brain-hand

Updated: May 19, 2025

While thus the brain-hand of the American is formed for grasping principles, for apprehending the simple, subtile, universal truths which slip through coarser and more sluggish fingers, there is also an influence on the moral and intellectual faculties, coming in to accept and use these cerebral ones.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 12, October, 1858