The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-10-10
4 WONDERFUL WORK OF 4 BRAIN BUILDER.
mi. Gates Describes His Experiments as to
Mind Building.

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the battery. After a few ssys you could
nor get the dogs 70 t0tsch thas border Or
anything black bar you might iay a white
strip acrcss the black ard they would
walk ever e. I also taught them colars
~ feeding them, placing ne meat under
pans OF a certain color. scattered about
among pans % sthEr cciors. All OF tbs
panz wsEe rubbed ssth meat FIRST 60 pre-
vent TIE dogs from picking ous those
with the meat under them - the sense
q smell The tegx would 10 70 the right
cosoref pans every tirne. After awhas I
changed the meats 20 different cci3rsd
pans or different mornings. The dogs
soon learned 70 recognize fhe change. and
there WAS ore Of the dogs VINO would turn
ever al Ire pans until be came to the arst
one having meat In IT, ard after thar ha
woaId turn ever only pans Of t1at color.
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Of oar artists n their Discrimination az
eo4orz They could distinguish sever
shades Of red ard about eight OF green
wen. a. the end % nfue months ] killed
this set o. dogs and thea compared tire
brains q the three sets. I found that
the dogs whe had beer kept n darkness
had 70 brain cells n TIE seeing areas q
their brains. Tie dogs who Rad beer al
lowed TO run about had well-developed
brain cells. just as ysg viii nnd in the
oFalnary dog 81 that age BGt 7 also
found that ny trained puppies had q much
greater number q such calls. ard that
their cells were more highly Developed. I
found. n short th&t ~ educating the
dogs I had added 70 their brains. I tried
the same thing or ether dogs a. 70 hear
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muscles ~ making re dogs produce GER
tain lex motions. and found thar this pro
daeed similar results On the brain.
pFaeticsf similar experiments or monkeys
and rabbits a. 70 caiozs. and I made
large number o. experiments upon guinea
ri4s rssnuing through several generations.
70 sac the eject - hereG1fy upcr brain
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b add 70 them and build up rev brains
alcng ssach nnes as BE desires
RaiIaiag the Rrafn ef Child.
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