CHAPTER VIII 

 ANATOMY NO GUIDE 



The Brain and the Mind Anatomy's Limitations Minds 

 of Monkey and Man An Imaginary Incident The 

 Growth of Language. 



A DIFFICULTY which some minds encounter in 

 trying to understand how man alone possesses the 

 power of conscious thought is the fact that anat- 

 omy reveals no difference between his nervous 

 structure and that of other animals. 



This, however, presents no real difficulty. The 

 nervous organization of animals is needed for the 

 proper protection of their bodies from injury and 

 for the guidance of their muscles ; and there is no 

 reason why dissection of a human brain should 

 reveal the seat of conscious thought, because al- 

 most all qualities of the brain have so far evaded 

 discovery by knife and microscope. Of course, the 

 general difference between such a brain as con- 

 ceived the dramas of Shakespeare and that of an 

 ape might be demonstrated in diagrams ; but no 

 demonstrator could explain what it is that endows 

 one of the two brains with possibilities of genius. 



And why should any of us wonder that the seat 

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