The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-11-11

root branches out TO the right and IL
the left, sending its rootIets through
70 the surface and to ali sxtremitiea
OF the body. giving out vital force,
and taking up that which makes for
vitality. thereby vivifying every or
gan, and the blood itself. which ID
one manifestation OF life only while
ii IL in circulation.
The blood In the life" says one;
the breath 10 the life says an
other: the nerve is the life" says
fourth. perhaps the wis-st of them
| all. Above the spinal cord rises the
brain-tree, branching to the right
and TO the left, filling all the slow
growing space allotted 70 II by nature
AZ rapidly NJ permitted The growth
-, Of this brain-tree. in stem, limb and
root, does not cease with length
breadth and thickness---all necessary
but continues In the most import
| ant direction" Of atlthat OF texture.
which 10 the real fourth dimension.
Thoughts are this leaves of this won
derful tree Of HE. which are for the
! healing OF the nations. What nations
Tho nations both within and with
! out. Whether phrenoiogs DO a science
/ or a near-science, there Is soHe cor
! relation betw cen mental capacity rep
resented by bodily movement and par
I ticular brain areas. Whether solar
biology be- science or n nesr-sotence,
( tn ere does seem 10 be some truth IN
( Its statement that one branch Of the
brain tree IL chiefly concerned with
the Vital powers. the protection or
| the whole body; while the other
branch OF the brain Is chiefly concern
| ed with the mental and moral powers
and their normal expression. Nothing
4. more educational than n fact--even
though not fully accounted for.
In this connection 1t may he Well
/ to again recall the strange case Oh
| Duplex Personality" as IL WAS caseo
| for want OF better description.
| God-fearing Christian man had fal.
paralyzing ons-han OF MS brain anu
| In. opposite half OF HIS. body. 1t sud
denly transformed him into bias
| pheming inndel. He was laid on
| couch by the window. Soon he be
| came his normal, moral self again.
! But on being turned around SO ms
/ normal side was away from tho l9h''
! ha quickly became the horriu oias-
| ~ sr,ar arain Ii was found by the
great physicians who examined ms
case that \ highly fnagnetised bar Ok
copper lay on the Moor under the WIN.
| dow. and in some occult way II CAUSE"
his paralysis to shift AZ he was turn
ed. aud that shifting made MIN hls
normal or his abnormal sell - stated
~ yaa rauorted in the London Lancet
II seems difficu,t to always correctly
! draw In another the line OF moral re-
| snonsibtiity. Perhaps the Master nao
,hat in mind when he said. Judge
uot" However much mere guessing
at soul mysteries may be inouieeo III
nv teachers OF those two sciences OF
near-scisnces. it does appear that No
lures primal cleavage OF sex ~ Ia
] evidence in the brain-tree also. II
masculine externally You nave un-
| doubted feminine characterisics III
| ternaliy. Lav>
II feminine externally. you nave
| undoubted masculine charao'ei' s''o''
| internally.
r,.l woman. there Is maintained
| certain equalization, a definite balance
| hatween these two principles or mas
! culinity and femininity.
/ In that abnormal being. the NY
man freak" the degree OF ireaN'Sn .
| ness In expressed by the degree %
,r.,abil,ty or unbalancs between those
80 nrfnaiples OF basic cleavage
,vhich ia not mere physical sex i'sen'
though physical sex Is It's ihos' W.
yious external expression.
i Come wit tried to dsnhe SUN
normality in the epigraH,
haired men, and short-hAlIeu "o 1870,
Hnt IKE many others. that episran
!. riptton rather than q dennl-
| ton. =, ,,.,;ties
This mutual sharing OF QuaA.ies
trn-aa "a be- sex differeuiiauohs
uii, account for certain ialoSs
IN particular men and women "a
axtrsme 10 represented by the iao.sN
Ar,a,ons or by the warrior wonan'
| Ia.au ~ Arc. whose lately acHnowi-
/ .ared saiutahip ought te 10 49, ls
| conformation for the vindic'lVe 81 =
ties Inv which her enemies ehoea no
earthly martyrdom in the cause W
I liberty. an,, rsnre-
/ .snted by the "squA" mAh' raer
batter. by the common or
rts,. ~ American "dudelet, lha.'
,,I,s tho Door. We have always WIN.
-, pccasionally one meets woil."A'
81. whom the mouse has no terroIs'
"a who will calmly retire ana pen
fully 70 to sleep without even NM M
,nr Of a possible burglar unoer nS'
bed. During the lurid days OF I tsou-
vile, that unique expression Oh ..ter
/ .,ar daredevil courage. the WIZ
rnew one of the pioneers.
Dawes. who feared neither puns
bandit: but put Dawes on tne IT, .'.,,ast
three story house Win .ne ..x = ~
w..,a mouse. and II the mouse olo no. ~.
, mmp OFF the man would. What hat. -
mora. Dawes was couraseous en .Stact
r. frankly acknowledge ms .s"vgh
terror at the sight OF = InoaS axactlv
wealthy" TO unduly joke him apoa'
that or any other iast u., war
.,orr The Red Badge Of oCuraas;
the truthful author gives many many, ae sxan
cd reasons why WAT aa now Il is .far
1870 " than He'll" TO the con9enitaA