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areas which coincide with the motor in hjc-ation in the brain 

 are also in active cooperation. Dr. Richard H. Storrs, 

 who was wont to ponnd his own upholstered pulpit, in a 

 ^rand burst of eloquence struck the marble desk where 

 he was preaching and broke two bones in his hand, but was 

 unconscious of the fact till the sermon was over. 



Napoleon referred to the same thing when he said that 

 the fate of battles was the result of an instant of latent 

 thought. " The decisive moment appeared, the spark burst 

 forth and one was victorious." The deep desire in the child 

 and adolescent and in grown people to such an extent as was 

 shown last year by the thousands who gathered in all cities 

 to get the news from Carson City, may be a natural hunger, 

 perhaps depraved in adults, for such excitement as will push 

 into function new and larger brain areas. 



Education should mean a culture of one's potential ener- 

 gies that they may become actual when occasion demands. 

 The great public schools in England have made men as per- 

 haps no other schools have done in the past century. Why? 

 May not one reason be that they have in peculiar ways taught 

 their students to rise to the occasion and have furnished in- 

 spiration which has made possible such men as Wellington 

 and Gladstone. The application of this problem may be 

 wide and important if carried into all educational work. In 

 order to do a great work we must have a highly developed 

 brain, which can be thrown into activity quickly and as a 

 unit of power. 



