THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE DRAIN. 



GOl 



between intellij^ence aud mere wei.ulit or size of brain?" we answer, 

 decidedly, '• no." 



Should tlie (luestion be asked whether a larger nnniber of niega-ce- 

 phalie brains is likely to be Ibniid among races (»f high intelligence and 

 cnltnre, we have the answer of Le Bon emphatically in the afliiinatix c, 

 and it is in this dii'ection, as Le IJon has tanght ns, that we must look 

 for evidences of social siii)eriority. As illnstrating this i>roi)ositioii, 

 the following tidile of percentage of Le IJon will prove very interest- 

 ing and instructive: 



I'en'cnlafje of cranial cajiacihi in diffeiciit Jiuntan raccn ( Le /ion). 



In connei tion with this table it is interesting to remember that Le 

 Ijon says: ''The cranial capacity of the gorilla often reaches GOU cnbic 

 centimeters, so that it follows that there are a large number of men 

 more allied by volnme of brain to the anthropoid apes than they are 

 to some other men." 



Among other things, this table reveals the interesting tact that in 

 the course of seven hundred years of advancing civilization the aver- 

 age Parisian cranial capacity has distinctly increased in volume. 

 It may be well to state, in conclusion, that Broca estimated that a 

 brain in the male, weighing 1,040 grams, is the lowest limit comi)ati- 

 ble with ordinary human inte]lig<'nce; in the female !MH grams. Ihinian 

 beings with brain weight's lower than Broca's tigures are idiots, etc. 



