CHAPTER V. 

 WHAT IS INTELLIGENCE? 



What is understood by the word Intelligence? What 

 should be considered an intelligent being or individual? 

 This must be settled before we go any further. 



First, what is understood by intellect? The dictionar- 

 ies define intellect as, "That faculty of the human mind 

 which perceives, understands and thinks." Webster 

 states that it is the "Faculty of the human soul or mind 

 which receives or comprehends the ideas communicated 

 to it by the senses." 



These definitions clearly show that the sense organs, 

 eye,, ear, nose, etc., are no part of the intellect. The intel- 

 lect then is the brain cells. They receive impressions and 

 think. 



How do the dictionaries define intelligence? They de- 

 fine it as, "The power of discovering or understanding." 

 This definition includes both the senses and the brain. 



To be able to, and to have the power to discover you 

 must not only have the brain cells to do the thinking, but 

 you must have the apparatus to receive and transmit to 

 the brain cells, impressions and conditions existing in 

 the world outside of the body, so they can have something 

 to think about, or something to understand. 



The dictionaries define intelligent as well-informed 

 and skilled. A person could not be well-informed, skilled, 



