The San Francisco call., 1897-10-03
TO MAKE THE HUMAN RACE MORAL BY MEANS OF
FRort SPINAL CoRD

| thirst for liquor after accidents that
| affected their heads. And the opposite
has taken place. Good men have become
bad after an accident that affected their
! brains.
These cases might seem very strange,
but in the face of DR.. Macdonald's theory
they are very simple-certain centers OF
the brain have been destroyed and the
mans nature changed.
1t is a well-known fact that there are
| two impulses in every brain-an incitive
and an inhibitive. A man with strong
! inhibitive powers can control himself,
while a weaker man cannot. Sometimes
this is Que to environment and sometimes
it is due to nature.
can men," says DR.. Macdonald, "are
born equal as far as the vital spark of life
! is concerned. There is no more difference
| between two lives than there is between
two atoms of hydrogen. The difference is
in the tools that the life has to work with.
An idiot cannot be made into wise man
no m after how much training he is given
in his early youth. He simply lacks GER.
| tain tools 10 work with.
Now, | am confident that we can
change mans nature as easily as we can
cut off his finger after We once find out
where these different moral areas of the
brain are located. That is where nll the
work will come in. and it will take long
time. but after it is once done it is done
! for all time and would in the end be q
benefit to mankind. If the State would
! spend money 10 perfect such an idea it
would b. a saving. for a thief could be de-
/ - Il, n
! loose to be a respectable member of So
ciety instead OF being supported all his
| life IN prison.
I'm my experiments L have changed
the disposition of dogs and cats
simply by removing certain areas.
L have made a bulldog as mild
as poodle and taken all the desire for
| mice away from a cat. All that remains
| TO be done is 10 find out where the differ
ent areas are located and all the rest will
be smooth sailing. This may not be done
! for many years, but on the other hand it
is likely to come about at any time,
| Dozens of men are at work on the brain
al The present time and there is no telling
what they will discover. You may be in
clined 10 laugh al the idea, but it is not
any more improbable than the telephone
seemed TO people fifty years ago. Ifa man
| said in those days that he would soon be
able to talk TO friend miles away through
q machine in the wall people would have
laughed at him.
The operation of changing a mans
nature would be simple one. With the
ordinary trephine hole would be crt in
! the head and with an electric needle the
Objectionable part of the brain destroyed.
This could be done without the mi IN know
ing that anything of the kind had hap
| pened TO him"
| Following is brief description of what
he is working on that DR.. Macdonald has
written for THE CALL.
Natural conditions are maintained by
! opposites. There is no force in nature
which has not its antagonist, we'll illus.
trated by the magnet, which presents two
/ poles, the attractive and rerellent (com.
monty termed negative and positiye>
Any force overcoming its contrary motion
or some other manifestation of it results
equal to the amount of energy left over
untlI equilibrium is again estab ished. If
this were not so the universe could not
exist for one second. We as aunt in il
| are subjected TO the same immutabIe
laws. There is no force resident in our
selves, latent or active, which has not i.
restraining element within the body; our
wishes, thoughts, passions have their
counterbaiance, or our mental equilibrium
could not be maintained and we should
hgura'ively speakingly, fall to pieces.
Commonly we talk of our desires as our
Impulses; the restraining force, our Will
power. Thrice happy is the man whose
appotites are equalized by sef.controI.
Such an individual is characterized as