The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-13
WASWISDOM'S
THE TRAGIC DEATH OF A HUMAN
 THINKING MACHINE.
Had an ovcreducsted Br.i. Physicians Retain Brafn of Prof. krewer as
 Model for . Century Hence-
 Knew All. hut was Useless.

Chicago Tribune.
 Physicians have decided to present the brain of Prof. W. Krewer. sui- eide, to the American Medical Associa- ton as a type of the man of 2o0s- the human thinking machine.
 The decision was reached following a clinic in which leading medical men of Cook county participated. They met to study the brain of the man. which higher education had developed at the expense of his heart.
 They conceded that Prof. krewer's brain was a mareious mechanism. the triumphant product of years of study and culture in the great universities of Europe and America. But they con- tended that as his mind expanded his heart shrank and his soul shriveied until he attained the stage of an omniscient character--loveless, feeling less, expressionless. feariess-and use- less.
 He was loveiess because he did not want to see his own mother. He did not hate her. He simply ignored her. The fact that he had once sucked at her breast was nothing to him. She was Ignorant. She could teach him nothing. Therefore he didn't want to be annoyed by her.
 Was Barren of Emotion.
 He was without feeling because he expressed no emotion. No human be- ing had interest for him. He was never known to utter an -xpression of pleasure. of pain. of interest in any thing governmental development. He was fearless in the manner he chose of seeking death. pr. C. Pruyn String field, who first was called when Krewer's body was discovered at the Grand Pacific Hotel. says Krewer made a brain-study of death even while in the throes of it.
 He was useless because he felt there was nothing more on earth for him to learn
 He had studied for the priesthod then rejected religion. He had master ed ten languages. He was a marvel ous lawyer, finished physician, learn ed in the fine arts. an authority of sstrology. meteoroiogy. botany. his- tory.
 Tt was this knowledge of his own uselessness." gays pr. Stringfield. that caused Prof. kTewer to seek death. There was nothing more on earth to inlSfest him He wanted to pry aside the curtain that hides the hereafter. Krewer. seeking death. was as sane as any man in the city of Chicago.
 Warning to overstudious.
 "This should serve as a warning to the nation which Is evincing a daily tendency to neglect the manual arts For over -mental development.
 Krewer's father is a laborer. His mother Is a simpled- minded. everyday housewife. Ills brothers work with their hands. His whole family is plain. He was born in Chicago 4i years ago. At the time of his boyhood his father planned to place him in a sawmill.
 But the boy expressed a desire. nour- ished by his mother, to enter the priest hood. He went to Europe. wae educated at Sarbonne with high hop. ors, but renounced all religion at the very hour he was to have been or dained- He took degrees later at Col umbla University, and then at the Acadamie dc Besanoin, France.
 He then launched into a career Of individual research serving as tutor to the sons of Marshall Field. jr.. and sons of other Chicagoans of wealth at the university school. Later he taught at the Flexnes School and the Univer- sity School. at Louisville. He often said that teaching was a drudge and that he only taught that he might live and indulge in his appetite for study. ....
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