The Mena weekly star., 1896-08-26
A STUDY oE ANGER.
Based on Over Two Thousand Answers to
 Circular of Inquiry.

Circular of Inquiry.
 President Hali, of che Clark summer school at Worcester, has given a num- Der of striking lectures, but none more so than that on anger, which was de- livercd the other day. The address ia based on the PISA answers to a circular inquiry which was sent out two years ago. These indicate that extreme vio- lent anger is of more frequent occur renee than might be supposed. Moro interesting than this, however, are some of the conclusions based on the reports. Thus Dr. Hall says:
 In children sometimes the hair bristles, actually stands up as in ami are shown, the lips are bitten, the tongue ran out Ga curious, unexplained symptom). In 1s per cent. of children they spit, a very animal trait Very often they turn about and spit, perhaps from the superstition that the act will revenge. They spit as though the poi soning instinct was left in the psychic system, as Darwin ascribes it. The neck muscles contract. Children bite themselves or others or a stick, the last to restrain their anger. I remember talking to murderer at Louisville just previous to his execution. He said had he had his stick with him to bite, as was his custom, he never would have committed the crime. Then there is desire to scratch, type of the feline instinct. Man has lost his claws, but the instinct to use them remains"
 It appears from the record that the chief cause of anger is illness: then comes weariness, then hunger, then ex- tremes of heat or cold. As to degrees of anger, Dr. Hall said: Seventy men aud boys and 26 girls and women arc subject 60 wild anger out of 322 per sons reported. Only 26 were blind mad Of those who want to kill, the men far exceed the women. Then, again, the quick of anger are more than twice as numerous as the slow. The duration of the outbreak is about the same in both sexes."
 Here are portions of one CT two char acteristic replies to this circular letter:
 A woman writes that slum boy in Fl mission struck her in the face. .I had n new experience. I wanted to trample him, and rend and slaughter him. I believe I should have killed him had | had weapon. I generally control my self, and only make few whitening re- marks. But once I was so angry that 1 slapped my brother, and his look of surprise made me break into wild 4a~ A Cambridge boy of 15 wrote: "Whcn very mad I used to shut my eyes and go at the object of my wrath for all I was worth, ard then I would feel weak and tired. There are some people l long to maui unmercifully; also, cats, for which have most particular hate. The boy I am maddest of all at has separated me and my best girl, prob- ably forever. am laying for him, and am ready to hang for it."
 In closing his lecture, Dr. Hall said that physiology and Christ are dia- metrically opposed, for one says anger is good thing; the other says: Turn the other cheek also" At the very end he said: Psychologists should careful y fA'CstiSdS diScF III dii US AoTHls, and pedagogy should give it sphere. that it may be turned into the path of honor. There must be codes for the regulation of this passion as long as there are differences among mankind. There have always been courts and codes and rules of honor, without which anger would be unbridled "-Hartford Times.
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