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Updated: May 13, 2025
Figuratively we may say that every mind is a world of ghosts, ghosts incomparably more numerous than the acknowledged millions of the higher Shinto Kami and that the spectral population of one grain of brain-matter more than realizes the wildest fancies of the medieval schoolmen about the number of angels able to stand on the point of a needle.
One point only calls for closer inquiry. Until a year or two ago it was customary to state that in cranial capacity also that is to say, in the volume of brain-matter that the skull might contain the Neanderthal race was intermediate between the Ape-Man and modern man. This seemed to be an effective and convincing indication of evolution, but recent writers have seriously criticised it.
Now, under the huge globe of the brain, Jim and Denny saw exposed a small, soft mouth fringed by the tiny rudiments of atrophied mandibles. The repulsive little mouth touched the acid-softened mass.... The withered abdomen filled out. The whitish-gray lump of brain-matter grew slightly darker.
Their brain-matter, we may imagine, is like a fluid jelly, in which impressions may be easily made, but are soon closed over again, so that the brain reverts to its original indifferent state. But it may occur here, just as in other gelatinous substances, that an impression will vibrate throughout the brain, and send waves into other parts of it.
'That is well, I told him 'For divorce is now made easy in this country, and you can easily return the celestial creature to her native element! At which I resigned myself to hear some oaths, for violent expletives are always refreshing to the masculine brain-matter.
He got upon his feet and stood before the woman whose six ounces less of brain-matter had been counterbalanced by so large an allowance of intuition, dumbly furious with her, and so unspeakably savage with himself for not being able to hide his anger and annoyance that, as he stood before her with his hulking shoulders hunched and his square, black head sullenly lowered, and his eyes blazing under their heavy brows, he suggested to Lady Hannah's nimble wit and travelled experience the undeniable analogy between a chaffed and irate Doctor and a baited Spanish bull, goaded by the stab of the gaudy paper-flagged dart in his thick neck, and bewildered by the subsequent explosion of the cracker.
In a few minutes he was ready for the next case a man whose head was thickly swathed in bandages. "That's a bit of a change, anyhow I'm fed up with legs and arms." The bandages were removed. Amid a mass of tangled, blood-clotted hair was an irregular patch where a piece of bone had been blown away, leaving the brain-matter exposed.
At times a feeling of insignificance crept over me, but I took courage when I thought that a man's greatness consists in his mental powers and not in his physical bulk, for it is true that the fifty ounces of brain in the skull of a Newton have accomplished more marvels than the ten pounds of brain-matter found in the most cultured Jupiterite.
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