The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1906-08-02
WEIGHT IS NOT ALL
MANY OTHER FACTORS IN DE-
TERM.NING BRAIN POWER.
When thu Cells Are So Constituted a.
TO Give Ability for "Team
Work" High Intelligence
La Present.


Other factors besides brain weight
are kncwn to influence intelligence. II
has long been known that the distin-
gushing character OF the human brain
Is the large number OF connecting
hbera by which Its cells are eo-ordl-
mated. I'm no other species are they
80 numerous OF complicated. The cells
constitute but n very small pars Of tae
weight There Is nov enaid ra8ls
evidence thot the same rule apples
among individual mea and that those
OF great intelligence hare more con
Deetions SO thar their cells can 10
more ard better team work
some Investigations haze shown the
corpus eallosum To AVE a large erass
section In men who have shGgu great
ability. II is aisn known shss me
brains OF able mea are likely 10 pre-
sent more commissions and deeper onss
thaa the average. as II there weres
more brain cells as we'll a. ugors CON
nections. few observations in the
tower races point TO the fact that their
brains are essentially different Ia NIL
rrosoopic Organization. partly account
ing 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 disproye the
general statement that a. a class such
men DO possess brains heavier than the
average.
The mistake arises from the failure
to recognize that noted men who have
shown intellectual power not infre-
quentiy were sharply limited to one or
two directions. being very defective In
other directions. Blind Tom was an
idiot. Ia fact--an extreme case Of what
Ia quite common. At the other ex-
IRENE was Gambetta, who was not
much more thansan orator. whose cere-
brai speech centers were found 20 be
highly developed. The rest OF bis
brain was small. and his general In
tellectuai power and Judgment were
decidedly defective. Ability in one or
two lines may make man famous.
while he Is really very defective. and
his brain proves TO be small.
Heavy brains are not necessarily In.
telleetnsl ones. or elephants would b
In the class Of geniuses.
The material might also be patho-
logic and the possessor an inibeciie
II often happens tina, men OF bio
brain and great ability suffer from
early neglect and are found in lowly
employments or may remain ignorant
through life. These few facts do mo-
prove that large brains are worthless
and not indicative 81 mental power nj
rule. We cannot get away from III,
tact that man as an animal Ia suprem'
because OF his large brain: that amoni
races the brainiest are the highest. ans
that In any one race the most intel
Iigent. as a rule. are those who hay'
the most brains,
Men OF small brains are not the lead
srs. and no statistics of the hrais
weights OF few exceptional mel
noted for limited abilities can reTera'
the rule. Universities DO not Great,
brains. but merely train what exists
No that the owners are better fitted 70
the battle OF life Many q man {
sent 70 college who should be handling
pick and shovel. and he nsve
amounts 10 much. even though b
subsequently makes hts living at som
very limited speciality.