The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1913-02-22

Ills iuNOlFcSs says l1SCkl0 III us
cussing the reasoning faculties, "the
use Of the sense cells in the first in
stance"-the cells primarily active
from birth-"and, in addition, the
activity Of the inner sense centers
in the cortex of the BRAIN" "The
first are called sense cells; the sec
ond, gangleonic cells"
The experiences derived from these
sources are welded into links, which
may be called ideas. affecting phys
ically an appropriate section Of the
brain and these again, affecting
physically other sections, are forged
into great chains, called reasonings.
This exalted province of the hui
man mind lifts mankind out Of the
brute, as his earlier sense experience
es lifted him out Of the vegetable.
1t at the same time had its effect
on the brain itself, differentiating
this organ in man, from the same in
the lower animals. For by it, the
brain is checked, so to speak, sected
and bi-sected, folded, convoluted;
thus creating new surface for new
experience. which is also checked,
sected, bi-sected, folded and convolut-
ed.
Now there is great deal more to
this brain organ than, at first you
are apt to think. For upon it's folds
are recorded the experiences Of the
entire life. So true is this that
Earnest Heckel, the greatest living
biologist and leading monistic phil.
osopher Of the world, says of it, "If
you could take lantern and ran
sack it's folds, and decipher what is
there recorded, not the smallest life
experience would be found omitted.
Grounded as those experiences are
into the mechanism of the brain it.
self, they may be called part and
parcel Of the individual; for they
shape his thoughts and give direction
to his life; so that he is controlled
by virtue of them.
From birth to death, from the first
cry of the infant, when, without its
consent, it is ushered in, by virtue
Of his Inheritance and life impress
sons to the dying groans of the old
gentleman when he passes out, he is
controlled, and impelled onward, and
his movements directed by them
partakes ever Of the direction of the
movement Of the society of which he
forms a part.
This is what makes of the China
man Confusionite; as it makes OF
the East Indian Hindoo, and you g
Christian. So, We should be tolerant
1t makes the vast difference in racia
thought, tradition and sentiment ex
listing between the white man NORTH
and the white man south; and out Of
that favorite utterance of Washing
ton, my sympathies 60 out equally
for the down trodden Of both races
it makes philosophy. For minkind is
controlled; his prejudices are of him.
his weaknesses are grounded in him
Of the fiber and mechanism of his
| brain.
speak of the great mass of man
kind but God created epochs in hui.
man history. Once In a century, per
haps a shorter, perhaps a longer
time, he reaches down and fingers
some individual-touches with his
wisdom some Socrates, Spinizea,
Luther-some Christ, and he ushers
upon US a revolution in thought and
conduct. .
But the last analysis will reveal
that he, too, is controlled and direct
ed; that what seems to us to be
independent thinking and willing, to
use the words Of another, is willing
ness, and standardization. For reform
movements has never yet been known
to correspond in trend and end to
the thinking and purpose Of the in
dividual reformer. Thus, we have
Columbus seeking an all water route
to the Indies but finding a new con-
tinent, and opening up a new era in
scientific thought and discovery.
Luther, TRADING against the abuses in
the mother Church, founded a new
religion, and unlocked the tombs in
which were enthralled the human
mind. Lincoln, seeking to preserve a
union Of states, controlled by an in
visible spirit moving to set men free,
liberating the Negro from involuntary
servitude. That spirit moves today.
1t is here now, striving with us, do
ing for us that which we, in our weak
state, cannot do for ourselves.