108 TOBACCO : ITS HISTORY. 



and adaptation to expose a large internal surface 

 to the action of oxygen, indicates the amount of 

 intellectual activity of which the individual is 

 capable. Nay, so striking is this provision of 

 nature (and comparative anatomy will bear me 

 out), that in the case of celebrities, whose fore- 

 lobe of the brain exhibits no marked development 

 or expansion, nature has planted between and 

 below their eyes a nose of remarkable dimensions 

 in length and depth and inferior expansion. For 

 the proof of this position 1 appeal to the portraits 

 of all manner of intellectual celebrities, in every 

 profession, in every department of art or science. 

 It is, therefore, apparently on the cerebrum 

 proper, through the olfactory, that the fumes of 

 tobacco perform their remarkable function in the 

 human economy. Hence we constantly hear 

 persons who do not smoke affirm that they like 

 the smell of the pipe or cigar wafted on the 

 breeze of morn. Their brain feels comfortable 

 Qt the gentle stimulus — as it were a flavour to 

 oxygen. 



■^' Strong Labour got up ; with his pipe iu his mouth, 

 He stoutly strode over the dale ; 



