The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-03-20
HOW NUMEROUS ARE WEp
DIR. r.. OsGOOD MASON sTARTLEs
WITH ASTONISHING FACTS.
Persons Have Been Executed when
1t Was Their Second Selves
Committed the Crime.

is about to make public a series of ex-
ceedingly interesting facts bearing on a
most important discovery regarding an
actual dual personality.
1t is that large proportion of the civ
ilized world possesses alternating person
alities.
The strangest feature of the condition
referred to is that the existence within us
of the second self is not realized, and yet
| it is the impelling force which provokes
the commission of actions totally foreign
to the known nature of the individual 1t
shows that the nOvelist's creation of DIR
Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde is not in the least
improbable In fact, 1t is demonstrated
beyond question that there are many per-
sons in this world who are the conglo1n-
crate of two individuals of exactly oppo-
/ site characteristics.
Even further than this, the facts which
DR.. Mason presents go to prove the Cruth
of the famous Biblical quotation: 1.-THE
sins of the fathers shall be visited upon
/ the children unto the third and fourth
generation of them that hate me-" This
is shown by what some persons are
| pleased to improperly call heredity. Tech
nically, heredity refers to certain personal.
peculiarities noticeable in eacn generation
/
ever, is proved by the fact that frequently
the dual personality of an individual is
composed of the nature which his father
and mother have directly transmitted to
him, and a second nature or self which is
a direct reproduction of the evil that lay
| in an ancestor three, four or perhaps five
generations before.
| 1t is a matter of common knowledge
that in almost every family there has
been at one time or another a marriage
which has given cause for regret often
| from the fact that the person who has.
married into the family proved to be of
nature not at all desirable. Il may be the
children which result from such mar
riage will be devoid of the maternal char
acteristics, and the same statement may
prove true of The generation that succeeds
them. So 1t runs along until perhaps the
fourth generation following, and then the
child of parents whose natures are all
that could be desired, in whom the spirit
of evil finds no Iodgment, develops
character such as might have been be-
slowed upon him by the fiend incarnate.
Then the world maryels and wonders why
this is so, but cannot dispute its truth
Dual Natures.
| Now, then, this Is when the nature of
interest is plainly visible. DIR. Mason's
Investigations and deductions relate to
those who posses these dual natures, and
yet as a rule have sufficient moral cour-
age to repress, so far as appearances are
concerned, the Mr.. Hyde individuality.
However, sometimes Mr.. Hyde will not
down, and then are committed those
strange actions which the world and even
l
possible to reconcile with the character
of the individual as understood. There
are few persons who have not felt mys-
terious impulses to stray from the path
of rectitude in violent and startling
manner. 1t is these impulses which have
led some medical men to assert that all
humanity is more or less insane. Dr.
Mason proves that there is nothing of the
sort, but that these impulses are simply
the influence of the second, or evil, self
The second self is not necessarily evil
but it is an unpleasant fact that gener.
ally this is the case All these things
will be set forth in a statement DR.. Masor
is soon to issue to the public, containing
the result of his Investigations regard
ing the dual personality He has giveI
the members of the American Medica
association something to think of in {
paper read by him before the section OF
neurology of that organization, treating
principally of the origin and the medico
legal aspect of the dual personality. HI
says:
ut is a well understood fact that Ger
tain clearly defined traits or character
istics, either physical or mental. existing
in ancestors near or remote, may, afte
passing by one or more generations, a
length crop out distinctly and unmistak
ably in later one Physical peculiaritie
or deformities, tendency to certain dis
eases or peculiar mental characteristic
are frequently in this manner transposed
| also a peculiar insight into or genius 70
certain pursuits, as for instance hunting
fishing and frontier life, a military ca
reer, mathematics, music, acting or sci
entific pursuits, existing in a marked de
gree in some near or remote ancestor
3 may be Inherited directly in the succeed
: ing generations; but on the other hand
1t may pass over one or more genera
4 lions to appear in an unmistakable man
ner in a later one.
q The Contradiction,
Suppose, for instance, that five genera
lions back there had appeared a man G
marked and thoroughly bad characters
Y tics married to a right-minded, mora
even religious. woman, that he was viii
"a fer of religion, profane and vicious in lif
and INSCRIPTIONS in his dealings wit
( others, that the generations which immc
diately succeeded came under influence
which, aided by inherited characteristic
from the mother, led to lives of morality
uprightness, or even conspicuous piet!
In the fifth generation appeared a ma
who, in the midst of these moral and re
ligious environments, was conspicuous fC
his profanity, his vicious life and unscrl
pulous conduct so Identical with his r.
~ mote ancestor as to make the connectio
undoubted. Where did this evil tendenc
exist during the four intervening genera
tons? Let us tap the main line betwee
the two extreme points and see what il
formation may be extracted In the fourt
generation was a mild, religiously il