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very frequently without any insanity, we have two different 

 views on the same subject. There are a great many people who 

 labor through life under the difficulty of being unable to make 

 up their minds. It is because they have, unfortunately, two 

 minds. Better would it be for them to have only one: but I 

 hope you will not conclude from this that I intend to teach 

 here, that to educate our two brains is a fallacy, on account 

 of the danger of leading men to have two minds, and to be all 

 the time hesitating between two views, two opinions, or two 

 decisions. On the contrary, I shall attempt to prove that the 

 fault in those individuals who cannot make up their mind is 

 dependent in a measure on the fact that they have not developed 

 sufficiently the power of their two brains. 



Dr. Wigan especially insisted upon the facts which we 

 observe in insanit}' : that a patient knows he is insane ; that 

 he knows that he has insane ideas ; that he will put them for- 

 ward, and immediately afterwards will say, " I know they are 

 insane." He is perfectly rational, while at the same time he 

 is completely insane. Dr. Wigan has concluded, without any 

 positive demonstration, that in these cases one-half of the brain 

 is normal and the other half is diseased; one-half is employed 

 with the mental faculties in a normal way, the other is employed 

 as regards the same faculties in an abnormal way. But there 

 are cases which are, perhaps, more interesting, and which, I 

 think, more clearly support the view, that there are two brains. 

 I saw a boy, for instance, at Notting Hill, in London, who had 

 two mental lives. In the course of the day, generally at the 

 same hour, but not constantly, his head was seen to fall 

 suddenly forward. He remained erect, however, if he was 

 standing, or if sitting he retained this position ; if talking, he 

 stopped for a while; if making a movement, he stopped moving. 

 After continuing one or two minutes in this state of falling 

 or drooping of the head, appearing as if asleep with his eyes 

 closed, he would suddenly raise his head, open his eyes, being 



