10 SUPER-ORGANIC EVOLUTION 



some and generous feelings, an impartial conception 

 of science will lead men to the perfection of physio- 

 logical associations of the cerebral neuronas, and 

 the result, when arriving at the adult age, will be 

 a man of wholesome judgment, free from prejudices, 

 and especially prone to the study of arts and 

 sciences. 



" Given the defects of our education, there are 

 few brains whose cellular architecture has not 

 been somewhat deformed, or whose natural associa- 

 tions have not manifested signs of mental aber- 

 ration. Even in superior minds the spirit of 

 sect, the absence of impartiality, and an excessive 

 appreciation of their own merits are very common. 

 But the consequences of a defective and exclusive 

 education are most apparent in political, religious, 

 and literary sects. Every political, philosophical, 

 and artistic school produces in its adepts a style of 

 association of ideas, judgments, and reasonings so 

 exclusive and limited that it is impossible not to 

 attribute it to the special and systematic connec- 

 tion between various groups of nervous corpuscles. 



"These modes of intercortical association re- 

 peatedly adopt contrary forms which determine 

 manifestations as opposed to each other, as material- 

 ism and spiritualism, realism and romanticism, 

 socialism and individualism, etc. When such 

 associations, systematised and formed during youth, 



