO mans
mental power is measured in proper
ion to the convolution of his brain,
ntil it reaches the danger line of
tiocy, just as it is possible for Clyds-
ale horse by freak of nature to be
90 large for reasonable use. 1t is a
cry easy matter to select few special
asses of any pervertion of nature & by
llse reasoning and jumping at con-
lusions, distort facts and start theo-
les going that are not only untrue,
ut peruicious in their practical effect. -
here is no question but what the
Judy OF the human face and its iudi- m
atoms (physiognomy), is we'll de-
ned and reliable science delineating =
1aracter So also is the size, shape IN
nd material of the brain, true in -
ex of ability of the mind aud powers r
its possessor. Because there is great =
umbugery in phrenology, is no more
nth of its unscientifc standard than re
le same is true of medicine or any
her branch of science. The prepon-
srence of evidence of scientific study
i'd research, will be found on the Flo
de Of large brains where great and Lal
bod attachments are expected. or have -
'evailed in the past FS