The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-15
POWER OF MAN
 TO MAKE SELF
GOVERNOR BALDWIN GIVES IN- TERESTING TALK ON DEVEL- OPMENT OF THE
 MIND.
Declares, in Course of Address, That Every Man Makes His Own
 Brains.

At the meeting of the Brooks club of Trinity church in New Haven, Gov.
 Simeon B. Baldwin, read an instruc- tive and interesting paper on the sub ject, Man His Own Maker" The governor said at the beginning that he had been reading an edition of Emerson's letters in which the great American man of letters had stated that man did not make himself. Emerson was not always right as to physical truths and had the sage of Concord written thirty years later ne would have made no such remark. Topsy, in Uncle Toms Cabin, when asked who had made her, replied, "Specks, I growed," and, in that an- has maker and in him there is noth- ing so great as God, but in his ac- tual making man has no small share. In selecting this subject it was im- possible to have it contain the whole truth. Like newspaper headlines, the incidentally, most headlines do we'll if they contain that. The governor then continued: 'I wish to first state the old truth that Heaven helps them who help themselves'-God gives one long lesson of self-help, and in help ing himself man becomes. so to speak, his own maker.
 "I wish to bring out new prin- ciple-every man makes his own brains We used to think that the brains made the man, but the new force of biology has caused the old opinion, as we'll as the old science, to take another position. The world is accustomed to think that man evolved from a lower order of life. No man comes a rational, thinking, talking being into the world. Talking leads to writing-and this is the distinc- tive feature which separates man from the lower forms of life.
 '"The Bible gave no credit to the brain-indeed, in the scriptures, the parts of the anatomy. Of late have read most interesting work on "The Brain and Personality of Man. by Dr. Thompson, a leading New York physician. The brain, according to this man, is divided into two sections and in the left hemisphere is located the living dictionary in man, which that part, is found Broeker's convolu- tion, which is the telephone center of all the nerves.
 "Apes and dogs have Broeker's con- volution; but the power of rational volition, which distinguishes the hu- man, IS QISSluS III IAS OiuIC. AdSS year it was reported that dog from Germany was taught to pronounce five German words and the unusual development of the oral convolution, due to it's affection for its master, may account for that tNphenomena.s In- deed there is nothing more touching in literature than the recognition of Eurydises by his dog as related in Homer.
 "In human physiology, the man is the commander the nerves are the officers and the muscles are the mere tools upon which the nerves operate. There is a school of philosophy-the school of determinism-of which John Calvin was an exponent, which teaches that mans life is predestined from the beginning. Physiological dis coveries tend in the opposite direction. Each man follows the impulse of per- sonality and. day by day, men sepa- rate on life's way. Each has free will, each can build his character as he wills, each man is: his own maker AS we form and train our thoughts, SO we form our opinions-thus our characters are formed. The child is more receptive than the man. and when age comes on, the individual Is less and less able to retain matter in his brain. Constant use improves the brain and man should enter old age with steady, resolute purpose to ex- ercise his brain.
 "God may ordain the law, but it is for you to adjust yourself to the law and execute it. Divinity surrounds our lives but we must make use Of the divine gifts-man must make him. self in order to rise towards Him.