New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-24

is the keen perception Of certain relations
being right or not, and there is the emotions
flush and thrill consequent thereupon. And
these are two things, not one. In the former
of them it is that experts and masters are
home. The latter accompaniment are bodily
connections that they may hardly feel, but
that may be experienced in their fulneu By
cretins and philstines in whom the cnte
judgment is at its lowest ebb. The marw'
of science about which so much edfying ppG
lar literature is written, are apt to be ca
Ware TO the men in the laboratories And ever
divine philosophy itself, which common NOR
tails consider so sublime an occupation, on
account of the vastness of its data and outlook
is too apt to the practical philosopher himself
to be but sharpening and Tightening business
matter of points of screwing down things
splitting hairs, and Of the intent rather ina
the extent of conceptions. Very little emo
ton here Except the effort of setting the a.
tention fine, and the feeling of ease and rene
(mainly in the breathing apparatus Wne'
the inconsistencies are overcome ana wv
thoughts run smoothly for while
The fate Of the highbrow William jane
exemplifes by confession: mo matter nov
emotional the temperament may he, Wv
imagination be poor the occasions for toucnnt
off the emotional trains will fail TO be realle"
and the life will be pro tGnto cold sno 'f''
This is perhaps a reason why 1t may oe pew
that a man of thought should not nave w
trcng a visualizing power He is less lheP
TO have his trains Of meditation DISTURBED
emotional interruptions. II will be rems~
bered that Mr.. Cation found the members "
the Royal Society and of the French Acaosn'
of Sciences TO be below par in visial''~'
power. If | may speak OF myself, am 10
less able to visualize now, at the age OF lo'"
six, than in my earlier years; and ! 90
strongly inclined TO believe that the resu''
sluggishness of my emotional life at p'e''"
is quite as much connected with this fse'
it is with the invading torpor Of hoary e'' VI
with the omnibus-horse routine Of settieo P'V'
fessional and domestic life. ] say this oecS'N
occasionally have fash Of the old strong
visual imagery, and notice that the enn0''r''
commentary. so 10 call it, is then LIABLE y
come much more acute than is It's present WIN
The life of the highbrow. if We are 10 !u's'
b. William James, does not provide tne 'V'..
ticns necessary and sufficient for ian aoun''s.
emotional life" In that fact alone 'hei'
something to substantiate the popular an'P'"'
70 the highbrow.
The GOODNESS of the highbrow ne oei'1 ~
THE oftener We meet an object the more ~
nitely We think and behave about H. sh'
les is the organic perturbation to "h,"
gives rise. The first time We saw II we pe'"'r
could neither act nor think at all, and nSu
reaction but organic perturbation nc ' ~,
tons of startled surprise, wonder or cur" 80.
were the result Now We look at 1t WIN g.
lutely no emotion. This tendency TO ec0''..
in the nerve paths through which our
tions and ideas discharge is the pass u m
growth in efficiency, readiness ana
Where would the general, the surgeon '"'
siding chairman be if their nerve curreh''
running down into their viscera ihs""' =.
keeping up amid their convolutions! bu'
hey gain for practice by this law they vs.. IA
must be confessed, for feeling. FOR the W."
worn and experienced man. the sense Oh .,d
ure which nc gets from the free ana p0", .h,,
flow of thoughts. overcoming obstacles -
arise, is the only compensation for that Nv
ness of heart which he once enjoyed.