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wise stated, could a fine mind make a fine 

 brain by using it, as the master violinist im- 

 parts to the fibers of his instrument some 

 of the harmonic quality of his own soul. Or, 

 can there be such a difference of brain-cell 

 and -tissue that even a fine mind would be 

 baffled of its end, as Beethoven might have 

 been had he tried to play his symphonies on 

 a harmonica? Could a mind like Shake- 

 speare's have used the brain of Jonathan 

 Edwards and still have produced the works 

 of the Bard of Avon, or was the mental 

 organ of Shakespeare as exquisitely adapted 

 to the use he made of it as the organs of a 

 wood thrush are to the spirit of song which 

 uses them? One would expect a brain like 

 Mark Twain's or Dooley's to have more 

 crinkly convolutions from which mental rip- 

 ples could come than one would find in the 

 brain of a man in whom an inordinate seri- 

 ousness furnishes an obstructing wall to shut 

 out the funshine of his neighbor. 



Whether its individuality lies in itself or 

 in the organ which it uses, or in both, the 

 mind, with all its impalpable quality, dis- 



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