Gloomy as is the tenor of an article on this subject by" Colonel Elsdale in the Nineteenth Centivry, we yet recommend its perusal. So thoroughly convinced is the wriver of the fact of such decadence, and that on apparently irrefragable authority, that he stays not to establish his premises, but straightway investigates its rationale,;'This inoportant enquiry he prefaces by a proposition, startling at first sight, but admitting, it would seem, of physiological d-monstration, that there is in the brain a well-marked distinction bet the re-captive and creative faculties; "although these are probably interdependent to some extent, since 4 man cannot exercise the receptive faculty intelligently without some corresponding development of the reasoning power."
And since every human brain, like the body at large, owns a very limited stock of vitality and nerve power, it is argued that we cannot habitually develop the purely receptive side of our brains without correspond ingly dwarfing the original and creating side; and ne-sided devel-lopment" weare tuid, "while it may make an intelligent, well-informed man in the popular sense—one who has read many
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