The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1906-06-21
WEIGHT or BRAIN.
DOES NOT DETERMINE INTEx-
LIoEEcE OF NAN.
May BE Defective in Part and Tst
the Person May Become Noted
for Mental Brill

Other factors besides brain weight
are known to influence inteIligenee. n
has long been known that the distin.
guished character OF the human brain
Is the large nnmher OF connecting
fibers BY which It's celia are coor-
dihated. In no other species are they
So numerous or complicated. The cells
constitute but "A very small part of the
weight. says American Medicine.
There IL nov considerable evidence
that the same rule applies among In
dividual men and that those Of great
intelligence have more connections. 80
thar their cells can do more and bet
ter team work"
Some Investigations have shown the
sorpus uaslosum 10 have large cross
section In men who had shown great
ibilIty. II Is also known that the
brains OF able men are likely TO pre-
cent more eonyoiutlons and deeper
mes than the average. as II there
we're more brain cells rs well a. more
connections A few observations In
the lower races point 20 the fact that
heir brains are essentially dilferent
a microscopic organizations. partly
accounting for less intelligence.
All these facts will fully explain
why men of intelligence IN the higher
races may have brains not notably
heavy. but they DO not eispruse the
general statement that as class such
men do posseas brains heavier than
the average.
The mistake arises from the fall
ure 70 recognize that noted men who
have shown intellectual power not In
frequently were sharply limited to one
or two directions, being very defective
in other directions
Blind Tom was an IDIOT. In fAet--an
extreme case Of what is quite common.
ut the other extreme was Gambetia,
who was not much more than an
orator whose cerebral speech centers
were found 10 be highly developed.
The ress of his brain was small and
his general intellectual power and
| judgments were decidedly defective.
Ability Ia one or two lines may make
a man famous while he Ii really very
defective and his brain proves 10 be
small.
Heavy brains are no. necessarily In
tellectual ones or elephants would BE-
IN ciass OF geniuses. The material
might also be pashologic and the pos
SCISSOR an lmbecile.
II often happens that men OF bis
brain and great ability suffer from
early neglect aud are found In Lowry
employmentA or may remain ignorant
through life. These few facts do MOI
prove that large brains are worthless
and not Indicative Of mental power al
rule. We can not get away from tn
fact that man as an animal is suprem,
because of bis large brain. that amonI
races the hrainsest are the highest an.
that In any case one race the mos
intelligent as rule are those wh,
have the most brains
Men OF small brains are not the lead
erW and no statistics of the braii
weight OF few exceptional mel
noted for limited abilities can reverr
the rule Universities do no; Great
brains but merely train what exist 9
that the owners are better fitted 70
the battle OF life Many q man Ia sen
10 college who should be handling
pick and shovel. and he never amount
10 much. even though he subsequent
makes bis living nj some very Unite
speciality.