The Washington times., 1915-06-23

Wv lords and stones, once let go,
M cannot be recalled, snd
beauty with virtue or pleas
Dire with freedom is an abom-
ination unto vice crusaders and custo-
dians OF other peoples souls. Does a
man dance or act in q light -hea rted
manner? Then is he, in the eyes of the
prudes, wicked fellow, to be reproved,
II possible, by angry contempt.
If those who spread scandal and read
'abominable motives into every ctferves-
cent, joyful moment of others would re-
member the proverb, Every woman
loves justice in >anothers mousse, nobody
cares for 1t at her own there would
be less wrath as well as less unfounded
thoughts Of evil in the world.
Anger and the love of thinking evil
for scandal-mongering is to think and
~, even when found in man. Anger is
displeasure, acerbity, bitterness, spleen,
gall wormwood, Ill blood, tantrums,
animosity and ranking in the vials Of
your bile. IT is evident, therefore, tnat
whispers OF scandal, the venom Of in
nuendo,, the side remark, the IF you
knew him as well as | do" poison, the
shrug and gesture which convey a non
libelous OF damnation are all part and
parcel OF the physiology Of anger
Anger Not Nerves.
Time was when anger was taught and
described rs brain storm" Indeed.
all of the professors in all the great
medical schools of this and other cities
nave T ts sour yoq Rs. to De angry il
II Is nervous manifestation" what
ever that may mean.
A. Harvard Psychologist who has made a
series OF brilliant Investigations upon
Aquinas, Aristotle and the Schoolmen in
results which confirm those schoIa sites
In the view that anger Is a poison that
ebbs and flows In the veins. and has
no more to do with the brain and the
nerves than has the pepsin of digestion
made by the walls of your stomach.
Shakespeare, Byron, Keats, Shelley,
Tennyson and other poets with almost
divine fire discovered by inspiration
what physioiogical psychologists are
turned cud Of wrath. and cooked his
Spleen" says one. "Anger's my meat,
l sup upon myself, and so shall starve
with feeding" Is rich in poetic feeling;
less Greek, over 200 years age set
down here In King John" the full snd
newest triumph OF physiology of the
twentieth century.
eelf-centered science is nowhere better
illustrated than In its lack of observa-
tion and absorption Of knowledge of
everyday speech. The poetry, slang
ana COJlOQual expressions IN every one
Of the worlds languages. handed down
for thousands OF years shows that the
p imeval ancients knew something of
physiology. They did not blame. anger.
fear and hunger upon the nerves. but
on the blood.
Recorded In Organs.
:. In testimony whereof you need only
examine your own speech or that of a
savage in darkest Africa. His blood
Is up "choler rises to his brow do
not show your spleen" his eyes fash
venom" "fire-eyed fury flows in tears. -
! he broke into cold sweat" ''hif
wrath made the veins fll out on his
forehead 'he trembled with rage .
Written large upon the innermos
tablets of your anatomy is a record ot
every outburst OF anger Like wateI
meter to register the flow from th'
spfgot, so the rushing torrents from
deeply hidden glands-spleen. suprarena
or near-kidneys. sex glands. pitui
tary and others-of your inner textile:
reveal themselves indelibly in you
muscles. eyes, intestines. brain anC
other living fabrics.
Intense feelings. such as madness
lirascibility, resentment, envy, rambling
emotions Of one sort or another, leav'
a dangerous. stamped impress upoI
every fibre OF your being. Prof. Can
mons experiments show that thes
very effects can even be had artificiall
by squeezing out the juices of calves
glands and injecting them into person
or brutes.