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Pity the poor groveling hack at the bottom who has not the brain-power either to understand or to control that which his very presence and necessities create. These tremendous holdings, paying from ten to twelve per cent. on every hundred-dollar share, were in the control, if not in the actual ownership, of Cowperwood.
She had seen all these evidences of a civilization and brain-power transcending in scientific achievement anything that her race had produced; nor once had she seen a creature of her own kind. There could have been but a single deduction in the mind of the Mahar there were other worlds than Pellucidar, and the gilak was a rational being.
Whence, we ask, this power of endurance? We can trace it to no ordinary physical resource. It comes from no ordinary physical resource. It is pure brain-power. It streams down upon the body, in rivers of invigoration, from the cerebral hemispheres. A conversational philosopher, discoursing to a circle of intelligent New England mechanics, said, "It is commonly supposed that the earth supports man.
"I suppose brain-power and education count for something still?" said Marcella, half scornfully. "I am greatly obliged to the world for thinking so," said Wharton with emphasis, "and for thinking so about the particular kind of brain-power I happen to possess, which is the point.
Wright, Chauncey, great brain-power requisite for language; on correlative acquisition; on the enlargement of the brain in man. Wright, Mr., on the Scotch deer-hound; on sexual preference in dogs; on the rejection of a horse by a mare. Wright, W. von, on the protective plumage of the Ptarmigan. Writing.
And indeed the statistics of Jewish vitality and brain-power, and even of artistic faculty, are amazing enough to invite investigation from all eugenists, biologists, and statesmen.
These exalted traits were no more doubted than the same in Washington. But if he had more brain-power than Washington he had not that great leader's prudence, nor good sense, nor patience, nor self-command, nor unerring instinct in judging men and power of guiding them.
Science, though its matter was attractive enough to the practical Roman, was at a standstill. So far as it existed it was Greek. The Greeks had done almost all that could be done by sheer brain-power and acumen. They could hardly proceed further without those finer instruments which we possess, but which they did not.
The first, who were few in number, sided with Trench and his friends; the second declared for Swinton. Swinton and his friends, therefore, had recourse to secret plotting; but, plot as they would, they had not sufficient brain-power among them to devise a method by which to free themselves of the men they envied. At last circumstances favoured them.
The noodles who read sporting prints and try to look knowing can only fumble about among uncertainties; they and their pitiful money help to swell the triumphs and the purses of rascals, and they fritter away good brain-power on calculations which have no sound basis whatever.
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