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Updated: May 3, 2025
He was all for a short battle and very wishful to go to bed the conqueror. But he did not. Jane hadn't got his mellow flow of words, nor yet his charming touches when he wanted his way over a job; but she shared a good bit of his brain-power and she grasped at this fatal moment, with the future sagging under her feet, that she'd never be able to put up no fight nor hold her own that night.
'Good brain-power among some of them, all the same, the Dictator asserted. 'Do you know, Hamilton, say what you will, the idea catches fire in my mind? 'I am very glad, Excellency; I am very glad of any idea that makes you warm to the hope of returning to Gloria. 'Dear old boy, what is the matter with you? You seem to think that I need some spurring to drive me back to Gloria.
"We must not get into the habit of saying, 'Poor things; they can do nothing. We should rid ourselves of the habit of treating them, not as men and women, people who can look after themselves with strength in their muscles and brain-power in their heads, but as animals whom we allow to live in society along with ourselves, taking for granted that they are deprived of, or cannot exert, those faculties which go to make up the strength and fibre of men and women.
There are some studies which task the physical strength of men to its utmost tension. If any woman has equal physical power with men to master certain subjects, let her pursue them; for success, even with men, depends upon physical endurance as well as brain-power.
But it strikes despair into a man of great mind, whose brain-power goes beyond the measure necessary for the service of the will; and he prefers, if need be, to live in the narrowest circumstances, so long as they afford him the free use of his time for the development and application of his faculties; in other words, if they give him the leisure which is invaluable to him.
I want to preserve all their brain-power for my editorial page. And, oh, how easy I make it for them! Thoughts of one syllable." "And you use your power over their minds to incite them to discontent." "Certainly." "But that's dreadful, Ban! To stir up bitterness and rancor among people." "Don't you be misled by cant, Miss Camilla," adjured Banneker.
"Thou wilt help me, Zia," she continued, in pathetic appeal, "and thou, my Margherita; for life is difficult. And Aluisi he will think what must be done for the people until my strength returneth for I have forgotten how to think." She pressed her hands tightly against her forehead as if to compel the resistant brain-power.
Beecot, having been bullied into old age long before her time, accepted sour looks and hard words as necessary to God's providence, but Paul, a fiery youth, resented useless nagging. He owned more brain-power than his progenitor, and to this favoring of Nature paterfamilias naturally objected. Paul also desired fame, which was likewise a crime in the fire-side tyrant's eyes.
Neither in this case does he do any useful work, and he need not do any semblance of it, since he may buy the brain-power of managers at a somewhat higher rate than he buys the hand-power of the ordinary workman.
Without taking these modifying conditions into account, a correct estimate of brain-power is impossible. And it is because these modifying conditions have been ignored by many professed teachers of Phrenology, and but poorly expressed by others who did recognize them, that many eminent physiologists have condemned phrenology hastily, as having no sound basis in physiology.
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