Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 July 1894 — Page 9

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TIIOI OIIT OK THE WOULD ON TU'K.V TIKTII CEXTIKV IMtLLECT. Menial Jlarvr-I Cominic Aa Lnor. moil l)crcae in Innnlty 3Iay Rcuonabir De Eipeoted Drink ovr Its Greatest C'aue-Interview with AVlnloT mitl Yon user f London and Meal of e-v lorU national Marriase. The whole world is waking up to the fact that Lettfr times are coming. None has gene far as say that the perfect man will come with the twentieth century, tut almost all soince lifts its voice with the welcome news that with the twentieth century man will an roach erfecticn much more nearly il an lie do-3 now. Invrovcmnt cornea at j. geometrici! ratio just as deterioration (if es. Y"hen the Cr-ekiS a:;d Romans began to füll they went down with u. pwt-epins rush ti.at would hive carri'-d them -into c Uivion had th.y not left their books nr. J their n.oiwimenm behind them. '1 h-.- la.m of today i- goIng up with the sn.i swocphjff ru.-h, i and It will curry him far t-eyorvl any J point dreamed of twenty years rga. leri hana there Is r.: strenger evidence, of the truth of th:s possibility than the Interest that these a nick s, tellir.g th pr i heoivs cf scl-nti.. m :n, have ate used. That dealing with the pre per birth of children, print,! three weeks ago today, has called out r.Kuiy letters to the writer from I'teoplu in almost every possible Walk cf life. This shows that not alone the scientific men. but the people, themselves, are r rogi ssive. Scarcely lessinterest le aroused by the table, on the increase of the h ntrth of human life, printed the week following, and there are indications that th-- astonishing facts conoernin? hfreiity r ul li.-hed last Sunday will prove of quite sis prtat Interest. If the.-" in&sa;e. were interesting, what will th mcssajre. today b? Ir tells how insanity ar.d idiocy will be wiped out. h"W our mental development will equal cur physical gain, how in the future i, en- will be predisposed to melancholia and failure. Tne comiriL' man. ays faience, wiil be hopeful and jolly It.' Ir. tino I thcrities We ! f.s strong- and in lived. ?.- sorrow for these will die out. As austatements the Lad

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ing brain students are offered. Below wiil be found interviews with Forbes Wins'nv; and KJwaid Cenrge Younger, England's greatest mental specialist ; M Bertlllon of rarl. Dr. E. C. Beall and Dr. Fred-rick Peterson of New York. Such testimony as this cannot be lgiicreu. A t;rcnt Londoner. The Importance of Dr. Forbes "U'inflow 1r over.'ha'Iowin-;. A representative of this raper cillod upon him at his residence, 33 Devon?hire-st., N. W"., three weeks a?:o, and the utterances that followed was made rapidly and enthusiastically. It should be said that almost every criminal ue in Great Eritain where insanity figures i.s ref .'rred to Dr. Winslow. It was to him that the home secretary turned for tin opinion on 3drs. Maybrick's responsibility when the queen was petitioned to commute her Fentence of death, and it was owinj: to the doctor's ans yer tltat the life of the unfortunate woman was spared. It was to Dr. Winslow that Jack the Ripper wrote the now famo.is letter: "Dear Sir Von will hear from me. "JACK THE KIPPER." The whol- world did hear from him shortly afterward through thirteen dreadful murders. This letter la fram'd and hanps upon the wall of the doctor's atudy, and shows the mysterious criminal to h o been a good penman and an ep:ramr.i it 1c wriier. The formation rf the letters ia this note corresponds with the wMih'.K th- murderer left near the bodies of hh victims, and there is no que?t:onir.? its authenticity. "Win the strength of tha human r.h.d ln?rcae. Dr. Winslow. as the tt.-enerth of ih- human bjdy has done?" asked the writer. "i can s-e no reason to doubt it," he replied. "It is a somavhat dlscourag--iii.yr subject to discuss now that Is, it would le t" a man who could not see beyond the present. There has not been a d-'Teae of insanity coexistent with the di?cre.-ise in the death rate. That l es n : ni. an, however, that the huluiP. mind ha not been prowinir Mronper. but thit an arth'iciai agency has been at work to overcome its Improvement. The rat of lunatics to ea-h 10.0'") inhabitants of Great Britain in 18",9 was I.".;. In 1S03 it was It should be tiuiliTstofxl. however, that a law p.i.-i-.d here po-pie two years ago requiritiS nil c;i.f'S of lunacy to be reported t the proper authorities lias brought the full number of lunatics to public notice, whereas, prior to the passage of tli.it law, they exi.sted but were not so wiJejy known. That accounts for a part of the apparent increase. Due I Drink.

itc rennir-.ins real increa??, I without the s-lighteyt hesitation. i3 say due to te thing, and that one thin only-

drink. Drink is and has always been at the head of statistical causes. Then follow competition, pressure of business and Intermarriage. If intermarriage could be dorr away with and drunken m-ii and women could be prevented from becoming the parents of children, then Insanity and idiocy would be inFtantly reduced ."0 per cent. It is the inheritance of the perms of insanitv from drinking parents rather than from indulgence In drinlc that produce insanity, and in this way a man who drinks heavily and eventually becomes insane fs often erroneously said to have drunk himself cra?y, wh.erca Ids mental disease whih h" inherited forced him to lk;uor, and drinking was the effect rather than the cause of his insanity. Political and religious excitement are also productive of mental aberration and after every political campaign here our asylums are temporarily crowded. This description of insanity, however, usually passes away when the immediate cause is removed. "To a pessimjst these facts might readily be discouraging. To an- optimist they are far from without encouragement. I cannot believe that we shall have to increase our number of drunkards and I cannot but believe that the present agitation for rational morriape almost the first in the history of the world and one that is po wide reaching that it actually forms the basis of the most popular English fiction of the day. as instance, 'The Heavenly Twins' will have its effect. If, as I Faid, the drink habit could be cured and improper marriages done away with, insanity and idiocy would decrease at once Ü0 per cent. I believe both will come in time." Dr. Younger corroborated Dr. "Winslow's testimony es to the effects of drink. Said he: "Over Co per cent, of the entire number of lunatics in the worli owe their condition directly 0r indirectly to drink. Fifty per cent, of the lunatics and imbeciles In European cities come from drunken parents. The. proportions of drunkenness as a cause are horrifying. In the great asylum at St. Petersburg, for instance, out of M7 lunatics admitted during the year, 8."7 were reduced to that state by intoxication. The less alcohol used the less insanity exists. Drink certainly is the most formidable obstacle in the way of eliminating lunacy from the li:5t of diseases, and 'f, as the people hope, the present vigorous reform movement tending toward teetotalisni and moderate drinking have good results, their effects will instantly be felt in the reports of our insane asylums. Of course after the elimination of drink as a cause there will still exist mental worriment and anxiety, the perplexity that is certain to come to all civilized people. Eut their imporance as a cause Is comparatively unimportant, and it must be remembered that if we are increasing- In physical strength as rapidly as so many great specialists declare that we are then

we shall constantly grow le.3 and less susceptible to the unfortunate effects ol these things. I do not think that insanity will ever he wiped out; accidents alone will see that there are always a fewcrazy one? among r.s. but I do believe that there will be visible in future years a great decrease." A Sclrnliüe Pli renoloi; p I . Dr. Edgar C P.eall, originally from Cincinnati, temporarily a German anl now a New Yorker, lias given as careful study to matters of the brain as any American. The fact that his studies have carried his opinions away from t he beaten track d -s not make them less interesting or less important. There are many who disagree with the theories of the school to wM-h Dr. Ecall K-longs, but there are many who look upon its discoveries as among the most wonderful that have been made by modern science. Pesides being a high authority on the texture of the brpin and its anatomy. Dr. P.eall is a follower of Gall and Spruzheirn, the wonderful Europeans win founded phrenology. He s the leading scientific phrenologist of the world. That does not mean that he believes in telltale bumps or protuberances of the skull as indicating haracter, but oniy that he does believe that it Is scientifically possible to discover by studying the contour of a man's head what manner of brain is hidden therein. "The bump idea," faid Dr. Beall. "has done more to hurt phrenology than any other one thing. It has been taken up by quacks and incompetents lecaus.e of the very fascination of the study, and has to some extent brought the whole science into ridicule with many people. Of course, it is not possible that such trilling nonsense should stop the progress of a truth ns wonderful as phrenology, but it unquestionably has retarded it. Gall discovered tne location of the brain centers that are the cat of radical primary faculties by study of such extraordinary developments as came under his observation. An extraordinary development may produce a protuberance on the skull, as instance the benevolence in Abraham LInco'n. In ordi.nary heads that is S heal- cut of 10 phrenology btcomes a study of firm, ami the little protuberances Meh exist mean nothlig more than pt-cuharities of the skull itself. In ordinary heads we do not look for bumps, but stijdy form and diameters. One reason why Americans fail to catch this idea' is because, as a nation, they are weak in sense of form; that faculty is located between the eyes. The French are a race of artists and are broadly c vdoped there. The Americans are not, M.d the space between the eyes is narrow.-. This is plainly shown by the curious fact that - pera glasses made in Taris .ire al.vays rv far too wide fc the a vera ue Amcricm eyes. If we were built so that w? fitted the Parisian opera,

glasses we would be less likely t depend for confirmation of phrenology upon the existence of bumps on our heads like pyramids in a desert anl would more easily catch delicacies of contour." ."W Tnleiiln to C'ome. After this brief discourse on phrenojogy as a whol,. Dr. Ilea 11 told some of the things which twenty-five years study of it make it possible for him to predict of mental development. lie said: "The whole tendency is upward. The

J mental development of the next century : will be complex and will bring vevsaI tility on a higher plane than we have I yet known. We shan't have so much "talnt for drinking beer and playing ba.-e ball, but we shall have a much J hipher talent for real progress and real I happiness. As the raee learns to elimin ate those things which retard its upward passage. r..v and more valuable tnd"r.cie3 will come to take their place. This is the age of practical progress. In addition to the improvements which make life more comfortable better lighting, better heating, better clothing, better furniture, better railroads, better steamboats, typewriters, phonographs and the like there is a counterline no less real in a higher sphere. Parents are beginnbig to ask what to do with their children. When the maturity of a son or daughter approa.ches, the question is ricw. How can they marry best? One hundred years ago it was, How can I get my son to go to church and prevent I tiiv 'i 'l rrh ter from dir.rinfr or rdavlnsr cards? The result is larger mental development and larger happiness, and the higher tendency is gaining momentum with every day. Happiness is the activity of all our faculties. Teople didn't use to know that. They didn't know what faculties were. "The world has since its beginning been ignorant of the brain and so of everything that emanates from it. If you don't know the contents of a post box you can't Uli where the letters in it are going or what effect they will have when they are delivered. It is precisely so with the pigeon holes in the brain. Each has a message. One goes to art: here's a box in another part that senas to caution: here to the faculty of aco.uirement; here's one back her.e that fights for marriage and the sacredness of the fireside; it is constantly trying to offset the efforts of this box down here In the basement of the brain, from which unworthy thoughts look out to ogle Klrls. The tendency to develop the faculties In the upper brain is increasing; the faculties In the base of the brain and about the ear are growing weaker. The higher our faculties are the greater will be our happiness. The man who depends on happiness which is only pleasure, although he may fancy himself in possession of the highest enjoyment, will be cheated. Those persons who seek happi

ness on the selfish or lower plane will b mistaken. Religion's greatest Idea is the supremacy of love. Henevoleiu-e or the faculty of high love Is furthest remover! from the low faculties of aay until you get to the intellect: therefore we shoull eonsider that function the highest. It is the highest in phrenology and it Is the highest in religion. The low-browed villain is traditional. "The future race will be one of specialists. So much knowledge is being evolved that this will be necessary, but I believe that the whole vr.'.nni of human knowledge will 1- gradually rewritten ar.d condensed, so that it will be infinitely in ue accessible than It is now. The sciences themselves will be S'-ientifWHy systematized, an! by the ail of that system it will be possible for the future specialist to be better versed in all 'departments tran th3 specialist of tudty is in hs own. Knowledge is very largely a matter of faci'fty. We all know thousands of tröng- that we have "o const iousi;ess of having learned. Thy are miners rf habit With each new step fo-we.rd along the main roed of knowledge, nw b paths will be discovered, and ea -h will be explored. Tins will bring a higher physi

cal culture and not only grea;"r kr.o.vl-edsr-. but the ability ta apply thai I knowledge well." night Mnrrliige I I'nrnmnnnl, I called Dr. P.eall's attention to the opinions of the English authcr;::. s concerning the drink habi... To s nv extent he agreed with them. "They have put th cart before the horse, however," he s.-.ii. "They epc,of drink first and marriage afterward. They should speak of marriage first, and everything else afterward. When the public conscience is awakened thoroughly on the subject of marriage and that awakening has already begun, unquestionably a great stride w:!l have been made toward better physique and better mentality. When the public vanity is awakenei on the subject of marriage vanity 's infinitely niiie potent than conscience then the battle will have been won. When people know enough about this subject to realize that it is blame and not pity that parents of incompetent or undeveloped children deserve, the awakening will be complete, lien and women then will be ashamed to be recognized as the fathers and mothers of anything- but perfect children. Widely extended knowledge will leave no excuse for ignorance and will bring condemnation and ridlculupon those who disregard the laws of parental influence or heredity. "The mrst common mistake in marriage Is failure to secure comradeship on moral and intellectual planes. Nature exerts herself first of all to attain the physical typo and neglects morality and intellect. Physical strength is, of

course, the foundation for everything that is good in the human race, though not necessarily the accompaniment. You can't have a house without a foundation, but it's a mighty easy thing to have a foundation without a house. In the majority of marriages busband and wife are physically compatible. Mental compatibility, however, is much less frequent. This is caused, f.rst. by the fact that brain contours ar usually concealed by bonnets or hair fnl ar not made the objects of it: pect I m and consideration: seeor-d. by the f a . t that vanity, to say r.o;hir.g of anything else, makes roost of us bMe cv.r worst pointi from our bst friends, ami. tl-.ird. by the fact that if the brain cor.touis were examined and the worst pojrts were not hidden, most people ni so indignant that it wouldn't make ny difference. I.luroln'n Msirrl.iKe. "In the Tr.Ited Stales, especially, careful marring'? is iifeesary. W have a number rf national diseases, stich d dyspepsia and catarrh, anl sectional tem-P'-rament r;n h as the New England, th southern, the western, etc., ar much more universal than is ordinarily thecasa in rah.-r countries. Oar mot common type i the latik. l.-.n, motive tempera :;t. In men n" l vomer, of this Fort th-re 1 almost c rtain to be a deficiency of i-ulfre and polish, although there may K- i one of intellect. Abraham U.nooln is a strihlt-g instance of this, with which v.e nre all famili.tr. His was an extreme ca.-e. If Abraham Lincoln had married a woman cf like temperament, fee result to the children it tr.e union would have been most dreadfully disastrous. I.inecln was a ir.au cf tine Intellectual development. T'he faculties ol the i!rdhvt were nil there and large, althorsrh the forehead was not high. Thin was due to the fact that th wreath of faetikies which t ops th intellect music, suaity, lo e of b. auty, etc., etc. wera almost entirely missing. Lincoln was not a witty man. but he v.e.s a bumorouf man. His fun came from behind, hla ears instead of from bis forehead. 114 was not polished. As Tngrsol said: H would use any common word that w!t could disinfect." A mm of this temperament should invariably marry a wumjn reasonably rotund in figure and' of rather vlelding physical Tiber. One ot the simplest indications is the hand, Lincoln's was bard, bony and big-jointed. The finjrers could not be bent back a sixteenth of an inch. Had he married a woman with a hand like his their chit. dren would have been inclined to excessive coarseness. The hand of the wife ol a man like Lincoln should have tapering, conic fingere, small-jointed and eallj ber.r back. "The Germans as a nation are typlcallv cf the vital temperament, and from inter marriage wilh the same temperament they have developed excesses of almost all th

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