ABOUT THE BRAIN.
By far thejgreater mass and weight of a brain is composed of white matter or nerve-fibres which carry messages to and from the cells, but which have no more to do with the origin and directing of messages than have the wires of a telegraph system. Again while we have many millions of cells in the brain, only a relatively few are concerned with what we call the exercise of the mind and intellect. Large areas are devoted to the supervision of our muscles and to the reception of the messages that come from our organs of sense. What, then can be the measure of any intellectual captivity judged by weight when we can only weigh a mass of nervous matter without getting at the real amount of that portion cf it which originates and dominates our mentality ? '" That which I seem to see says Dr Andrew Wilson, in the "Illustrated jLopdoji News >'} is that it is'yeally the quality of a limited collection of brainpells—due to inheritance, education, and the other circumstance of our jives—which represents the crux of the whole matter. " Big head, little wit" is an aphorism just as frequently represented in life as the converse proposition.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 62, 27 December 1907, Page 3
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202ABOUT THE BRAIN. King Country Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 62, 27 December 1907, Page 3
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